Sentences with phrase «of useful behavior»

Welcome to our library of useful behavior training and medical articles.

Just like dogs, cats can learn a number of useful behaviors and fun tricks, like sit, come when called and shake.

This training is important, as it begins to teach the dogs how to learn, and because it builds a toolbox of useful behaviors that can be used out in the world.

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That context provides critical insights into consumer behavior — and therefore powerful clues for how you can be most relevant and useful for people in their moments of need.»

Historically - reliable valuation measures are remarkably useful in projecting long - term and full - cycle market outcomes, but the behavior of the market over shorter segments of the market cycle is driven by the psychological inclination of investors toward speculation or risk - aversion.

They used to remember thinking but now it's no longer necessary and with the enriched water it is no longer possible after the cataclysmic campaigns of the last decade when it was decided that facts no longer mattered so therefore truth no longer existed so therefore thinking was no longer necessary but in fact futile so therefore not only sterile but dangerous and therefore behavior alone was substantial and adherence to action alone was useful.

I find it useful in marriage counseling and therapy to encourage couples to describe their problems in terms of the specific behaviors that each would like decreased, terminated, modified, increased, or developed.

To rely upon activities or patterns of behavior outside the daily work of the scientist as means for expressing a Christian response to God's call would be to abandon the conviction of Reformed theology that any useful work done soberly and well can be a valid means of serving God.

By these methods much interesting and useful knowledge about the predictable patterns of human behavior has been gained.

This process is attuned to the needs of a technological society, in which gender differences increasingly are less important, functional equality for technical roles is more useful, cooperation and tolerance make the workplace more efficient, and sexual behavior and family life are less relevant to work life.

Structural analysis is particularly useful in crisis counseling to help persons interrupt the vicious cycles of panic and paralysis (their frightened Child), which produce inappropriate behavior, which in turn increases the feelings of panic and helplessness.

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.

This view may provide a useful framework for investigating areas of human behavior, such as politics, in which typical behavior is worse than behavior anticipated by more optimistic views.

Because these thirty - four forms of behavior are of common occurrence among alcoholics, they constitute a useful guide, not only in identifying an individual as an alcoholic, but in helping to ascertain approximately at what stage he has arrived in his sickness.

While modifying an external behavior is useful, it isn't necessarily transformational, whereas changing one's inner being for the good, can result in multiple external changes across the range of one's life, and thus, in every sphere of influence a person has (including in ones» community), and the effect is usually more permanent.

Insofar as it is a set of values and beliefs, any religion can be useful to the material survival of the poor, whether it provides the individual with experiences, such as those we have described above, which strengthen the dignity and self - esteem of the poor, or because it creates motivations and proposes new values and a new economic culture which lead to new, more productive economic behavior.

Many wives (but no husbands) reported their own threats of divorce to be a useful tool in improving the marriage (and husbands also sometimes reported that the wives» threat of divorce was key to changing their behavior).

Similarly, the notion of the period of PURPLE crying is useful in a crisis, but should not be presented to parents as a baseline for infant behavior, since colic is diminished or prevented by nurturing parenting behavior (Barr & Geertsma, 2002), and the type of crying described does not represent the majority of infants, especially around the world.

Decades of research and practical parenting experience suggesting that certain skills are useful in building a positive relationship and in handling children's challenging behaviors.

It's full of useful suggestions you can implement immediately for almost any challenging situation or behavior will encounter with your children.

As people move, die, marry, have kids, change their interests or otherwise deviate from their 2014 Facebook state of mind, a one - time snapshot of the electorate becomes less and less useful — particularly with so much other data on our preferences and behaviors for sale.

«We also have a woman that's going to come in and talk about the new technology that's available and how it could be useful in helping curb some of the bad behaviors in our district.

The periodic table is now ubiquitous within the academic discipline of chemistry, providing an extremely useful framework to classify, systematize and compare all the many different forms of chemical behavior.

«It's useful in modeling concepts in neuroscience to have a system that will yield a diverse range of behaviors for small changes of a control parameter, as this may help offer some insights about how the same neural tissue displays different responses,» Alonso said, whose research was funded by a fellowship from the Leon Levy Foundation.

The objective of these models would not be to provide a precise forecast of the future (an impossible task), but rather to capture enough of the behavior of the educational system to make useful qualitative predictions.

But the new findings clearly show that nudge - type strategies based in behavioral science do offer a useful, low - cost approach to promoting behaviors tied to a variety of important outcomes.

The new discovery about the behavior of water will be useful in fundamental research, and in other areas too.

This approach of studying the change in consumer behavior after consumers start using the service is generally more useful than a study which only compares consumer behavior between users of streaming services and non-users.

The new technology may prove useful in medical diagnostic or other devices where tiny streams of fluid could be turned on or off by switching the surface behavior of a material.

But current super-resolution microscopy techniques do not deliver spectral information, which is useful for scientists to understand the behavior of individual molecules, as well as to enable high - quality multicolor imaging of multiple targets.

After hundreds of generations, a wide range of robotic behaviors had evolved to fill these niches, many of which were not directly useful for walking.

«Being able to tell if there is a tendency for a reaction to take place in a specific part of the electrode, and better yet, the location of reactions within individual nanoparticles in the electrode, would be extremely useful because then you could understand how those localized reactions correlate with the behavior of the battery, such as its charging time or the number of recharge cycles it can undergo efficiently,» Cabana said.

The data have helped them learn more about the snakes» spatial range and behavior and develop population models they hope will be useful for conserving the locally threatened population of pine snakes.

The technique used to assess addiction - like behavior in rats can also be used in humans, so if similar results are found in addicted people, the researchers hope the technique may help identify people most susceptible to addiction and be useful for predicting the efficacy of oxytocin treatment.

Cook refers to artificial intelligence and data - mining technologies» ability to seek useful information on resident behavior and the state of the home, and to automatically act on this information, as «ambient intelligence.»

A single beehive can collect pollen from dozens of different plant species, and this pollen is useful evidence of the hive's foraging behavior and nutrition preferences.

«Our analysis of the temporal variation in exposure patterns provides useful information to assess the impact of control measures and behavior changes during epidemics,» they said.

The release of dopamine in the brain is triggered by addictive substances and behaviors, so compounds that mimic dopamine could be useful in possible treatments.

Overall, only 23 % of the 3 - year - olds who spoke made a suggestion that had something to do with the puppet's behavior (instead of things like its shirt color)-- information that would be useful to the second child in deciding which puppet to play with, the team reports in the British Journal of Development Psychology.

Weiner believes that GREs are not useful, and Leslie Vosshall, a professor of neurogenetics and behavior at The Rockefeller University in New York City who recently started a Twitter discussion about GRE use, agrees: She never considers GRE scores because of its reported biases.

Researchers at Binghamton have proposed a comprehensive new framework, the Networked Pattern Recognition (NEPAR) Framework, by defining the useful patterns of attacks to understand behaviors, to analyze patterns and connections in terrorist activity, to predict terrorists» future moves, and finally, to prevent and detect potential terrorist behaviors.

There is no similar agreement about how our minds work: the economist assumes that rational behavior is dominant, for example, while a psychologist questions what fraction of human behavior is rational, and a biologist may ask whether rationality is even a useful concept, or merely an evolved illusion.

A better grasp of the function of CA2 could prove useful in understanding and treating disorders characterized by altered social behaviors, such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

By exploiting the properties of neutrons to probe electrons in a metal, a team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has gained new insight into the behavior of correlated electron systems, which are materials that have useful properties such as magnetism or superconductivity.

Their finding suggest that adding the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale to neuropsychological assessment may yield useful information about the behavioral sequelae of TBI.

Such individual responses to social stressors are particularly useful in modeling aspects of depression - and anxiety - like behavior with high construct, face, discriminative and predictive validity.

«Noise can be both an obstacle for some types of cellular behaviors as well as a useful feature for others,» Elowitz said.

A new study has shown that prairie voles may be a useful model in understanding the neurochemistry of social behavior.

Several behaviors were useful in predicting onset of disease symptoms, including motor tasks such as finger tapping.

Through the Foundation, the author has worked tirelessly, with no financial interest, to show how this medicine — phenytoin — has been reported useful in thousands of medical journals for more than 80 symptoms and disorders, ranging from thought, mood and behavior disorders to cardiovascular,