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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"Sociality"”.
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Playful architecture - Constructing sociality
This thesis explores themes of playful architecture, and how activated, adaptable, and dynamic spaces can be created through embracing the inherent instability of social space. The exploration focuses on the social aspects of space and on an architecture that is capable of encouraging connection …
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The Effect Of Word Sociality On Word Recognition
… exploration of a new semantic variable - sociality - and used on-line behavioral testing to obtain new word recognition data using the visual and auditory lexical decision tasks. The results consistently demonstrated that sociality is one of the most robust predictors of lexical decision …
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Water and sociality in Khayelitsha: an ethnographic study
This study examines forms of social relationships created around unequal municipal water distribution in South Africa. Using the case of Khayelitsha, the study investigates residents' use of water to sustain their livelihood and build personhood. Water mobilises the formation of relationships in …
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The energetics of sociality in the molerats (Bathyergidae)
… It also isolates the the probable causes of eusociality within the molerats (Bathyergidae). The bathyergids display the widest range of sociality of all mammals, from strictly solitary genera (Bathyergus, Georychus, Heliophobius), to social and eusocial genera (Cryptomys and Heterocephalus). …
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Habitat-specific fitness benefits of sociality in Octodon degus
Recent debate has focused on how ecology shapes the evolution of group-living and cooperation in social vertebrates. Evidence suggests that group-living and cooperation enhance reproductive success under harsh local conditions in some species. Across two years, I studied two populations of Octodon …
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Evolutionary Genetics of Dictyostelids: Cryptic Species, Sociality and Sex
Dictyostelium discoideum serves as an ideal system to study social evolution because of the social stage of its lifecycle, where individuals aggregate to build a multicellular structure. However, much of its basic biology remains unknown and this limits its utility. I used three separate projects …
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Ivory poaching, sociality, and the role of behavior in conservation
… social behavior. I describe baseline levels of sociality among adult male elephants prior to the intensification of poaching, compare hierarchical social network structure of female elephants before and during poaching, investigate fine-scale social strategies among young females following …
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The sociality, ontogeny, and function of corvid post-conflict affiliation
… behaviour. I hypothesised that differences in sociality would influence corvid postconflict affiliation, and that this behaviour would change as individuals developed from juveniles to adults. I predicted that social rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and jackdaws (C. monedula), but not the less social …
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Evolutionary Origin and Maintenance of Sociality in the Small Carpenter Bees
… important insights into the early stages of sociality. I described the biology and social behaviour of five facultatively social species which exhibit all of the preadaptations for successful group living, yet present ecological and behavioural characteristics that seemingly disfavour …
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Disease and Dis -Ease: Emotions, Sociality and Illness in Punata, Bolivia
"In Punata, emotions are spoken about as if they had ""physicality"". They can be accumulated in the body, transformed into other substances such as bile; or they can be eliminated through breast milk or through the uterus. Two predominant discourses influence whether a particular person succumbs …
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The Materialism Of The Encounter: Queer Sociality And Capital In Modern Literature
… I argue for the critical importance of queer sociality as a confrontation with global capital in which sexualities emerge as a material history necessary for rethinking the broader experiences of twentieth century modernity. To do so, I draw together a series of transnational texts--Henry …
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User serviceable parts: Practice, technology, sociality and method in live electronic musicking
In live electronic musical research there is a need to confront the interrelationships between the social and the technological in order to understand our music as practice. These interrelationships form a complex and dynamic ecosystem that not only forms the context to, but is constitutive of …
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Sociality, social learning and individual differences in rooks, jackdaws and Eurasian jays
… encounter in their daily lives. High levels of sociality provide individuals with opportunities to learn from one another. Social learning provides individuals with a relatively cheap and quick alternative to individual learning. This thesis investigated social learning in three corvid species: …
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Settling in a global city: transnational practices and cosmopolitan openness in sociality patterns
… practices and cosmopolitan attitudes in their sociality patterns, and how multiple identities are negotiated in these patterns. Transnational scholars have mostly focused on single ethnicities and their respective social networks (Glick–Schiller, et al., 2011). London is frequently described as …
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Sociality in the common mole-rat, Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus : the effects of aridity
… have shaped the evolution and maintenance of sociality in the African mole-rats. Specifically, the common mole-rat was used as a model to assess the Aridity Food-Distribution Hypothesis (AFDH), as an explanation for the evolution of bathyergid sociality. The AFDH correlates mole-rat sociality …
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Enduring "lateness": biomedicalisation and the unfolding of reproductive life, sociality, and antenatal care
The dissertation examines how pregnant women seeking antenatal care at a state facility in the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town conceptualise and experience their pregnancies in relation to the biomedical model that informs state practices of care. I specifically explore the experiences that …
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Stress and sociality in a patrilocal primate: Do female spider monkeys tend-and-befriend?
Stress provokes an adaptive strategy that mobilizes the body for acute physical challenges. However, chronic stress has detrimental effects that can reduce health and reproductive fitness. Thus, coping mechanisms are valuable in reducing chronic stress. One such mechanism, the “tend-and-befriend” …
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Getting by in Urban China Sociality, gender and political identity among migrant petty entrepreneurs
… shehui) precisely capture the subjectivity and sociality of these self-employed entrepreneurs. Society represents the fluid, complex social tapestry which entails riskiness and uncertainties rendered by migration, local conditions and business competitions. Hun entails a variety of tactics, …
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