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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"stereotypies"”.
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Recursive Behavior Recording: Complex Motor Stereotypies and Anatomical Behavior Descriptions
… improves motion capture in complex motor stereotypies (CMS) by indexing precise time data without degradation in the complexity of whole body movement in CMS. The absence of etiological explanation of complex motor stereotypies warrants the aggregation of a core CMS dataset to compare …
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The effect of weather on sleep and the welfare of drills in captivity
… is maintaining normative behaviours and limiting stereotypies, which is especially difficult in species with a sophisticated social system. The role of key husbandry practices during the daytime, such as environmental enrichment and diverse feeding regimes, is well understood across most species …
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Sensory Extinction : Its Effects on Target Sterotyped Behaviors in Adjacent Non-Programmed Situations
… can be effective in decreasing behavioral stereotypies. When a sensory extinction procedure is not continually maintained, the potential exists for an alternation between schedules of reinforcement and extinction. Studies from the animal literature indicate that this alternation can give …
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How core symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder predict engagement in specific topographies of challenging behavior
… socialization deficits, communication deficits, stereotypies) predict the engagement of specific topographies of challenging behavior above and beyond other variables, such as developmental functioning. The purpose of this study is to extend the current literature base through examining how core …
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A Component Analysis of the Effects of Contingent Social Attention on Stereotypic Behavior in Blind Retardates
… experimenter, contingent praise for not emitting stereotypies during a prescribed time interval, and noncontingent conversation plus contingent praise were examined for all subjects. A reversal procedure was implemented with experimental conditions followed by a return to baseline phase. …
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Fizinio aktyvumo poveikis autizmo spektro sutrikimą turinčių vaikų motoriniams stereotipams: išplėstinė literatūros apžvalga /
… Effect of Physical activity on Motor Stereotypies in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: an Extended Literature Review Physiotherapy Bachelor's Thesis The Author: Sofija Zlabyte Academic supervisor: Lekt. Emilija Strazdaite Keywords: physical activity, autism spectrum disorder, …
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The effect of ketamine on stereotypic behavior in pregnant crated sows
… to be a symptom of inadequate welfare. Common stereotypies of pregnant sows housed in gestation crates include the oral/nasal/facial (ONF) behaviors of rooting, bar-biting, and vacuum chewing. One hypothesis to explain these behaviors is that crated sows experience poor mental welfare and that …
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Ethics, ecology and evolution of Indonesian slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) rescued from the pet trade
… extrinsic factors. 33% of slow lorises displayed stereotypies. Time in captivity and type of social group are shown to be significant predictors of stereotypies. For better welfare in captivity and for increased reintroduction success these findings should be addressed further. I monitored six …
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Relationship between problem behaviors, function, and adaptive skills in individuals with intellectual disabilities
… behaviors of self-injury, aggression, and stereotypies are among the most troubling and difficult to treat behaviors in individuals with intellectual disability (ID). One factor that has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of problem behaviors in individuals with ID is adaptive …
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Systemic administration of putrescine induces GABA-like behaviors in rats
… with apomorphine in modifying sniffing stereotypies. From the behavioral evidence obtained in this thesis, it was suggested that systemic putrescine administration may indirectly influence behavior in the rat via GABAergic mechanisms. The results were interpreted as preliminary support …
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Comportamento como indicador de bem-estar de bezerros leiteiros mantidos em sistema tropical de criação
… leisure, shade, sun, play 1, play 2, walk and stereotypies. Frequency quantified: water intake and vocalization. The behavioral data were submitted to analysis of variance and the means were compared by the Tukey test at 5% of probability. According to the data there was difference (P <0.05), …
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Using activity budgets and space use preferences to define enclosure appropriateness for African painted dogs, Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)
… SDZ dogs may have only had higher instances of stereotypies because of the trauma within the pack. There is a risk of negatively influencing ‘natural’ behaviours of African painted dogs in zoological facilities. This study was completed to influence how zoological managers create ‘naturalistic’ …
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NEURAL PRECURSOR/STEM CELL-BASED THERAPY: A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR THE TREATMENT OF RETT SYNDROME
… include cognitive and motor impairments, hand stereotypies, seizures, loss of acquired speech and breathing abnormalities. MECP2 aberrations result in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by neuronal defects such as reduction in soma size, dendritic arborization and synaptic …
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Wild Tigers in Captivity: A Study of the Effects of the Captive Environment on Tiger Behavior
Humans maintain wild animals in zoological parks for the purposes of education,conservation, research, and recreation. However, abnormal behaviors may develop in animals housed in human-made environments, if those environments do not allow them to carry out their natural behaviors (such as …