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Suicidal behaviour
… important matters are being dealt with. Suicidal behaviour is important, because it is common and touches the lives of many people. When hundreds of people presented themselves after behaving self-destructively, it seemed gradually to emerge that suicidal persons do resemble each other, and that …
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A cognitive human behaviour model for pedestrian behaviour simulation
Pedestrian behaviour simulation models are being developed with the intention to simulate human behaviour in various environments in both non-emergency and emergency situations. These models are applied with the objective to understand the underlying causes and dynamics of pedestrian behaviour and …
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Child disruptive behaviour problems, problem perception and help-seeking behaviour
Disruptive behaviour problems in early childhood are found to be associated with many negative long-term outcomes, such as antisocial behaviour, adolescent delinquency, and substance abuse (Kellam, Werthamer-Larsson & Dolan (1991), as cited in Butler, 2005:1). Even after adolescence this arises, …
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Singular behaviour and long time behaviour of mean curvature flow
In this thesis, we investigate two asymptotic behaviours of the mean curvature flow. The first one is the asymptotic behaviour of singularities of the mean curvature flow, and the asymptotic limit is modelled by the tangent flows. The second one is the asymptotic behaviour of the mean curvature …
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Explaining visible behaviour
… presents a novel approach to the problem of behaviour modelling within computer vision. This technique is not based upon statistical measures of typicality, but upon building an understanding of the way people navigate towards a goal. Representing movement through the scene in terms of the …
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Construing economic behaviour
Economic behaviour does not take place in a vacuum or separate from other aspects of human behaviour. For too long, the expression ceteris paribus has been the catchall of economic modelling, and when pressed for examples of "other things being equal", invariably many of these are psychological …
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Coupling of mechanical behaviour and water retention behaviour in unsaturated soils
… research has shown coupling of mechanical behaviour and water retention behaviour in unsaturated soils at a constitutive level, with degree of saturation (in addition to suction) influencing mechanical behaviour and volumetric strains influencing water retention behaviour. An innovative …
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Exploring domestic rabbit (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>) personality utilising behaviour coding, behaviour testing and a novel behaviour rating tool
… of clarity on what is being measured by some behaviour tests that are currently employed in animal personality research and there are limited tools available to measure domestic rabbit responses to humans.<br/> <br/> Chapter three highlights several uses of rabbit behaviour and personality …
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Improving the Institutional Behaviour of Prisoners: Challenges and Opportunities for Behaviour Analysis
… sparse literature concerning the in-prison behaviour of prisoners. Persistent and rising levels of violent and disruptive behaviour in prisons highlight the need for greater research attention to be devoted to this issue. The field of applied behaviour analysis may be well placed to address …
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Learning object behaviour models
… variety of often subtle, learnt, characteristic behaviours. For instance we can determine the gender of a distant walking figure from their gait, interpret a facial expression as that of surprise, or identify suspicious behaviour in the movements of an individual within a car-park. Machine vision …
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Behaviour disorders dopamine-related
… involved in the development and maintenance of "behaviour addiction", by neuroimaging and neurophysiological methods in patients with Parkinson's disease with impulses control disorder. Materials and methods. In the study of 8 patients with Parkinson's disease with at least an impulse control …
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Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location
… how people experience and perceive antisocial behaviour. Anti-social behaviour legislation and centralised policy was initially based on the notion anti-social behaviour was easy to define. Innes’s (2004) signal crimes perspective identified the importance of local, context specific research to …
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The behaviour of the bontebok Damaliscus Dorcas Dorcas, with special reference to territorial behaviour
Fieldwork for this study was commenced during the end of January 1969 and terminated in mid-April. 1970. It was conducted on a full time basis and follow-up visits were made to the Park at intervals duririg the remainder of 1970. The study was carried on exclusively in the Bontebok National Park …
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Aspects of hens’ visual behaviour
… to examine different aspects of hens’ visual behaviour, and to assess whether hens respond to slide images in the same way as they respond to real conspecifics that those slides depict. Experiment 1 was a replication of a study by Candland (1969). Six domestic hens were trained to make …
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Droplet behaviour in microfluidic devices
This work is a study to understand the various aspects of a microfluidic device. In the first half we take the role of an end user, experimenting to learn how best to use the device efficiently. In the second half we are the manufacturer, trying to fabricate a user friendly, and fully functioning …
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