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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"Environmental cues"”.
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Social inferences via environmental cues.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1969. Ph.D.
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The Weak Spot: Psychopathic Traits and Environmental Cues for Exploitation
… traits are better able to detect behavioural cues of vulnerability (e.g. gait) that are related to previous victimization, but the current study examines how they might also use environmental cues to determine potential for exploitation. In this study, male participants (n = 118) engaged in an …
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Don't forget to remember: motivation and environmental cues affect prospective memory performance
Prospective memory (PM) refers to remembering to fulfill previously formed intentions. While some intentions are self-interested, others are prosocial, and both are influenced by motivational forces. This study examined these relationships using a monetary incentive to moderate motivation, and …
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Environmental Cues in the Seasonal Development of the Southern California Annual Grassland
… allowing them to make their major demands upon environmental resources at different times. Thus, an ecosystem furnishing certain resources at a limited rate is enabled to support a larger total biomass.</p> <p>The grasslands of southern California consist principally of annual grasses coexisting …
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Enhancing functionalities of engineered skeletal muscle tissues by recreating natural environmental cues
… natural muscles. This thesis aims to implement environmental cues and essential elements of natural muscles to improve the contractile performance and increase its size beyond the diffusion limit. Firstly, inspired by the observation that the natural muscles are exposed to electric potentials …
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The Contribution of Environmental Cues to Early Squamous Tumour Formation in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract
… together, my findings reveal the involvement of environmental cues in the fate and survival of early oesophageal tumours, such as localised tissue stress, stromal-derived ligands, and the immune response. This study underscores the importance of the pre-cancer microenvironment as both a potential …
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Word learning from object, speaker and environmental cues in typically developing children, children with autism spectrum disorder and children with other developmental disorders.
… bias), a speaker (Study Three: gaze and pointing cues) or the environment (Study Four: arrow and light cues). A final study assessed the relative weighting of conflicting speaker and environmental cues (Study Five). Control groups of typically developing (TD) children and children with other …
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Behavioural and Metabolic Characterization of NPR-9 and AIB Signaling Dynamics in Caenorhabditis Elegans
… environments and are often faced with diverse environmental cues. The nematode must modulate behavioural and physiological mechanisms to avoid aversive environmental conditions while favouring conditions that promote growth. Therefore, organisms must detect environmental cues via sensory …
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The evolution and ecological genetics of pupal color dimorphism in swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilioninae)
Data bearing on the evolution, environmental control and genetic basis of pupal color dimorphism was presented or discussed for six species of swallowtail betterflies. Papilla glauces and P. cresphontes produce only brown pupae while P. polyxenes, P. troilus, Battus philenor and Eurytides marcellus …
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THE EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN BUTTERFLIES
… to have distinct phenotypes in response to environmental cues. Early work in insects implicated changes to hormone titers as key molecular mediators of plasticity, but details on how the environment alters the development of traits via these hormones and how such complex plastic systems …
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Role of the Nla6S and Nla28S histidine kinases in fruiting body development of <i>Myxococcus xanthus</i>
… processes in bacteria. In response to adverse environmental conditions, M. xanthus aggregates and forms multicellular structures known as fruiting bodies. Two component signal transduction systems (TCS) are widely used by bacteria to detect and respond to environmental cues by regulating …
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Phosphorylation Regulation of T-Lymphocyte Migration
… evolved to be highly migratory and responsive to environmental cues, which provide guidance for proper tissue distribution. The translation of external environmental cues to intracellular physical changes in leukocytes requires a cascade of receptors, signal transducers, and mechanical effectors. …
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MODULATING CELL DIFFERENTIATION WITH PROTEIN-ENGINEERED MICROENVIRONMENTS
… native cellular microenvironments and provide environmental cues to induce specific cell responses, including differentiation. Biochemical and biophysical cues modulate cell behavior and direct construction of specific types of tissue. Thus, this work describes production and characterization …
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Bet- hedging reproduction strategies in the massive Caribbean coral Favia fragum
… an evolutionary strategy in corals to adapt to environmental conditions associated with climate change. Most environments vary spatially and temporally over the lifespan of corals, and corals use cues from their natal environments as “predictors” of the environment they will release their …
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Environmental determinants of greater flamingo foraging behaviour in an estuarine intertidal sandflat
… flamingo spatial foraging preferences and the environmental cues that determine them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the foraging distributions of non-breeding Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) within one of their southern African overwintering grounds, the …
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Determinants of Health-Promoting Lifestyle among Nurses in Taiwan
… and (3) investigate other personal and environmental cues and characteristics related to health-promoting lifestyles among nurses (N = 218) in Taiwan. Findings of the quantitative approach in Phase One indicated that a health-promoting lifestyle was significantly related to …
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Integration of amino acid signals by the mTORC1 pathway
… growth, cells must integrate a broad array of environmental cues to coordinate anabolic and catabolic processes. The mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) kinase pathway is the primary eukaryotic pathway responsible for integrating these diverse signals and coordinating cell growth …
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Social and environmental causes and reproductive consequences of ornamented plumage in the Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus)
… I first had to understand the social and environmental dynamics of the non-breeding season, the period when males acquire ornamented plumage. My first chapter quantifies the non-breeding social environment and its relationship to climate variation, finding Red-backed Fairywrens form family …
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Human Brain Organoids for Studying Malignant Cell States and Intercellular Communication in Human Glioma
… (e.g., gliomaspheres) is the lack of appropriate environmental cues, leading to a prohibitively reductionist or skewed representation of the disease. In recent years, human brain organoids have emerged as promising 3D, in vitro model systems for partially recreating the cellular composition and …
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