So how are these rules shaping up in reality?
Nonetheless, our results suggest that phylogenetic constraints establish important and persistent ground rules, shaping the landscape within which adaptive calls evolution occurs.
Understanding the rules shaping individuals' behaviour (roles and responsibilities) was important but not enough to support the collective action necessary to strengthen HAST services.
The discretionary power of 'street level', or front line, workers in public bureaucracies exists because they are " free to make a choice among possible courses of action and inaction" [ 31] within the rules shaping their behaviour, allowing them to translate policy through their practices and interactions with clients.
The rules shape behavior because banks must hold more capital against assets or loans that regulators consider more likely to lose value.
Whether characters conform or break the rules shapes the plot of the book… What interested me most about Rachel is that she was such a rebel, she was willing to break the rules, no matter the price.
This put them in opposition with scientists who argue that the brain generates some words by using rules shaped in part by brain biology — for example, adding "-ed" to a stem to form a past tense.
Drawing on insights from the literature on institutional design how rules shape behavior to achieve desired outcomes this article examines how certain design features of taxes such as allowing for civil society oversight, earmark mechanisms that direct tax revenue for a specific purpose, and sunset provisions that make the duration of taxes finite affect political support for tax reforms.
"Simple rules shape this ever-evolving animation, giving rise to organic abstracted patterns with complex behavior that teeter between order and chaos".
Hence, no ambulatory animal could survive without its set of adaptive, hard-wired sensorimotor rules shaped by evolution and tuned by experience.
The giant flowers are one of the most obvious as well as the prettiest demonstrations of a hidden mathematical rule shaping the patterns of life: the Fibonacci sequence, a set in which each number is the sum of the previous two (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610,...), found in everything from pineapples to pine cones.
