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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Tinbergen"”.
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An Experimental Study of Fear: Test of An Alleged Innate Sign Stimulus
The purpose of the present study was to test the Tinbergen hypothesis that specifically shaped sign stimuli innately arouse fear behavior in certain species of birds.
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A development planning model for an underdeveloped economy with special reference to Lebanon
… to planning models of Harrod, Kurihara, Tinbergen, and Ichimura will be analyzed in conjunction with the Lebanese experience. Data has been fitted to most of the models utilized and conclusions have been derived, and the possibilities of manipulating policy parameters are indicated. One …
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Some Alternatives to Model Selection and New Approaches to Computing for the Economics. 12/6/2014
… foundations. After a survey of the Keynes-Tinbergen and Cowles Commission-NBER debates, I conclude that economists should shift emphasis including favoring data analysis over statistical inference, and argue that the methodological approach to statistics built on the problem solving …
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Oxytocin, Dopamine, and the Neuromodulation of Mating Behavior in C. Elegans
<p>In the four modalities of analysis that Tinbergen describes: mechanistic, ontological, functional, and phylogenetic, I look at both the "how" and the "why" of oxytocin as a releaser of reproductive behavior. To do so, I take the wide view across 600 million years of metazoan evolution, focusing …
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Ends, Norms, and Representations: Why ask "Why?" in Biology?
… and ultimate causes and its relation to Niko Tinbergen’s "four questions." Both frameworks have been influential in the biological study of behavior and are typically presented as a single framework, with Mayr’s proximate-ultimate distinction corresponding to one of two axes dividing …