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I am searching for ideas, examples, research papers, projects etc, etc. regarding possibilities to implement behavior analysis in caring/nursing science/practice.
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I'm looking to quantify frequency and duration of various insects' behaviors from high-res videos. Several people have mentioned JWatcher or SolomonCoder. I'd prefer a program that is compatible with Mac. I've been having trouble installing JWatcher but it seems like the type of program I would need.
Greetings.
I am looking for books about Motivation and Emotion for undergraduates with these topics.
I am designing a new college course, and the last textbooks that I used were:
Bouton, M. E. & Fanselow, M. S. (Eds.) (1997). Learning, Motivation, and Cognition: The Functional Behaviorism of Robert Bolles.
Petri, H. L. & Govern, J. M. (2013). Motivation: Theory, Research, and Application (6th ed.). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
I need to update these readings with something more recent. However, I do not know if there are new books on these topics from Behavior Analysis and non-mediational Evolutionary Psychology theories.
The cities that might be influenced can be dispersed into :
1. Street Fashion
2. High End Brand Fashion
3. Street Surfer / Beach Fashion
4. Contemporary Fashion
5. Musical fashion
A subfield of philosophy known as "ethics" deals with moral behaviour analysis, conceptualization, and moral judgment. When it comes to thinking and analysing situations and environments, humans are unique. This study aims to examine the psychology of human decision-making and why humans sometimes pick the incorrect course of action despite being able to clearly see the right course of action. I would welcome a list of theories and a few arguments to support such acts.
I have recorded behavioural data, such as incidences of aggression and grooming partners, in a troop of lemurs over three conditions.
What tests should I be using to compare the rates of aggression in the three conditions?
For the grooming partner data, I want to compare grooming between sex dyads. For instance, the frequency of male-male grooming compared to male-female grooming within each condition and then compare the average proportion of grooming between sex dyads in the three conditions. How would I do this?
Thank you in advance for your help. Apologies if this question is poorly worded, I am very new to data analysis.
I need to do simulation and analyses using one or two of the various types of software commonly used, but the problem is that I can't feel sure about advantages and disadvantages of any. Considering types of the analyses I need ( CFD and shadow behaviour) and type of the place (an urban space among various buildings (nearly a neighbourhood in size)), I'd be grateful if you share your knowledge in this field.
Hello everyone!
I need to analyze the behavior of zebrafish larvae, but I am having some difficulty in finding free software. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you so much! :D
I am looking for the literature related to thermal behavior/analysis of carbon-sulfur composite material. If anyone, please suggest thank you.
We conduct research on domestic animals and birds behavior is to improve welfare. We study the housing enrichment different of feeding system etc using continuous videos which generate huge data. How do we analyze it by automated software?
Public health is the art and science of promoting health, preventing diseases, and increasing health and lifespan through the organized efforts of society. It is believed that sport plays an important role in physical and mental health as it incorporates physical activity. Physical activities during sports are associated with risks for injury, such as concussions in contact sports and over-use injuries in sports requiring frequent repetition of the same movement.
Although sports injuries and their aftermath have been well-studied, less attention has been given to public health, especially using technology. The use of AI-enabled IoT devices in sports can reduce the risk of injuries and enhance the efficiency, capabilities, and fitness of athletes, spectators, coaches, and officials. The use of AI-enabled IoT devices in sports and public health has huge implications for research, businesses, and future activities of mankind. This is due to the fact that the IoT devices are required to extract an unprecedented amount of health data that can be filtered, processed, and analyzed using AI and machine learning. As a result, any system based on these technologies can obtain the benefits of collecting, processing, and analyzing highly valuable data of athletes, trainers, spectators, coaches, and officials. These technologies are beneficial for injury prevention, disease transmission, on-time diagnosis, and treatments for various diseases in an easy and cost-effective way.
The aim of this Special Issue is to identify public health concerns associated with sports using AI-enabled IoT devices and machine learning algorithms. Moreover, this Special Issue will address how the brain works during sports and analyze gait techniques and human activities and their effects on health. This Special Issue aims to motivate researchers from both academia and industry to investigate and analyze various aspects of AI-enabled IoT devices and their roles in sports and public health. Any pioneering methods and algorithms detailed in original research and review articles that offer improvements in sports and public health are welcome.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Internet of Medical Things in sports and public health
- AI and IoT-assisted technology in human activity recognition during sports
- AI-enabled IoT applications in neurodegenerative health issues
- Analyzing cognitive abilities during sports
- Connecting the brain with sports and public health
- Deep learning-based processing and diagnostic analysis of biomedical sensor data
- Gait analysis based on group wearable sensors in sports
- Novel designs in machine learning and statistical applications in health informatics
- Intelligent monitoring of amputee behavior analysis using wearable technology
- Digital healthcare system for athletes using sensor-based technology
- Applications of wireless body area networks in sports
- Data- and model-driven intelligent and smart healthcare systems
- Novel designs of smart health services using big data analytics
- Novel application and evaluation study in sports and public health
Preferably datasets about learning behavior within learning applications to reach specific learning objectives.
Dear Colleagues,
Please see the following link and information for more details. If you are thinking about submitting, please feel free to reach out to me directly here or at edjfern@gmail.com.
The modern field of Applied Animal Behavior has brought about two major advances in the behavioral welfare of animals: (1) The use of environmental/behavioral enrichment, and (2) the implementation of voluntary training procedures to improve human-animal interactions. Both these practices have their roots in behavior analysis and learning theory. However, few studies have examined the learning effects observed in the application of these practices. For instance, most implementations of operant conditioning to the training of animals is done without measurement of the learning process. Likewise, the effects of enrichment, while originally proposed as a form of behavioral engineering to modify learned behavior, is almost exclusively measured in terms of its pre- vs. post-enrichment effect. Both modern advances thus miss a significant result of their implementation: How behavior is shaped by these environmental manipulations.
The following special issue looks to address how learning theory has been applied and measured to address the welfare of animals. Original manuscripts that examine any aspect of how learning theory has been applied to improve the lives of animals, from studies of behavioral training procedures to the modification of behavior as a result of some environmental change, are welcome submissions. Specific interest will be given to papers that use within-subject methodology to measure changes in behavior over time, as well as papers that address how behavior analysis has served the welfare of animals and can better contribute to the field.
Dr. Eduardo J. Fernandez
Ms. Sabrina Brando
Guest Editors
Hello ! im doing a bi-linear Material behaviour analysis ( Steel) . im using Ansys , i did modell a plate with a hole using Plane183 . and i need to draw a 2D Yield surface , is there any Option to plot it in Ansys ? the Material : Steel S355 / kinematic Hardening
Is there anyone who uses behavioral analysis in the own daily life to increase self-understanding and coping?
Is it possible to find any research about that?
Trying to get clearer on the process of acquisition of "reward-based" versus "habit based"
Can someone help me in getting a dataset on EEG Signals ? And also help me for applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning in EEG Signal based person behavior analysis or any other application of EEG Signals in Classification
Magnetic behaviour by analysis of hysteresis loop.
Help in consumer analysis project ?
Hi all
I am an international student doing a project in consumer behaviour analysis in marketing
I want to do cotenant analysis my project is small 3000 word
but I don't know what kind of data I shoud be looking online such as blogs or facebook
if anyone can help please reply
Hi all
I am an international student doing a project in consumer behaviour analysis in marketing
I want to do cotenant analysis my project is small 3000 word
but I don't know what kind of data I shoud be looking online such as blogs or facebook
if anyone can help please reply
As you are doubtless aware, paper-based survey has been known as one of the most common methods for gathering data relevant to people's behavior (either revealed preferences or stated preferences). I wanna make sure how much can we rely on new methods like Internet (Web)-based survey instead of traditional paper-based survey? In particular, my research's scope is related to travel behavior analysis. My research' sample should cover all socioeconomic groups and almost all geographical areas in a city.
I would be happy if somebody shared with me his/her opinion or the valid references.
Thanks in advance
Hi all, I am a first year PhD student working with computer animations of fish (mollies). I am looking for others who are using 2D or 3D computer animations during research with various animals to share some expertise and build up a network for users of such methods.
I like to create voronoi model of closed cell foams for behaviour analysis purpose.
If anybody knows or already used please suggest me your views
I am looking for articles discussing intermittent reinforcement and customer behavior.
-e.g shopping, loyalty programs, token economy, sales, etc.
Open to suggestions.
What role magnanimity can play in our social upbringing?
I just finished reading this article on the founder of the neo nazi website stormfront.
This following passage sticks out to me. I thought it might stick out to others who are in the field of behavior analysis.
"After the breakup, Dan Newman, another friend at the time, remembers Anglin once bashing his head into the walls of his bedroom in such a frenzy that his mother had to call the police."
A few semesters ago a assisted a doctoral candidate with data collection with a severely autistic patient.
He wanted to design a program to decrease self injurious behavior in a severely autistic child, specifically head slapping and head banging.
I know you cannot diagnose someone as being on the autism spectrum from one select passage.
However, if you use his friend's description of the behavior, could it not function as an indirect assessment? And, if so, could it be possible that one of the worst propogandists in our current political climate is on the autism spectrum?
I need to record 2-3 hours of video of each singly-housed dog interacting with a given enrichment toy. Resolution needs to be sufficient to see if they are chewing on or otherwise interacting with the toy. Angle-of-view needs to be sufficient to see an entire standard-sized dog run so that no matter where the dog moves within the cage I can code the behavior.
What relatively low-cost make/model video camera works best?
Also, any suggestions on behavior coding software would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
I planning an experiment and need some feedback. I will test how well a test person react to a moving object. The object will be presented in three different forms. The interaction between the test person and the object will be via a computer “game”. I will not go into details but would just like to get general recommendation about the experimental design.
The object will be presented in 3 different forms each moving across the screen separately. The test person have to detect and respond to the moving objects (3 different forms that varies in detectability). I will score how successful the test person is to respond (success vs. no success).
Response variable, binomial: ‘success vs. no success’
Explanatory variable: ‘form of the object’ (3 object categories w/different difficulty levels)
Co-variable: ‘Age of the test person’, although I consider to have students with approximately the same age to elude this variable.
Co-factor: ‘Gender of the test person’
Random effect: 'Test person ID'
I would like to get recommendations about:
1. How many survey participants (test persons) do I need?
Each test person will only be tested once (i.e. one trial). In one trial, I will repeat each object category a number of times in a random order.
2. How many times should each object category be repeated?
The 3 object categories have different difficulty levels, by repeating them I will get a sufficient sample size. Although, the drawback by repeating them is that the test person will also improve his/her search image and become more effective. This could be controlled for by including a “time” or “stage” effect as a co-variable.
I would like to get the right balance between the number of survey participants and number of repeated moving objects per trial.
Best regards,
Ronny
Great article!
I have interest in explore the role of verbal behavior in the selection of cultural practices. I am working on an experiment on metacontingencies, rules and verbal behavior (Verbal communication was restricted to one group of participants).
Then I plan to do an experiment with non-human animals and the one that you propose seems to me to be right.
I want to have a cue/signal for performing a desired action. What kinds of visual cues should I have to avoid the inundation of any interference in the subject's performance. Words count as lexical cues, I don't regard them as visual cues per se.
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if there's a specific range for the immobility time/percentage that 'normal' adult C57BL6 display in the Porsolts Forced Swim Test (5 minutes analysis, only one trial of the test performed i.e. no priming 24 hours previously) ? The graphs in papers seem to show widely varying values.
If anyone has performed the experiment in multiple instances, how much variation do you observe in between these experiments wrt the immobility values?
Thanks!
Sourish
I propose the following hypothesis:
The No Free Lunch Theorem and hypothesis of instinctive animal behavior, according to which they are completely innate.
Does anyone known free software for animal behavior video tracking?
I’m interesting in rat/mouse maze behavior analysis (open field, Morris water maze and plus maze).
Ethowatcher don’t work properly for our purposes. Open control requires a special camera which we have not. And I don’t know if Zootracer is still working
I ran a novel object recognition test on mice that underwent traumatic brain injury (or sham) and were treated with a drug (or vehicle). My sham controls (both treated and untreated) performed well and showed clear preference for the novel object (>60%), the TBI untreated group exhibited no preference for the novel object. Curiously, the drug treated TBI group exhibited a pretty strong avoidance of the novel object, only actively investigating it about 25% of the time. Does anyone with experience in this task have some insight into how to interpret this result? Is it neophobia? Anxiety?
Hello everyone, Does anyone know how to measure the use of screen time by young adults? I'm trying to quantify this (TV, cellphones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) for finding any relationship with food choices, eating patterns, fitness activities, and overall overweight/obesity, etc. Is there a scale of tool that I can use? Thank you in advance.
Sadguna
I am planning to do 4 or 5 behavior test on my respected groups after drug administration, I have to do test after every two weeks for about 8 weeks. I have eight groups and each group comprised of 30 animals. After behavior experiment i have to kill the animal for other studies. Can we select six or seven animal per group for each week experiment and kill them at the end. I have to do training in all the behavior experiments before trial. So, i need suggestion that is it fine to select 6-7 animals for each 2 weeks or not. Kindly explain if possible if we cant do it.
Behavioral Neuroscientists,
I am currently attempting behavioral testing in the Open Field. After plenty of testing, I have been wondering about what is the optimal size of the "center zone" vs "outer zone" in relationship to the size of the box itself?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Danny
I really really need clarity whether we could use RCT in areas such as child development!
Eager to hear from U all!!
I am interested in assessing outcomes of a specific organizational change in the public sector. Anyone is aware of how to assess the outcomes using behavioral and affective criteria such as attitudes, behaviors and experiences of change recipients? In other words, I want to investigate the outcomes -be positive or negative- of the changes on employees attitudes, behaviors and experiences rather than focusing on traditional factors such as efficiency, effectiveness ......
In sport a widespread belief exists that "success breeds success and failure breeds failure".
One major example is "hot hand" or "streak shooting" - terms that refer to the belief that the performance during a particular period is significantly better than could be expected on the basis of the player's overall record.
Which theory in Management is supporting this phenomenon?
If you have some citations, please include it on your answers.
The book seems to exist only in paper form. I'm in a remote location though and cannot easily receive packages. Thanks!
I study open field behaviour in wistar rats, and one of the outcome measures I use is rearing (i.e. standing on rear limbs).
I have noticed that in some instances, rearing can be the most sensitive outcome measuring is, detecting behavioural changes not related to central zone activity (my primary outcome).
There seem to be 2 main types of rearing - free-standing, and against the walls.
I think rearing is related to vigilance and reflects, but haven't had much luck finding any published data looking into this! Of course, it could just be an escape response to being put in a box, but I'm not convinced of this.
Any thoughts on this would be most welcome!
I need a theory on behavior change to assess behavior of people before and after get involved in an interfaith dialogue. thanks
I've heard that at present it is not allowed to submit papers using deprivation regimes lower than 83 % of ad-libitum body weight for rats on most of the major journals of behavior and/or neuroscience research.
Is there any algorithmic or computational representation or modeling, or behavior simulation of alzheimer's disease?
Hello everyone
The trust game (Berg 1995) is quite well known in experimental economics. Is there game theoretical analysis of user behavior for this repeated game?
The paper of Berg:
[1] Berg, Joyce, John Dickhaut, and Kevin McCabe. "Trust, reciprocity, and social history." Games and economic behavior 10, no. 1 (1995): 122-142.
You can get the PDF from:
What are the most effective but easiest parameters for measuring the stress in non-ruminants?
What is the best way to measure attitude ambivalence?
Hi!
We are conducting an experiment about the impact of physical exercise (running) on neurogenesis in the adult brain. We use a transgenic mice model and so far, we encountered some problems with the mice because they don't want to run...we have tried to attract them towards the running wheel with some food placed on the running wheel. However, this method didn't work so far. Therefore, I want to ask you whether you have any suggestion about what could we do in this situation.
Many thanks and I look forward to your help :)
Regards,
Daniela Ivan
SILS, Center for Neuroscience
University of Amsterdam
Dear everyone,
I am doing a research about long tail macaques' alarm call profile (duration, frequency, and syllable) . I have 5 groups (Juvenile, Pre-adult, Mother, Adult, and Alpha), but each groups have different sample size (n Juvenile: 10, Pre-adult: 30, Mother: 28, Adult: 260, and Alpha 158). I was told that instead of using one way ANOVA, I should use Kruskal Wallis. Then I used both of them and the results are almost similar. Can I actually use either ANOVA or Kruskal Wallis? Or should i stick with Kruskal Wallis? Or is there any more suitable test? If I am supposed to use Kruskall Wallis, is there any way i do the post hoc test? Thank you very much
I am from Tamilnadu-India. I am doing research on academic performance, behaviour problems and social skills of dyslexic children. I wish to use technological advancement in my research. I have an idea about using eye tracker software. Pleae suggest how can I use it to make my study strong and more effective.
I am currently experimenting with the elevated plus maze (EPM) and radial arm maze (RAM) to test the functionality of the hippocampus after the injection of neurotoxic chemicals such as kanic acid. I test with the EPM on the first day and start habituating for RAM the next day. I habituate the rats for 3 days then start recording. My professor was concerned that the EPM may have an interference effect on the RAM. I wasn't able to find references on it either. Are there possibilities that the experiences on the EPM prior to the RAM affects the performances of the rats on the RAM?
I am currently researching within a field called behavior analysis, which is essentially modern behaviorism. Researchers in this field tend to emphasize different methodologies, such as single-case designs, and often avoid statistical methods.
In terms of psychology, behavior analysts are not interested in cognitive phenomena. This is not because they reject the existence of private events, but because they argue that cognitive events cannot be observed; only its behavioral outcomes.
There are several papers that address how behavior analysis sees cognitive psychology. They often refer to the misuse of hypothetical constructs and unnecessary group designs. However, I was wondering if there are papers discussing behavioral analysis from the cognitive psychologists point of view?
Most psychology textbooks will refer to behaviorism as dead, often with reference to Chomsky's critique of Skinner. According to behavior analysts, Chomsky's critique is flawed, but in mainstream psychology, behavior analysis remain a minority subdiscipline.
So, I was wondering if there are any good articles discussing cognitive/internal/private events, and behavior analysis/behaviorism, that are written from a cognitive psychologist point of view? There are plenty such articles in behavior analysis journals, but I am wondering if the issue of cognition vs. externally observed behavior have been discussed elsewhere, from a cognitive viewpoint?
I guess what I am asking is, what papers from cognitive psychology exist that address why behavior analysis is obsolete, and internal, private events are perfectly acceptable to investigate?
Dear friends,
I am looking pharmacological evidence to estimate how long drugs (tamapin/apamin) could remain in the cells. I inject (I.P.) tamapin/apamin into adult mouse and want to see their effect in behavior. I know, this drug could be effective after 24 hrs of injection but I don't know how long it could be in the brain cells. I have to check rescue of drug effect after certain time. Please share if any pharmacological papers or book chapters explain such type of study.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hello,
In behavioral tests I'm doing, my standard deviation is varying in different sets of experiments. When I'm repeating the same experiment with different mice (but of same age) my standard deviation is changing. In one set of experiments the values were much closer than the other group. What could be the possible reason for this?
And what are the ways to overcome this?
Thanks,
Goutham Kodakandla
Specifically, I am wondering if there is any theoretical or conceptual reason to suggest that those who are sole representatives of a professional group on an interdisciplinary team may have different experiences than those who are members of more plentiful groups. e.g. Is there a responsibility to "represent" your profession? Is turnover more disruptive to patient care when there is a single individual providing specific services vs. when there are more than one individuals who provide the service?
Thank you.
I am analysing repeatabilities of behavioural traits. One of the behaviours appeared to be affected by the "repeat number". I need to calculate the adjusted repeatability, but after reading papers I still have no idea how. Is there anybody who could describe me the procedure in a very simple way. Thanks a lot!!!
For example, a higher price on VLT diminish time of play. The relationship seems obvious, but I cannot find any experimental design that explores this link.
Valued Plateaued Employees: The employees who do not see any growth of their positions in the organization but have in depth knowledge of organization's processes.
We are going to perform three OF behavioral analysis in 1, 6 and 15 month-old Wistar rats. However, we are in doubt as using the same squared area for different sized animals. Is there any gold-standard for OF test troubleshooting, especially regarding area per animal? If there is, does changing the OF size for larger animals still a valid way to prevent area-dependent influences, or must I keep the very same paradigm for all animals?
So, this is the question. I have recorded the behavior of individuals every 30 seconds and I want to compute the bout duration averages dedicated to each type of activity. I have already included this data in an excel file.
As I said, I prefer to do it in R, but recommendations on any other program will be welcome.
Thanks
I am researching the various methods and techniques used by parents and professional with kids of various age groups in specific behavioural situations. I hope to be able to better describe the common uses for specific behaviours.the effectiveness of the methods used. What is considered age appropriate treatment for specific behaviors as well as age appropriate expectations for specific age groups.
What is used generally? I would like to use it to check emotional state after group works in the end of an experiment. PANAS is an only measure that I know. Is PANAS fit for it? Does Anyone know any another measures recommended?
It was brought to my attention that some research groups will analyze mice behavioral data in blocks of 5 minutes (i.e. for an Open Field behavioral test that was run for 10 minutes), and then focus on the time block(s) that shows significance. Is this an appropriate approach for behavioral analysis?
Hello,
I have a group of mice that I have tested at different time points before treatment and after treatment and I want to see if their cognitive perfomance becomes better after treamtent across time. Is their anyway that I can transform their performance in every test into a cognitive score and then compare it across time.
Thank you so much.
Behavior setting consists of some standing patterns of behavior and milieu. Behavioral patterns attach to constelation of non behavioral phenomenon or soma, whether natural or man made.
I am looking to explain Positive Reinforcement and then measure the impact of the intervention along with the impact of the positive reinforcement. Any help or suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.
Thank you!
What are the main differences between Skinner's Behaviorism and other biological approaches, like Ecological Psychology (J J Gibson) and Knowledge Biology (Maturna and Varela).
What do you think about the validity of these items on a 4-point scale? Where is the difference?
1. I do sport exercises on a regular basis. (totally agree --- totally disagree)
2. I regulariiy ask my students about their conceptions on the "topic". (totally agree --- totally disagree)
3. I panic very easily. (totally agree --- totally disagree)
4. I go out with my dog every day (totally agree --- totally disagree)
5. I have 7 or more cigarettes per day (totally agree --- totally disagree)
Please, do not refer to any item analyses procedures. I am interested in your opinion on the statements above. They do not correspond to a factor or likewise. And please, do not discuss about sample size, analyses, number of scale options or the like.
It is just face validity! Unusual for the most of you, I guess. But I want to know about expertise and not about your number amorousness :)
In case we need to understand any social behavior in the public.
Dear colleagues,
i’am preparing a (finally commercial) tool to automatically assess behavior using some sophisticated image analysis techniques in conjunction with machine learning.
Have a look at some demo results here: http://oo9.eu (edit 2015/03/01: server UP again)
I am looking for further real world test cases and image/video sequences to qualify animal behavior analysis in particular. Image sequences should be registered from a steady point and shall include time points (best in filename: UTCtime.jpg). If you have some study ongoing and you're willing to give the software a shot, please contact me.
Feedback/discussion on the demo are welcome here, too.
Andreas
In Some sources, animal behavior has been divided into two categories: innate (instinct) and learning behavior.
In innate (instinct) behavior, we have some examples. One of them is the building of nests.
We have some insects that build nests, for example wasps or ants. But some other use nests but do not build of It .I have the insects that start to spin a silk cocoon for entry to other stage of their life. I know spinning of cocoons has a kind of innate behavior but in my situation, I provide some nest for them and the insects, first start to find the nest then start spinning cocoons. Now I want to know if using the nest that I provide for insects shows a kind of innate behavior of them?
I am trying to define inhibition, planning, set-shifting, and working memory in behavioral terms. Can anyone help with that?
I am planning to conduct an experimental research on competitive state. I would appreciate if somebody could recommend me any software with flexible cognitive task and features to evaluate the individual and team performance.