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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"behavioral patterns"”.
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A Longitudinal Study of the Behavioral Patterns of an Epileptic Child
… influence the emotional and social behavior patterns of the child. The second objective was to use written excerpts from a daily record of behavior accompanied by an analysis based on information obtained from library research.
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Electronic capture and analysis of fraudulent behavioral patterns : an application to identity fraud
… that are prone to theft, unlike biometric patterns. A biometric keypad that supplements the present external identifiers was proposed, prototyped and evaluated. The results demonstrated that a biometric keypad can be a feasible medium performance solution. Addition of pressure and higher …
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Assessing financial well-being of merchants by analyzing behavioral patterns in historical transactions
… indicators for merchants, by looking at behavioral patterns of their customers in historical transactions. The transaction data for about 10,000 merchants in a specific country, was analyzed in terms of their diversity and propensity of customers for factors like age, distance they travel …
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Evaluating and predicting urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data : a case study in Andorra
… researchers can now better expose human behavioral patterns within dense urban settings. Focusing on the case study area of Andorra, this research experiments in analyzing Radio Network Controller (RNC) records of cell phone, which is of higher accuracy and precision, and uses …
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Childhood aggression in schools: The impact of behavioral patterns and contextual influences on teachers' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses
… model to the current sample. Alternative patterns of moderation and mediation were significant, however. Implications of study findings were discussed as they relate to relevant theoretical models and recent advances in clinical and educational research.
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Lack of Rhythmicity in the Honey Bee Queen: An Investigation of Temporal Behavioral Patterns in <em>Apis mellifera ligustica</em>.
<p>Little is known about the behavioral patterns of honey bee queens. To determine if mated honey bee queens possess diel rhythmicity in behavior, we observed them in glass-sided observation hives using three types of observation regimes: focal studies consisting of 2-hour and 24-hour continuous …
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Seasonal and Diurnal Behavioral Patterns of Bottlenose Dolphins, <i>Tursiops truncatus</i>, That Exhibit High Site and Low Site Fidelity to Mississippi Sound
… Sound and how the seasonal and diurnal behavioral patterns of dolphins that exhibit high site fidelity to the Mississippi Sound differ from those of dolphins with lower site fidelity. Opportunistic surveys conducted from July 2006 to April 2010 were analyzed. Statistical analyses …
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An Analysis of the Impact of a School -to -Work Program on Students' Perceptions of Post-Secondary Options
… in the measurable academic, attendance, and behavioral patterns over the life of the study.
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Identification of Gifted Characteristics Using the Behavioral Assessment Scale for Children—Third Edition
… for being misidentified with emotional and behavioral disorders (Daniels & Piechowski, 2009; Mullet & Rinn, 2015; Webb, 2016). Challenges exist in conclusively defining giftedness, assessing giftedness, and understanding common behavioral patterns among gifted individuals (Bracken & Brown, …
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Detection, patterns, consequences, and remediation of electronic homework copying
… allowing contrasts between the performance and behavioral patterns of students who copy a lot and students who copy a little or copy none at all. Observations show that repetitive homework copying is correlated with steeply declining exam performance, and that repetitive copiers are four times …
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Motivación, trato de igualdad, comportamientos de disciplina y estilos de vida saludables en estudiantes de Educación Física en secundaria
… motivation, perception of equality, discipline behavioral patterns and healthy life style among Physical Education students in Secondary Education, in order to understand the motivational mechanisms and the teaching-learning processes that take place within the classroom.
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Seasonal Habitat Use of The Florida Manatee (Trichecus Manatus Latirostris) In The Crystal River Natural Refuge With Regards To Natural And Anthropogenic Factors
… study documented the seasonal dispersion and behavioral patterns of manatees in Kings Bay with regards to natural and anthropogenic factors from May 2005-June 2006. Survey stations were established across the bay and the number of manatees, people in the water, and boats were counted. The …
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Manipulating Behavior: Defining the Ethical Limits of Behavioral Contracting in the Healthcare Setting
… their patients in order to encourage certain behavioral patterns. These contracts lay out a set of required or prohibited behaviors to which the patient then agrees to adhere. For example, pain management physicians who regularly utilize opioids to alleviate chronic pain might draw up a …
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Mechanical design of PlayLamp : a minimally intrusive device for recording the behavior of children at-risk of developmental disorders
… information to develop computer models of behavioral patterns associated with these disorders.
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Novel Applications of Multivariate Methods for Exploring Personality in African Elephants
… on the observers’ interpretations of an animal’s behavioral patterns, therefore making them subject to observer bias. Furthermore, elephants have a capacity for learning; thus, they may alter their behavioral patterns over time. This behavioral plasticity in itself might be a way of measuring …
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The behavioral space of zebrafish locomotion and its neural network analog
… of shapes repeated in succession. To classify behavioral patterns quantitatively and to understand behavioral variations among an ensemble of fish, we construct a “behavioral space” using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS). This method turns each cycle of a trajectory into a single point in …
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Design and Evaluation of Urban Congestion Pricing Policies with Microsimulation of Passenger and Freight
… welfare, network level of service (LOS), and behavioral patterns & logistics operations. Finally, we design and evaluate distance-based, cordon-based, and area-based congestion pricing policies for an auto-innovative prototype city. All policies improve total social welfare. The improvement is …
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A method of detecting reaction to environmental influence by recording circadian activity, using the flagfish Jordanella floridae
… vertebrates to environmental change by recording behavioral patterns within the diurnal activity. An apparatus measuring the activity of Jordanella floridae, Goode and Bean, using a photoelectric sensor system is described. Individual sensors monitored specific areas of the test aquarium that had …
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