Behavior in sentence

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He knows exactly what the problem is, and he knows exactly how to deal with it, and the dance is this transition behavior that allows them to reorientate themselves.

So that's the dance, but after spending many years sitting in the African bush watching dung beetles on nice hot days, we noticed that there was another behavior associated with the dance behavior.

And we thought that it could be a thermoregulatory behavior.

There are 13 species in the genus, and they have a particular behavior that I think you will find interesting.

This is a different species in the same genus but exactly the same foraging behavior.

There's one more interesting aspect of this dung beetle's behavior that we found quite fascinating, and that's that it forages and provisions a nest.

So what we're looking at here is a behavior called path integration.

We know that the dance behavior is an orientation behavior and it's also a thermoregulation behavior, and we also know that they use a path integration system for finding their way home.

And of course, our change in standards can outpace the change in behavior.

That's a process that seems to be continuing, but if it outstrips behavior by the standards of the day, things always look more barbaric than they would have been by historic standards.

Today, we look at capital punishment as evidence of how low our behavior can sink, rather than how high our standards have risen.

Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation, but otherwise nothing will come of it.

Because, for example, if you pass a law that allows a boss to fire an employee for homosexual behavior, where exactly do you draw the line?

If you go to Japan in Asia, or Finland in Europe, parents and teachers in those countries expect every student to succeed, and you can see that actually mirrored in student behavior.

Well, it turns out that what looks like complex behavior from the outside is actually the result of a few simple rules of interaction.

So this means that the system as a whole suddenly starts to show a behavior which cannot be understood or predicted by looking at the components of the system.

It isn't just a behavior.

And that is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and institutions can display radically different savings behavior?

Despite all of these similarities, we see huge differences in savings behavior.

It's almost impossible not to find a savings behavior for which this strong effect isn't present.

I think this is a fascinating behavior that shows how fast the fly's brain can process information.

You select one set of cells to perform one sort of behavior, another neuromodulator, another set of cells, a different pattern, and you can imagine you could extrapolate to a very, very complicated system.

Now look, naturally there's a gap between their kind of conduct in these meetings and their behavior the rest of the week, but the truth is it didn't really bother us.

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior.

So if we inhibit a particular type of neuron, and we find that a behavior is blocked, we can conclude that those neurons are necessary for that behavior.

On the other hand, if we activate a group of neurons and we find that that produces the behavior, we can conclude that those neurons are sufficient for the behavior.

Seymour is the man that introduced the use of drosophila here at CalTech in the '60s as a model organism to study the connection between genes and behavior.

So we decided to see if flies could be provoked into showing the kind of behavior that you see by the proverbial wasp at the picnic table, you know, the one that keeps coming back to your hamburger the more vigorously you try to swat it away, and it seems to keep getting irritated.

So we quantified this behavior using custom locomotor tracking software developed with my collaborator Pietro Perona, who's in the electrical engineering division here at CalTech.

The objects we use, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in, all have a profound impact on our behavior, health and quality of life.

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