Sentences with phrase «suggesting changes in behavior»

If, for example, by doing «more of the same business - as - usual activities» that we are doing now, we could be leading our children down a «primrose path» to a recognizably horrendous fate of some unknowable kind, would reason and common sense not suggest a change in behavior?

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«The data we're seeing suggest it may be more a change in shopping behavior than a lack of consumer demand.»

Usually, then, in my perhaps too extensive experience, the priest suggests, again gently, that some change in behavior be contemplated or undertaken, and then he asks absolution for the sinner, and blesses the penitent, and the penitent emerges from this riveting conversation thinking long thoughts.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

(Interestingly, the same study also found that physicians - presumably the female ones - who had themselves breastfed were «more informed and confident in their [breastfeeding] management abilities» and suggested that «educational programs also be targeted to professionals to effect changes in their personal behavior.»

«To positively reinforce the behavior, talk about how well your child did at making the change,» suggests Beth Ryan, a child - life specialist at Children's Memorial Hospital, in Chicago.

The epigenetic impairments reflect changes that increase accessibility of chromatin, a process that enhances gene transcription, suggesting the impairments play an important role in addiction behavior.

• Changes in behavior, including speech suggesting the individual is close to suicide.

That a simple change in the concentration of food could lead to such unusual behavior speaks to how prey density can drive the evolution of new hunting strategies, Cade suggested.

The results suggest a causal relationship between a father's behavior and his daughters» experiences: Different amounts of exposure to fathers of high or low quality changes daughters» social environments — the monitoring they received and the peers with whom they affiliated — in ways that can impact their sexual behavior.

Moreover, the more subjects changed their behavior under the punishment threat relative to the situation without a threat, the more rDLPFC was activated, suggesting that rDLPFC played a key role in adapting behavior when facing the sanctioning threat.

«Weather should remain predictable despite climate change: Simulations of jet stream behavior in a warming climate suggest ranges of forecasts in the mid-century will be similar to those in present day.»

«Although running induces both substantial changes in number and morphology of young neurons as well as significant changes in learning behavior, this does not prove a causal relationship,» noted Professor Bischofberger, «Nevertheless, our results, together with previous findings, suggest that the enhanced pattern separation during memory testing is most likely mediated via running - induced increase in adult neurogenesis.»

The UVA Bay Game provides players with a new sense of individual and collective agency, and game play records suggest new directions for research in behavior change and policy development.

Rychert and her adviser, Karen Fischer, suggest that small amounts of water or pockets of melted rock in the uppermost asthenosphere account for the change in seismic behavior and the abrupt shift between the two layers.

«But this does suggest there are definite changes in the brain that can play a large role in behavior.»

A new study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these chemicals can change reproductive behavior as well, and that these behavioral changes can be passed on from parents to offspring.

These results suggest that the gender gap in alcohol behavior may have to do with how hormones play into both gender - related and estrous cycle - related changes in central nervous system excitability, the team reports this month in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

The research suggests that reducing production of the protein, called myoferlin, affects cancer cells in two primary ways: by changing the activation of many genes involved in metastasis in favor of normal cell behavior, and by altering mechanical properties of cancer cells — including their shape and ability to invade — so they are more likely to remain nested together rather than breaking away to travel to other tissues.

Sudden changes in behavior, in particular, may suggest a need for professional help.

Over the years, scientists have suggested everything from differences in behavior to changes in sea level.

Incentives derived from the past continue to shape modern behavior, and the time has come for a serious look at possible changes in the incentive structure, she suggested.

The results suggest that subtle changes in gene dosage across many genes, caused by the change in chromosome numbers, can promote alternate behaviors.

The finding, reported here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of ScienceNOW, suggests to the researcher that modern behaviors such as dolling up with jewelry may have originated from a need to communicate rather than a fundamental change in the human brain.

«If that behavior is important for controlling certain ecosystem processes, like for instance nutrient cycling, it's then reasonable to suggest that fundamental aspects of the ecosystem may well change in ways that we currently don't appreciate.»

A new study suggests that evolutionary changes in the regulation of a gene implicated in perception, behavior, and memory may be partly responsible.

The findings, published in Brain and Behavior, further suggest that changes in cortical thickness and neural network connectivity may prove an effective way to quantitatively measure treatment efficacy, an ability that has not existed until now.

The changes in locomotor activity are associated with fluctuations of anxiety - like and depression - like behaviors, suggesting that the mutant mice may serve as an animal model showing infradian oscillations of mood substantially similar to those found in patients with bipolar disorder.

With regard to animals» earthquake prediction potential, researchers suggest that in future studies, perhaps a quantitative definition of «unusual or abnormal behavior» is needed, as well as actual explanations behind the change in behavior.

Now, Salk Institute scientists studying roundworms suggest that, in both worms and humans, adolescent brains mature to stable adult brains by changing which brain cells they use to generate behavior.

While earlier studies have suggested that the mix of bacteria in your intestines have the ability to influence your mood and subsequent behavior in various ways, the featured research investigated how these changes actually come about.

I am finding that lecturing patients rarely helps; have begun using more «motivational interviewing» — encouraging patients to express their own goals as well as barriers to implementing suggested behavior changes, and moving them slowly in the right direction.

Importantly, the changes in behavior and brain chemistry were largely extinguished with vagotomy, suggesting direct lines of communication from gut to brain [90].

A 2011 study at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, found that changing the balance of gut bacteria in mice not only changed levels of these chemicals in their brains, but also caused obvious changes in behavior, making usually timid mice act more boldly and adventurously — suggesting a shift in anxiety levels.

The researchers suggested that for men wearing the color may trigger a change in behavior and that something as simple as wearing a red tie could give a more confident business presentation.

The second point is related to this: The report seems to suggest that this imperative requires big changes in behavior from just about everyone except those in the mirror.

The results presented here — greater teacher performance as measured by student achievement gains in years following TES review — strongly suggest that teachers develop skills or otherwise change their behavior in a lasting manner as a result of undergoing subjective performance evaluation in the TES process.

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

While only time will tell exactly how consumer behavior will change, our research suggests that not only will a variety of markets be impacted by the introduction of these devices but also that there are substantial opportunities for those in the digital content ecosystem.»

If this is a sudden change in his behavior it could indicate illness, but it may also mean you're going to need to work it out through conditioning, as it would suggest he's become increasingly jittery around you.

The American Veterinary Medical Association suggests that you take your pet to a dentist if they have changes in behavior and act irritable.

We strongly suggest that you do it anyway for about two weeks (which is the minimal amount of time required for a change in cat behavior) to assess whether, by placing the box in the suggested places, the issue is fixed.

Stress can come from seemingly innocuous sources: changes in husbandry routines, unfamiliar caretakers, etc. but the studies suggest that monitoring of sickness behaviors in the cat may be an excellent additional means of evaluating feline welfare and that the cats» behavior is a more reliable indicator of their level of stress than their physiological responses.3

There is extensive discussion of the high - profile studies by Emanuel, Webster, Curry and coworkers (see e.g. here and here) which, eerily coincident with the record - setting 2005 season, first suggested a detectable climate change signal in hurricane behavior.

Canadian researchers have delved into this question, compiling a list of the most commonly suggested «green» behavior changes, as found in high school science textbooks and government documents.

But an editorial cartoon published Tuesday in Pennsylvania - based PennLive.com suggests such «idiotic behaviors» is the same as if you deny «human - caused climate change.»

The rapid nature of observed and predicted changes in the Arctic suggests that Arctic sea ice could possibly undergo nonlinear threshold behavior as it retreats.

«We know that they can survive in the Florida wilderness for numerous years, we know that they grow quickly here and we know their behavior in their native range, and there is no reason to suggest that would change here in Florida.»

On the surface, this study suggests that for a significant majority, guilt or education is not enough to elicit a change in behavior.

He suggests that shifts in empathy may come from changes in behavior, activities, attention, and brain development.