Sentences with phrase «result of human behavior»

Climate change and environmental decline are largely the result of human behavior.

More often than not, however, picky eating in dogs is actually the result of human behavior, rather than the dog's.

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Keeping score (leader boards, result tabulations, rankings, etc.) and comparing ourselves to others is natural human behavior that social media and the ubiquitous connectivity of the web have exploded to dimensions we never anticipated.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

@Sam AIDS most likely came from a primate in the African jungle, and was transferred to humans as a result of naughty behavior between one of each species.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

Human behavior that would destroy the world might be the result either of unchecked causality of the past or free acts made possible by the divinely given transcendence over these forces.

Rather, the complexity of human behavior results from the interplay between general inherited instincts and factors contingent on our individual existences in certain sociocultural settings.

The plume has been a factor in the ice sheet's behavior throughout its history, and recent surges in melting are the result of all the additional heat humans have pumped into it.

«This might explain why people sometimes say things before they think,» said Avgusta Shestyuk, a senior researcher in UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and lead author of a paper reporting the results in the current issue of Nature Human Behavior.

They will then analyze the results obtained so as to be in a better position to assess the behavior of nanomaterials in the environment and their potential danger for humans, animals, and the environment.

Team member and animal behavior specialist Miho Nagasawa, of Azabu University in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, says it is unclear whether the greater stress resulted from experiencing the earthquake, a longer time before rescue, or the sudden and complete disappearance of humans.

Just as in other animals, these human behaviors aren't the result of carefully reasoned decisions.

As a result, alcohol - exposed worms stop wriggling — the C. elegans version of the sluggish, uncoordinated behavior characteristic of inebriated humans.

Available evidence from captive snakes suggests that even those strikes that result from cases of mistaken identity or defensive behavior may still result in constriction, which can prove fatal to people when a large python or a small human is involved.

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.

As a result, the site has become a petri dish for human behavior, capturing everything from celebrity antics to acts of heroism to inane blunders that result in lawsuits, job losses, and even political coups.

To help bring down both these and the human costs of addiction, our new insights could help educate adolescents about the risks of recreational drug use and experimentation, discouraging these behaviors as a result.

It is highly debated whether these modern behaviors developed before or as a result of contact with modern humans.

The results, reported May 8 in the journal Nature Human Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yHuman Behavior, place the appearance of human - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yhuman - like cognition at the emergence of Homo erectus, an early apelike species of human first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 yhuman first found in Africa whose evolution predates Neanderthals by nearly 600,000 years.

The evolution of the human diet over the past 10,000 years from a Paleolithic diet to our current modern pattern of intake has resulted in profound changes, not only in our in feeding behavior, but our overall health.

A «comprehensive approach [to character education] is based on a somewhat dim view of human nature,» acknowledges William Kilpatrick, whose book Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong contains such assertions as: «Most behavior problems are the result of sheer «willfulness» on the part of children.»

Doggy adaptations that result in inappropriate expression of natural behavior can block or tear the human - animal bond if owners view those adaptations in human terms.

Dog bites are more of a result of human interactions with the dog and the lack of understanding of basic animal behavior.

When you are attempting to change natural parrot behaviors, you are often battling very deep - seated, ingrained behaviors that were not «learned» in the way «bad» behaviors are sometimes the result of learning and experience in humans.

Then, the practitioner needs a good understanding of the theories of animal and human behavior, since most dog problems are a result of the relationship between the owner and the dog.

Dawn doesn't beat around the bush about Terrier behaviors but rather discusses behavior management techniques as well as training to develop the level of canine human rapport which results from understanding the dog's breed!

Varying degrees of negative behaviors result when a dog feels it is the leader of a human pack and must keep its humans in line.

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

Separation - related behaviors seem more common these days, and sadly, can also result in human frustration and anger - and sometimes even the euthanasia of an offending dog when a despairing owner reaches her wits» end.

As any animal or human behaviorist, psychologist, biologist, or anthropologist will tell you, a living creature's behavior is the result of a combination of genetics and environment.

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Modeling studies cited there had variegated results, and many focused only on the potential expansion of the geographical range or mosquito - friendly seasons, while not considering how shifting patterns of health care and human behavior might render such changes moot.

H4: The result of changing human behavior in the manner specified in H3 (and its sub-hypotheses) do not have the consequence of some other negative effect which exceeds the negative effect which is being reduced in the first place.

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