Browsing by Subject "behavior"
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Adaptive Motivations Drive Concern for Common Good Resources
(2019)Humans universally demonstrate intrinsically motivated prosocial behavior towards kin, non-kin ingroup members, and strangers. However, humans struggle to extend the same prosocial behavior to more abstract concepts like ... -
Dynamics of electroencephalogram entropy and pitfalls of scaling detection
(2010)In recent studies a number of research groups have determined that human electroencephalograms (EEG) have scaling properties. In particular, a crossover between two regions with different scaling exponents has been reported. ... -
Effectively Communicating about Risks from Soil Contamination
(2019-04-26)The goal of this study was to provide recommendations for a social marketing campaign in order to educate North Carolina community gardeners about the implications and health effects associated with soil contamination, empowering ... -
Environmental Impacts of the Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee: An 18-Month Survey
(2010)An 18 month investigation of the environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee combined with leaching experiments on the spilled TVA coal ash have revealed that leachable ... -
Habitat preference and use by the cougar (Puma concolor)
(2019-04-24)Cougars (Puma concolor) are widespread in the western US, penetrating even into the edges of inhabited and developed areas. Despite their widespread distribution, many aspects of their lives remain unquantified and poorly ... -
Health Beliefs and Contraception Use in Leogane, Haiti: A Qualitative Study
(2013)Uncontrolled birth spacing is associated with higher rates of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in low resource countries. The use of modern contraception (MC) is a strategy that proven to be successful to control ... -
Hippocampal Transcriptomic and Proteomic Alterations in the BTBR Mouse Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
(Front Physiol, 2015)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders of an unclear etiology, and no cure currently exists. Prior studies have demonstrated that the black and tan, brachyury (BTBR) T+ Itpr3tf/J ... -
Influence of Substrate on Coral Reef Fish Communities
(2008-06-23)Coral reef fish coexist in a state of high diversity that has not been successfully explained by niche diversification, larval supply, differential mortality, or a suite of other proposed factors. These processes are all ... -
Lizard Communication
(2015)The evolution of animal signals is driven largely by characteristics of the signaling environment and properties of receiver sensory systems. Selection favors signal traits that increase the probability that a signal will ... -
Physiological Ecology and Vulnerability to Climate Warming in Anolis
(2013)Human activity has resulted in significant increases in air temperature over the last century, and air temperatures are expected to continue rising at an accelerating rate over the next 100 years (IPCC 2007). The warming ... -
The cost of locomotion in North Atlantic right whales (<italic>Eubalaena glacialis</italic>)
(2010)Locomotion in any environment requires the use of energy to overcome the physicalforces inherent in the environment. Most large marine vertebrates have evolvedstreamlined fusiform body shapes to minimize the resistive force ... -
The Drosophila Gustatory Receptor Genes: the Molecular Basis of Taste Perception and Coding
(2007-07-26)Discrimination between edible and contaminated foods is crucial for the survival of animals. In Drosophila, a family of gustatory receptors (GRs) expressed in taste neurons is thought to mediate the recognition of sugars ... -
The Regulatory Capacities of Motivational Constructs: An examination of Academic Motivation and Self-Regulation Toward Academic Success in Favorite and Least Favorite Classes
(2011)One-hundred and seventy-seven high-school students and two-hundred responded to a survey assessing their motivation (goal orientations, expectancies, and values), self-regulation (cognitive, behavior, and emotion), learning ... -
Using Shank3 Model Mice to Probe the Neuroanatomic Basis of Autism
(2017)Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are increasingly prevalent, and the costs associated with caring for affected patients across the lifespan are immense. However, the pathophysiology and brain regions involved in characteristic ...
