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McGuinness, Patrick, and Dave Dagnan. "COGNITIVE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS OF CARE STAFF TO DIFFICULT CHILD BEHAVIOUR." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 29, no. 3 (2001): 295–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1352465801003034.

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The attributions parents make about the problem behaviour of their children have been shown to be important determinants of their emotional and behavioural reactions to such behaviour. However, this relationship has not been studied in carers of children in residential settings. In this paper we apply Weiner's attributional model of helping to the self-predicted behaviour of 47 carers in residential children's homes in the U.K. Participants identified causes for four children's behaviours, made attributions about these behaviours on dimensions of internality, controllability, globality and sta

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Cerit, Kamuran, Tuğba Karataş, and Dilek Ekici. "Behaviours of healthcare professionals towards difficult patients: A structural equation modelling study." Nursing Ethics 27, no. 2 (2019): 554–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733019858694.

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Background: Some patients are stigmatised as difficult patients by healthcare professionals. This phenomenon has great many negative consequences. The behaviours of healthcare professionals towards difficult patients are important. Objective: To explore the behaviours of all healthcare professionals towards difficult patients. Research Design: This study was based on a cross-sectional research design using structural equation modelling. Participants and Research Context: Two hundred and fifty-four healthcare professionals were involved in the study in Turkey. ‘Participant Information Form’ and

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Bitsika, Vicki, Christopher F. Sharpley, and Robyn Hawkins. "A Variation on Functional Analysis in the Classroom: A Clinical Note." Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling 17, no. 1 (2007): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/ajgc.17.1.97.

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AbstractTraditional Functional Analytic procedures rely upon the identification of one or two ‘target’ behaviours for examination via observation and analysis. From these data, multiple functions are identified for each target behaviour via antecedent-behaviour-consequence data collection. However, although these methodologies have been shown to be effective with a wide range of inappropriate behaviours in classrooms, they have limitations when the inappropriate behaviours are so many and varied that selection of one or two as ‘targets’ becomes unreliable in terms of obtaining an accurate repr

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Nowacek, Douglas. "SEQUENTIAL FORAGING BEHAVIOUR OF BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS, TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS, IN SARASOTA BAY, FL." Behaviour 139, no. 9 (2002): 1125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685390260437290.

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AbstractDetailed analyses of dolphin foraging behaviour have typically been difficult due to researchers' inability to observe entire foraging sequences. Using a new observational tool I was able to observe sequences of behaviours leading to successful prey captures, including behaviours not previously described in Sarasota Bay dolphins. I defined a set of specific foraging behaviours and demonstrated their position in successful sequences by analyzing the conditional probability of their occurrence based the occurrence of a capture. The sequences of behaviours dolphins used were not determini

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Ainsworth, Frank, and Patricia Hansen. "Understanding Difficult Parental Behaviours During a Child Protection Investigation." Children Australia 40, no. 1 (2015): 20–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.45.

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When child protection caseworkers make first contact with the parents of a child (or children) who is suspected of being at ‘significant risk of harm’ they may encounter a range of hostile, angry and aggressive verbal responses from parents. If this contact results in a child being removed from parental care, it is not unknown for these responses to escalate into attempts at verbal intimidation and loud threats of personal violence. These behaviours then get recorded in case files and in materials submitted to the Children's Court to support the case for permanent removal of a child from paren

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Vallis, T. Michael, Sonia H. Greaven, and Des Leddin. "What Are We Going to Do with You? Gastroenterology Service Providers’ Perception of ‘Difficult to Manage’ IBD Patients." Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 16, no. 2 (2002): 87–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2002/234518.

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BACKGROUND: This paper reports the results of a systematic survey of members of a clinical gastroenterology service to determine their perceptions of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who were deemed to function poorly and were difficult to manage clinically.OBJECTIVES: To assess objectively the defining characteristics of this perceived subgroup of patients who are encountered in virtually all gastroenterology services.METHODS: A sample of gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons (n=10), as well as gastrointestinal nurses (n=19), was surveyed regarding their beliefs abou

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Stuart, Alison E., and Douglas C. Currie. "Using caddisfly (Trichoptera) case-building behaviour in higher level phylogeny reconstruction." Canadian Journal of Zoology 79, no. 10 (2001): 1842–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z01-145.

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Higher level phylogenetic analyses rarely include behavioural data, predominantly because such groups seldom have complex behaviours that are susceptible to analysis. Even when broad groups do share a complex behaviour, there is skepticism about the appropriateness of using behavioural traits in higher level phylogenetic analyses. The Integripalpia is a suborder of caddisflies and is an appropriate group to investigate the use of behaviour in higher level analyses because all larvae use a complex suite of behaviours to build portable cases. A thorough investigation of case-building in 10 famil

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Ajasllari, Jeta. "Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Treatment of Paediatric Patients with Chronic Renal Disease." Global Journal of Psychology Research: New Trends and Issues 6, no. 2 (2016): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjpr.v6i2.560.

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention with CBT in patients with chronic renal disease. The study findings are in the context of previous researches and existing theories. Searches were done in the professional literature related to different chronic diseases and respectively with Chronic Kidney Disease in children and adolescents. Many paediatric chronic diseases are difficult to be managed because of the limitations caused by the disease itself; consequently, some of them need to be subjected to painful and difficult medical procedures as well. Respectivel

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Allen, Kathleen, and Margot Prior. "Assessment of the Validity of Easy and Difficult Temperament through Observed Mother-Child Behaviours." International Journal of Behavioral Development 18, no. 4 (1995): 609–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016502549501800403.

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Forty mothers and their 7-year-old children were video-taped while interacting during the completion of five structured tasks. Half of the children had been rated as having a difficult temperament by their mothers on the Thomas and Chess Temperament Questionnaire during the previous 3 years. The other half had a stable, easy temperament according to these ratings. Observation of mother-child interactions demonstrated that the behaviour of mothers of easy and difficult children did not differ significantly, but difficult-temperament children showed significantly more negative and disputing beha

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Fujioka, Haruna, Yasukazu Okada, and Masato S. Abe. "Bipartite network analysis of ant-task associations reveals task groups and absence of colonial daily activity." Royal Society Open Science 8, no. 1 (2021): 201637. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201637.

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Social insects are one of the best examples of complex self-organized systems exhibiting task allocation. How task allocation is achieved is the most fascinating question in behavioural ecology and complex systems science. However, it is difficult to comprehensively characterize task allocation patterns due to behavioural complexity, such as the individual variation, context dependency and chronological variation. Thus, it is imperative to quantify individual behaviours and integrate them into colony levels. Here, we applied bipartite network analyses to characterize individual-behaviour relat

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Kean, June. "Teacher Ethnotheories & Child Temperament: Impact on Classroom Interactions." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 22, no. 3 (1997): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693919702200304.

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The effects of eight teachers’ ethnotheories (beliefs and values) were examined in relation to interactions in the classroom (teachers, target children) with two broad groupings of child temperament (Difficult Temperament N = 16, Easy Temperament N = 16) which were established on the basis of teachers’ ratings of child temperament using The Preschool Inventory (Billman, 1981). Temperament (individual behavioural style) was conceptualised as the manifestation of affective displays and social behaviours in context, with emotions acting as signals for interactions. Interviews were conducted with

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Gallop, R., and F. Wynn. "The Difficult Inpatient: Identification and Response by Staff." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 3 (1987): 211–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/070674378703200310.

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This paper discusses the findings of a pilot study of the phenomenology of the “difficult” psychiatric inpatient. Twenty-five nurses and 12 psychiatric residents were asked to identify and describe the behaviours or characteristics of patients they found difficult. In addition, subjects were asked to describe behaviours and feelings they experienced when treating or caring for a specific difficult patient. Content analysis revealed similar diagnostic categories of patients identified as difficult. While feelings of incompetence and lack of control were aroused in both nurses and residents thei

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Lawrence, A. B. "The application of electronics to the study of animal behaviour." Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) 1990 (March 1990): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0308229600018808.

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Animal behaviour is increasingly seen as a useful tool in animal production. However, behavioural observations are time costly, and it is difficult to ensure precision and repeatability of measurement.An alternative to observation is to use electronics to automatically record behaviour and two such applications are illustrated:The first system developed at Edinburgh records drinker and chain-related activity, two common abnormal behaviours in pregnant sows. Water flow meters record drinker use. Chain behaviour is monitored by supplying each sow with a vertically hanging chain to which is attac

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Van Der Zee, Sophie, Paul Taylor, Ruth Wong, John Dixon, and Tarek Menacere. "A liar and a copycat: nonverbal coordination increases with lie difficulty." Royal Society Open Science 8, no. 1 (2021): 200839. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200839.

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Studies of the nonverbal correlates of deception tend to examine liars' behaviours as independent from the behaviour of the interviewer, ignoring joint action. To address this gap, experiment 1 examined the effect of telling a truth and easy, difficult and very difficult lies on nonverbal coordination. Nonverbal coordination was measured automatically by applying a dynamic time warping algorithm to motion-capture data. In experiment 2, interviewees also received instructions that influenced the attention they paid to either the nonverbal or verbal behaviour of the interviewer. Results from bot

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Bell, Alison M., and Nadia Aubin-Horth. "What can whole genome expression data tell us about the ecology and evolution of personality?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1560 (2010): 4001–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0185.

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Consistent individual differences in behaviour, aka personality, pose several evolutionary questions. For example, it is difficult to explain within-individual consistency in behaviour because behavioural plasticity is often advantageous. In addition, selection erodes heritable behavioural variation that is related to fitness, therefore we wish to know the mechanisms that can maintain between-individual variation in behaviour. In this paper, we argue that whole genome expression data can reveal new insights into the proximate mechanisms underlying personality, as well as its evolutionary conse

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Kokocińska, Agata, and Tadeusz Kaleta. "The role of ethology in animal welfare." Roczniki Naukowe Polskiego Towarzystwa Zootechnicznego 12, no. 1 (2016): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6981.

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Knowledge of the behaviour of a species makes it possible to ensure the well-being of animals raised in farm conditions, because when we know the behavioural standard we can guarantee that at least the animals’ minimum needs will be met. Observation of animal behaviour is the first element in assessing their physical and psychological comfort. The main objective is to maximize production while at the same time maintaining animal welfare. However, this is often difficult and economic considerations come into conflict with the comfort and needs of the animals. The elements of knowledge of behavi

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Humphreys, Rosalind K., and Graeme D. Ruxton. "Adaptive suicide: is a kin-selected driver of fatal behaviours likely?" Biology Letters 15, no. 2 (2019): 20180823. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0823.

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While several manipulated host behaviours are accepted as extended phenotypes of parasites, there remains debate over whether other altered behaviours in hosts following parasitic invasion represent cases of parasite manipulation, host defence or the pathology of infection. One particularly controversial subject is ‘suicidal behaviour’ in infected hosts. The host-suicide hypothesis proposes that host death benefits hosts doomed to reduced direct fitness by protecting kin from parasitism and therefore increasing inclusive fitness. However, adaptive suicide has been difficult to demonstrate conc

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Ellis, Sarah LH. "Recognising and assessing feline emotions during the consultation: History, body language and behaviour." Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 20, no. 5 (2018): 445–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098612x18771206.

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Practical relevance: Crucial to successful treatment of problem behaviour and optimising the welfare of the individual cat is determining which underpinning emotion(s) are involved in the presentation of the behaviour. Feline emotions are not feelings per se, but motivational-emotional systems that are responsible for instinctual emotional arousal. Often different interventions are required to alleviate different negative emotional motivations. Clinical challenges: Identifying different emotional motivations and the arousal level associated with them solely from observations of behaviour and b

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Bradshaw, John. "Normal feline behaviour: … and why problem behaviours develop." Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 20, no. 5 (2018): 411–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098612x18771203.

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Practical relevance: Cats are descended from a solitary, territorial ancestor, and while domestication has reduced their inherited tendency to be antagonistic towards all animals larger than their typical prey, they still place more reliance on the security of their territory than on psychological attachments to people or other cats, the exact opposite to dogs. Many feline problem behaviours stem from perceived threats to this security, often due to conflicts with other cats. Others are more developmental in origin, often caused by inadequate exposure to crucial stimuli, especially people, dur

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Boots, Samantha B., Marika Tiggemann, and Nadia Corsini. "Maternal responses to difficult food request scenarios: Relationships with feeding style and child unhealthy snack intake." Journal of Health Psychology 23, no. 13 (2016): 1732–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105316669584.

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This study sought to identify parent-feeding behaviours in real-life difficult feeding situations through the use of a set of scenarios. These were then used to examine links between parent feeding and child snack intake. Mothers of children aged 2–7 years ( n = 611) completed an online survey containing five snack food request scenarios, two commonly used parent-feeding scales (Restriction and Covert Control), and reported on their child’s snack intake. Results showed that parent-feeding styles (restrictive or covert) translated into specific behaviours in response to the scenarios. These par

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Hogan, Lindsay A., Clive J. C. Phillips, Allan Lisle, Alan B. Horsup, Tina Janssen, and Steve D. Johnston. "Remote monitoring of the behaviour and activity of captive southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons)." Australian Mammalogy 31, no. 2 (2009): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am09023.

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The nocturnal nature of wombats makes it difficult to learn about their behavioural ecology and activity rhythms in the wild. A facility was established at Rockhampton Zoo to house 12 adult southern hairy-nosed wombats in order to monitor their behaviour by means of video surveillance and provide detailed information on their activity patterns using movement-sensitive radio-transmitters. After one year of monitoring it was established that the wombats spent, on average, as a proportion of total time 69.9% sleeping, 8.8% lying resting, 5.2% feeding, 5.2% exploring, 4.3% performing stereotyped b

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Smith, Kirsten A., Felicity L. Bishop, Hajira Dambha-Miller, et al. "Improving Empathy in Healthcare Consultations—a Secondary Analysis of Interventions." Journal of General Internal Medicine 35, no. 10 (2020): 3007–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05994-w.

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Abstract A recent systematic review of randomised trials suggested that empathic communication improves patient health outcomes. However, the methods for training healthcare practitioners (medical professionals; HCPs) in empathy and the empathic behaviours demonstrated within the trials were heterogeneous, making the evidence difficult to implement in routine clinical practice. In this secondary analysis of seven trials in the review, we aimed to identify (1) the methods used to train HCPs, (2) the empathy behaviours they were trained to perform and (3) behaviour change techniques (BCTs) used

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Hudson, Alan, Patrick Wilken, Roland Jauernig, and Gary Radler. "Regionally Based Teams for the Treatment of Challenging Behaviour: A Three-year Outcome Study." Behaviour Change 12, no. 4 (1995): 209–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s081348390000406x.

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In 1990, 13 regionally based Behaviour Intervention Support Teams (BISTs) were established in Victoria to assist agencies providing support to persons with an intellectual disability who exhibited challenging behaviour. A primary function of the BISTs was to conduct intensive interventions for clients with severe challenging behaviours. The outcomes of the interventions conducted by eight of these teams were monitored over the period from 1991 to 1993. During this time, a total of 134 such interventions were completed by the teams. Many outcome measures were used for each intervention. These i

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Madden, Joah R., and Tim H. Clutton-Brock. "Experimental peripheral administration of oxytocin elevates a suite of cooperative behaviours in a wild social mammal." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1709 (2010): 1189–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1675.

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The evolution and expression of different forms of cooperative behaviour (e.g. feeding, guarding, sentinel duties, etc.) are usually studied independently, with few studies considering them as a single syndrome. However, studies investigating individuals' investment across a suite of different behaviours reveal that they are correlated, suggesting a single mechanism determining the evolution and expression of cooperative behaviours. A hormonal mechanism could achieve this, and one possibility is oxytocin (OT), which affects several prosocial or alloparental behaviours independently. We show, u

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Adeleke, Akinniyi A., Ayodeji Onifade, and Bayo Opadiran. "Difficult patron behaviours and handling strategies in private university libraries in Nigeria." Library Progress (International) 34, no. 2 (2014): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2320-317x.2014.00005.1.

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Connell, K. A., U. Munro, and F. R. Torpy. "Daytime behaviour of the grey-headed flying fox Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck (Pteropodidae: Megachiroptera) at an autumn/winter roost." Australian Mammalogy 28, no. 1 (2006): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am06002.

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The grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck) is a threatened large fruit bat endemic to Australia. It roosts in large colonies in rainforest patches, mangroves, open forest, riparian woodland and, as native habitat is reduced, increasingly in vegetation within urban environments. The general biology, ecology and behaviour of this bat remain largely unknown, which makes it difficult to effectively monitor, protect and manage this species. The current study provides baseline information on the daytime behaviour of P. poliocephalus in an autumn/winter roost in urban Sydney, Austra

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Reid, Jane, and Ken Catchpole. "Patient safety: a core value of nursing - so why is achieving it so difficult?" Journal of Research in Nursing 16, no. 3 (2011): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1744987110393454.

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Patient safety in the perioperative setting is determined by many interdependent factors including reliable systems, good teamwork, psychological safety, optimal communications and most crucially shared vision and goals. The necessary organizational, environmental and behavioural conditions for quality care are not new and were in fact known to Florence Nightingale as much as 150 years ago. As noted by Nightingale, and something that remains unchanged today, the greatest threat to patient safety are the frailties of the human condition, complacent attitudes and unconscious behaviours. Recogniz

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Tennakoon, Lakshika, Dominic Fannon, Victor Doku, et al. "Experience of caregiving: relatives of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis." British Journal of Psychiatry 177, no. 6 (2000): 529–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.177.6.529.

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BackgroundThere has been relatively little research on caregivers of people experiencing their first episode of psychosis.AimsTo investigate dimensions of caregiving and morbidity in caregivers of people with first-episode psychosis.MethodCaregivers of 40 people with first-episode psychosis were interviewed at home about their experience of caregiving, coping strategies and distress.ResultsCaregivers used emotional and practical strategies to cope with participants' negative symptoms and difficult behaviours and experienced more worry about these problems. They increased supervision when the p

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Fryczyńska, Marzena, and Alena Ivanova. "The impact of networking behaviours and individual social capital related to work on perceived career satisfaction and its prospects: The case of Poland." Journal of East European Management Studies 24, no. 2 (2019): 324–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2019-2-324.

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Social networks are an important variable which explain career issues such as career satisfaction, success, development and employment. However, research is often conducted separately from different theoretical perspective, i.e. social capital, social network analysis or networking, such that the comparison of findings across studies is difficult. The major question posed by our research concerns how employees' networking behaviours (behavioural perspective) and the individual social capital related to work (resource-based) influence the quality of careers. The discussion draws upon a survey c

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Dosen, Anton, and Johan De Groef. "What is normal behaviour in persons with developmental disabilities?" Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities 9, no. 5 (2015): 284–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/amhid-05-2015-0027.

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Purpose – Annoying and bothersome behaviours among persons with developmental disabilities (DD) is a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, not all behaviour that is difficult to accept in its surroundings should be seen as abnormal or problem behaviour (PB). Some of these behaviours may be an expression of a person’s psychosocial needs and may be considered as adaptive and normal. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Authors attempt to discuss relevant issues in persons with DD which have an impact on their behaviour, intending in this way to define criteria

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Lancaster, Peter, Tim S. Jessop, and Devi Stuart-Fox. "Testing the independent effects of population and shelter density on behavioural and corticosterone responses of tree skinks." Australian Journal of Zoology 58, no. 5 (2010): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo10056.

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In animals, social organisation and behaviour can respond to variation in key ecological factors including population and resource density. As these two factors covary, their relative importance is difficult to estimate using field studies. Consequently, we conducted two manipulative experiments varying levels of either population or shelter density to separate their effects on solitary, affiliative and agonistic behaviour and physiology in the social tree skink, Egernia striolata. We used focal observations and plasma concentrations of the hormone corticosterone to measure behavioural and phy

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Neitzel, Carin, and Anne Dopkins Stright. "Parenting behaviours during child problem solving: The roles of child temperament, mother education and personality, and the problem-solving context." International Journal of Behavioral Development 28, no. 2 (2004): 166–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650250344000370.

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Child temperament, parent openness to experience, conscientiousness, and education, and parent a priori assessments of the task were examined in relation to parenting behaviours during child problem solving. Mothers and their children (73 dyads) were visited the summer before kindergarten. Mothers’ cognitive, emotional, and autonomy support were coded as they provided assistance during four child problem-solving tasks. Mothers with more education provided more metacognitive information. Before education was considered, it appeared that mothers who perceived their children as difficult and who

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Pendyala, Pranavi, Aviva Munshi, and Anoushka Mehra. "Vehicular Security Drowsy Driver Detection System." International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology 10, no. 5 (2021): 206–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijeat.e2751.0610521.

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Detecting the driver's drowsiness in a consistent and confident manner is a difficult job because it necessitates careful observation of facial behaviour such as eye-closure, blinking, and yawning. It's much more difficult to deal with when they're wearing sunglasses or a scarf, as seen in the data collection for this competition. A drowsy person makes a variety of facial gestures, such as quick and repetitive blinking, shaking their heads, and yawning often. Drivers' drowsiness levels are commonly determined by assessing their abnormal behaviours using computerised, nonintrusive behavioural a

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Hirschovits-Gerz, Tanja. "How Finns Perceive Obstacles to Recovery from Various Addictions." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 30, no. 1-2 (2013): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nsad-2013-0007.

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Aims This article examines how Finns perceive obstacles to overcoming various substance and behavioural addictions. Design A random population survey (n=740) was conducted in the autumn of 2007. The survey included questions on five types of barriers to recovery: the properties of the substance or behaviour, the personal properties of the individual, the significance of the environment, the effect of difficult living conditions, and the prejudices and negative expectations of other people. Results The individual and the substances or behaviours as such were considered bigger obstacles to recov

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Kasper, Claudia, David Ribeiro, André M. de Almeida, Catherine Larzul, Laurence Liaubet, and Eduard Murani. "Omics Application in Animal Science—A Special Emphasis on Stress Response and Damaging Behaviour in Pigs." Genes 11, no. 8 (2020): 920. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11080920.

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Increasing stress resilience of livestock is important for ethical and profitable meat and dairy production. Susceptibility to stress can entail damaging behaviours, a common problem in pig production. Breeding animals with increased stress resilience is difficult for various reasons. First, studies on neuroendocrine and behavioural stress responses in farm animals are scarce, as it is difficult to record adequate phenotypes under field conditions. Second, damaging behaviours and stress susceptibility are complex traits, and their biology is not yet well understood. Dissecting complex traits i

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Dadich, Ann. "Learning for the frontline: how fire-fighters integrate learnt behaviours with difficult contexts." International Journal of Learning and Change 6, no. 1/2 (2012): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijlc.2012.045859.

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Pigliardo, C., L. Bird, S. Andrews, R. French, and A. L. Browne. "Staff perceptions and management of difficult and aggressive behaviours among acute trauma patients." Injury Extra 40, no. 8 (2009): 142–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2009.03.031.

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Goß, Karin, Dante Gatteschi, and Lapo Bogani. "The emergence of complex behaviours in molecular magnetic materials." Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, no. 34 (2014): 18076–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4cp01413h.

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Swanepoel, Annie. "Fifteen-minute consultation: The angry child." Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition 104, no. 1 (2018): 11–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314020.

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Children who present with difficult behaviours due to underlying anger are commonly presented to paediatricians for help and advice. This paper gives a basic structure of how to approach the subject, by exploring whether the problems occur at home, school or both, and analysing the behaviour by focusing on antecedents, behaviour and consequences. It is important to find the underlying causes in order to know what to recommend, as this can vary from medication, anger management strategies, school-based interventions, parenting programmes or family therapy.

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Ainsworth, Frank, and Patricia Hansen. "Understanding the Behaviour of Children in Care before and after Parental Contact." Children Australia 42, no. 1 (2017): 5–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.50.

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It is not uncommon to hear foster carers and child protection case workers comment about a child's behaviour both before and after parental contact. Frequently these comments are negative, the view being expressed that contact should be reduced because the children get upset at seeing their parents for a limited time, and then at having to separate from them. The child's resultant distress seems too difficult to manage for foster carers. Some foster parents even go so far as to suggest that parental contact should completely cease. This article sets out the rationale for parent–child contact a

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Metaxas, Melinda J. "Are the Most Effective Approaches towards Helping Students with Emotional Behavioural Disorders (EBDs) Predisposed and Trait Based?" Psychiatry International 2, no. 1 (2021): 85–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint2010007.

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Trait emotional intelligence (EI) may prove to be most valuable as an approach for dealing with others’ behaviours/emotions via its related psychological processes. Personality trait theory posits that an individual’s level of EI affects their cognitive-affective-behavioural reaction towards students with emotional behavioural disorders (EBDs) and influences the level of difficult behaviour. EI would be an essential element in fostering supportive interactions with students as a way of preventing and/or managing disruptive behaviours. The author explores which individuals are more predisposed

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Bannister, H., R. Brandle, and K. Moseby. "Antipredator behaviour of a native marsupial is relaxed when mammalian predators are excluded." Wildlife Research 45, no. 8 (2018): 726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr18060.

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Context Predator-controlled environments can lead to prey species losing costly antipredator behaviours as they exploit their low-risk environment, creating a ‘predator-naïve’ population. If individuals lacking suitable antipredator behaviours are used as source populations for reintroductions to environments where predators are present, their behaviour could result in high post-release predation. In contrast, animals sourced from environments with predators (‘predator-exposed’) may show effective antipredator behaviours and thus higher survival post-release. Aims The aim was to compare the an

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Leon, Florin. "Stabilization Methods for a Multiagent System with Complex Behaviours." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2015 (2015): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/236285.

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The main focus of the paper is the stability analysis of a class of multiagent systems based on an interaction protocol which can generate different types of overall behaviours, from asymptotically stable to chaotic. We present several interpretations of stability and suggest two methods to assess the stability of the system, based on the internal models of the agents and on the external, observed behaviour. Since it is very difficult to predict a priori whether a system will be stable or unstable, we propose three heuristic methods that can be used to stabilize such a system during its execut

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Iorga, Magdalena, Raluca Iurcov, and Beatrice-Gabriela Ioan. "Online Medical Learning and Ethical Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Bioethica 65, no. 1-2 (2020): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2020.06.

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"The practice of unethical behaviours has been shown to be closely related to previous experience in adopting such behaviours. Many studies have identified that the observation of unprofessional behaviours in peers by the lack of reaction from teachers encourages students to adopt such behaviours that will be maintained throughout life. That is why the need for ethical training of medical students is necessary, especially since the adoption of online activity during COVID-19 pandemic that facilitates unethical behaviours, such as simulating attendance at classes, cheating the assessments, etc.

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Dhakal, Shankar. "Surviving in Difficult EFL Classroom: Teachers’ Perspectives and Coping Strategies." Journal of NELTA 20, no. 1-2 (2018): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v20i1-2.19773.

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English language teachers often encounter with the situations in which they are faced with defiance, aggression and multiple verbal and physical abuses in their classroom. Moreover, they have pressures of unrealistic expectations and blamed for complex failures of students and the whole system, which makes their survival in difficult classroom even more difficult. So, this is a small-scale research study that investigates EFL teachers’experiences and the perspectives on the difficult classroom situations. The study reveals that teachers are not the only responsible persons for students’ unexpe

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Slavík, Ondřej, Pavel Horký, and Marie Wackermannová. "How does agonistic behaviour differ in albino and pigmented fish?" PeerJ 4 (April 18, 2016): e1937. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1937.

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In addition to hypopigmentation of the skin and red iris colouration, albino animals also display distinct physiological and behavioural alterations. However, information on the social interactions of albino animals is rare and has mostly been limited to specially bred strains of albino rodents and animals from unique environments in caves. Differentiating between the effects of albinism and domestication on behaviour in rodents can be difficult, and social behaviour in cave fish changes according to species-specific adaptations to conditions of permanent darkness. The agonistic behaviours of

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Fukui, Atsumi, and Bruce Westmore. "To See or Not to See: The Debate over Pornography and its Relationship to Sexual Aggression." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 28, no. 4 (1994): 600–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679409080783.

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The role played by pornography in the generation of thoughts, feelings, impulses and behaviours in its viewers has long been a topic of debate and controversy. The uncertainty about its potential effects on human behaviour, especially its relationship to sexual aggression, has stimulated the recent debate with the possibility of tighter censorship laws being implemented throughout this country. A review of the topic from a number of different perspectives fails to establish that pornography in its purely erotic form has any significant detrimental effect on human behaviour. More difficult to d

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Whiting, SD. "Dive times for foraging dugongs in the Northern Territory." Australian Mammalogy 23, no. 2 (2001): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am01167.

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THERE are few published studies of dive times of dugongs (Dugong dugon). Direct observations are problematic because D. dugon are shy and difficult to observe in the wild from boats without creating observer effects. Time Depth Recorders (TDR?s) can record dive and surface times during dive behaviour, but there are no published data as yet for D. dugon using this technology. Although studies on dive times using Time Depth Recorders (TDR?s) result in larger data sets, their results are difficult to relate to particular behaviours such as foraging. This paper provides submergence and surface int

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Zhang, W. H., G. M. Mei, X. J. Wu, and L. Q. Chen. "A Study on Dynamic Behaviour of Pantographs by Using Hybrid Simulation Method." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 219, no. 3 (2005): 189–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/095440905x8880.

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To study the dynamic behaviour of pantographs, a hybrid simulation method has been used. A special test facility, which is used to simulate the dynamic performance of a pantograph when it runs through the overhead line, is established and described in this paper. As the catenary is difficult to be modelled by a hardware test facility indoor, a mixed theoretical-experimental technique is used in test facility. On the basis of the set-up of hybrid simulation test device of the pantograph-catenary system, the dynamic behaviours of four types of pantographs running along the overhead equipment at

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Phelps, Steve. "Managing the deep and difficult challenges." APPEA Journal 50, no. 2 (2010): 709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj09073.

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Deep and difficult is an often-used euphemism for those petroleum objectives that are continuing to grow into an increasingly large fraction of companies’ exploration portfolios, now the easy conventionals are in their twilight years. Based on six years of experience of such plays and prospects in the likes of Libya, Nigeria, Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and more, the challenges may be categorised in several dimensions: capabilities for definition; operational well execution; and, the success engineering stretch (which refers to the requirement to envisage development engineering in that uncomfo

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