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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Boldness"”.
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Responsibly Emboldening Predictions via Boldness-Recalibration
… is a fundamental tension between calibration and boldness, since calibration metrics can be high when predictions are overly cautious, i.e., non-bold. The purpose of this work is to develop a Bayesian model selection-based approach to assess calibration, and a strategy for boldness-recalibration …
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Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
… of terms the poets use to speak about boldness, employing the tools of feminist and philological analysis to show how idealized religious boldness was created through language subject to the ambiguities of gender. The final chapter reflects on the significance of this reception history …
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Animal personality and the social context: the role of boldness and sociability variation in schooling fish
… by showing that fish vary consistently in their boldness and sociability, with only boldness being positively linked to food intake for fish at rest. This finding provides support for evolutionary theory that links personality variation to life-history strategies, and lays the basis for work …
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An Evaluation of the Convergent Construct Validity of the Boldness Inventory of Psychopathy using a Five-Minute, 10% Carbon-Dioxide-Enriched Air Challenge
… the condition. One core construct in this model, boldness, captures an ability to remain calm in the face of threat, an appetite for dangerous or risky activities, and an increased tolerance for uncertainty and danger. Boldness is believed to originate from differences in the brain’s defensive …
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Psychopathic traits in managers: Implications for employees' motivation, performance, and well-being at work
… psychopathy, using the triarchic model (i.e., boldness, meanness, and disinhibition), on employees’ motivation, performance, and well-being. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), we proposed mechanisms by which these psychopathic traits in managers affect employees’ work-related outcomes, …
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Can the Triarchic Model Differentiate between Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder?
… The current study examined the degree to which boldness, a trait domain within the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy (Patrick et al., 2009) that captures fearlessness, dominance, and low stress reactivity, represents a distinct difference between psychopathy and APD. Utilizing a sample …
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Rhetoric, Gender, Weakness, and Shame: Paul’s somatic self-presentation in the Corinthian correspondence
… first glance appears to be a masculine apostolic boldness, the apostle’s status is called into question. For his boldness and openness of self-presentation habitually reveal Paul to be shamefully weak and socially feminized. Paul’s willing self-humiliation is predicated upon an insistence that in …
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Personality in Stomatopod Crustaceans
… representing exploration, and two representing boldness (foraging prior to startling event, and startle recovery). Overall, the findings suggest that these stomatopods do exhibit personality. Combining a study of exploration and boldness with possible differences in agonistic behaviors could …
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Decoupling aggression and risk-taking: patterns of variation in two species of freshwater fish
… Chapter 2 describes a long-term experiment on boldness, aggression and the relationship between them in sticklebacks that grew at different rates under two different competitive regimes. In one treatment (the low interaction condition) food was dispersed, while in the other (the high …
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Effects of environmental enrichment on personality traits in juvenile Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) : interplay with brain morphology, growth performance and implication for welfare
… that physical environmental enrichment induces boldness consistency across long term period (Chapter 1), behavioural syndrome (Chapter 2), shyer individuals (Chapter 1), a lower brain volume, higher growth performance as well as a positive correlation between boldness and olfactory bulbs and …
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Individual Differences in Zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) Behavior: Implications for Personality
… expected to capture (a) aggression, (b) boldness/shyness, and (c) fear. The tasks included a small open field, mirror exposure, emergence, large open field, novel object, and predator exposure tasks. IDs in behavior were found to be consistent across time for a majority of behaviors and …
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Range expansion in the invasive Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus): behavioural and gene transcriptional components of a successful invader
… with behavioural traits specific to aggression, boldness, stress response, learning, and activity; and 3) how behaviour and gene transcription vary between residents and dispersers and detection time since North American invasion. I found that round goby possess an “invasion behavioural …
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Social Behavior and Cognitive Bias in the Domestic Dog (Canis familiaris)
… with conspecifics: Aggression, Arousal, and Boldness. Results indicate that these three dimensions are correlated, with body language identified as higher arousal associated with being more aggressive and more shy/fearful when rated by experts as well as when reported by owners. Observer …
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The Relationship Among Selected Personality, Identity Status, and Academic Achievement Factors Among Black Adolescents
… identity scores tend to be related to greater boldness, sensitivity, and vigor. The higher affinity scores were related to greater warmth, less abstract thinking, and greater vigor. The higher Extended-self scores were related to greater dominance, sensitivity, and vigor. The lower depreciation …
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Valuing flexibility in product platforms : an analytical framework
… you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe. It is only with considerable help that I have traversed the steps that culminated in my signature on the cover of this document. I'd like to thank my advisor, Richard de Neufville, for his …
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Creativity with Purest Energy: How Sir Thomas Wyatt Introduced Modern English Poetics
… Wyatt (1503-42) asserts a special confidence and boldness of the individual and his poetics that stand at the forefront of an ambitious, sure and powerful England which eventually came into place during his life and afterwards. Wyatt marks the start of a new literary period when humanity and art …
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Health and Welfare Implications of Temperament Differences in Dairy Cattle
… of the five traits Activity, Aggression, Boldness, Exploration and Sociability, was validated in lactating dairy cattle using factor analysis on the results of behavioural testing. The validated framework was used to quantify the temperaments of cattle at 21, 60 and 100 days lactation. …
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Does personality affect competition, social organization, and fitness? a study using a small social mammal, Octodon degus
… whether three personality traits (aggression, boldness, and activity level) play a role in shaping competitive interactions and composition of social groups, and whether these interactions influence the fitness of individuals in groups. Aggression was the only repeatable trait in the …
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Behavioral type - environment correlations in three-spined stickleback
… type-environment correlations, one between boldness and social environment and the other between exploratory behavior and habitat type. In the second chapter I test the hypothesis that behavioral type-environment correlations are generated via natural selection. My goal in the third chapter …
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