Sentences with phrase «by altering their behavior»

Cats find change stressful and can react by altering their behavior to try to cope.

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An unconscious bias is when a person's behavior is altered or influenced by a belief they aren't completely aware that they have.

She says it was simply hatched by myopic intellegentia and liberationists, as if they alone have the power to alter human behavior.

But our current behavior to one another as Jesus body, and as His brethren, suggests that our DNA has been altered & co-opted by a spiritual equivalent of Monsanto Corporation.

Rather than dismissing schoolyard bullying as «a phase» that children will eventually outgrow, parents have the unique opportunity to alter these behaviors by helping young children overcome the very fears, anxieties, and insecurity that place them at risk.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE As government funders increasingly pay for biomedical interventions that prevent HIV infections, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and provide less support for behavioral interventions that increase condom use and alter sexual behavior, the funding landscape for AIDS groups may shift and they will have to change how they interact with their HIV - negative -LSB-...]

Changing Consequences - increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g. increasing public recognition for individual and community members, reward citations, fines, revocation / loss of privileges for inappropriate behavior.

The study was the first to identify how fisheries management can alter the risk - taking behavior of fishermen by changing the economic incentives that drive their decisions.

One concern raised by the human brain organoid implants «is that functional integration [of the organoids] into the central nervous system of animals can in principle alter an animal's behavior or needs,» said bioethicist Jonathan Kimmelman of McGill University in Montreal.

These mechanisms may include altered systemic inflammation as a consequence of depression, or even the role of lifestyle behaviors such as physical activity or nutrition, which are typically worsened by depression, and which may place an individual at risk for psoriatic arthritis.

Scientists had long known that they could change the behavior of a material by altering its chemistry.

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

A strategic focus is to continue to develop computational tools (such as KinomeXplorer, NetworKIN, and NetPhorest) and to deploy these on genome - scale quantitative data obtained by, for example, mass spectrometry, genomic, and phenotypic screens to understand the principles of how spatio and temporal assembly of mammalian signaling networks transmit and process information at a systems level in order to alter cell behavior.

The Behavioral Epigenetics conference, hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences and the University of Massachusetts Boston, is one of the first to examine how epigenetic changes take place, how they alter behavior, and how they can trigger the onset of disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.

But in these experiments, Burwell's team, including lead authors Jonathan Ho and Devon Poeta, altered some of the rats» behavior by manipulating the brain using optogenetics.

The team also demonstrated the utility of the platform by applying it to examine a growth - modulating feedback circuit whose dynamics is qualitatively altered by circuit - host couplings and revealing the behaviors of a toggle switch across scales from single - cell dynamics to population structure and to spatial ecology.

«I'd want to know more about the mechanism» by which the bacteria altered behavior in the mice before beginning to translate the findings to humans, he says.

A nudge is any action that seeks to change people's behavior by altering the environment or context of their decisions.

An insecticide — like chlorpyrifos, which alters how brains develop and leads to measurable changes in behavior and function later in life — will probably not be picked up by the proposed tests.

McKee notes that there's evidence suggesting CTE predisposes people to suicide, although how remains unclear; a colleague called it a «chicken and the egg problem,» explaining that CTE may cause problems in life that encourage suicides rather than specifically promote suicidal behavior by altering the working of the brain.

With the combined use of genetics and pharmacology, the investigators altered the production of proteins controlled by eIF2α in adult mice, essentially converting them into adolescents by making them more susceptible to cocaine - induced changes in synaptic strength and behavior.

A better grasp of the function of CA2 could prove useful in understanding and treating disorders characterized by altered social behaviors, such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

«The behaviors displayed by IED patients represent the expected consequence of altered brain structure and function underlying impulsive aggression in humans.»

Further, there is evidence to suggest that AGEs produce raised levels of chronic inflammation by altering cellular behavior through the receptor for AGEs, RAGE.

By comparing the regulatory networks of pathologic conditions, I expect to gain new insights into the central question: how do regulatory networks instruct cellular behavior under diseased condition and can we discover drugs that can alter these regulatory networks.

The San Diego Epigenome Center, headed by Bing Ren, Ph.D., Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Gene Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, is an integral part of the five - year, $ 190 million push to accelerate research into modifications that alter genetic behavior across the human genome.

Mice treated with Lactobacillus rhamnosus, a probiotic with anti-inflammatory properties, exhibited altered GABA receptor expression in the brain accompanied by reduced anxiety - and depressive - like behaviors.»

Some of this research was published in 2011.2 Mice lacking gut bacteria were found to engage in «high - risk behavior,» and this altered behavior was accompanied by neurochemical changes in the mouse brain.

One way this occurs is by altering levels of important hormones linked with appetite and eating behavior.

Just give it a goal, tell it what you want and it will get you there automatically by altering your attention and behavior.

Tommy may not have regrets for all his terrible behavior, but he does seem to recognize that it was wrong and that he has to try to live a better life — a philosophy very much shared by his real - life alter ego, «Rescue Me» star / writer / producer Denis Leary.

The Urus's attitude and behavior can be altered further by the driver with six modes in the car's ANIMA (Adaptive Network Intelligent Management) system.

By having the dog altered prior to its first heat, you will get the maximum benefits such as preventing diseases as well as avoiding certain behavior problems.

They are usually accompanied by only mild or moderate disruption of daily behavior patterns, which do not alter substantially the dog's ability to function as a pet.

Researchers were able to show that by altering the population of certain bacteria in rat's intestines, they could alter the rats behavior making some rats depressed, and others hyperactive.

They are usually accompanied by only mild or moderate disruption of daily behavior patterns, which do not alter substantially the dog's ability to function as a...

If you think about it evolutionarily, the parasite (over millions of years) figured out where to go in the brain to alter the behavior of the host to put it someplace where it would be eaten by a cat.

Their behavior may be altered by stress and anxiety, so keep careful watch on them and separate particularly anxious individuals to a safe space if necessary.

The young person Cassie is paired with will help Cassie stop jumping on people out of excitement, for instance, by teaching her how to alter that behavior in a positive way.

The sensible and humane solution to undesirable scratching is to modify the cat's conduct by making changes in the environment and direct the cat's natural scratching behavior to an appropriate area (e.g., scratching post) rather than surgically altering the cat, thereby causing the animal pain, merely to fit the owner's lifestyle, aesthetics, or convenience.

Altered male dogs and cats are less likely to engage in frustrating urine marking behaviors, and tend to be less aggressive; the vast majority of serious dog bites are inflicted by unaltered male dogs.

But unless your rabbit is altered, he or she can not have a friend, either of the opposite sex, or the same sex, due to sexual and aggressive behaviors triggered by hormones.

For pet cats that are allowed outdoors, diseases such as feline AIDS and Feline Leukemia Virus are transmitted through behavior associated with breeding / fighting, behavior that is effectively prevented by altering the pet before the behavior starts.

Clickers can also be used to treat complex behavior problems, by using incremental steps to alter undesirable behaviors.

By reading books and consulting a professional, you can alter this behavior.

We forcibly wean them, take them from their families, and train them to exist with their human companions by altering or suppressing natural behaviors — even to the extent of surgery, such as spaying and neutering (or in extreme cases, mutilation such as de-clawing or de-barking).

The Cheat Engine is a great way to manipulate in - game behaviors by altering values the game stores in memory locations.

P - Orridge and Lady Jaye sought to merge their two identities by using plastic surgery, hormone therapy, cross-dressing, and altered behavior to create the united being Breyer P - Orridge.

Welsh provokes our domestic behaviors and understanding of material purposes by altering the rules of interaction.

Imagining what would happen if the sexual awakening of puberty were averted, Jenny Drumgoole's videos present her alter - ego named Soxx who turns traditional women's behavior on its head by throwing parties for sanitation workers, eating pudding for hire, and running for Mayor of Philadelphia.