Sentences with phrase «models of human behavior»

Linking models of human behavior and climate alters projected climate change in Nature Climate Change

Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by «rational man» models of human behavior from economics and too little by «foolish man» models from psychology and real - world experience.»

Brian Beckage and Katherine Lacasse are two of the co-authors of the new paper «Linking models of human behavior and climate alters projected climate change ``, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on January 1, 2018.

Linking models of human behavior and climate alters projected climate change.

Not exact matches

You are also not criticizing their operational model or behavior, but simply stating the fact that their payments have been delayed or nonexistent, says Michael «Dr. Woody» Woodward, professional coach and founder of Human Capital Integrated.

«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.»

His 30,000 - foot view examines wealth management in the context of human behavior — a complement to the pragmatic, short - term, and money - centric model that drives much investor activity today.

In becoming a model, it has engendered wide - ranging interpretation of the relationship between God and human beings; if God is seen as father, human beings become children, sin can be seen as rebellious behavior, and redemption can be thought of as restoration to the status of favored offspring.

A further cause of disquiet is the mathematisation of human behavior and the desire for predictive models.

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

If you are a Christian, then Jews, Muslims and Hindus are Christian, because all believe Christ to be merely human and a very good model of behavior, just that the early Christian church was misled by St. Paul and St. John concerning the co-eternal divinity of Christ and his role in our salvation, which only God could provide.

One of the most useful models for evaluating the personal effects of religious television programs is found in Television and Human Behavior by George Comstock and his associates.

But Millennials must also practice a healthy diet of connected and disconnected behaviors to serve as their children's role model of how best to leverage tech to enrich life while still remaining human.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

Dr. Jeanne Stolzer, Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, USA, whose research is known worldwide as an intelligent challenge to the current Western medical model that seeks to pathologize normal human behaviors, including breastfeeding, too, shares her beginnings in LLL.

«We think that the City of Chicago should be applauded as a model for proactive measurements that encourage and facilitate healthful behaviors,» said Sean Kelly, CEO and co-founder of HUMAN Healthy Vending.

The nation's defense agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience research, Moreno noted, citing research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»

«The modeling we're doing of transient blood flows is thought to be the first successful effort to represent more than just the steady shear behavior of human blood,» Horner said.

«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead author of a paper describing the work.

«The significant human component in the behavior of reservoirs means that physics - based modeling quickly becomes intractable in settings with large number of reservoirs.»

For researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging in Cologne, the sleeplessness experienced by the fruit fly Drosophila is therefore a model case for human sleeping behavior.

Levin also hopes insights gleaned from the model will help scientists grasp the origins of collective human behaviors, such as the emergence of social norms and attitudes about important issues.

A Yale - led research team has adapted traditional asset valuation approaches to measure the value of such natural capital assets, linking economic measurements of ecosystem services with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

«We need to bring in different disciplines, from computer science, engineering, math and modeling to human behavior, sociology, economics and education,» said David Balenson, another of the lead authors and a senior computer scientist at SRI International.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

We quantify the changing value of natural stocks by linking economic measurements of ecosystem services — the income to society depending on nature — with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

«In the end, we've achieved a model that closely replicates the factors that elicit anorexic behavior in humans,» said lead author Moneek Madra, PhD, a lecturer in the Institute of Human Nutrition at CUMC.

Patricia A. Martin - DeLeon, a reproductive biologist at the University of Delaware, has witnessed this behavior many times in her studies of fertility in mice, the closest genetic model to humans (and with a much faster reproductive cycle).

Although these economic models have provided a strong and unifying foundation for the development of theory about decision - making, several decades of research on these topics has produced a wealth of evidence demonstrating that, in practice, these models do not provide a satisfactory description of actual human behavior.

Genetics and specific brain regions are linked to sex differences in chimpanzees» scratching behavior, a common indicator of anxiety in humans and others primates, according to a research study led by Georgia State University that shows chimpanzees can be models of human mental illness.

«The existence of a motif means our predictive model can be based on a relatively simple mathematical formula rather than on more complex econometrics that try to account for all the different types of human behavior,» says González, the Gilbert Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).

A well - tuned computer model of such swarming behavior could have many specific applications in human life.

According to her model, early in their evolution humans added cooperative breeding behaviors to their already existing advanced ape cognition, leading to a powerful combination of smarts and sociality that fueled even bigger brains, the evolution of language, and unprecedented levels of cooperation.

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

The only way to do that, he reasoned, was to go beyond individual experiments with behaviors, diseases and brain anatomy and instead model the circuitry of the entire human brain.

But there are other programs, such as those looking at the ways human behavior influences spillover events, or those seeking to build mathematical models of how viruses spread.

Dr. Chartoff's Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior Laboratory, founded in 2009, investigates the molecular, biochemical, and cellular mechanisms underlying drug dependence and withdrawal using animal behavioral models with high relevance to the human condition.

This is a novel component of climate modeling, which has to date incorporated human behavior indirectly through economic impacts only.

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

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.

Dogs suffer from naturally occurring compulsive disorders that closely model human OCD, manifested as an excessive repetition of normal canine behaviors that only partially responds to drug therapy.

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

With regards to human culture, great emphasis has been placed on the status or «prestige» of successful social models, such that individuals with previously demonstrated skills and knowledge earn respect and credibility, and their actions have a disproportionate influence on the behavior of others [24].

«The coupling of these two models is predicated on the assertion that climate change drives changes in extreme events, extreme events interact with human perception of risk to influence emissions behaviors and emissions behaviors then feed back into climate change, leading to a fully interacting model.»

Recent projects include a study of mice that develop compulsive grooming behavior thought to model aspects of human obsessive compulsive and related disorders.

The model accounts for the dynamic feedbacks that occur naturally in the Earth's climate system — temperature projections determine the likelihood of extreme weather events, which in turn influence human behavior.

The authors of the study explain that their findings suggest that ketogenic diets could also potentially help normalize pathological behaviors in the human model of schizophrenia by providing alternative energy sources via ketones, the products of fat breakdown, which would substitute the abnormally functioning cellular energy pathways in the brains of people suffering from this disease.

But if the film is trying to say humans are worth saving, the main characters in this film hardly model the kind of behavior that speaks well of our race.

In addition to his research in education, Coleman launched the field of mathematical sociology, provided new models for understanding power in societies, and constructed a theoretical framework for human behavior amenable to both economists and sociologists.

The moment we are trying to quantify the behavior of human beings, while making use of mathematical models, it is as if we «force the ugly stepsister's foot into Cinderella's pretty glass slipper» (Economist, 2010).