Sentence examples for grooming function from inspiring English sources

Evidence can be seen as supporting a grooming function, food procurement function, or both.

More than 100 years later, the grooming function was questioned since it was difficult to observe and the interdental spaces were thought to be too small for fur.

A 2010 study of gossip among members of a crew team, which was conducted by evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson and his then-graduate student Kevin Kniffin, confirmed that today's gossip reflects the same social grooming functions highlighted in Dunbar's theory.

Barthel Index (assessment of 10 functions: feeding, transfer, grooming, toilet use, bathing, mobility, stairs climbing, dressing, bowels, and bladder) and EQ5D (Assessment of quality of life in 5 dimensions including: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression) will be used for functional assessment.

The BI is a sum score of 10 ADL items: mobility, stair climbing, transfer, feeding, bathing, toilet use, bowel function, bladder function and grooming with a range from 0 (dependent) to 100 (independent).

However, when Drosophila was exposed directly to the nanoparticle powder, CNT adhered to the body, reduced grooming behavior, impaired locomotor function and induced mortality [95].

I did visit Belgian artist Guillaume Bijl's fully functioning dog grooming parlour, Hundesalon Bobby, where local mutts can get the latest in canine coiffure from dog stylist Jacqueline Meier.

The evolutionary anthropologist Robin Dunbar has put forward the idea that language has evolved partly as a form of social "grooming", which functions in a similar way to the physical grooming practised by other primates to maintain bonds.

On the other hand, increased oxytocin induced behaviors and cognitions, related to maternal, affiliative, grooming [ 19, 31] and sexual functions, may appear similar to several core symptoms of OCD.

Instead masturbation could function as a form of genital grooming.

The layered and complex organization of the antennal grooming circuit raises the question as to its function.