Genetic parameters for large-scale behavior traits and type traits in Charolais beef cows1

2015 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 4277-4284 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vallée ◽  
I. Breider ◽  
J. A. M. van Arendonk ◽  
H. Bovenhuis
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Genetic Parameters ◽  
Type Traits ◽  
Scale Behavior

Ambivalence and Adherence to Measures to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris K. Schneider ◽  
Angela Rachael Dorrough ◽  
Celine Frank
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Direct Costs ◽  
Pharmaceutical Treatment ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
German Sample ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Scale Behavior

The COVID-19 pandemic poses one of the largest behavioral change challenges in the last decades. Because currently, there is no widely available pharmaceutical treatment available to contain the spread of infection, governments worldwide rely – at least to some extent – on behavioral recommendations aimed at reducing spread. The success of this strategy is dependent on the number of people that follow the recommendations. Most recommendations need people to change their behavior or adopt a new behavior. We propose that such behavioral change, with direct costs and delayed benefits, is a source of conflict and mixed feelings. This ambivalence negatively affects adherence to such recommendations. We present three studies that support our hypotheses: the more ambivalent people are about the recommendations, the less they follow them. We also examined the effect of the mixed emotions of hope and worry on adherence and find that it positively relates to adherence. Our findings replicated both in a U.S. sample as well as a representative German sample. Our work is the first to investigate the role of ambivalence in large-scale behavior change and highlight the importance of understanding the conflict that comes with changing behavior. We discuss implications for policy and communication.

scholarly journals Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamics of bacterial suspensions

2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (37) ◽  
pp. 15567-15572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparna Baskaran ◽  
M. Cristina Marchetti
Keyword(s):  
Physical Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Hydrodynamic Interactions ◽  
Nonequilibrium Phenomena ◽  
Active Particles ◽  
Cilia And Flagella ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Scale Behavior

Unicellular living organisms, such as bacteria and algae, propel themselves through a medium via cyclic strokes involving the motion of cilia and flagella. Dense populations of such “active particles” or “swimmers” exhibit a rich collective behavior at large scales. Starting with a minimal physical model of a stroke-averaged swimmer in a fluid, we derive a continuum description of a suspension of active organisms that incorporates fluid-mediated, long-range hydrodynamic interactions among the swimmers. Our work demonstrates that hydrodynamic interactions provide a simple, generic origin for several nonequilibrium phenomena predicted or observed in the literature. The continuum model derived here does not depend on the microscopic physical model of the individual swimmer. The details of the large-scale physics do, however, differ for “shakers” (particles that are active but not self-propelled, such as melanocytes) and “movers” (self-propelled particles), “pushers” (most bacteria) and “pullers” (algae like Chlamydomonas). Our work provides a classification of the large-scale behavior of all these systems.

Study on Genetic Parameters for Linear Type Traits in Hanwoo Cows

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Chungil Cho ◽  
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Taejeong Choi ◽  
Kwanghyun Cho ◽  
Jaegwan Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Parameters ◽  
Linear Type ◽  
Type Traits
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