Sentences with phrase «by behaviour modification»

But less drastic overspending tendencies can be overcome by behaviour modification.

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In fact, «it also opens the way to using drugs that block the NMDA receptor — another regulator of neuronal excitability leading to hypersensitivity in painful processes — and to avoiding the serious side effects resulting from their high toxicity — sedation, nausea, dissociative reactions, behaviour modification, etc. — nowadays induced by these drugs,» argues Hipólito.

Funded by Byer's shadowy research group, a pharmaceutical company has used behaviour modification to create a new breed of pumped - up, hyper - intelligent field agent.

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We show that modifications of habitat produced by grazing and by certain types of fire have strong effects on cat movement behaviour, with the general result that fire and grazing can create habitat conditions which are strongly favoured by cats.

It is thought that this condition is caused by a chemical imbalance within the dog's brain, and so for a lot of cases medication is required along with a behaviour modification programme.

Then of course there was «The Hartwell Paper» — with some real heavyweights behind it: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/27939/ Suggesting that the modification of «consumer behaviour by settling a carbon price» was necessary to achieve «radical decarbonisation» and should be «priced as high as is politically acceptable».

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27