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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"adaptive behaviours"”.
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Advancing Kinematic Control from Rigid Robots to Dynamic Bio-Inspired Systems for Adaptive Behaviours
… kinematic control with emergent flexible behaviours. However, deploying artificial systems in real-world settings requires consideration of additional factors beyond adaptability, including cost, task performance, and technological availability, all of which are determined by the task …
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Understanding Thermal Conditions, Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviours in Naturally Ventilated Multi-patient Wards in Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
… conditions, thermal comfort, and occupant adaptive behaviours? Natural ventilation remains the primary environmental mechanism for cooling and airborne infection control in hospitals among the poorest countries with the weakest public health systems across the equatorial zone. In these …
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Bio-inspired soft robotic systems: Exploiting environmental interactions using embodied mechanics and sensory coordination
… with the environment, allowing for increasingly adaptive behaviours better suited to more human-centric applications. Embodied intelligence is a biologically inspired concept in which intelligence is a function of the entire system, not only the controller or `brain'. This thesis focuses on the …
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Adaptive thermal comfort and its application in mixed mode buildings: The case of a hot-summer and cold-winter climate in China
… proposes an alternative method of predicting adaptive thermal comfort based on the availability of adaptations, in particular behavioural adaptations, which needs quantifications of individual adaptation processes and of interactions between them. The fundamental argument of this method is …
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Population health and climate change: public perceptions, attitudes and adaptation to heat waves in Adelaide, Australia
… risk perception using a heat wave scenario and adaptive behaviours during heat waves; and (4) explore the concept of multi-stakeholder processes during the development of an adaptation strategy for heat waves. Methods: In the first study, interviews were conducted among fourteen residents to …
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Estimating the Adaptation Deficit - An empirical analysis of the constraints on climate change adaptation in agriculture
… producers’ behaviour are in effect simulating adaptive potential. Much evidence demonstrates that adaptive potential does not necessarily translate into adaptation. This investigation focuses on the ways by which farmers’ real-world adaptive behaviours depart from those assumed by the dominant …
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and challenging behaviours (CB): training and content knowledge of teachers in the Republic of Ireland
… IQ scores, improved verbal skills, and increased adaptive behaviours; Fein, 2013; Dawson et al. 2010) and is widely accepted as an evidence-based practice for educational interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (Odom,2010). Irish teachers of students with autism spectrum …
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Time out for respite and recovery : a qualitative study of influences on general practitioners’ adaptation to general practice
… has highlighted general practitioners (GPs) maladaptive coping efforts, but little is known about GPs who appear to adapt positively to their inherently demanding work. This study aimed to address this knowledge gap by identifying factors that optimise GPs adaptation to working in general …
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Common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare severe neurodevelopmental disorders
… early-onset impairment in growth, learning and adaptive behaviours. Linkage and whole exome sequencing studies on these patients have previously focused on identifying diagnostic rare variants that are solely responsible for the patient’s phenotype. In this thesis, I investigate whether common, …
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Serotonin and Threat: from Gene to Behaviour
… provoked by threatening situations and shape adaptive behaviours, but excessive and uncontrollable anxiety and fear form core symptoms of anxiety disorders. High trait anxiety, an individual’s disposition to feel anxious, is associated with greater risk of developing depression and anxiety …
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Self-efficacy in depression: Bridging the gap between competence and real-world functioning
… investigation both of the competence to perform behaviours, as well as actual performance in the real world. Further, two independent domains of functioning have been proposed: adaptive (behaviours conducive to daily living skills and independent functioning) and interpersonal (behaviours …
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Modelling metrical flux: an adaptive frequency neural network for expressive rhythmic perception and prediction
… changes in the stimulus. Therefore, a novel Adaptive Frequency Neural Network (AFNN) is introduced; extending the GFNN with a Hebbian learning rule on oscillator frequencies. Two new adaptive behaviours (attraction and elasticity) increase entrainment in the oscillators, and increase the …
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Social and Psychological Adaptation to Open-Plan Workplace Designs
… as well as possible office protocols and adaptive behaviours. Findings from the first two studies indicated that, the type of work completed was found to moderate the relationship between office design and occupant outcomes, i.e., people who completed more “cognitively demanding” work in …
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Bio-inspired robotic control in underactuation: principles for energy efficacy, dynamic compliance interactions and adaptability.
Biological systems achieve energy efficient and adaptive behaviours through extensive autologous and exogenous compliant interactions. Active dynamic compliances are created and enhanced from musculoskeletal system (joint-space) to external environment (task-space) amongst the underactuated …
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Japanese courage: a genetic analysis of complex traits in medaka fish and humans
… assay to characterise and classify bold-shy behaviours in 5 previously-established inbred medaka strains. I describe the assay, assess its robustness against confounding factors, and apply a hidden markov model (HMM) to classify the fishes' behaviours across a spectrum of boldness-shyness …
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An investigation of the tufa deposits at Ga-Mohana Hill in the Northern Cape, South Africa: palaeoenvironmental context for Late pleistocene and holocene human occupation in the Southern Kalahari
… may point to early human development of arid-adaptive behaviours in the southern Kalahari.
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EXPANSION OF CLINICAL PHENOTYPE AND USE OF KETOGENIC DIET IN RARE GENETIC CONDITIONS: GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1 DEFICIENCY SYNDROME AND SCN8A-RELATED DISORDERS
… good efficacy and tolerability, with good adaptive behaviours and executive functions in patients treated for extended periods, despite the reported challenges affecting the quality of life of patients and their families. For individuals with SCN8A-related conditions, the reference centre …