Sentences with phrase «of general behaviour»

These children do well across a range of physical, psychological and educational outcomes and, interestingly, children raised by same - sex parents actually fared better on measures of general behaviour, general health and family cohesion.

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is intended to stop this sort of general behaviour, but it requires a repeated action.

Not exact matches

If the marketing of organic food causes unethical behaviour, what does that say about ethical products in general?

In general, behaviour that needlessly inflicts harm on other members of your community is considered immoral by said community.

2 For an excellent survey of the history and basic concepts of systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).

The only places in which a general account of the coming to be of the human being is implicit are in pp. 290 - 296, and 528 - 531, extending my remarks to other living things, none of which do I believe to be intelligible either in their nature and behaviour or in their origin in purely physicalistic terms.

He goes on to remind us that «lawlessness of individual behaviour in the context of a given statistical law is, in general, consistent with the notion of more detailed individual laws applying in a broader context» (p. 87).

In the U.S.A., for example, there have been the 1928 National Committee for the Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures, the decade - long Senate hearings on the role of the media in juvenile delinquency in the 1950s, the 1968 National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and the 1972 Surgeon - General's Scientific Advisory Committee's Report on Television and Social Behaviour.

Higher levels of general education have been found to increase the ability of individuals to obtain and understand the health - related information needed to develop health - promoting behaviours.

What bemuses me is, given the general standard of his behaviour over the years, how can anyone tell.

But in general, there is limited and no clear evidence that breastfed babies are at lower risk of developing behaviour or mental health problems in later life.

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«Most people will see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,» general secretary Frances O'Grady said.

That said, the general theme of a reduction of concern mirrors the trends in the crime survey of England and Wales, which shows continuing decline in crime rates and a steady drop in the numbers of people across the country highlighting anti-social behaviour as a problem in their local areas.

«Fellows and Members of the College are confronted daily with the health impacts of alcohol use, and also experience the effects of alcohol intoxication on behaviour, including social disorder and lawlessness which sometimes spills over into the hospital environment in general, and Emergency Departments in particular.

The governor in his address entitled: «We Have Overcome,» appealed to citizens of the state in particular and Nigeria in general to eschew all forms of anti-social behaviours and discriminations based on faith and ethnicity, for the nation to move forward as a united entity.

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Moreover, analysis of voting behaviour during the 2014 European election shows that 21 per cent of Green voters had supported Liberal Democrat candidates in the 2010 general election; 18 per cent had voted Labour; and a further 18 per cent had have voted Green.

From an anthropologist point of view, this behaviour can trace all the way back to ancient Greece, where discredited generals borrowed foreign armies to attack his own city.

Although presenting numerous limitations, it offers an excellent starting point to reflect on the relevance of neuroscience in general, and neurochemistry and neurobiology in particular, for individual behaviour as well as collective belief systems.

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».

Responding to the Coalition Government's decision to revoke the requirement for schools to work together in behaviour and attendance partnerships from September 1, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

The comptroller and auditor general told MPs that firms as large as Serco and G4S struggle to control the way bonuses incentivise certain behaviours because of their size.

In the absence of specific and direct concerns, «general concerns» ought to have been sufficient to have triggered a review of HR protocol, to put anti-harassment training in place and to send a firm message from the leader to all staff and volunteers that such behaviour, if uncovered, would lead to immediate dismissal.

Universities and Colleges Union general secretary Sally Hunt has also accused Heaton Harris of McCarthyism and said higher education minister Jo Johnson should condemn his colleague's behaviour.

Speaking after the debate, Ms McIntosh said: «The negative behaviour of government backbench MPs today shows that the Labour party simply do [es] not care about the rising fear of crime among the general public.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Pupil behaviour is one of the top concerns that teachers raise about their job.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: «The extraordinary behaviour of Labour MPs has achieved nothing beyond diverting attention from a Tory government in crisis.

Following last Sunday's attacks on troops locations in Gukak and Gajigana by Boko Haram terrorists» during which it was reported in the social media that soldiers deployed by the Nigerian Army to battle insurgency took to their heels when they could not with - stand the firepower of the group, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has warned his men that such behaviour must not be allowed to repeat itself in the North East.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey condemned the «extraordinary behaviour» of Labour MPs who stood down in protest at Mr Corbyn's leadership.

General Secretary Len McCluskey said: «The extraordinary behaviour of Labour MPs has achieved nothing beyond diverting attention from a Tory government in crisis.

«The general aim of our research on New Caledonian crows is to determine how a «bird brain» can produce such complex tools and tool behaviour.

The authors suggest that the observed laws might describe a variety of dynamic phenomena from the motion of synthetic active particles to animal flocks and herds, human crowd or opinion dynamics and help to formulate the general laws of collective behaviour.

Thus, one of its fundamental premises is better information and training on the appropriate behaviour in case of earthquakes for the general population, including foreign residents and tourists.

Dr Neha Issar - Brown, Programme Leader for the Population and Systems Medicine Board at the Medical Research Council, said: «Sexual behaviour, or rather risky sexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and health.

Corneliu Rusu, Mark A. Zamorski, David Boulos, et al. «Prevalence Comparison of Past - year Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behaviours in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian General Population»

Dieter Lukas, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Cambridge, says the study is too preliminary to suggest much about dog behaviour in general.

The South Asian population in the UK has a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes from treatment than the general population, but studies in the past have not focused on the role of social networks or assessed beliefs about diabetes to explore self - management behaviours in this population.

In general, «macho,» highly masculine men are more likely to engage in stereotypical male behaviours, such as risk taking, substance misuse, and acts of aggression, say the researchers.

The findings thus support the idea that SSB may be prevalent in one sex because the genes regulating the behaviour are preserved by natural selection through their benefits in the opposite sex, pointing to a general mechanism maintaining multiple forms of SSB across a wide variety of animals.

The authors believe these findings may be relevant to the general UK population, as the spread of scores in this sample was within the normal population range for both reading and behaviour.

Speaking about the importance of the Honeycomb Maze, Professor O'Keefe said «we see the maze as a general - purpose behavioural testing apparatus, which will enable us to study other spatial behaviours such as direction - following as well as non-spatial tasks such as approaching a moving object.»

«Our general conclusion is that the possibility of any gravity theory explaining the behaviour of galaxies without dark matter is rather improbable.»

Their common goal is to find a single theory that unites quantum mechanics — the theory that describes the behaviour of matter on tiny scales — with Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes space, time and gravity.

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.

«Furthermore, the paper looks at the mutational pattern in general and concludes that few of the evolutionary changes seem to be in places in the Zika genome that would cause much consequent alteration in the virus's behaviour.

What is happening today in the world is that we are demanding transparency kind of everywhere: certainly in my business, with salaries and behaviour and ethics in general.

The general feeling is that Mr or Ms Dating by Numbers is always on the lookout for something better, and no one wants to be on the receiving end of that behaviour.

The general rule is that any behaviour that causes feelings of betrayal and rejection in a partner is defined as cheating.

Not that Hollywood and movies in general have any qualms about morality, ethical behaviour or what constitutes «entertainment»: we shouldn't laugh at the cry of «She's in the attic!»