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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Group behaviour"”.
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Physical modelling of group behaviour of stone column foundations
Abstract available: p.3.
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Individual contributions to group behaviour in the cooperatively breeding southern ground-hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
… suggesting that species may form cooperative groups for different reasons. Most studies have focused on the benefits that additional group members bring to offspring, by increasing provisioning rates, nestling survival, and overall reproductive output. These benefits have been suggested to …
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Emergent Communication: The evolution of simplistic machines using different communication types
… and stigmergy require the existence of groups of communicators. It is, however, difficult to analyse a very large number of local interactions that occur in group behaviour. A global phenomenon known as âemergenceâ arises from such behaviour. The phrase ââthe whole is greater than the …
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High-level control of agent-based crowds by means of general constraints
… at automatically producing realistic, complex group behaviour but leads to problems in controlling the crowds. Due to interaction between crowd members, the link between the behaviour of the individual and that of the whole crowd is not obvious. The control of a crowd’s behaviour is, …
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Volunteer recruitment and retention: a case study of the Vancouver Planned Parenthood Clinic
… analysis stemming from an organizational behaviour framework is used as an alternative approach to broaden the scope of this case study. The five levels of analysis used to examine the volunteer program in this study are: 1) individual level of analysis, 2) group behaviour, 3) …
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The blended separation of powers and the organisation of party groups: the case of English local government
… One of the goals was to remove the party group grip on decision-making. Given the evidence of the strength of groups in authorities (Maud 1967, Widdicombe 1986, Copus 1999a) there are questions but no clear answers about how group behaviour has changed since this legislation (OPDM, 2002, …
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Designing high performance teams for projects : a study of 49 project teams in the UK construction industry
… opportunity to study a large number of real work groups, executing broadly similar tasks, while controlling for the effects of organisational culture on social and work behaviour. The results indicated that three levels of intervention - transformational leadership, team organisation and team …
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Rebel Organizations, Force Structure, and the Dynamics of Violence in Armed Intrastate Conflicts
A burgeoning literature examines how armed groups’ force structure, i.e. who fights for them, and their external support contributes to conflict dynamics. Building on this, this thesis seeks to further our understanding of rebel organizations’ use of violence in civil war. Across four substantive …
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Visual perception of social groups in zebrafish
Many animals live in groups and often make decisions based on the behaviour of others, integrating information coming from multiple social partners. The number of conspecifics performing a given action is often a key determinant of individual behaviour. Accordingly, the nervous system must extract …
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The face of the phone: studies of public and private mobile-phone use
… used by people in public contexts: singles; groups; dyads; indoor; and outdoor locations and shows that interaction management strategies are particularly used when phone users have to simultaneously manage their 'remote' and 'co-local' communication. The study consists of eighteen hour-long …
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Hackers gonna hack: investigating the effect of group processes and social identities within online hacking communities.
… of understanding this community. This includes group processes regarding: the identification and adoption of a social identity within hacking, and the variations this may cause in behaviour; trust within in the social identity group; the impact of breaches of trust within the community. It is …
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Keeping it together: the effect of familiarity, personality, and active interactions on group coordination
Group coordination is a universal feature of social life. Animals form social groups for a variety of reasons, including predator evasion and more efficient foraging, and individuals living in social groups must coordinate their activities in order for groups to function. Consequently, the factors …
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Psychodynamic perspectives on the master-servant relationship and its representation in the work of Doris Lessing, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer
… making the society they live in. The notion that group behaviour is individual behaviour writ large is rejected and the way in which the master-servant relationship is used as a microcosm of the larger relationship between black and white in South Africa is explained. It is also argued that …
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Digital anthropology and educational eGames: learning through behavioural patterns in digital, game-based contexts
… part of this analysis is the identification of behavioural, anthropological patterns, so that users can be clustered based on their actions, and the steps taken in the system (e.g. social network, online community, or virtual campus). In doing so, we can analyse large data sets of information …
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Collective action, incentives and social welfare : an analysis of South African policy forums
… was structured in such a way as to influence the behaviour of each of these parties towards the attainment of national objectives such as growth and low unemployment (ibid:4). There are two reasons why I have chosen not to use neo-corporatism as the means of analysis in this paper. Firstly, the …
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Estilo de liderança e relações interpessoais e intergrupais em contexto escolar: estudo de caso
Resumo - Este estudo enquadrou-se no paradigma qualitativo, tendo sido utilizado o estudo de caso como estratégia metodológica. Partiu-se para este estudo motivados pela curiosidade em saber algo mais sobre o problema associado às interacções que se desenvolvem entre os professores. A partir da …