Sentences with phrase «model behaviour in»

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He invests long - term in a limited number of well understood businesses, a model he says emulates the behaviour of the world's super-rich, who don't constantly churn their portfolios and who don't flip their investments when markets dive.

Economics is supposed to provide mathematical modelling of human behaviour, but the apparent divergence of economic theory from reality in recent years has become a burr under Orrell's saddle.

The extreme cases of unambiguous wave and particle behaviour occur in mutually exclusive laboratory situations.7 As one physicist puts it, you may have to use a wave model on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and a particle model on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

There are of course many encouraging examples of young people prepared generously to put themselves out in service of the needy, and of parents and other adult role models who foster such behaviour.

Elsewhere he writes that a model is verified by its consequences in distinctive behaviour (e.g. the power of love) and by its ability to lead to articulations which provide «the most comprehensive and most coherent map of the universe».20

Ramsey says that one can judge models in part by their effectiveness in producing loving behaviour; this criterion, taken alone, would raise again all the problems encountered in Braithwaite's instrunlentalism.

Taking children to Church Children very often model the behaviour of their parents, and so it will be useful to first look at how parents can take part in the liturgical celebrations in Church before we look at how they can help their children to participate.

In all of these functions — the evocation of attitudes, the guidance of behaviour, the interpretation of experience, and the organization of perceptions — a metaphor is used only momentarily, whereas a model is used in a sustained and systematic fashioIn all of these functions — the evocation of attitudes, the guidance of behaviour, the interpretation of experience, and the organization of perceptions — a metaphor is used only momentarily, whereas a model is used in a sustained and systematic fashioin a sustained and systematic fashion.

It is very hard to criticize our own players, but I personally was outraged by his behaviour and think that he needs to curb that angry streak or he is just going to cost Arsenal valuable points in the future, and hardly be a good role - model to young up - and - coming footballers.

The model has been used effectively in a wide variety of venues and settings: parenting, classroom, special behaviour programs, alternate education settings, therapy, correctional settings, aboriginal communities, adoption, counseling, and the foster system.

Thus the most important thing you can do is to model the kind of behaviour you would like to see in your children.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectivenesIn other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectivenesin their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectivenesin home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

All this is discipline in the truest sense of the world — teaching the child about acceptable behaviour, and also modelling the art of compromise.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Yet, this high interest in zombies enables researchers to link zombie - like behaviours to current models of public attitudes and actions.

Moreover, it closely mirrors the theoretical approaches in economics: it is a model which utilises relatively basic assumptions about human behaviour in a stylised choice setting in order to draw conclusions about individual preferences.

Examples of poor behaviour included a mother who struggled to get her five - year - old child to sleep at 03:00 GMT as well as a seven - year - old who smashed his Playstation games console in a tantrum before pestering his mother to buy a new model.

But whistleblowers say that Arron Banks - the co founder of Leave.EU - used the ideas gleaned from the itch to pursue his own CA - style model to predict and influence voters» behaviour in the EU referendum.

A controller, using a model of the system, can then in real - time decide which dynamic disturbances to apply based on the expected future behaviour of the cells.

Currently, I work on three directions: (1) cell motility and the cytoskeleton, (2) modeling of physiology and diseases (such as autoimmune diabetes), and (3) swarming and aggregation behaviour in social organisms.

Nicolas Gillet of the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France, and colleagues, modelled fluid behaviour in the Earth's core based on measurements of fluctuations in the magnetic field.

The computer science carried out at the centre will focus on mimicking the behaviour of biological systems to develop new concepts and programming languages adapted to the modelling of complex systems, says Corrado Priami, president of the centre, in an e-mail.

«Models in different dimensions or with different kinds of symmetries show very different physical behaviour.

The mathematical model shows that the problem for adolescents is that their light consumption behaviour interferes with the natural interaction with the environmental clock — getting up late in the morning results in adolescents keeping the lights on until later at night.

Its behaviour looks like what happens in the real world, but Erickson stresses that «the uncertainties remain large», and that much more work needs to be done before such models can be used to predict future climate trends.

Instead of building a model describing the microscale movement of individuals and confronting it with experimental data, the authors built a model of swarm behaviour that is consistent with experimental observations, in terms of swarm density, of individual midges» speed and acceleration.

Accordingly, the team instead examined a model describing the behaviour of supercooled water, in which previous work showed a phase transition.

In a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animalIn a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animalin behaviour of the sick animals.

If this «wobbling» is not an unknown astrophysical phenomenon and in fact the result of the behaviour of dark matter, then it is inconsistent with the standard model of dark matter and can only be explained if dark matter particles can interact with each other — a strong contradiction to the current understanding of dark matter.

He says computer models «based on our knowledge of plutonium behaviour in the marine environment, which is extensive, and based on measurements at the site,» offer «no good justification for interfering with the Komsomolets».

In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is encoded and controlled.

The fly has been an excellent model organism to understand mammalian behaviour and metabolism, and so this work can point to places to look further in humans,» says Sokolowski.

Previous analogs failed because they could not mimic the behaviours of native gangliosides even in artificial model systems.

The research shows that the modelling effect is stronger in older children than in younger children, which also suggests that relying on external rather than internal cues for how much to eat is a learnt behaviour.

For a century, psychologists and neurologists have recorded people's behaviour, invented abstract computer models of mental processes and chopped up dead brains in their quest for clues about the nature of consciousness.

Brendan Wintle at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has developed an alternative model that includes data on previous searches in remote regions, as well as aspects of the animal's biology and behaviour.

In an article entitled «Modelling Creativity: Identifying key components through a corpus - based approach,» published by PLOS ONE, they describe a unique approach to developing a suitable model of how creative behaviour emerges that is based on the words people use to describe it.

The researcher reminds us that the study of the modelling, organisation and coordination of the animal behaviour is a clear example of multidisciplinary collaboration: «biologists participate to perform the experiments in the laboratory and provide real data, in coordination with mathematicians and physicists who propose and solve the models.»

A group of research scientists from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste used a simulation model that is far more accurate than previously used, and carried out an experiment to test a hypothesis about the behaviour of hydrogen that is splitting the scientific community.

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.

«It's hard to keep the motivation going, and video self - modelling helps clients see themselves perform the behaviour in a very confident, successful way,» said Langevin.

Research will aim to improve the predictive value of animal models for vaccine evaluation, provide consultancy on the selection of appropriate models, and develop innovative approaches to characterise in vivo antigen behaviour and host responses whilst reducing animal use.

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.

Diagnostic modelling can be used to improve the understanding of the processes controlling the behaviour of a particular ice stream, or to study the importance of one or more physical process in an ice sheet in general.

As well as using a model to predict the future, we can also use it to reconstruct ice sheets in the past, giving clues as to the behaviour of the ice sheet in different climate settings.

Pine Island Glacier (PIG) in West Antarctica is a good example of the value of both prognostic and diagnostic modelling in understanding and predicting ice sheet behaviour.

Her current research interests include: in silico modelling of tumour growth and behaviour during chemo / radiotherapy; radiation - induced risk of second cancer; LDR brachytherapy; head and neck cancer radiobiology and therapy.