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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cooperative behaviors"”.
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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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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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Effects of Variable Payoff Structures on Cooperative Behaviors in a Repeated Prisoners Dilemma Game
… examined the effects of payoff manipulations on cooperative behaviors between individuals using a Repeated Prisoners Dilemma Game (PDG). Eight graduate students served as participants and played 12 occurrences of the PDG with varying amounts of payoffs for cooperation or defection …
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Using the Concepts of Framing and Loss Aversion to Answer Pertinent Questions on Cooperative Behaviors in Social Dilemmas
… proposed in an attempt to understand better the behaviors of cooperators in social dilemmas. The first hypothesis was constructed in response to Schwartz-Shea and Simmon's (1995) criticism on the applicability of the framing concept to explain level of cooperation in public goods and resource …
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Can Dolphins Cooperate to Solve a Novel Task?
… To better understand the capacity for cooperative behaviors, animals are often given tasks that require pairs of animals to coordinate their actions in order to receive a reward. This paper reports the results of an aquatic version of one such task: cooperative rope-pulling. Three …
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Effects of Cooperative Games on the Prosocial Behavior Interactions of Young Children With and Without Impairments
… this study was to determine the extent to which cooperative games promote prosocial behavior interactions of young children with and without impairments and can be used for successful integration. Specific outcomes include: (a) a cooperative games model which can be used as a framework for …
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A Proximate Perspective on the Cooperative Behavior of a Lekking Passerine
… central role in driving individual variation in cooperative reproductive behaviors and mediating the tradeoff between cooperation and competition. The subsequent chapters of my dissertation then focus on understanding the mechanistic sources of individual variation in the cooperative courtship …
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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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Personality and Perceived Police Legitimacy
… More positive perceptions are associated with cooperative behaviors; less favorable views are associated with resisting behaviors. Few studies have examined the relationship of broad personality traits with perceptions of police legitimacy. The current study examined the HEXACO model of …
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Children's Use of Accent as a Cue for Cooperative Potential
… membership, and thus, cues to ones likelihood of cooperative behavior. The current study aimed to test this theory by determining if 5- and 6-year-old children use accent to make judgments about an individual’s cooperative potential. Participants completed three tasks that were designed to measure …
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Predictive modeling and socially aware motion planning in dynamic, uncertain environments
… with unknown intents (e.g., goals), and (ii) cooperative collision-free motion planning. These issues are not only hard research problems individually, but also tightly coupled since the nearby agents' motion could be affected by the vehicle's choice of action. This work focuses on the …
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Statistical Kinetics and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Driven Systems: Stochastic Methods and Applications to Single-Molecule Biophysics
… currents, we predict and characterize the rich, cooperative behaviors attainable in conformational nonequilibrium. In addition, enzyme turnover fluctuations are analyzed by studying the Poisson indicator, a normalized measure of stochastic variation. A novel pathway analysis framework is extended …
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The Impact of Reward Structure on Project Team Effectiveness
… effect on these dependent variables included: cooperative behaviors, reward valence, effort, and autonomy preferences. Few significant effects of reward structure were found. The reward treatment had a significant main effect on both cooperation and effort, but little difference existed between …
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What Makes Our Minds Human? Comparative Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Cognition
… and unique motivation to use these skills in cooperative contexts with conspecifics. In Chapter 2 I show that understanding others' attention is unlikely to be the `small difference that makes the big difference', as some researchers have proposed. However, my data support the possibility that …
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Technology, Participatory Management Practices (PMP), and Dignity at Work: Negotiating the Use of Technology in a Plastics Packaging Firm
… PMP dynamics show conflictive, competitive, and cooperative behaviors that are negotiated through continuous human-machine, machine-machine, and human-human interactions in the production process. However, management is found to be indifferent to the impact that a combination of technologies and …
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Node Selection, Synchronization and Power Allocation in Cooperative Wireless Networks
… communications: bandwidth and power. In turn, cooperative communications has emerged as a new communication paradigm in which network nodes share their antennas and transmission resources for distributed data exchange and processing. Recent studies have shown that cooperative communications can …
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Cooperative mobile robot and manipulator system for autonomous manufacturing
… on how to develop a holistic, integrated, cooperative and autonomous robotic system. To solve this challenging issue, a strategy that is capable of seamlessly integrating different modules into a cooperative mobile robot and manipulator system (Co-MRMS) and provides autonomous material …