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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Novel Behavior"”.
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Mind Reading: The Role of Quality and Duration of the Relationship in Predicting Novel Behavior of Another Person
… of mind reading has been ignored by the behavior analytic community, as it is seen as private and therefore unobservable. The present study argues that mind reading is an observable phenomenon that can be investigated in a controlled and objective manner if adequate analogues of these …
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A Naturalistic Analysis of Creativity in Terms of the Creator and the Critic
… researchers given its characteristics. Creative behavior is said to be novel and unique with respect to previous behavior, but this leaves open more questions than answers. A review of the behavior analytic literature in English on the topic of creativity has progressed from the study of novel …
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Computer detection of spatial visualization in a location-based task
… performance. In this dissertation, we describe a novel, behavior-based, spatial visualization detection technique. The technique does not depend on sensors or knowledge of the environment and can be adopted on generic computers. In a Census Bureau location-based address verification task, …
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Neuroanatomical plasticity and division of labor in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)
… brood (""nursing""). They then make a dramatic behavioral transition and begin foraging outdoors. Within the dark hive, tasks are regulated primarily by chemosensory cues. A forager integrates both visual and chemosensory information, to successfully navigate through a dynamic environment. The …
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Emerging phenomena in oxide heterostructures
… attention in recent years due to emerging novel properties that do not exist in the corresponding parent compounds. Furthermore, modern atomic-scale growth and probe techniques enable the formation and study of new artificial interface states distinct from the bulk state. A central issue in …
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The Effects of Differential Reinforcement on the Variable and Novel Pretend Play Behaviors of Children with Autism
… focus specifically on increasing variable or novel play behaviors. The goal of the present study was to use differential reinforcement of novel and variable responses to teach three preschoolers with autism to engage in a variety of pretend play behaviors. A multiple baseline design across …
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Magnetic properties of R2PdSi3 (R = heavy rare earth) compounds
… low dimensional, spin-glass like and altogether “novel”. The focus of this thesis is the careful analysis of the magnetic properties and magnetic structures of single crystalline R2PdSi3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm). The investigation of macroscopic properties uses magnetization and …
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What Happens When You Let the Hunger Games Loose? An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling as a Behavior Change for Good Strategy in the StepUp Program
… but require some exertion of willpower, is a novel behavior change strategy. To date, despite the short and long-term benefits of such an approach, only one study has evaluated its efficacy in the field. This work found that restricting participants’ listening of tempting audiobooks to the gym …
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Nonparametric Bayesian behavior modeling
… dynamic agents into common motion patterns, or "behaviors," assumptions of the number of expected behaviors must be made. This assumption can cause clustering processes to under-fit or over-fit the training data. In a poorly understood domain, knowing the number of expected behaviors a priori is …
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The use of animal activity data and milk components as indicators of clinical mastitis
… conducted to examine the correlation between a novel behavior monitoring system and a validated data logger. We concluded that the behavior monitoring system was valid for tracking daily rest time in dairy cows (R=0.96); however the correlation values for rest bouts and rest duration were …
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Quantum Transport in Topological Phases of Matter
… in topological materials. First, I introduce a novel type of Hall effect, called Magnus Hall effect, that allows one to probe Berry curvature in ballistic, time-reversal invariant systems that break inversion symmetry. Next, I present a detailed characterization of extrinsic Nernst effect in …
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Cylindrical photonic crystals
… photonic band gap waveguides can exhibit novel behavior not encountered in their traditional index-guiding counterparts. Although the effects discussed in each chapter range from hollow-core transmission to zero and negative group velocity propagation and to high-Q cavity confinement, they …
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Wireless transmission with energy harvesting and storage
… Due to the time-dependent and random behavior of the energy arrival and fading, this dissertation focuses on the stochastic optimization problem to maximize the long-term average transmission rate. Leveraging the Lyapunov technique, online algorithms are designed based on the current …
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Theory of voltage oscillations in ultra-small capacitance Josephson junctions
… becomes important. Such quantum effects lead to novel behavior in the junction dynamics-supplying a constant current I to such a junction produces voltage or ""Bloch"" oscillations with a frequency WB = 211""1 /2e, which are the result of the periodic transfer a Cooper pair of charge 2e across …
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Tools for Behavioral Phenotyping of C. elegans
Animal behavior is critical to survival and provides a window into how the brain makes decisions and integrates sensory information. A simple model organism that allows researchers to more precisely interrogate the relationships between behavior and the brain is the nematode C. elegans. However, …
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A Novel Shape Memory Behavior of Single-crystalline Metal Nanowires
… characterization of the structure and mechanical behavior of metal nanowires. Molecular dynamics simulations with embedded-atom method (EAM) potentials are used. A novel shape memory effect and pseudoelastic behavior of single-crystalline FCC metal (Cu, Ni, and Au) nanowires are discovered. …
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Behavioral Evidence for "Contextual Decision Hierarchies" In the Hermit Crab, Pagurus samuelis
… and sensory cue perception influence the behavioral choices of hermit crabs. I began by reviewing behavioral experiments that have demonstrated the underlying sensory processing of visual, chemical, and tactile information in crustaceans and propose a novel behavior model entitled …
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Investigating Young Children's Music-making Behavior: A Developmental Theory
… children can engage in authentic music-making behavior and produce identifiable musical structures that move beyond random sounds or ‘noise’?</em> <em>What evidence is there to show that children's music-making behavior develops according to developmental stages? trek</em><em></em></p> <p>This …
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Simulation of blood flows in a stenosed and bifurcating artery using finite volume methods and OpenFOAM
… characteristics, and hence illustrate various novel behavior, for blood flow in stenosed and bifurcated arteries. The present work took advantage of the availability of a reasonable set of viscoelastic constitutive model solvers within OpenFOAM, specifically the viscoelasticFluidFoam solver …
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Computational modeling of intrinsic dissipation in nano-structure
… order model is considered to understand this novel behavior. We, also, investigate the role of tension on the Q factor, a measure of the inverse of dissipation rate. From these studies, we conclude that Akhiezer dynamics plays a dominant role in nano-resonators. We, then, develop a …
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