Sentence examples for competing behaviour from inspiring English sources

Since more complex models generally explain data better we use a likelihood ratio to compare competing behaviour models.

This teaches patients to be more aware of their urges to tic, and introduces a less visible competing behaviour like flexing abs or thighs.

First, there was no evidence of any difference in exploration in the two sample phases in either cycle of testing, making it difficult to argue that object A was preferred not because it was less recent per se, but because it had been less effectively explored than object B, as a result of competing behaviour provoked by the relatively novel environment on the first sample trial.

We predict that the basal ganglia contains a series of modules each controlling a given pattern of behaviour including locomotion, eye-movements, posture, and chewing that contain both the direct pathway to release a motor program and the indirect pathway to inhibit competing behaviours.

Both these factors would increase the familiarity of both contexts and encourage full habituation of potential competing exploratory behaviour.

Increase the support in the region for audience, channel, and message research needed to make communications efforts effective; continue support for air time and other 'marketing' costs, recognizing that desired patterns of behaviour must continuously be defended against competing alternative behaviours by effectively varying marketing strategies and messages.

A study on dark-eyed juncos Junco hyemalis suggests that feeding and brooding are competing parental behaviours, although females were still able to significantly increase their feeding rates in the early part of the nestling phase [38].

Women at times used these scripts of expected behaviour interchangeably, assigning different priorities to often competing expectations of behaviour depending on the topic.

A habitual impulse may be one of many momentary motivational forces competing to direct behaviour, so vying with various opposing forces favouring alternative actions or inhibition of the habitual response.

It proposes that, although the ability to inhibit competing urges, impulses, behaviours and desires is valued by most societies, 15 too much self-control can be problematic.

To capture the elastic/plastic behaviour, two competing theories of plasticity are considered; viz. the incremental theory (IT) of plasticity (with the Prandtl Reuss constitutive relations) and the deformation theory (DT) of plasticity (with the Hencky constitutive relation).