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High on habits [PDF]

open access: yesfrontiers in Neuroscience, 2008
The neural circuits involved in learning and executing goal-directed actions, which are governed by action-outcome contingencies and sensitive to changes in the expected value of the outcome, have been shown to be different from those mediating habits, which are less dependent on action-outcome relations and changes in outcome value. Extended training,
Hilário, Monica R. F., Costa, Rui M.
openaire   +3 more sources

A Nonlinear Quantitative Model for Measuring Concentration Ratios From Raman Intensities

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
Estimating concentration from Raman intensity ratios is complicated by cross‐contributions from overlapping peaks, causing measured ratios to deviate from the linear behavior assumed in conventional quantitative models. This nonlinear method fully accounts for cross‐contributions, allowing estimation of concentration over several orders of magnitude ...
Joseph Razzell Hollis
wiley   +1 more source

Habitable exoplanet - a statistical search for life

open access: yesFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
IntroductionThe identification of habitable exoplanets is an important challenge in modern space science, requiring the combination of planetary and stellar parameters to assess conditions that support life.MethodsUsing a dataset of 5867 exoplanets from ...
Prasenjit Banerjee   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community composition, abundance and activity‐density of carabids and staphylinids depend on prey abundance and adjacent habitat even in diverse agricultural landscapes

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
Carabid and staphylinid communities are shaped by adjacent habitat type, prey availability and landscape context, influencing natural pest control across agricultural landscapes. Abstract BACKGROUND The functioning of agroecosystems depends on key ecosystem processes that deliver ecosystem services, yet agricultural management has increasingly shifted ...
Riina Kaasik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Habit formation

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 2016
Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to
Smith, Kyle S., Graybiel, Ann M
openaire   +4 more sources

Regulatory Framework and Public Policies for Sustainability in the Construction Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the role of public policies in promoting socially responsible practices in the construction sector, with a particular focus on their contribution to climate neutrality and the decarbonization of the building stock. European agreements exert increasing pressure to transform the construction sector, reinforcing the transition
Olga González‐Morales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets

open access: yesChallenges, 2014
We have now confirmed the existence of > 1800 planets orbiting stars other thanthe Sun; known as extrasolar planets or exoplanets. The different methods for detectingsuch planets are sensitive to different regions of parameter space, and so, we are ...
Ken Rice
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Geochemical View of Microbial Salt Tolerance: Halophilic Adaptation of Marinococcus in a Natural Magnesium Sulfate Brine

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Current knowledge of life in hypersaline habitats is mostly limited to sodium and chloride-dominated environments. This narrow compositional window does not reflect the diversity of brine environments that exist naturally on Earth and other planetary ...
Mark G. Fox-Powell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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