(n.) The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.
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.
Paleontology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecular-biological, bioenergetic, and paleontological aspects of this new concept of cellular evolution are discussed.
(2) The combined data, considered in the light of sociological, historical and paleontological data, support the hypothesis that the Berbers are native to North Africa and their ancestors, the first modern man (Homo sapiens) of North Africa, were the founders of the European populations.
(3) A comparison of these coefficients with paleontological age of the group allows to conclude that evolutionary progress of animals was accompanied by the increase in skewness, variation and excess of specific lifespan distribution.
(4) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
(5) The technique described should prove useful in otopathological studies of other paleontological specimens.
(6) If the number of fixations of nucleotide codon substitutions per position of cistrons encoding cytochromes c are phyletically inferred (phylogeny based on a paleontological record) rather than phenetically inferred (based on paired comparisons of extant species' differences in the absence of a phylogeny) the distribution of these fixation data cannot be described adequately by a single Poisson distribution.
(7) David Attenborough: 'The area is one about which Britain can be very proud because it is the birthplace of paleontology.'
(8) By resolving several equivocal craniofacial morphocline polarities, these discoveries lay the foundation for a revised interpretation of the ancestral cranial morphology of Catarrhini more consistent with neontological and existing paleontological evidence.
(9) Thus, the immunological assay may prove useful to solve problems relevant to paleontology and paleopathology.
(10) The subjects of his correspondence are problems of the scientific investigations' organization as well as of true science, predominantly of paleontology and general morphology including the comparative anatomy.
(11) It was concluded from chromosomal and paleontological evidence that the two subspecies were derived from a common mainland ancestor and that the Japanese raccoon dogs is a relatively recent form.
(12) Recent paleontological collections at the middle Miocene locality of Maboko Island in Kenya, dated at 15-16 million years, have yielded numerous new specimens belonging to at least five species of fossil anthropoids.
(13) On the basis of morfological analysis of ecological, paleontological and zoogeographical data the main evolutionary trends to biting midges are established, the description of the hypothetical ancestor of the family is given and the apomorphy and plesiomorphy of the genera are analysed.
(14) glabrata (Say, 1818) from upper Pleistocene (or Holocene) based on paleontologic and stratigraphic data and in agreement with shell morphology.
(15) The results demonstrated that the -logRIP values of antisera against G6PDs from various test species neatly correlate with paleontologically estimated divergence times between rat and the test species.
(16) If the earlier paleontological interpretations are valid, then protein and mtDNA evolution must be somewhat decelerated in birds.
(17) This study opens for discussion some accepted interpretations related to posture, in human paleontology.
(18) Since opal phytoliths represent the inorganic remains of once-living plant cells, their documentation on the teeth of Gigantopithecus introduces a promising technique for the determination of diet in extinct mammalian species which should find numerous applications in the field of paleoanthropology as well as vertebrate paleontology.
(19) Therefore, early hominid adaptive scenarios based on a derived Homo-like manual functional morphology in A. robustus remain without a secure paleontological basis.
(20) An advantage of the present analysis is that it can be done without knowledge of paleontological divergence times and can be extended to bacterial proteins such as bacterial c-type cytochromes.