As the sun sets on the African Savannah, lionesses can be spotted prowling the open land, hunting and making kills, often as a group. Males are more often lounging around during this time, leading some observers to the assumption that they’re lazy, poor hunters, and take advantage of the females’ kills as their food source, says Scott Loarie, of the Carnegie Institution for Science. However, wh...

Habits are response dispositions that are activated automatically by the context cues that co-occurred with responses during past performance. Experiencesampling diary studies indicate that much of everyday action is characterized by habitual repetition. We consider various mechanisms that could underlie the habitual control of action, and we conclude that direct cuing and motivated contexts be...

N factors play a part in de­ termining the form and relationship on the dental arches. It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the order of im­ portance of these factors, but the activity of the orofacial musculature must rank high if one considers the number of mal­ occlusions which may be attributed to an imbalance of these muscles. Perversion of the orofacial musculature may be the ...

We've all worked with highly competent people who are held back by a seemingly fatal personality flaw. One person takes on too much work; another sees the downside in every proposed change; a third pushes people out of the way. At best, people with these "bad habits" create their own glass ceilings, which limit their success and their contributions to the company. At worst, they destroy their o...

Many of our daily activities are guided by habits and so are users’ interactions with technology. IS research has made significant strides acknowledging this perspective, emphasizing the importance of habits for continued system use. We seek to contribute to this research, taking a closer look at the effects of habits on the quality of IS use. As experience shows, habits may not always be a goo...

The relationship between the hygienic habits of children who had typhoid fever (TF) who had recently begun attending school and their family group, is assessed. It is supposed that children, independently of their SES, acquired TF because of inadequate habits which facilitated the oral-fecal cycle. The sample was formed of 40 child-mother dyads: 20 of low SES (group A) and 20 of high SES (group...

" During much of our waking lives, we act according to our habits, from the time we rise and go through our morning routines until we fall asleep after evening routines. Taken in this way, habits have long attracted the interest of philosophers and psychologists, and they have been alternatively praised and cursed. " This is a passage extracted from a highly cited article by Ann Graybiel, one o...

Background : In every geographical area according to their social civilization, specific abnormalities and outcomes may be occurred in spinal cord and in the case of recognition they will be corrected with specific movements and proper behavioral patterns. So the aim of the present study was to investigate the rate and reasons of Khorramabad Azad university students’ spinal abnormalities. Mate...