Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"behavioral adaptation"”.
-
Behavioral Adaptation to Driving Automation Systems: Guidance for Consumer Education
… an investigation of driver behavior and behavioral adaptation while using driving automation systems in order to improve consumer education and training. This dissertation uses data collected from test track environments and two naturalistic driving studies, the Virginia Connected …
-
Behavioral Adaptation in Bacillus Subtilis: The Role of Selective Methylation Changes and Heterologous Receptors in Mcpb-Mediated Signaling
The methylation-independent system is proposed to involve the regulation of higher-order receptor complexes. Therefore, asparagine chemotaxis likely depends on the presence of heterologous receptors. To explore these processes, a study was performed on strains expressing mutant McpB proteins (with …
-
Worker's Behavioral Adaptation to Safety Interventions and Technologies: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations Through The Case of Simulated Residential Roofing Task
… Sense of Presence to trigger subjects' behavioral changes while installing shingles on a 27-degree sloped roof under three levels of safety interventions (i.e., with no fall-safety intervention, with an injury-reducing fall-safety intervention—i.e., fall-arrest system—and with an …
-
Environmental Incongruence and Divergence in Ratings of Adaptation Among Elementary School Children
… studies of teacher and parent ratings of child behavioral adaptation suggest marked divergence between classroom and home levels of adaptation. Differential levels of child adaptation have been found to be linked with perceived classroom and family environment. From a ecological perspective, …
-
Neural Mechanisms For Learning In Dynamic Environments
… detects state changes and guides subsequent behavioral adaptation. In the first study, I examine the roles of physiological arousal during learning in two kinds of dynamic environments. In both environments, prediction errors enhanced learning rates and induced pupil dilation. Among different …
-
A prospective investigation of the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage, life stress, and social support on early adolescent adjustment
… Frequent problems relating to emotional and behavioral adaptation, as well as high rates of academic failure have been documented in this work. It is increasingly recognized that in order to achieve a substantial reduction in these numbers, prevention and public policy strategies will need to …
-
Packrat middens: A tool for environmental reconstruction and human adaptation analysis
… trends indicate a relationship between behavioral adaptation by human occupants and changes in climate.
-
Role of the precentral cortex in adapting behavior to different mechanical environments
… the precentral cortex to this process of motor adaptation. In the first experiment, we recorded precentral neural activity in rhesus monkeys that were trained to perform visually-cued reaching movements while holding on to a robotic manipulandum capable of changing the forces experienced during …
-
Intermediate Level Mechanisms Supporting Face Perception
… integration. This dissertation involves behavioral adaptation and masking experiments that provide evidence regarding whether face perception and concentric form-from-structure perception engage a common processing mechanism.</p><p>Despite faces being complex visual stimuli, humans are …
-
Essays on Urban Resilience to Environmental and Health Risks
… and social systems that account for adaptation dynamics. Using new data, computational tools, and economic analysis, this thesis explores how people and places adapt to environmental risks and the implications for urban policy and infrastructure planning. Chapter 1 examines how the …
-
Healing in Education: The Impact of the Immigration Journey on Student Mental Health
… on these variables. However, when examining behavioral changes over time, significant differences emerged. Immigrant students exhibited a greater reduction in externalizing behaviors compared to their nonimmigrant peers, suggesting that behavioral adaptation occurs over time. These findings …
-
Investigating the role of neuroendocrine signaling in the regulation of sexually dimorphic behavior of C. elegans
… organization and morphology can contribute to behavioral differences, increasingly, roles are being defined for more subtle differences in the regulation of sexually dimorphic behaviors. Chapter One of this thesis discusses sexual dimorphisms in the nervous systems and behaviors of several …
-
Influence of natural and anthropogenic factors on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH)
… goal of this research is to identify the behavioral adaptation in WaSH after a natural disaster like earthquake and investigate microbial changes in households and surroundings as a result of change in hygiene behavior. The approach used for this research included (1) focus group …
-
A Reference Model and Architecture for Future Computer Networks
… cell in a bacteria colony, thus it is capable of adaptation, self-organization and evolution. An NC's functional operation is defined by CORM second basic abstraction; the ACRF framework. The ACRF framework is a conceptual framework for network-concerns derived according to our interpretation of …
-
Representations of Relative Value Coding in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala
… neural activity was correlated with the animal's behavioral performance, suggesting that these neurons could form the basis for animal's behavioral adaptation during contrast revaluation. These neural representations could also support behavior in other situations requiring flexible and adaptive …
-
An On-Road Assessment of Driver Secondary Task Engagement and Performance during Assisted & Automated Driving
… was measured. Drivers’ performance of NDRTs and behavioral adaptation during Automated Driving was assessed by asking them to complete scheduled tasks on their smartphones. To measure driver willingness to engage in unscripted NDRTs during automated driving, participants were allowed to freely …
-
A Role for the Lateral Habenula in a Delay Based Decision Making Test
The lateral habenula (LHb) is thought to provide an aversive or anti-reward signal in the mammalian brain under Pavlovian conditions. However, recent evidence suggests that the LHb also controls more complex decision-making during appetitive behaviors, since LHb disruption impairs hippocampal …