Sentences with phrase «model their behaviour on»

God doesn't model his behaviour on ours.

The emotional culture of a school is formed over time by the people working there, who are led by and model their behaviour on their senior leaders.

There were a range of social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children, which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.

Not exact matches

The dominant «neoclassical» model reduces the richness of human behaviour into equations based on exactly the simplistic psychology of «economic man».

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.

A model of God, on this reading, would be a psychologically helpful fiction which supports moral behaviour.

I also stop modelling behaviours such as calling myself names when I make mistakes or am being hard on myself because kids pick it up and I am already having to redirect my daughter away from labelling herself for her actions.

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, 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.

The interactive effect of infant temperament and parent behaviour on child development has been explained by the «differential susceptibility model, «39,40 which proposes that highly reactive infants are more sensitive than their peers to both negative and positive environmental influences.

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

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.

The model could, for example, be used to anticipate avalanches, to determine the load on buildings caused by snow or calculate the traction of vehicles on snow - covered surfaces by predicting the behaviour of snow.

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.

Prof. Peters with his research team are now developing a model that calculates the properties and behaviour of snow masses under high and low strain rates based on the structure of microscopic snow particles.

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.

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.

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».

Paradoxically, parts of the discussion depend on studies of freshwater fishes as models for aspects of physiology, behaviour, ecology, nutrition and clinical health.

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 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.

Requist and Tosatti created a computer model of the Kondo effect under these conditions and formulated predictions on the behaviour of the molecules.

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 theoretical work, led by Fabris, allowed the researchers to develop a «system model» on the computer able predict the behaviour of the material.

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.

«Our subscription model will allow us to keep Vero advertising - free, and to focus solely on delivering the best social experience instead of trying to find new ways to monetise our users» behaviour or tricking them back into the app with notifications.»

The Ashden Sustainable School Awards judging panel found Marton Primary School to be an excellent role model for other small schools where the staff and pupils have adopted a very simple approach, focusing on low cost or no cost actions such as behaviour change to really make a difference.

He models his behaviour management approach on the work of Glasser (1986).

These include a greater focus on explicit teaching and modelling of pro-social and helpful behaviour, helping children manage their anxieties and fears rather than being dismissive of them, and being more explicit about the teaching of problem - solving.

Independently reviewed by volunteering charity Pro Bono Economics and supported by the NHS, the study assessed the impact of the Greenhouse Sports model - established for a minimum of three years in each school - on the attendance, behaviour and academic attainment of over 700 participating pupils at four inner - city London schools.

At this stage the essential differences between the previous model and the new car become clear, not least because you now have an «RS Drive» button, which offers a choice of three distinct modes (Normal, Sport and Race) to tailor the car's behaviour to the road you're on and the mood you're in.

The Range Rover Sport is a radical departure for Land Rover, which has never before placed on - road performance ahead of off - road behaviour during development of an important new model.

Together with an excellent Cx, a perfect balance of forces on corners and downforce behaviour, the new model has Active Aero Splitter, a front system which actively manages downforce for higher performance and better grip even at high speed.

At Jellybooks we are launching just such a model (Project «Pineapple») in the form of social group buying based on users past reading behaviour which rewards readers with discounts for sharing recommendations and buying books with others.

One aspect of dog learning that is overlooked by the scientific community has to do with dogs modeling their activities on the behaviours they observe in other dogs.

As a psychologist, it still surprises me that one aspect of dog learning that is overlooked by the scientific community has to do with dogs modeling their activities on the behaviours they observe in other dogs.

There is some really impressive realistic damage modelling including loss of tyres following a heavy impact with the barrier or a collision with another car, the front wing becoming detached which will affect the handling of your car until a pit stop has been made, aerodynamic carbon fibre bodywork flying through the air in a variety of directions after a lesser impact which is not race ending but could affect the behaviour of your car, engine blowouts following a mechanical failure or too much mileage on the same engine and more besides.

While modelled on imaginative organisms, his simulations create behaviours the artist can initiate but never truly control.

And I'm not aware of any climate model that shows chaotic behaviour on long time scales.

The common thread in his criticisms is that these results are based on behaviour seen in models.

For example, Hansen's recent paper on Scientific Reticence is quite explicit that much of important physics of ice sheets is not included in the models, hence his raising of matters to do with nonlinear behaviour (eg disintegration) of ice sheets.

You pick a poor example because modelling stock market behaviour is notoriously difficult because its chaotic and based on irrational human psychology.

Secondly, you write about me «The common thread in his criticisms is that these results are based on behaviour seen in models».

Like I say, you see a richness of behaviour in the models including in some occasions behaviour that at first sight looks not dissimilar to that highlighted in the observations by the Thompson paper and this on top of the «external control» as we called it in our 2000 paper in Science of the external forcings in a particular model which drives much of the multi-decadal hemispheric response in these models and which, in terms of the overall global warming response, is dominated by greenhouse gases.

«'' Until we can model this lower - frequency behaviour in the tropical Pacific, one can only speculate on how the warming will play out over the next few decades,» said lead author Dr Michael Griffiths from William Paterson University, in the United States.»

Such models are designed to focus on one particular time - scale, or to investigate a specific phenomenon while making many assumptions concerning the behaviour of the rest of the system.

I believe that this claim is actually largely based on the behaviour of (inadequate) models.

This model describes the cyclic behaviour of the tilt angle (Hoeksema 1991; Suess et al. 1993) and its dependence solely on the phase of the solar cycle.