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Showing 1 to 20 of 3471 for “"Behavioural"”.
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Behavioural Model Fusion
… study three instances of the fusion problem for "behavioural models", motivated by real-world applications. The first problem is combining "partial" models of a single feature with the goal of creating a more complete description of that feature. The second problem is maintenance of "variant" …
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Behavioural adjuvants to vaccination
This thesis investigated the effects of acute eccentric exercise on the immune response to vaccination in young humans. Study one investigated whether the efficacy of the eccentric exercise intervention was affected by manipulating the timings of exercise prior to influenza vaccination. Three …
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Behavioural Macro-Financial Cycles
… combination of optimal feasible expectations and behavioural errors appear to explain US household inflation forecasts. In the second chapter I study whether increases in asset price convergence and the quantity of cross-border asset holdings, common measures of financial integration, imply high …
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Studies in behavioural epidemiology
The following five papers are included in this collection. Paper 1. Flisher AJ, Joubert G, Yach D. Mortality from external causes in South African adolescents, 1984 - 1986. South African Medical Journal 1992; 81: 77-80. Paper 2. Flisher AJ, Chalton DO. High school dropouts in a working-class South …
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Behavioural Ecology of Large Tuna
… for stressor impacts. However, understanding behavioural responses requires monitoring at temporal resolutions matching the biological processes of interest, from sub-second events to seasonal strategies. Accelerometers uniquely capture behaviour across this breadth: high-frequency sampling …
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Essays in Behavioural Corporate Finance
This thesis consists of three main studies that aim to investigate the impact of managerial characteristics and behaviour in different corporate finance contexts. The first chapter introduces a novel proxy for managerial conservatism trait by utilising the hand-written signature styles of Chief …
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Essays in Behavioural Economics & Applied Econometrics
A long body of literature in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individuals perform poorly in understanding how past outcomes relate to future outcomes in experimental settings. This thesis studies the ability of individual decision makers to incorporate information about previous …
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Behavioural Economics: The Inferior-Good Effect
These experiments used 15 domestic hens to investigate the inferior-good effect, a decrease in consumption of a commodity as income increases. Experiment 1 investigated plain and salted wheat to serve as superior goods (opposite to inferior goods) and inferior goods. Hens consumed mostly plain …
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Brain-behavioural olfactory asymmetries in Apoidea
… organisms. Over groups of individuals, brain-behavioural asymmetries might present a direction in the occurrence of the bias (the majority of the individuals showing the same direction at the population level) that has been mathematically demonstrated to be an evolutionarily stable strategy in …
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Continuous user authentication featuring behavioural biometrics
… system is pro- posed and implemented using behavioural biometrics i.e., keystroke and mouse dynamics which tends to authenticate the user on each sin- gle action. Behavioural biometrics are used since these can passively provide the perpetual information about the user’s behaviour when …
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Behavioural microanalysis of dopamine autoreceptor function
… on the same neuron may subserve different behavioural functions. The observation that apomorphine administration resulted in a selective manipulation of the microstructural parameters of feeding, was then used to assess the action of antidepressant drugs on DA autoreceptor function. In both …
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Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics
This thesis contains three essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics. In Chapter 1, I investigate what effect growing up as an only-child has on social and risk preferences, trust, and behaviour in strategic interaction. To do that, I use data from a laboratory experiment in which university …
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Essays on behavioural and organizational economics
This thesis consists of three self-contained experimental studies focusing on conformity behavior in the leader appointment process, self-group risk preferences of elected leaders and performance feedback mechanisms. In Chapter 1, I investigate discrimination against women in election settings and …
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Behavioural synthesis of analogue integrated circuits
Automatic synthesis of analogue circuits remains a very manually intensive task despite huge strides in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in recent decades. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are biologically inspired search algorithms which have previously shown some promise in this field. …
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Fetal Biometry and Early Behavioural Development
… between fetal brain measures and early behavioural development at 18-20 months. The outcome measures include the Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT), the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI) short form and the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile …
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Behavioural economies in development decision making
This paper will research why businesses fail, the human connection to business failure – especially in the real estate market – and how to plan for success in real estate developments. It is important to understand the heuristics or rule of thumb of what, why and how an individual is driven to make …
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Rheumatoid arthritis : a cognitive-behavioural intervention
… Arthritis (RA), and the value of cognitive-behavioural intervention in improving the overall health status of such patients. Two related hypotheses were tested in a matched-random assigned two-groups design, with pre-, mid-, and post-intervention assessment. Fourteen (N = 14) female RA …
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