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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"time-budgets"”.
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Time is Money: An Examination of Audit Time Budgets and Profitability
… of this study is to examine the effect of time budgeting accuracy on audit engagement profitability. I use hand-collected, proprietary, and confidential private company audit engagement data from a large regional accounting firm in the United States. I employ regression analysis to provide …
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The Effects Of Ecotourism On Polar Bear Behavior
… bears over the fall of 2003 and 2004. Overall time budgets were estimated for bears, and the behavior of males and females was compared. Females spent significantly less time lying and more time in locomotion than males. Time budgets were also estimated for bears in the presence and absence of …
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Effect of stocking density at the feeding rack and social rank on the behaviour of Icelandic heifers
… heifers respectively. For the evaluation of the time budgets, i.e. lying, feeding and standing, two video recording periods of three days each were performed. Agonistic behaviours for determination of the social order and feed intake related behaviours such as manipulating or smelling in the feed …
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Vigilance behavior and land use by sandhill cranes (<i>grus canadensis</i>)
<p>I investigated how vigilance in sandhill crane time budgets changed with behavioral, climatic, and anthropogenic factors. I measured two different postures that could be interpreted as vigilance. Cranes significantly altered the time spent in the alert investigative posture with differences in …
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Selection and Use of Aquatic Vegetation by Migratory Waterfowl in North Central Texas
… while almost empty ponds received minimal use. Time activity budgets were conducted on waterfowl utilizing mixed native and hydrilla ponds to compare waterfowl time partitioning on native aquatic vegetation versus hydrilla. Although only minor differences were found in time budgets, social …
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Hydrological factors influencing the ecology of riverbed breeding birds on the plains' reaches of Canterbury's braided rivers : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Canterbury
… ranges and food supply were studied. Wrybill time-budgets were examined, and the incremental approach to impact assessment was applied to wrybill foraging needs. Breeding success for all species was dependent on the flow regime. In 1982 wrybill fledging success was moderate on the Rakaia, …
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Cover Use and Activity Time Budget of Blue-Winged Teal, Mallard, and Pintail Broods
… by species and brood age-class. Activity time budgets revealed significant (p<.01) age specific differences in total feeding time and visibility among age-classes of all species combined and age-classes of blue-winged teal broods. Feeding modes also varied among age-classes. Daily patterns …
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Anthropogenic influences on the behavioural ecology of urban vervet monkeys
… human influences to assess ranging patterns and time budgets, showing a complex attraction-avoidance scale within the urban landscape. We also used social network analysis to show the importance of human-food consumption on vervet monkey social structure, both at the group and individual level. …
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Driven to Care: A Society-Centric Analysis of Family Caregivers' Travel Behavior and its Determinents
… behavior. The first chapter titled “Facing a Time Crunch: Time Poverty and Travel Behavior in Canada” used the 2015 iteration of Canada’s General Society Survey to demonstrate that households with children and seniors, along with marginalized groups, feel greater transportation-induced time …
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The utilization of chemical communication by three species of ghost shrimp, Callichirus islagrande, Callichirus major, and Lepidophthalmus louisianensis, and the transport of chemical cues within and between burrows
… to detect conspecifics via chemical cue. The time budgets for the detection of conspecifics chemical cues differed significantly from controls (no cue) for both animal cues and odor only cues indicating that all three species were able to detect the difference in sex of conspecific chemical …
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Life History Variation of Common Terns in the Gulf of Maine
… the inheritable rules that determine energy and time allocation towards different competing functions in the energy budget of an organism. Reproductive effort varies as organisms make reproductive decisions based on available energy. Factors influencing life histories are those that change energy …
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The movement and landscape use of Blue Cranes in the Western Cape
… Future studies should focus on recording their time budgets, including overnight GPS fixes and assessing ranging behaviour over multiple years.
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Dreams derailed: An investigation into the experiences of travel cost burdens for female commuters who are low-income earners
… and still spend a disproportionate amount of time and money on travel in relation to higher-income households. Further, no studies have investigated what the user experience means in the lives of the commuters who are low-income earners and how these commuters must manage their travel times …
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Oviposition behaviour of Neltumius arizonensis Schaeffer (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) : a biological control agent of Prosopis spp. in South Africa
… laid an average of about 80 eggs during her lifetime, which was about 3 5 days on average. An event-recording computer programme was developed to quantify the oviposition behaviour of N. arizonensis when females were provided with one of four types of Prosopis pods for one hour: (a) pristine …
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Aspects of the foraging and breeding ecology of the Southern African Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus rupicolus
… were to describe foraging parameters (behaviour-time budgets, hunting success and diet) and breeding parameters (clutch size, hatching and fledging success, nestling, fledging and post-fledging periods) of the Southern African Kestrel. These parameters were compared to those from studies made on …
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Effects of body size on goose behavior: lesser snow goose and Ross's goose
… tendency to maintain family units, and time spent foraging. Body size has important physiological implications for birds, mostly because mass-specific metabolic rate is greater for birds of smaller mass. The Body-size Hypothesis predicts that smaller species deplete their energy reserves …
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Effects of supplemental food on the behavior, aggression, and paternity status of male Indigo Buntings (Passerina cyanea)
… birds. If energy-limited, birds may alter their time budgets, reducing time spent in some activities and spending more time in others. To date, no experimental study has investigated the possible effect of food availability on male mate guarding behavior. Additionally, previous results from food …
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Movement ecology and habitat use of Canada geese using major metropolitan areas in the context of human-wildlife conflicts
… areas. In addition, movements and behavioral time budgets suggest access to high-energy foods in rural areas may ameliorate energetic costs during extreme cold periods while geese in urban areas must rely on energetically conservative behaviors and endogenous reserves. Regarding movements and …
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Living apart together
… year-round data on space use, feeding ecology, time budgets, and social behaviour of all adults and three subadults of 8 families, complemented by simultaneous focal follows of both pair partners, year-round information on sleeping site use, measures on food abundance in each territory, …
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The cost of locomotion in North Atlantic right whales (<italic>Eubalaena glacialis</italic>)
… that are characterized by differences in the time spent in different parts of the</p><p>water column. The time budgets and swimming movements during these behaviors</p><p>matched those in other species, enabling the dive shapes to be classified as foraging,</p><p>searching and traveling …
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