Sentence examples for patchy behaviour from inspiring English sources

"From my own experience I've known schools that have had very patchy behaviour but they've had good ratings simply because the inspectors have only seen certain lessons or certain situations, which are often quite artificial".

There had been improvements but the response was patchy and some officers had displayed poor behaviour even in front of inspectors: "The majority [of domestic abuse victims] reported that they had at some point experienced poor attitudes from responding officers.

Mr Bennett said behaviour standards generally in schools were patchy.

As have been explained in the Introduction section, another perspective to explain behaviour pattern of animals in a patchy environment is area restricted search (ARS) [19][20].

A Swedish NGO called Flowminder has captured people's movements in the region using mobile-phone records.Change in behaviour is real, but by most accounts it is patchy.

We have also observed the emergent behaviour based on the same model in a commonly faced patchy environment, meaning that the target density alternates.

The cause of the patchy seed removal remains unexplained, yet many factors can influence vertebrate foraging behaviour, including the density of vegetation cover, densities of conspecifics or other predators and available food supply.

The spatial distribution of organisms in patchy environments can be determined by the relationship between habitat quality and animal behaviour.

Furthermore, Tgavalekos et al. [9] concluded that the heterogeneous and patchy distribution of ventilation in asthma patients is a manifestation of the complex behaviour of the airway system, rather than the independent behaviour of individual airways.

The modelling results are consistent with the experimental observation that patchy cleaning with a thin residual dust layer in the cleaned areas can explain the conditioning behaviour.

54 However, given the illegal and stigmatized nature of these risk behaviours, offering free screening and treatment is not straightforward, 55 and uptake would probably be patchy.