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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"behavioral development"”.
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Nonstandard work and cognitive and behavioral development among preschool children in single mother families
… schedules and children's cognitive, social, and behavioral development in single mother families, as well as the impact that parental stress and depression may have on children's outcomes. Multivariate analyses were conducted using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- Birth Cohort …
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Human milk oligosaccharides: Maternal determinants and effects on infant gut microbiome, and infant cognitive and behavioral development during early life
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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First Thirty Days of Life: Examining Calf Behavioral Development in Beluga Whales (<i>Delphinapterus leucas</i>) and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins (<i>Lagenorhyncus obliquidens</i>) at One Zoological Facility
<p>Cetacean development is important for general comparative understanding and the implementation of informed husbandry policies. Due to the inaccessibility of many of these species in the wild, researchers can study managed care populations to better understand basic developmental patterns of …
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Genetic and Hormonal Regulation of Worker Behavioural Development in Honey Bees
… and genetic regulation mechanisms for behavioral development might have evolved in the highly eusocial insects has been studied only theoretically. I performed three experiments with male honey bees (drones) to investigate how mechanisms regulating worker behavioral development may have …
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The Effects of Allatecomy on Flight in Honey Bees
… the absence of the corpora allata inhibits the development of sufficient metabolic capacity to fly. Taken together, my experiments suggest that JH may have physiological effects that influence behavioral development.
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Maternal Prenatal Anxiety, Attachment and Children’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behavioral Problems
… is associated with biological, cognitive, and behavioral development in offspring, increasing risk for later externalizing and internalizing problems and adult psychopathology (Finsaas et al., 2018; Vogel, Jackson, Barch, Tillman, & Luby, 2019). Child behavioral development is also influenced …
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The behavioral effects of nonnutritive sucking on infants of differential fetal growth
… as reflecting the integrity of the infant's behavioral organization. The newborn infant's sucking is one behavior that has been hypothesized to both reflect the effects of previous experiences on behavioral organization and affect the infant's future behavioral development. In particular, the …
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A methodology for the assessment of the behavior and performance of artificial agents
… a reliable means of testing and comparing the behavioral development of the artificial intelligence used within game applications becomes important. Turings test has been the staple in evaluating the 'intelligence' of artificial agents in applications ranging from testing chatterbots to …
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Early School Performance for Students with Disabilities: Examining the Impact of Early Childhood Special Education, Parent Involvement, and Family Quality of Life
… intended to enhance the cognitive, social, and behavioral development of children with disabilities by meeting the needs of children with a disability and their family. Little is known, however, about the relationship between ECSE services and early school performance. How ECSE services impact …
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Funneled Into Prison: Race And Behavior Modification At A Mississippi Alternative School
… administrators and faculty supervise students’ behavioral achievement in these settings is seldom examined. This research investigates how faculty and administrators define and implement a behavior modification program at Richmond Learning Center, an alternative education setting in Mississippi, …
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Sustaining Child Outcomes from the Early Childhood Initiative Project: Evaluation of School Age Developmentally Appropriate Practices
… changes in children's academic, social, and behavioral development. These positive early experiences are essential for children who are at developmental risk. Unfortunately, the positive outcomes from early education programs often diminish or disappear over time. Research has clearly shown …
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The effect of specially designed garments on the observable make- believe play behavior of four- to six-year-old females
… has examined the effect of clothing on the behavioral development of the preschool child. Dress is a medium for carrying out the serious roles of life, but it is also a medium for play. Although numerous studies have investigated play, an important element of child development, few have …
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Affective responses to environmental influences in immature rats
… add to the growing body of knowledge about the behavioral development of rats. It is an enlargement of a study by Roberts (1966) who investigated the effects of quantitative reward shifts on the behavior of immature rats. Roberts' experiment was in turn founded on earlier experiments by Crespi …
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The role of stimulus matching in the development of intersensory perception in bobwhite quail
… suggest that the study of early perceptual development requires the incorporation of complex, dynamic, and hierarchically based notions about the mechanisms associated with behavioral development.
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Social play in the South American punare (Thrichomys apereoides): a test of play function hypotheses
The role of social play in juvenile behavioral development was examined in the punare (<u>Thrichomys apereoides</u>). Three proposed functions of social play were evaluated: 1. play serves to develop agonistic skills, 2. play has a role in the onset of weaning and 3. play establishes dominance …
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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 …
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Diverse Families Navigating Mental Health at the Pediatrician’s Office: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Interplay of Stress, Culture, and Child Mental Health in the Primary Care Setting
… engage around their child’s emotional and behavioral development. Using both quantitative analysis of retrospective secondary data and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of in-depth interviews with diverse caregivers, this project explored influencers of child mental health and …
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Effects of early and delayed visual experience on intersensory functioning in bobwhite quail chicks
… importance of early vs. delayed experience to behavioral development has proven to be a difficult one to address empirically. I focused on this issue by manipulating the timing of the onset of visual experience of avian embryos and hatchlings. Normally reared bobwhite quail chicks are known to …
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Talking about the poor: a critical discourse analysis of nonprofit website messaging on poverty
… individualized interventions, including behavioral development, service provision, and efforts to promote self-sufficiency. This pattern suggests that structural conditions are acknowledged discursively while responses remain focused on individual-level change. These findings highlight …
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