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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"typical behavior"”.
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Response of Three Species of Monkeys to Caregiver Use of Species-Typical Behavior
… Some species showed increased affiliative behaviors and decreased abnormal or self-directed behaviors after interactions. These studies showed that caregivers can affect the behavior of nonhuman primates. Caregivers are underutilized as a source of social interaction for captive nonhuman …
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Learning plan networks in conversational video games
… object affordances, and expected patterns of behavior and language. I describe a methodology for unsupervised learning of a Plan Network using a multiplayer video game, visualization of this network, and evaluation of the learned model with respect to human judgment of typical behavior. …
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Applications of Stein's method and large deviations principle's in mean-field O(N) models
… with rates of convergence, and phase transition behavior for classical XY model. In the second part, we will generalize our results to mean-field classical $N$-vector models, for integers $N \ge 2$. We will use the theory of large deviations and Stein's method to study the total spin and its …
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An investigation of fixed separation in quasi-periodic and aperiodic, unsteady, two-dimensional flows
… quick variations in the flow. Thus, the 'typical' behavior of a quasi-periodic or aperiodic flow dictates the location of fixed separation in addition to the amplitude of oscillation of the flow. Both of these findings imply that the time averaged zero skin friction point is a stronger …
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Contra-Trait Effort and Trait Stability: A Self-Regulatory Personality Process
… factors and the resulting variability in behavior, individuals maintain stable average ways of acting. The purpose of the studies presented in this paper was to investigate one possible explanation of this trait stability. It is hypothesized that contra-trait behaviors, those that are …
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Investigation of Accessory Olfactory Interneuron Physiology and Function After Experience-Dependent Plasticity
… for the development and expression of social behavior. Through the detection of non-volatile chemosignals, the AOS has been specifically implicated in the display of sex-typical behavior, such as mating, maternal behavior, and territorial aggression. The proper display of these sex-typical …
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Guiding of plasmons and phonons in complex three dimensional structures
… at low temperatures, distinct from the typical ~ behavior of bulk polycrystalline silicon. Using phonon scattering theory, we show such dependence arising from coherent phonon reflections in the inter-grain region. This is consistent with an unconfirmed theory proposed in 1955. The low …
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When matches are ideal: Fitting measurement models to adult attachment data
Many self-report inventories in social/personality psychology are developed and scored using dominance-based assumptions. Specifically, it is assumed that the relationship between item endorsement and the latent trait is monotonically increasing. It is possible, however, that the item response …
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Nonlinear Analysis of Plane Frames Subjected to Temperature Changes
… analysis of the one-story frame exhibited typical behavior that was relatively close to the experimental results, thereby indicating that the proposed method is accurate. The feasibility of extending the method of analysis to include the effects of material nonlinearity is also explored, …
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WiSDM: a platform for crowd-sourced data acquisition, analytics, and synthetic data generation
Human behavior is a key factor influencing the spread of infectious diseases. Individuals adapt their daily routine and typical behavior during the course of an epidemic -- the adaptation is based on their perception of risk of contracting the disease and its impact. As a result, it is desirable to …
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Response of Electrified Micro-Jets to Electrohydrodynamic Perturbations
… generated from Taylor cones exhibit distinct behavior for different perturbation wavenumber x. Typical behavior include: whipping jets with superimposed varicose instability at small x, jet bifurcation from crossover of whipping and varicose instabilities at x~0.5, Coulombic fission owing to …
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Electronic excited states in quasi- one- dimensional organic solids with strong coupling of Frenkel and charge-transfer excitons
… role for the understanding of system-dependent behavior of the states. The number and type of surface states occurring is predicted for any arbitrary coupling situation. The different nature of bulk and surface states leads to distinct quantum confinement effects. Two regimes are distinguished. …
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Re-Evaluating Captive Chimpanzee “Dominance”: Dominance Hierarchy and Chimpanzee-Caregiver Relationships at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
… I addresses current and past variability in behavioral measures and statistical methods to derive dominance rankings. I propose a novel approach to using existing statistical techniques to analyze dominance ranks, context-dependent dominant structures (agonistic competitions, lack of agonism, …
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Characterizing Purkinje Cell Responses and Cerebellar Influence on Fluid Licking in the Mouse
<p>Rodents consume water by performing stereotypical, rhythmic licking movements which are believed to be driven by central pattern generating circuits located in the brainstem. Temporal aspects of rhythmic licking behavior have been shown to be represented in the olivo-cerebellar system in the …
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An econometric model of the petroleum industry
… of scarce resources. Assuming profit-maximizing behavior on the part of producers and utility-maximizing behavior on the part of consumers, the economist can determine the sensitivity of each to economic incentives. Criteria may thus be provided for the evaluation of the speed and impact of …