Sentences with phrase «little about behavior»

Many veterinarians admit they know little about behavior, while others may give outdated or just bad behavior advice!

Considering the central role these cats played in Hawkins» two - year study, he knew surprisingly little about their behavior — including various factors that surely had an impact on his findings.

«We know so little about the behavior and physiology of these animals.»

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

Generally shy and abundant only around the inhospitable southern continent, the dark bronze beasts — among the smallest baleen whales at roughly 5 to 10 tons each — have been difficult to study in their environment, so biologists know little about their behavior.

Not exact matches

It inspires you to implement productive behaviors into your everyday life, little by little, and recognize that it's not about perfection; it's about progress.

The crackdown on corporate crime sparked six years ago by accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom has done little to foster ethical behavior in the workplace, where many employees are still afraid to speak out about misconduct, a new study finds.

If you know just a little bit about the psychology that motivates our behavior, you will massively increase your power.

«I got really interested in trying to understand how we could model human behavior through social media because there's residue of who we are in everything we do and here we had lots of little behaviors that we could use to try to understand a little bit more about who you are.»

The most salacious behavior that she described is of relatively little consequence, even if totally true — it would be completely in character for the man Americans have gotten to know during years of trashy tabloid coverage to (per her account) flirt with a porn actress, compare her to his daughter, brag about a magazine with his face on it, get spanked with it, and cheat on his spouse.

In effect, despite all the explanations about context, shoes, submission, baldness, «little children» (KJV) / «young lads» (NASB) / «boys» (NIV) / «little boys» (DRA) really being young men, statistics on loving versus brutal behavior by God, it seems that you are saying that you can't justify «a curse on them in the name of the LORD,» even within your own contrived context.

This point was reinforced about 200 years after Newton when Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity produced the modern theory of gravity — capable of explaining not only the behavior of our little local solar system but also the structure of the whole cosmos.

The Giants are getting a little sick of talking about his off - field behavior.

We are talking about, IMO, the most respected manager in the game when it comes to behavior, let's not make an eye poking Mourinho about this little push.

Although I read a little (too little, in retrospect) about adult children of alcoholics» behavior, I read nothing about how having a parent who was a Holocaust survivor impacts a child.

As the little ones grow, she's worrying about school, grades, behavior, and eventually driving lessons, curfews, and graduation!

A little bit of knowledge about what you are eating goes a long way in changing behavior especially when that knowledge is obtained in a fun and hands - on way.

Hand off the pet - training duties to the kids and watch as theylearn a little about animal behavior at the same time.

Find out how to teach your little one about acceptable behaviors and the best ways to discipline your very young child.

With such an undeveloped little brain, they are about as close to their genes as any human will ever get and have little control over their behavior.

Little ones may start to worry about everything too, after watching Mom model the behavior.

But when my first little bundle of joy arrived, I wasn't worried about behavior modification.

Just as with negative comments on a nonprofit blog and flame wars on a discussion board, organizations will want to set out clear policies about what kind of behavior will be allowed, and they should also be prepared to handle a little unruliness (again, a common issue with all kinds of social media adoption).

So, I ask, why would Cuomo's requiring a little more specificity about outside income change the behavior of a legislators willing to go waaay beyond committing an ethics violation and commit a CRIME?

«Nobody else is going to bring adult behavior to the school board then it is my civic duty to try because I care about these kids and I want to help them and if nobody else will, well then an 18 - year - old has to put his life aside for a little bit and kick this guy out,» explained Harig.

But he keeps trying to lower expectations, arguing that there is little he can do about runaway political spending as long as the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is in force, and blaming the Republicans in the Legislature for doing nothing to reform its own scandalous behavior.

That behavior implied that the scrub - jays might be thinking about other birds» potential actions, a type of flexible thinking that was supposedly beyond the capabilities of a scrub - jay's little brain.

«Though Hermit Thrushes have a beautiful, well - known song, relatively little is known about their singing behavior,» says Roach.

Although the flagellum, along with the rest of the jaw, is thought to play an important role in the mating behavior of camel spiders, and was observed to transfer sperm to the female in at least one species, little is known about its precise function.

Thinking about climate change from a personal perspective produced little to no change in behavior.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

But it's hard to make a strong case for such a radical notion because so little is known about whale behavior and genetics, he and other whale experts say.

Although researchers have studied how groups of skyrmions behave, little is known about their internal behaviors, Kuok said.

Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how it may influence development.

«Little is known about how social media use affects adolescent health behaviors,» said Huang, who now is a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute.

Although previous research has identified genes involved with behaviors seen in eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, little is known about how natural variation in these genes could affect eating behaviors in healthy people.

As more people and parents learn about the virus, how it can be spread, and its link to cancer, Gillison says, «that might open up a little bit more conversation» about sexual behaviors and getting vaccinated at an earlier age — before sexual interactions, or even kissing, start.

Yet we know little about how the brain's future simulator works because traditional neuroscience technologies are best suited for correlating brain activity with explicit behaviors, not mental emulations.

Until recently, little was known about how the microbiota influences the nervous system; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that gut microorganisms can influence the brain and behavior.

Despite profound sex differences in the expression of social behavior and the incidence of these psychiatric disorders, little is known about how the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena differ in females and males.

This may be, the peers conclude, because there is little existing evidence about behavior interventions to draw on and little is being funded.

Indeed, the scientific literature on the subject seems to teach very little, except for the tedious fact that it is difficult to say anything rigorously scientific about human behavior — particularly aggression.

Since the rhesus monkey was the most common laboratory monkey at the time and very little was known about its natural behavior, my project was directly relevant to a host of other ongoing research into animal behavior and social dynamics.

A handful of studies have hinted that smell does play a role in bird behavior (ScienceNOW, 29 October 2004), but very little is known about the underlying biology.

Little is known about the behavior or numbers of oarfish, Love said.

But the last one died in 1936 and little is known about the species» natural behavior.

However, little is known about the mechanisms by which hypothalamic neural circuits controlling behavior and metabolism sense protein availability.

Until recently there has been little scientific interest in these seals, and as a result scientists remain unsure about many aspects of their biology and behavior.

Anderson acknowledges that the study, which used surveys to gauge the frequency of each routine in households, says little about how each household implemented the behaviors.

Although the seasonal and circadian rhythms have been fairly well - described, little is known about the exact effects of the lunar cycle on the behavior and physiology of humans and animals.