Sentence examples for behavioural boundary from inspiring English sources

However, some ant species have an extraordinary social organization, called 'unicoloniality', which is characterised by an absence of behavioural boundary among interconnected nests that contain many queens and exchange workers, brood and fertile queens [ 5].

The MDS revealed two groups, those interactions including ants from Elim 3 and those that did not (Global R = 0.982, p < 0.001; Figure 3), suggesting that a behavioural boundary exists between ants from Elim 3 and all the other sites included in this study.

A party proves a testing ground for her behavioural boundaries, but the morning after, she can't remember what she has done – or the disturbing things that have been done to her.

Clowns "behave in ways that transgress behavioural boundaries – they run up and throw water over you, for example, though of course it never turns out to be actual water; it's just paper.

It's clear that relationships have to be good and behavioural boundaries firm; I know from my own experience that it would be naïve to suggest that such independence would be possible with all classes at all times.

Similarly, the geographies of power and resistance are constituted by more than spatial tactics and moral or behavioural boundaries as they are often rendered.

That is respectable, but not big enough to drive an industry renaissance or to justify another round of bidding wars.What might is a sense that the regulatory, legal and behavioural boundaries that keep financial activity in silos are breaking down.

From a systems theoretical perspective, dynamic complexity ("dynaxity") causes rapid, erratic processes with sudden tipping points where a system transgresses its former behavioural boundaries and starts to display completely new traits.

Interestingly, most of these populations of native species do not seem to have clear-cut behavioural boundaries (i.e. aggression) delineating supercolonies, even over large geographical areas in some cases [e.g. [ 7, 33]].

An understanding of the nature and duration of these intervals is crucial to research on cancer diagnosis, but also raises important questions about what constitutes 'normality' and where the temporal and behavioural boundaries of normality lie.

Coevolution between hosts and parasites has resulted in the evolution of several mechanisms to avoid or limit these deleterious effects, including behavioural modifications, boundary defences (e.g. the cuticle) and finally the immune system [reviewed in [ 4]].