Sentence examples for modifications of behaviour from inspiring English sources

Such modifications of behaviour would provide evidence of direct washback upon test preparation strategies, thereby providing evidence for the consequential validity of the test.

These defences include life history shifts like altered size or age at maturity [ 10- 12], modifications of behaviour, e.g. diel vertical migration [ 13- 15] and morphological changes including the formation of spine-like structures and helmets [ 16- 18].

Each can ensure his safety by "modification of behaviour", and this is something he can "reasonably be expected to tolerate".

Psychopharmacology, the development, study, and use of drugs for the modification of behaviour and the alleviation of symptoms, particularly in the treatment of mental disorders.

I quote: 'The emergence of tetrapod vertebrates … draws its origin from the fact that a primitive fish' chose 'to go and explore the land, on which, however, was unable to move except jumping clumsily and thus creating, as a result of a modification of behaviour, the selective pressure due to which would have developed the sturdy limbs of tetrapods'".

Physiological self-regulation of the local BOLD response is a new paradigm for cognitive neuroscience to study brain plasticity and the functional relevance of regulated brain areas by modification of behaviour.

Although there is so far no evidence that such inherited epigenetic modifications of gene expression can be linked to specific behaviour, it is an emerging possibility which deserves to be investigated; if this could occur, it would provide a possible mechanism for rapid modification of behaviour in a population of animals facing environmental challenges, such as during domestication.

The first will be the reluctance to participate and the modification of behaviour due to the presence of video camera in the OR.

These programmes are based on the presumption that effective modification of behaviour can be attained only if patients' self efficacy has been improved.

Finally, we implemented tailored counselling of patients to increase the odds of achieving modification of behaviour: the exercise programme took into account patients' preferences, and the strategy for losing or maintaining weight varied according to patients' readiness to change.

There is a risk that if an individual physician had patients in both the intervention and control groups, the modification of behaviour caused by the intervention would affect the management of patients in the control group.