(1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
(9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
(10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
(17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
(20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
Instinct
Definition:
(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.
(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.
(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.
(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.
(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(3) Whenever Fox meets someone for the first time, he slips on this look as instinctively as others shuck on a jacket when they leave the house.
(4) Perhaps he is instinctively more forgiving about avoiding tax, which some right-wingers always regard as an indecent affront, than the free use of public funds.
(5) My every instinct is to stand with those who defend migrants and migration.
(6) Now, as the Guardian editorial writers have pointed out, I am indeed "instinctively liberal" .
(7) My sense is that a stronger mandate and more time would allow a more patient approach and a softer Brexit, probably more in line with May’s instincts.” The FTSE 100 index Deutsche Bank declared that the general election was a “game changer” for the pound, forcing it to tear up its sterling forecasts.
(8) "My own personal instinct – partly because I am the secretary of state responsible for universities and partly because I think the policy is right – is very much to vote for it.
(9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
(10) His instinct that there was something there in the association beyond simple chronology is rewarded in the details.
(11) Nothing,” he says, “lights up the brain like play.” We know this instinctively when it comes to bringing up children.
(12) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(13) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
(14) Abnormalities of vegetative and instinctive regulation, psychomotor and affective disorders which are, as a rule, of the borderline nature, occupy the leading position in the structure of the above-indicated disorders.
(15) What they say "He has an instinctive, visceral understanding of how theatre works": Garry Hynes, artistic director of Druid Theatre Company.
(16) It was found that the maternity instinct is inborn but it starts to show only during the second year of life and is manifested in the form of playing with dolls and reaches its peak at the age of 3-5 years.
(17) New progressives are instinctively pluralist in their approach to politics.
(18) Pavlov did not distinguish between URs and instincts, but he preferred the former term.
(19) When it came to his turn to address the leader, he instinctively popped the question that many in Greece have wanted to ask.
(20) The Wolf of Wall Street is already the ninth-biggest 18-certificate movie at the UK box-office, behind Hannibal (£21.6m), American Beauty (£21.3m), Seven (£19.5m), Silence of the Lambs (£17.1m), Bruno (£15.8m), Django Unchained (£15.7m), Basic Instinct (£15.5m) and Fatal Attraction (£15.4m).