Sentences with phrase «modelling the behaviour of»

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.

Playing Dangerous Golf is stupid fun, but its physics simulation is «terrifically complex», modelling the behaviour of thousands of objects at once

Presumably a lifetime of watching other dogs behave had already taught them that sometimes it is useful to model the behaviour of other canines.

The practice of the modellers is so unsound that they appear to want to tell themselves that they are modelling the behaviour of the earth directly.

One answer is that they are modelling the behaviour of their own parents, having learned how to parent in the course of being parented.

Not exact matches

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.

«Algebraix recognises that the existing digital advertising model is broken and takes advantage of consumers» online behaviour,» mentioned Silver.

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.

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

Models of the political behaviour of an electorate are used to project election returns.

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

I must refrain from going further into the cognitive framework of this particular model and confine myself to those basic aspects of the hierarchies of behaviour which are relevant to our present context.

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 fashion.

Why wouldn't women be afraid of their ability to labor independently and successfully when the only behaviour that is modeled for them is of the «good» passive woman who does what the doctor tells her and the «bad» hippy woman who screams and flails about uncontrolably?

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, 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 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, 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.

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

DR. DEBORAH PONTILLO: I might change the word competition to modelling behaviour just because I think the word «competition» may imply one child wins, the other loses and of course you never want to get into that because of [inaudible 00:29:41] reasons just to make the other child not feel very good especially if you're truly not as ready.

«Kids watch and mimic,» Firestone says, so you want to model the appropriate behaviour for them by narrating the process of organization.

The programs that were identified as having promise for implementation were kangaroo care, infant message, guided observation of child behaviour with modelling and parent - child interaction time along with parent group discussion / support.

He insists that he is the model of good behaviour - «I can't abide PMQs.

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

Let's first give a very brief sketch of some of the main preoccupations of post-war liberal economic theory, which sought to understand the actual behaviour of economic agents under conditions of scarcity through the creation of predictive models.

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.

While it is probably wrong to view voting behaviour too much through an ideological prism (models of electoral behaviour these days tend to be more dominated by voters perceptions of compentence, rather than ideology), throughout the 1980s the left - of - centre vote tended to be split between two parties.

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.

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

But a model of Ceres presented at the LPSC has added a wrinkle by suggesting comet - like behaviour is only possible at the poles of the dwarf planet, not the lower - latitude areas where the bright spot has been seen.

Surprise behaviour from the new particle will help test theories that transcend the limits of the standard model of particle physics

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.

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 animals.

The academics say the psychological model can be used to predict people who will exhibit suicidal behaviour — and once further developed could make a huge difference to creating effective assessment, support and treatment for people at risk of suicide.