• Spatial transcriptomics of planktonic and sessile bacterial populations at single-cell resolution. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • The frequency of host antibiotic use often determines the strength of this selection, and changing patterns of antibiotic use can generate many types of behaviors in the population dynamics of resistant and sensitive bacterial populations. (bioone.org)
  • Although a large body of research, ranging from rodents to humans, has reported on the effects of OXT and AVP administration on affiliative and trust behaviors, and has highlighted the genetic contributions of OXT and AVP receptor polymorphisms to both social behaviors and to diseases related to social deficits, the consequences of peptide administration on psychiatric symptoms, and the impact of receptor polymorphisms on receptor function, are still unclear. (frontiersin.org)
  • Nor did Waldron exhibit any violent behavior during the two to two and a half hours he spent in the presence of one of the jailers. (stanford.edu)
  • Seven objectives for the track have been established, including identification of occupational and farm lifestyle risks, working with multi-disciplinary groups, and prevention for special populations in the agricultural workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Our data suggest that facultative parasitism may not simply describe a phenotypically plastic strategy that responds to environmental cues, but perhaps that individual differences in parasitic tendencies may appear like facultative parasitism at the population or species level. (springer.com)
  • One of those requirements is that a species engages in shared behaviors which vary between populations and are perpetuated across generations. (dolphins.org)
  • It is a gregarious species, displaying distinct shared behaviors among different groups, which appear to be passed on from mother to calf or between associated individuals. (dolphins.org)
  • Already, evidence suggests that the populations of several species have fallen dramatically in the past several decades, and the California Fish and Game Department has since regulated the sport take of some of these species. (pelagic.org)
  • Because of the increasing demand for shark meat and fins, there is concern about the potential for further reductions to already declining shark populations, and to populations of species of sharks that have not previously been fished for directly. (pelagic.org)
  • From the vibrant plumage of the Scarlet Ibis to the elegance of the Pink Cockatoo, each species is meticulously described to provide a comprehensive understanding of their biology, behavior, and habitat. (travellingbirder.com)
  • It took from the first appearance of Homo Sapiens as a species, some 200,000 years ago, all the way to the year 1970 to reach a total human population of three billion. (populationgrowth.org)
  • Management practices that focus on the maintenance of large, undisturbed tracts of sagebrush will best facilitate the persistence of sage grouse populations and other species reliant on the sagebrush steppe," they wrote. (eurasiareview.com)
  • We studied a class of generalized n-species non-autonomous cooperative Lotka-Volterra (L-V) systems with time delays. (mdpi.com)
  • Meanwhile, Wilkerson is working on a master's degree, via online study at Colorado Christian University, focused on human resources, ethics, organizational behavior and human sociology. (jamaicaplaingazette.com)
  • Factors affecting the involvement of nurses in health promotion - ranging from limited knowledge about health promotion to the social image of nursing - can be structured into three levels: the micro (individual), meso (organizational) and macro (population). (who.int)
  • Vanderbilt University biologists are testing the theoretical understanding of "cheating" and "cooperative" behavior in mitochondria-the organelles that generate cellular energy-with findings that provide new evolutionary insights into why selfishness and cooperation can coexist among populations. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • We discuss how the results of these models demonstrate gaps in the current knowledge of honey bee behavior and motivate further research on queen movement patterns. (cornell.edu)
  • Understanding their behavior and nesting patterns is essential for their conservation and protection. (travellingbirder.com)
  • Amongst other organisms and human beings, there is types of behaviours exhibited that is cooperation behaviors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many organisms that aren't apes, like fish, birds, and insects exhibit cooperative behavior: teaching, helping, and self-sacrifice that are most similar to us, show a great level of cooperation together to solve problems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its a selfish behavior, working together towards solving a problem, because it yields success to engage cooperatively, typically this means work in effort towards solving a problem can often only ever be solved by a cooperative effort, for example for most individuals working cooperatively but especially within families has made cooperation behaviors be generally aggregated together to accomplish major problem solving for survival, like migration and success, particularly familial success. (wikipedia.org)
  • Kin selection or related inclusive fitness theory is defined as a reproductive strategy that favors the success of an organism's relatives, even when it is not in an organism's own best interest, it's highly relevant to human social behavior, relationships and cooperation. (wikipedia.org)
  • We use a number of different types of theoretical, mathematical and computational models to examine a few areas of insect and social behavior related to cooperation. (cornell.edu)
  • These results, "suggest that competing selection pressures within an organism and in its environment may shed light on why selfishness and cooperation often exist side-by-side among populations," according to the release. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • This thesis proposes a framework to encourage the inter-cooperation among agri-food cooperatives acting in a horizontal network. (uchile.cl)
  • Host attachment is a necessary behavior in the evolution of parasitism. (springer.com)
  • It is hypothesized that populations pass through a stage of facultative parasitism before the evolution of obligate parasitism. (springer.com)
  • Then, we explore selective pres- sures that might favor submaximal parasitism behavior and discuss the most reasonable explanation for sub-maximal parasitism by H. horticola. (cornell.edu)
  • This FOA issued by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) will support investigator-initiated Phase I, II, III or IV clinical trials, stage 1-4 behavioral or social intervention trials, or biomarker validation studies that require prospective collection of clinical outcomes and clinical specimens through the cooperative agreement funding mechanism. (nih.gov)
  • To that end, we propose a foundation for expressive behavior that is based on a novel theory of social preferences under risk. (repec.org)
  • Under our proposal, expressive considerations in behavior arise from the particular way in which risky social prospects are assessed by decision makers who want to interpret their choices as moral. (repec.org)
  • Bacteria are social organisms that interact and coordinate their behaviors to shape our world. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • There are many aspects of social, colonial, and individual behavior that are puzzling and difficult to understand. (cornell.edu)
  • Additionally, these behaviors must be acquired through social learning and be independent of genetic factors in order to be considered culturally transmitted. (dolphins.org)
  • This strongly suggests that many behaviors are acquired though social learning. (dolphins.org)
  • Social learning is the most likely explanation for shared behavior in most cases, but lack of proof keeps this a speculation. (dolphins.org)
  • Further research is necessary to provide concrete evidence that these behaviors are truly passed on via social learning before science, as a whole, may accept culture in the bottlenose dolphin under the current definition. (dolphins.org)
  • "Information or behavior, shared by a population or subpopulation, which is acquired from conspecifics through some form of social learning" (Rendell & Whitehead, 2001). (dolphins.org)
  • This I have attempted to provide through the theory of methodological localism ( post ) -- the idea that the causal nexus of the social world is constituted by the behaviors of socially situated and socially constructed individuals. (blogspot.com)
  • American Flamingos primarily inhabit coastal wetlands and lagoons in the Caribbean and South America, where they display fascinating behavior and social interactions. (travellingbirder.com)
  • Social behavior characterizes the interactions that occur among individuals. (amrita.edu)
  • First, animals can develop forms of social behavior specific to stable groups that compensate them for the costs of group living. (amrita.edu)
  • He previously worked as a researcher at the Utah Population Database in the Huntsman Cancer Institute , identifying genetic and social factors contributing to human health and behavior. (utah.edu)
  • Oxytocin (OXT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) are two phylogenetically conserved neuropeptides that have been implicated in a wide range of social behaviors. (frontiersin.org)
  • This review summarizes findings on the associations between OXT and AVP receptor polymorphism, social behavior, and psychiatric diseases. (frontiersin.org)
  • In addition, dendrites of neurons in the PVN and the SON release the peptides directly into the brain, where they act as neurotransmitters or neuromodulators, regulating complex social cognition and behaviors. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our lab applies single-cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches to globally study cell-cell variation across lifestyles, from free-living populations and biofilms assemblies to bacterial colonization of host tissues. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • This idea is known to be true in biofilms where cooperative strategies are able to evolve if cooperators are spatially aggregated ( Xavier & Foster, 2007 ). (peerj.com)
  • Jalil M, Rodriguez JG (1970) Studies of behavior of Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Acarina: Macrochelidae) with emphasis on its attraction to the house fly. (springer.com)
  • When clients are watching and see the current interaction reacting badly, then sometimes everyone else who is waiting will stop watching or go elsewhere, thus they may provide a better service when a client can be made aware of their ability to exhibit cooperative behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Statistical study of human populations. (amrita.edu)
  • The Graduate Certificate in Health Coaching at the University of Delaware provides students and professionals working in with the knowledge and skills to facilitate positive behavior change to promote health and reduce chronic disease risk and experience. (udel.edu)
  • It also facilitates cooperative interactions between different sub-populations via specialization in costly activities such as virulence factor production and through metabolite exchanges, forming an extended basis for sociality. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • The interactions themselves can be aggressive, cooperative or even altruistic and develop into strong relationships among particular individuals. (amrita.edu)
  • Particular distributions of food, water (bottom-up factors) and predators (top-down factors), in conjunction with the physiological demands of individuals differing in body sizes or reproductive states, will determine the frequency and magnitude of competitive and cooperative interactions that occur. (amrita.edu)
  • En comprenant les interactions des facteurs inter et intraniveaux, le personnel infirmier et les autres professionnels de santé seront en mesure de jouer sur les facteurs individuels, sociaux et organisationnels qui influent sur le rôle du personnel infirmier dans la promotion de la santé. (who.int)
  • And within the population of about 4000-6000 humpbacks in SE Alaska we have really only identified 50 or 60 whales that routinely engage in this fascinating, coordinated behavior. (expeditions.com)
  • When their partner is cooperative or willing to participate, cross-dressing men may engage in sexual activity in partial or full feminine attire. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Scientific management practices could restore the woodpecker's habitat and population, but the imperative to convert old-growth forests to other uses remains. (bibliovault.org)
  • As a conclusion, it is necessary to increase the physicians' understanding about how surgical psychoprophylaxis practices can meet the needs of the population and the professionals involved. (bvsalud.org)
  • These deficits may be acquired from prolonged substance abuse (13-17), but the evidence also points to deficits that predate the abusing behavior (18). (sierraeeg.com)
  • The agricultural curriculum is open to Master of Public Health students in any of the school's five departments: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Services Management, Occupational and Environmental Health, and Health Behavior. (cdc.gov)
  • This study aims to examine the effect of managers' uncertainty on cooperative behavior in interorganizational relationships, and how this affects operational performance. (uchile.cl)
  • At a sufficiently high microbial population density, however, the extracellular concentration of signaling molecules reaches a threshold concentration that activates gene and phenotypes expression ( Hense & Schuster, 2015 ). (peerj.com)
  • "The integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends upon the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations" (Merriam-Webster). (dolphins.org)
  • Human population growth and demand, beyond Earth's carrying capacity. (populationgrowth.org)
  • Because this is an Intervention and not a visitation and because its overall aim and goal is domination of your world and the subjugation of the human race, the methods that will be employed will be used to encourage, to induce and to seduce humanity into a cooperative, subservient role to your visitors. (alliesofhumanity.org)
  • It has been observed that image scoring, where a participant learns of their counterpart's prior behavior or reputation, promotes cooperative behavior in situations where direct reciprocity is unlikely. (wikipedia.org)
  • The prisoner's dilemma models many real-world situations involving strategic behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last, we explore the related, but more general question of the evolution of cooperative behaviors. (cornell.edu)
  • This microbial decision-making process called "quorum sensing (QS)" was originally understood as a cell-to-cell communication to identify conspecific population density and accomplish cooperative behaviors ( Fuqua, Winans & Greenberg, 1994 ). (peerj.com)
  • Outcomes of state activities may be evaluated through surveys such as CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) of the Bureau of the Census. (cdc.gov)
  • To help develop effective and sustainable interventions to improve MSM health and reduce the incidence of syphilis and its sequela among this population, critical epidemiologic work is necessary. (cdc.gov)
  • Through this opportunity, funded investigators will explore syphilis through the lens of individual and network level factors as well as health care accessing and behavior. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of this curriculum is to design, implement, and evaluate a Health of Agricultural Populations "emphasis area" in a MPH program. (cdc.gov)
  • Of these, a minimum of 15 hours of agricultural health coursework is required, including courses in Health of Agricultural Populations, Injury Control , a seminar in Agricultural Health, plus a 3-to 6-hour practicum in research, practice, or service related to the health of agricultural populations. (cdc.gov)
  • With an increasing repertoire of mHealth devices, there is a growing trend among many individuals to measure, track, change health behavior, and make health decisions based on quantifiable data collected on oneself. (jmir.org)
  • As the director of the Alaska Whale Foundation (AWF), Andy Szabo studies the fascinating cultural behaviors of humpbacks in Southeast Alaska-and oversees critical research that's helping to better understand and protect the health of this very special population. (expeditions.com)
  • Snuff can improve population health, and more so if more smokers switch to it. (who.int)
  • We consider three models underlying changing host behavior: conformism, the avoidance of long infections, and adherence to the advice of public health officials. (bioone.org)
  • make them more cooperative towards the health team and manage not to influence the children's behaviors in a negative way. (bvsalud.org)
  • When Steps shifted from interventions focused on individual health-risk behaviors to the implementation of policy, systems, and environmental changes, the program became an integral part of changing the way CDC addressed chronic disease prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Health education programmes should be delivered through mass media and school-based programmes to reach a large section of the Egyptian population. (who.int)
  • Although the annual poor resources and the health and financial burdens of population growth in Egypt is 2%, the number of smoking, it is essential for developing countries to battle smokers in Egypt is estimated to increase by 8% each smoking and its risk factors. (who.int)
  • At the individual level, cheater mitochondria have an advantage over cooperative mitochondria, at the cost of organismal fitness across generations. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Nutrient stress decreases the selective advantage of cheater mitochondria within an individual, but this has repercussions at the population level by buffering the detrimental effects across generations. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Students are recruited from a wide range of disciplines, including agricultural engineering , agricultural cooperative extension, persons working with migrant workers, and others. (cdc.gov)
  • Understanding the effects of spatial distribution of prey population on predator foraging using a mathematical simulator. (amrita.edu)
  • We identify a direct and an indirect channel through which collective-choice rules may affect groups' behavior and performance in the game. (repec.org)
  • But what might not be common knowledge is how cooperative some populations or "family groups" of crows tend to be when it comes to brood-rearing. (nwf.org)
  • Whereas most programs at CDC addressed a specific disease, condition, or risk factor in a particular setting and among a certain population until program funding ended, Steps interventions encompassed multiple diseases and risk factors, served entire communities, and were designed to be sustainable beyond federal funding. (cdc.gov)
  • This work focuses on the Web Service Composition (WSC) problem and proposes a new service composition algorithm based on the micro-bats behavior while hunting the prey. (techscience.com)
  • Mathematical models provide an ideal tool for understanding the possible behaviors of systems under different hypotheses, often providing surprising insights about the actual effects of different model pieces. (cornell.edu)
  • Despite the decline of its prevalence, caries continues to affect a significant portion of world population and treatment of the decay is still a challenge for researchers. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, they do not adopt surgical psychoprophylaxis as a routine practice, applying it only in cases where they consider that the child's or the parents' behavior affect the recovery and/or team procedures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Whereas their clonal populations are genetically identical, they contain phenotypically distinct individuals. (weizmann.ac.il)
  • By studying the biological behavior of cockroaches, a bionic algorithm, Cooperative Learning Cockroach Colony Optimization (CLCCO), is presented in this paper. (iajit.org)
  • This group convenes researchers from the Census Bureau and state demography offices to improve research and communication of the country's future population trends. (utah.edu)
  • Once the cheater population reaches the threshold of 60 percent frequency in its host cell, the environment becomes detrimental to survival, as the cheaters lose their advantage over cooperative mitochondria. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • The researchers tracked behaviors and survival rates of more than 600 female greater sage grouse in response to mowing and tebuthiuron application. (eurasiareview.com)
  • When the investigators used a causal analytic method to account for age and other time-varying characteristics, including household income, behavior problems, and parental support, there was no evidence that current (B range, -0.62 to 0.34) or prior stimulant treatment (B range, -0.06 to 0.70) or their interaction (B range, -0.49 to 0.86) was associated with substance use in adulthood. (medscape.com)
  • Comprehensive efforts to combat unhealthy behaviors that contributed to the rising rates of chronic disease were needed. (cdc.gov)
  • The researchers pulled records on about 170,000 families, which they added to the newly created Utah Population Database (UPDB). (utah.edu)
  • The Utah Population Database (UPDB) contains data on over 7.3 million individuals. (utah.edu)
  • Two male and three female Anna's Hummingbirds were spotted during the bird survey, indicating a stable population in the area. (travellingbirder.com)
  • Overall, the presence of a stable population of Anna's Hummingbirds bodes well for the local ecosystem, as these magnificent pink-hued creatures continue to thrive in their natural habitat. (travellingbirder.com)
  • Here, we used repeated behavioral assays to quantify attachment propensity and activity level of individual Macrocheles muscaedomesticae , facultatively parasitic mites of flies, from two different populations. (springer.com)
  • The CLCCO algorithm is based on the idea of synergy behavior of cockroach colony and machine learning. (iajit.org)
  • However, due to habitat loss and degradation, the Roseate Spoonbill population has faced significant declines in recent years. (travellingbirder.com)
  • Transvestic fetishism in the general population: Prevalence and correlates. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We use both theoretical models and empirical results to explore several plausible explanations for this behavior. (cornell.edu)
  • In reality, systemic bias toward cooperative behavior happens despite predictions by simple models of "rational" self-interested action. (wikipedia.org)
  • She hinted that her project is only two months away from being announced, but she did say that it uses economic theories based on European cooperative models. (jamaicaplaingazette.com)