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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Cooperative Behavior"”.
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Cooperative behavior of motor proteins
The cytoskeletal motor protein kinesin-1 (conventional kinesin) is the fast carrier for intracellular cargo transport along microtubules. So far most studies aimed at investigating the transport properties of individual motor molecules. However, the transport in cells usually involves the …
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Physiological Synchrony Predicts Cooperative Behavior with High Stakes
… in no trust, high trust, and untrustworthy behavior, indicating PS, trust, and trustworthy behavior are nonlinear. This is the first study of its kind to demonstrate that individuals display PS in the trust game.</p>
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The dynamics of hostile and cooperative behavior in the international system
… conflict, and studying the impact of short-term behavioral variables (e.g., escalating tensions or hostility) on conflict. This paper takes into account both slowly changing structural variables and rapidly fluctuating behavioral variables to try to answer the following questions: (1) why do some …
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Cooperative Behavior in Driven Lattice Systems with Shifted Periodic Boundary Conditions
… a homogeneous disordered phase. We investigate cooperative behavior in this phase by using two-point spatial correlation functions and structure factors. By varying the particle density and the temperature, the system orders into a phase separated state, consisting of particle-rich and …
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Controlling the cooperative behavior of a system of autonomous mobile robots
… team of similarly designed robots. Reactive and behavior-based principles are the basis of the system design. Although the entire material transport scenario is presented in this thesis in the context of a reactive behavior-based control architecture, emphasis is placed on developing a single …
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A Proximate Perspective on the Cooperative Behavior of a Lekking Passerine
… responsible for driving individual variation in behavior is a foundational question in organismal biology. Answering these types of questions is necessary for understanding how tradeoffs are mediated as well as potential constraints on evolutionary responses to selection. In Chapter I, I …
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Verbal Instructions and Feedback to Teachers on Cooperative Behavior of Kindergarten Pupils
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The effects of uncertainty and penalty on cooperative behavior in a resource dilemma
"A resource dilemma, a special case of a social dilemma, simulates a situation in which a group of individuals can ""harvest"" resources from a common resource pool. But if they overharvest from the common pool, the pool can become ""extinct."" Thus, each member's decision must consider the level …
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Investigating the Cooperative Behavior of Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners when Stands are Spatially Interdependent
This research examines how the harvesting behavior of nonindustrial private forest landowners, and their use of forestland for non-timber amenities, is affected by adjacent landowner behavior. The uncertainty an individual landowner has regarding adjacent landowners' preferences, and how the …
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Understanding The Behavior Of States As Their Nuclear Status Changes
<p>Can a state’s nuclear status influence its behavior in dyadic relationships? The present study examines the role played by nuclear status on the proliferating state’s level of hostility and cooperation towards other states in dyadic relationships. The study builds on the existing literature by …
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Distributed Protocols for Signal-Scale Cooperation
… and coordination of devices to enable cooperative behavior, (b) the conservation of energy for devices cooperating to help others, and (c) the management of increased inter-device interference caused by multiple spatially separate transmissions in a cooperative network. In this thesis, …
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Investigation of Contractual Specification and Implementation of Relational Approaches in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects
… which can further promote opportunistic behavior between parties. Although contracts are designed to govern projects and curb opportunism, their efficacy is limited by these transaction hazards. Therefore, the development of strong relationships and cooperative behavior among stakeholders …
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Cooperative behaviors in the evolution of antibiotic resistance
… by resistant bacteria is an important cooperative behavior which enables microbes to help each other survive in otherwise lethal antibiotic concentrations. The rich dynamical behaviors that arise even in these simple systems highlight the inherent challenge in deciphering the workings …
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Multi-robot cooperative surveillance in unknown environments
… tracking algorithm is proposed to enable the cooperative behavior in tracking mobile targets. In addition, due to the complexity and uncertainty associated with tracking, two reinforcement learning-based algorithms are proposed. With respect to the localization problem, an auction-based task …
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The Use of Noncooperative Games to Determine Strategic Bidding in Centralized Electricity Markets
… the near future makes the players adopt implicit cooperative behavior, and the willingness to work to a common end may be modeled in automata or agents, which substitute the players, that must adopt stochastic responses to the other automata strategic moves as a means to mask rationality.
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Cooperative learning and its effects on social interactions in the third grade
… social interactions would improve when utilizing cooperative learning techniques. The social interactions observed included listening and speaking, courtesy, peaceful conflict resolution, leadership, and cooperative behaviors such as keeping one's hands to themselves.</p> <p>The targeted …
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Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Flow Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
… flow control has been studied in a cooperative network environment. Such cooperative behavior is not a realistic assumption in a public MANET formed by a random group of strangers. Users in this network are likely to behave selfishly, by refusing to forward other users' packets. …
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Application of the principle of minimization of entropy in the achievement of steady-state solutions for dynamic systems
… on the Principles of Minimization of Entropy and Cooperative Behavior are presented as the optimal means for defining, achieving and maintaining long-term steady-state systems both locally and globally. It is shown that the “Golden Rule” shares with the thermodynamic concept of equilibrium the …
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Reciprocity and Prejudice: An Experiment of Hindu-Muslim Cooperation in the Slums of Mumbai
… less against the groups expected to reciprocate cooperative behavior. Conditional cooperators rationally update their group stereotypes based on their experience with the groups' individual members. This change in turn reduces prejudice and discrimination. I tested observable implications of the …
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The evolution of coordinated cooperative behaviors
Cooperative behaviors are useful to many species of animals. Predators may team up to hunt large prey that they cannot catch on their own, while prey can herd together for defense. This dissertation focuses on understanding the environmental factors and cognitive architectures underlying the …
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