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Encoding and decoding mutual grooming: Communication with a specialized form of touch
… primatology research indicates that social grooming has broad social significance for primates, it has not been previously considered as a nonverbal communication channel among humans. Therefore, this research aimed to provide information about its social significance among humans in two …
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Grooming as an Agonistic Behavior in Garnett’s Small-Eared Bushbaby (<i>Otolemur garnettii</i>)
… or the behavioral context. In primate species, grooming is often used to assess affiliations between group members and the consensus has been to always interpret grooming as an affiliative behavior. However, a number of avian, rodent and feline species have been shown to groom conspecifics …
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Psychopharmacological Characterization of a Drug-Induced Grooming Behavior in the Cricket, Acheta Domesticus (Insecta, Orthoptera)
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The distribution of allogrooming among female Japanese macaques (<i>Macaca Fuscata Yakui</i>)
Allo-grooming is the main behaviour primates use to establish and maintain amicable social relationships and, for this reason, it has been intensively studied in the last three decades. Notwithstanding this, conclusive data on the factors affecting allo-grooming distribution and on its benefits are …
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Hypothalamic Circuits In The Control of Feeding and Emotional Behaviors
… elicited voracious feeding and repetitive self-grooming behavior. GABA neurotransmission in the LH->PVH circuit mediated the evoked feeding behavior, and elicited behavioral approach, whereas glutamate release promoted repetitive self-grooming, which was stress-related in nature. Optogenetic …
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Design and protection algorithms for path level aggregation of traffic in WDM metro optical networks
… sharing among multiple clients is called grooming. Grooming can be done purely at the optical layer (optical grooming) or it can be done with support from the client layer (electronic grooming). The advantage of all optical grooming is the ease of scalability due to its transparency as …
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Social development and behavioural reciprocity in young rhesus monkeys with their siblings and non-siblings
… examined. For affiliative behaviours like play, grooming and proximity, Interaction Reciprocity, reflecting the behaviour of two individuals during their interactions, and partner reciprocity reflecting the behaviour of two monkeys in relation to the behaviour of each individual towards other …
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Behavioural antecedents of altruism: a comparative analysis
… found supported this hypothesis. Social grooming in dairy cows were then investigated. The reduced stimulus world of the domestic cow decreases the number of modalities by which rewards may be returned to benefactors and the formula developed to delineate altruism from reciprocity and …
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Particles Inside Particles: The Flow of Energy in Quarks, Gluons, and Jets
… often accessed theoretically either through jet grooming or energyweighted correlation functions. We present the basics of the modern theory of jet grooming as well as the work of the author in developing the Piranha paradigm for continuous jet grooming, introduced by the author in Ref. [1], and …
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Translational Regulation in Excitatory Neurons Controls Stress Reactivity and the Antidepressant Response to Ketamine
… effect. We found that ARS increased grooming and corticosterone in both sexes, with attenuated grooming in male DKO mice only. In CVS, DKO mice showed resilience to stress-induced behavioural deficits, while ketamine reversed these deficits in control mice. This work deepens our …
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Histological and Functional Characterization of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury After Graded Contusion
… in complex horizontal ladder (cHL), rotarod, grooming, and either pellet reaching or pasta handling. Our results showed greater injury severity significantly increased missteps in cHL, reduced stepping time in rotarod, and decreased grooming ability. Histological analyses revealed that injury …
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Groomed For Business: Constructing the White-Collar Man’s Body in Contemporary Japan
… white-collar men by investigating their everyday grooming behaviours at work and in private in contemporary Japan. I ask how bodies reproduce masculinities and give rise to the ongoing rearrangement of gendered hierarchies within. My data consist primarily of interviews with white-collar men …
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Top mass determination using Effective Field Theories
… setup for top mass extraction with soft drop grooming is derived, and is used to derive a factorization formula for the groomed jet mass distribution. Constraints from power counting in EFT limit the strength of groomers to "light grooming region". Studies with PYTHIA demonstrate that …
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Application of insecticides to control the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.)
… dosage increased the amount of antennal grooming in VPI-strain cockroaches and stimulated leg grooming in RHA-strain. Walking movement activities decreased in response to increased antennal and leg grooming.
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Play and development of social skills in infant rhesus macaques
… Play was related to skills in play and skills in grooming within the same age period. Play was related to persistence in initiating play in the later age periods. Play and skills in grooming were competing for infants' time at 9-22 weeks. At 66-79 weeks high levels of play and skills in grooming …
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Comparisons of Captive Gibbons’ (Hylobatidae) Intrapair Behaviors Indicative of the Pair Bond
… I focused on nine pairs, and recorded gibbons’ grooming bouts, affiliative/agonistic/play behaviors, mating, behavioral synchrony, locomotion, and proximity. Previous researchers focused on duetting in relation to pair bonding more then other qualities of social behavior. The opportunity to …
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Exploring the Journey: Overcoming the Life of Sex Trafficking
… or sexual abuse leading to the process of “grooming,” how life was experienced while being trafficked, the process of exiting the life, health care needs experienced, and suggestions for prevention addressed.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> 15 participants revealed meaningful life stories …
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