Sentence examples for manipulating opportunities from inspiring English sources

The prize recognised a series of studies on which we worked together in the 1970s and 1980s in the UK Home Office.1 These were seen as important in re-focusing the task of preventing crime towards reducing and manipulating opportunities for it, rather than trying to change people's disposition to offend, or reform known offenders.

With the present study we addressed this question by manipulating infants' opportunities to associate the visual and motor representation of a novel action, and by investigating how this influenced their sensorimotor cortex activation when they observed this action performed by others.

By manipulating the opportunity to choose between tasks of equal difficulty, throughout the motivational process, the effect of autonomy support was examined both behaviorally and electrophysiologically.

To test this hypothesis we manipulated infants' opportunities to associate the visual and motor representation of a novel action, and investigated how this influenced their sensorimotor cortex activation during action observation.

We manipulated infants' opportunities to associate the visual and motor representation of a novel action and investigated how this influenced their sensorimotor cortex activation when they observed this action performed by others.

Using a three-group design, we manipulated infants' opportunities to associate the visual and motor representation of a novel action and investigated how this influenced sensorimotor cortex activation (as indexed by sensorimotor alpha suppression) during the observation of this action.

Instead of manipulating the opportunity for mate choice with unknown effects on the process of sexual selection, we employed a novel design that allowed us to sample and measure the major components of fitness of individuals with genomes that derived ultimately from males that were either repeatedly successful (studs) or repeatedly unsuccessful (duds) at obtaining mates.

We conducted an Experimental Semiotic study in which we manipulated the opportunity for iconicity by varying the kind of referents to be communicated, while keeping the communication medium constant.

We experimentally manipulated the opportunity for mating in replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster by removing components of sexual selection, with the aim of testing differences in short term post-mating effects of females evolved under different mating strategies.

Here, we have taken this a step further by manipulating the mating opportunities of the founding females, replicating an early-stage introduction scenario in which the Allee effect is predicted to act against success [ 32, 33].

"This is about finding opportunities and manipulating them to work for his benefit".