Sentence examples for regulates behaviour from inspiring English sources

In C. elegans, another neuropeptide called FLP-18 also regulates behaviour and metabolism through two GPCRs, NPR-4 and NPR-5.

As code increasingly penetrates daily life, it becomes de facto law that regulates behaviour, argues Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor, in his book "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" (Basic Books, 1999).

"Cocaine influences your pre-frontal cortex [the part of your brain that regulates behaviours and, essentially, your ability to make sound judgements].

The police now have extraordinarily broad powers for regulating behaviour in public space.

Dulcis, D. & Spitzer, N. C. Illumination controls differentiation of dopamine neurons regulating behaviour.

Thanks to sensors and internet connectivity, the most banal everyday objects have acquired tremendous power to regulate behaviour.

Hormones such as estradiol and neurotransmitters such as serotonin, which regulate behaviour, also regulate some aspects of development.

Lead poisoning in infancy, even at very low levels, impairs the development of those parts of the brain (the anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal cortex) that regulate behaviour and mood.

Starting from the premise that these "informing" technologies make the objects of governance knowable in terms of accounting and financial expertises, we consider how accounting practices embedded within lending agreements enable, translate and regulate behaviour.

She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality.

Posture, she notes, seems to be one of the principal ways that mixed-breed groups of dogs regulate behaviour, so this particular signal may turn out to be important in inter-breed diplomacy.