(a) treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
(2) For estimating and evaluating the ethological experimental results the concept of the meeting of requirements and avoidance of damage is an important point.
(3) In this article the methods of ethology, or the systematic detailed study of behavior, and its application to clinical nursing research are described.
(4) It is thus difficult to place a single time or place where ethology was born.
(5) Of these, the area where the most utilized is that of the occurred and in which the findings of ethology have been the most utilized is that of the attachment systems.
(6) The spread of fox rabies is greatly favored by the characteristics of the genus Vulpes--ubiquity, broad diet, prolific nature, and its particular ethology and ecology.
(7) Several simple models are developed to calculate expected mating frequencies in ethological isolation experiments.
(8) Our interpretation of these results is that, whereas the DSM-III subtyping primarily reflects illness severity, the ethological profile measures a dimension of depression largely independent from severity, as indicated by the lack of correlation between the HRSD score and the categories of nonverbal behavior.
(9) Taking in account actually directions of research and some original works, several directions of study are presented, connected with the following aspects: topological and functional evolution of taste receptors, developmental evolution and individual differentiation of the gustatory sensation, hereditary determinants of gustatory sensation and their possible relations with other aspects of personnality, ethological, cultural and environmental (both, in the large and restrictive meaning) aspects and their place in reinforcements of alimentary behavior.
(10) Ethological reproductive isolation and genetic divergence across 26 protein loci were measured among populations of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
(11) Ethological considerations suggest that these are appropriate stimulus characteristics for a system controlling approach and avoidance behaviour in an animal such as the rat where predators generally appear from above and prey is found on the ground.
(12) According to ethological procedures and concepts, the author tries to describe the shape and the functional value of stereotyped movements in disabled children.
(13) Although similar statements might be made about almost any field of science, it is in particular true of this field, which represents a kind of mongrel discipline derived from at least three major sources (psychology, embryology, and neuroscience) and several more minor ones (including developmental psychology and psychiatry, psychoanalysis, education, zoology, ethology, and sociology).
(14) There is, however, a growing branch of ethology that is concerned with the application of ethological principles to areas such as the management and welfare of economically important species like poultry.
(15) In addition, an ethologic perspective that synthesizes various etiologic theories, as they relate to homosexuality during adolescence, is briefly reviewed.
(16) It is concluded that ethology has a vital role in increasing our understanding of psychiatric disorders through identifying: characteristics of disorders; selected causes; degree and type of compromised mechanisms; and, intervention effectiveness.
(17) The description of movements as motor acts or patterns was first the task of Ethology.
(18) A curriculum stressing the writings of Tinbergen, Lorenz, Bowlby, and Hailman is presented for possible use in psychiatric training programs interested in teaching an ethological approach to psychiatry.
(19) Applied ethology in general and farm animal ethology in particular have a great importance in connection with animal welfare regulations on a national and international level.
(20) Both ethological methods are sensitive enough to estimate 'no-effect' doses.
Teleological
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of a preformed pool of TNF mRNA may teleologically be viewed as a mechanism to increase the rapidity of the host's response to sepsis.
(2) Glucose regulation thus becomes of secondary importance to the maintenance of basal insulin secretion, which is teleologically needed for the "anabolic" requirements of cell growth.
(3) By this he has done the step from the cyclical conception of life, essential for early humanity and childhood, towards the causal and teleological thinking of modern man.
(4) This may represent a teleologically appropriate response to prevent catastrophic losses of fluid that would occur, if the normally high rates of glomerular filtration continued, in the face of reduced tubular reabsorptive capacity.
(5) The teleological significance of the neutral cotransport of two Cl- with one Na+ and one K+ is that it enables transporting epithelia like the rectal gland, cornea, salivary gland, and thick ascending limb of Henle's loop to double the efficiency of their Na-K-ATPase pump.
(6) The objectives of this study were to determine 1) the relative degrees to which students' notions of physiological functions are teleologic or mechanistic in nature, 2) whether these notions differ between students in elementary and advanced-level physiology courses, and 3) whether the degree of teleologic vs. mechanistic thinking can be modified by direct discussion of this topic.
(7) The present result extends the variational, teleological formulations found a decade ago by the author to the more-than-two species case.
(8) Teleologically then, it makes sense that in oncogenesis this growth regulating network is utilized by the production of proteins which mimic growth factors, the activated form of their receptors or, the messengers themselves.
(9) While hairy cells have the capacity for immunoglobulin production, we were unable to demonstrate a teleological link between these cells and the renal lesion.
(10) Since this reaction of the organism can barely be influenced and it appears to be teleologically purposeful, many authors have repeatedly attempted to achieve a utilization of nutrients as high and economic as possible using an infusion regimen adapted to these conditions.
(11) Many of these patterns, which are at least partly inherited, can be understood teleologically on the basis of preservation of the internal environmental and natural selection in evolution.
(12) These "teleological" aspects represent the foundation of the phisiopathology of adaptation in advanced age and the key for a correct interpretation of it and therefore for a correct preventive and curative program.
(13) To a certain extent, these changes are teleologically beneficial, as they are able to partially protect the failing heart from potentially toxic adrenergic stimuli.
(14) The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addition to diagnostic nomenclature.
(15) A questionnaire that determined whether students thought about body functions in a teleologic (why) or mechanistic (how) manner was administered to the following categories of students: 1) a class of high school biology students, 2) classes of students taking elementary college-level physiology courses, and 3) college students in advanced physiology courses.
(16) On teleological grounds alone, it would appear that ocular versions and rotations take place, in many cases, along geodesics of least energy and that paths of higher energy are only taken for reasons of binocular near vision.
(17) The teleological significance of these two pathways remains to be established, particularly since mitochondria are capable of transporting CoA from the cytosol.
(18) This is an attempt to find a teleological rationale for the involution of the thymus with aging.
(19) With this posture, and with the general obstruction of constructive dialogue between evolution and the physical sciences it fosters, come the perennial accusations that Darwinism deals in adaptational teleology but not mechanisms.
(20) Teleologically, however, the role of the HLA system may be viewed as vital for survival of the species and the individual by providing the host with a recognition system of and defenses against viruses, microorganisms, parasites, plant antigens, neoplastic cells, and others.