Sentences with phrase «larger than behavior»

Function is larger than behavior.

Not exact matches

The behavior gaps are going to be much larger than they would in similar mutual funds because ETFs are easier to jump in and out of.

So rather than fearing large Bitcoin holders cashing out, that type of behavior should be encouraged.

Since people behave differently in small intimate groups than in large public ones, there are some things we can say about the behavior of people in groups that refer to the structure of the group rather than to the individuality of its members....

We should not put any less emphasis than in the days of liberal optimism on the importance of large - scale events, of institutions, of the behavior of social groups.

Thus we have two forms of inquiry, the one restricting itself to the study of behavior, the description of behavior being austerely limited to geometrical and arithmetical properties, and the other also studying behavior, but interpreting it as far more than merely that, and as having its meaning, and perhaps also in part its causal explanation, in terms of a large class of concepts excluded from the physicists» explanations.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

Social morality is to a large extent viewed as this personal morality writ large: there is little understanding in evangelical ethics of group morality, corporate ethics or social behavior, Christian discipleship has tended therefore to be interpreted mainly in terms of individual morality and witness rather than in action for change in other dimensions such as social structures or political systems.

Discourteous behavior formerly more accepted at Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium than the fairways of the PGA Tour has become par for the course, thanks in large part to the annual beer kegger that is the Phoenix Open, where rowdies are encouraged to heckle and jeer.

Despite these limitations, the authors believed that the large and diverse sample from multiple schools permitted statistically valid analyses and used 5 measures of muscle - enhancing behavior, which provided a «more comprehensive picture of muscle - enhancing efforts among a US sample of male and female youth than has been available previously.»

Rather than using rewards or punishments to cajole or direct behavior, Kohn suggests we put the relationship at the center of parenting to attend the larger aim of meeting a child's basic need to feel loved unconditionally.

«Rather than give up its seat at the table by divesting, the fund leverages its role as a large institutional investor to push for improved corporate behavior and accountability.»

He said that demon shrimp, so called because of their larger size and aggressive behavior, are currently a more widespread threat than the «killer shrimp» also known to have invaded British waters in 2010.

Anatomy confirms what behavior reveals: Octopuses and cuttlefish have larger brains, relative to body weight, than most fish and reptiles, larger on average than any animals save birds and mammals.

The cats, she told a meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, soon divided the house up into «home ranges», which were larger for males than for females.

The researchers theorized that in divorced / separated families, a father — and how he behaved — was likely to have exerted a stronger influence on an older daughter than a younger daughter since older daughters systematically received larger «doses» of dad's behavior.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

With the dawn of agriculture more than 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began settling in villages and living in larger groups, making tolerance of other people and cooperative behavior increasingly necessary.

In fact, she found that in spite of more differences in attitudes, values and behaviors, students on small campuses reported closer friendships than their large - campus counterparts.

The researchers found that groups of more sociable orangutans had larger behavioral repertoires than groups of relatively solitary individuals had, supporting the theory that social contact spreads cultural behaviors.

In a partnership melding neuroscience and electrical engineering, researchers from UNC - Chapel Hill and NC State University have developed a new technology that will allow neuroscientists to capture images of the brain almost 10 times larger than previously possible — helping them better understand the behavior of neurons in the brain.

«Since birds and fish are older evolutionarily than mammals, prolactin's larger role beyond just feeding offspring tells us prolactin has evolved to become more specialized for lactation behaviors in mammals,» she said.

Researchers at the University of Texas (U.T.) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas noticed that mice used two primary methods to cope with defeat after being repeatedly pummeled by larger, more aggressive foes: Some of the weaker members withdrew, avoiding all types of social interaction for more than a month, whereas others rolled with the punches, so to speak, quickly bouncing back to their normal behavior.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

By insisting on larger, more homogeneous patient groups and longitudinal rather than cross-sectional studies, the field is poised to fulfill its ultimate role of linking defects in molecular biology to aberrant behavior.

Here we are less interested in the contribution of individual genes (as important as these obviously are) but in the behavior of large genetic networks — hence the emphasis on genomics rather than genetics in our group name.

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

Moreover, a larger percentage of youth of color report same - sex behavior or GLB identity than the percentage of white youth (31 percent vs. 26 percent).

A large - scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off - task student behavior.

In the interim, competition may have its effects in more traditional ways than we have seen so far, and the behavior of Random House, the largest of the Big Six in U.S. operations, may ultimately say the most about how this drama shakes out.

I could be more exact than this, adjusting for the exact period and dividends, but the surprise from the unknown change in investor behavior which is larger than any of the adjustment simplifications.

This finding is supported by our recent consumer research that shows improved financial behavior by Gen Xers, even though many carry larger debts than other generations.

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Puppy and dog owners must also keep in mind that it is much easier to correct undesirable behaviors when a puppy is still young rather than later once the dog is much larger and the behavior has been allowed to establish itself over time.

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Yet, a Kerry Blue - while much larger than the Scottie - was bred in similar circumstances and show common behaviors.

The author conducted a large - scale survey in 1995 (unpublished) on elderly cat behavior and health; in total, more than 1200 owners participated in the research.

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This large breed demands more daily exercise than the Neapolitan mastiff and must also be provided with plenty of mental stimulation to avoid problem behaviors.

There are those dogs that appear on «The Dog Whisperer» — allowed to get away with bad behavior, and many stories of individuals in the breed launching attacks on dogs much larger than them.

Some of this behavior is learned from other dogs that play roughly in general or from dogs that are larger than your dog.

It's a simple fact, unfortunately, that large - breed dogs are capable of doing much more serious damage than smaller ones — a Yorkie or Chihuahua will never cause the kind of severe injuries that a German shepherd or Rottweiler can, even if their aggressive behavior is otherwise very similar.

So if you want to understand the average behavior of that system you need to sample at a much larger spatial scale over larger time intervals than was previously appreciated.

We could, of course, hit some bifurcation in the system where we lose all the summer Arctic sea ice or the Amazon forest, which is bad enough, and could possibly transition the climate to a different «solution» on a hysteresis diagram... this to me would represent more of a step-wise jump (akin to a larger bifurcation that you get in a snowball Earth as you gradually reduce CO2 or the solar constant); but ultimately these represent different behavior than «the interannual variability of the large scale dynamics will increase» or that for some reason the climate should be susceptible to more «flip flops» (as in the glacial Heinrich / D - O events), of which I am aware of no observational or theoretical support.

It is evident from Figure 2.3 that globally averaged temperature fluctuations associated with El Niño tend to be larger aloft than at the surface, and this behavior is well - simulated in numerical models.

The distributions are often broader than Gaussian, for example with power laws, so that large and catastrophic, but rare, events can dominate behavior.

In the absence of some large change in the short period of the last two or six or eight or eighteen - hundred years in Earth's -LCB- orbit, core, magnetic field, insolation, axial tilt, etc -RCB-, there's a simple explanation for any part of the behavior that is actually due to anything other than noise et al..

During the CRTC hearings on what the large telcos are allowed to charge smaller, independent ISPs for bandwidth, the point was made (very convincingly, in my opinion) that bandwidth caps are less about limiting the amount of data being transferred in a month than they are about behavior modification.

The improvements included using larger fonts, lists, headers, white space, simple language, and logical organization.29 In a study of voter behavior, Reilly and Richey found that increasing language complexity on ballots made voters more likely to skip ballot questions.30 Rogers and Brown found that subjects who received «high - impact» instructions complied with those instructions at a significantly higher rate than the group that received instructions in the «low - impact» style.31 Finally, McGlone and Tofighbakhsh found that readers presented with two phrases with identical meaning more readily accepted and believed the version of the phrase that rhymed.

It is also important to know what kind of law firm culture existing, including traditions, social behaviors of the members of the firm, whether the firm tends to be more conservative or innovative, and the basic demographics of the law firm that might create more than one law firm identity within the larger firm culture.