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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Behavioural analysis"”.
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BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS OF ZEBRAFISH RELAXIN-3A MUTANT
The insulin-related neuropeptide relaxin-3 (RLN3) has been implicated in stress responses, feeding and anxiety. Most studies have focused on the peptide encoded by the A- and B-chains, and have been conducted using rodents. This thesis explores the <i>rln3a</i> gene in zebrafish, to test whether …
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BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS OF PIGS WHEN PRESENTED WITH PEA-DIETS
… soy meal diet were used. The results of the analysis of the eating behavior showed differences in the number of meals, average meal duration and average eating time per meal (P < 0.01) between pea diets and soybean meal diet. The pigs fed pea diets had shorter meals than the ones on control …
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A behavioural analysis of computer game playing competence, experience and related physiological processes
… represents a rst step in the psychological analysis of on-line game playing. In the literature review presented in Chapter 1, Network Latency and 'game challenge' were identied as two important variables affecting participants' enjoyment of on-line games. The experiments presented in Chapter …
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Influencing water consumption at South Staffordshire Water PLC : a disaggregated behavioural analysis of contributory factors
This research identifies factors which influence the consumption of potable water supplied to customers' property. A complete spectrum of the customer base is examined including household, commercial and industrial properties. The research considers information from around the world, particularly …
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Development of situation recognition, environment monitoring and patient condition monitoring service modules for hospital robots
… for four scenarios: Intruder detection, Patient behavioural analysis, Patient physical condition monitoring, and Environment monitoring. Since the Intruder detection and Patient behavioural analysis scenarios require the same equipment, they can be combined into one common physical module called …
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Detecting Misbehaviour in a Complex System-of-Systems Environment
… concerns, including the lack of effective behavioural monitoring. This can be largely attributed to its distributed, decentralised and heterogeneous nature, which poses many significant challenges. The uncertainty and dynamics of both the SoS’s structure and function poses further …
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Modeling of Integrated Voltage Regulator Power delivery systems
… power semiconductors, and control circuits. Behavioural analysis, prior to prototyping, of such complex is possible only by suitable simulations. This thesis aims to study the the design and construction of a combined IVR and LDO system model using Simulink and MATLAB.
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The current role and contribution of ‘Behavioural Investigative Advisers’ and ‘forensic clinical psychologists’ in the United Kingdom
… study examined the scope and contributions of Behavioural Investigative Advice (BIA) and Forensic Clinical Psychology (FCP) reports from the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom. The extent to which the reports met set professional standards was also evaluated. Method: 77 BIA [full] and …
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The analysis of a mouse model of Lysosomal Storage Disorder uncovers a role for astrocyte dysfunction in neurodegeneration
… loss and robust neuroinflammation. Finally, behavioural analysis of mice with astrocyte-specific deletion of Sumf1 compared to mice with Sumf1 deletion in both astrocytes and neurons allowed me to link a subset of neurological manifestations of LSDs to astrocyte dysfunction. This study …
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Multimodal Recognition of Social Behaviors and Personality Traits in Small Group Interaction
In recent years, the automatic analysis of human behaviour has been attracting an increasing amount of attention from researchers because of its important applicative aspects and its intrinsic scientific interest. In many technological fields (pervasive and ubiquitous computing, multimodal …
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Visual navigation of a virtual blowfly
… the responses of an exemplary output neuron to behaviourally relevant stimulation. Based on the responses of this neuron, a simple controller is shown to be able to control the flight direction of a virtual fly simulated in a closed control loop. The ability of this simulated system to avoid the …
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Determining the Rates of Protein Synthesis in the Zebrafish Heart in Response to Chronic Unpredictable Stress
… These approaches were validated by a parallel behavioural analysis. The results revealed that glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes as well as proteins involved in hypoxia had significantly altered synthesis rates in response to induced stress. This thesis describes for the first time a …
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Integration of Nano CT and SEM in the Characterization of Marcellus Shale
… digitising the shale sample and 3dimension image analysis for improved gas recovery.Full networks with parameterised topology have been generated on the scanned images. In this study the measured porosity is 4.73% and calculated porosity is 4.92%. Therefore the average porosity of the Marcellus …
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Behavioural profiles : a relational approach to behaviour consistency
… different purposes. Existing work on consistency analysis builds upon behaviour equivalences and hierarchical refinements between process models. Hence, these approaches are computationally hard and do not offer the flexibility to gradually relax consistency requirements towards a certain setting. …
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Why is autism a disability? Examining an argument for intersectional neurodiversity
… method of autoethnography. I conduct a thematic analysis on online expressions of autistic experience to highlight concerns such as the use of Applied Behavioural Analysis, Identity and the experience of Discrimination, and the differences in Sensory Experience, which currently lack adequate …
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The genetics of sports behaviour : the role of the DRD4 gene in sensation seeking in skiers
… seeking. One gene thought to influence this behavioural trait is the dopamine-4-receptor gene (DRD4), in which variants have been associated with sensation seeking and novelty seeking in some, but not all studies. The inconsistencies between studies may be due to heterogeneity in both the …
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Studies into Amphetamine-Induced Unconditioned Behaviour in the Rat.
… stereotyped. The Lyon-Robbins hypothesis of the behavioural effects of amphetamine predicts competition between the output of the mesolimbic and caudate-putamen, and would predict that stereotyped locomotion represents a 'blending' of mesolimbic and caudate-putamen behavioural output. An …
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Optimisation of Rail-road Level Crossing Closing Time in a Heterogenous Railway Traffic: Towards Safety Improvement - South African Case Study
… closing time is required. Henceforth, data analysis has been conducted on eight active rail-road level crossings found on the southern corridor of the Western Cape metro rail. The spatial, temporal and behavioural analysis was conducted to extract features with influence on the level …
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LNX1 and LNX2 in the central nervous system: linking behavioural, cellular and molecular perspectives
… circuits. This dissertation investigates the behavioural, cellular and molecular consequences of Lnx1p70/p62 and/or Lnx2 deletion in mice, as explored across the following chapters. Chapter 2 revealed, through an extensive behavioural analysis, that loss of both proteins contributed to …
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A Behavioural, Molecular and Lesion Examination of Hippocampal Contributions to Morris Water Maze Acquisition
… they navigate during a training trial. From this analysis we initially determine that positioning of the distal cues around the maze can impact on intact animals’ performance. Specifically, we noted that animals with cues positioned close to their goal are more efficient in reaching the target and …
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