Sentences with phrase «complex behaviour»

The researchers think their hypothesis could go some way to explaining the roots of many more complex behaviours.

They may have very complex behaviour, but it is essentially focused on biological needs.

If you want to teach your rabbit more complex behaviour you need to break it down into a series of steps each of which moves you closer to the desired result.

What is more, they transfer day - night information from the circadian clock to such brain areas that control complex behaviours such as orientation to the sun, temporal memory and organizing the work throughout the day.

Where equations fail to account for complex behaviours and interactions between competing forces, it is the diversity of the natural world to which engineers must look for original solutions to practical problems, such as how to design wings for aircraft or reduce the drag on submarines.

«The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.

A persecution complex is a term given to an array of psychologically complex behaviours, that specifically deals with the perception of being persecuted, for various possible reasons, imagined or real.

But I accepted the notion that biological systems, and their bewilderingly complex behaviour, could ultimately be understood from more fundamental physical laws.

He was especially intrigued at how events at the synapse may explain phenomena in cognitive psychology, a field of psychology that concerns itself with perception, attention, memory, language, and other processes that underlie complex behaviour.

The first view is favoured by reductionists — those biologists who try to reduce complex behaviour to the activities of simpler elements such as individual organisms or, preferably, their genes.

We think that pesticides may be affecting the memory and cognitive ability of bumblebees, which may be very important when conducting complex behaviours.»

They also suggest that pesticide exposure may impair bees» ability to perform complex behaviours, such as buzz pollination.

Mathematical models allow us to understand how patterns and processes in the real world are generated and how complex behaviour, such as the collective movement of animal groups, can be produced from simple individual level rules.

A second line of research is to use skeletal muscle formation in the chick embryo as a model to understand how cells within tissues display complex behaviours while being exposed to an ever - changing cellular environment.

Complex behaviour such as regional accents and cultural food preferences in whales and dolphins seems to be linked to brain size.

«Trained how to shoot a rifle using just a trigger and a controller, which is a very complex behaviour.

He cautions there is a huge gap between the simple response of single - celled animals and the cognitive abilities of developed species, but adds there is no doubt that a combined set of simple circuit models will have more complex behaviour.

Professor Bokhove says: «Describing mathematically the complex behaviour of waves and their interaction with fast ships and then incorporating all of this into a robust computer model has been very challenging.

Material scientists are particularly interested in the complex behaviour behind the initial shock front, which can already be seen in these first images.

«It is fascinating that a complex behaviour, such as choosing an egg - laying site, can be broken down into multiple sub-routines that have such a simple genetic basis,» says Marcus Stensmyr.

Without many predators around to make it dangerous to focus attention on a tool - using task, or birds like woodpeckers hogging the hard - to - reach food, the crows had the time and space to evolve the complex behaviour.

The animals would have had to copy a complex behaviour of another pig or understand the objectives and intentions of a demonstrator, for example with regard to the manipulation of objects.

«But these two - eye cells suggest that other types of visual information are just as important — they allow the human species to survive to engage in the complex behaviours.»

Co-author Professor Richard Marais, director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute at The University of Manchester, said: «Understanding the complex behaviour of melanoma cells is vital to improving survival.

Basic research is essential to identify new treatments by analysing the cellular activity and chemical processes within regions of the brain that control those complex behaviours impaired in psychiatric disorders.

The isolation mechanisms are stronger when you have these complex behaviours.»

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Gene mapping such complex behaviours and disorders relies on the assumption that some proportion of the genes influencing these traits is fixed, and so the remaining polymorphic risk genes may then be more readily identified within this quieter genetic background, typically using within - breed mapping approaches.

But in fact their complex behaviour and linked habitat requirements makes these birds extra vulnerable, and European species may be ahead of this global development.

Analyses by Bolch and others (2012) and Gardelle and others (2012) have shown gains in the glaciers of the central Karakoram region (Figure 3)(4,12), although the complex behaviour of the glaciers is still unclear;

Figure 3: Most of the Himalayan glaciers show retreat since the mid-19th century, except the glaciers at Nanga Parbat in the northwest (RA, CL) and glaciers in the Karakoram, which show a complex behaviour (4).

Well, we have learned from many great minds like Ilya Prigogine that there is complex behaviour in simple systems (e.g. the orbit of Pluto appears on one level to perform according to simple Newtonian mechanics, but in addition, has apparently random wobbles).

The challenges fall mostly within three categories: dealing with a child's complex behaviours and needs, helping a child with trauma, and maintaining contact with the child's biological parents and other loved ones.

Risk Factors Suicide is a complex behaviour with a range of risk factors.

Dealing with a child's complex behaviours and needs, maintaining contact with the child's biological parents, helping a child with trauma, and managing financial costs are some of the key challenges foster carers face.

Rachel Allan appraises an observational study, which evaluates a complex behaviour service for people with challenging behaviour.