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Human demographic history has amplified the effects of background selection across the genome. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2018
Natural populations often grow, shrink, and migrate over time. Such demographic processes can affect genome-wide levels of genetic diversity. Additionally, genetic variation in functional regions of the genome can be altered by natural selection, which ...
Raul Torres, Zachary A Szpiech, Ryan D Hernandez   +2 more
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Corrupção e seleção por consequências: uma análise comportamental

Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2018
Resumo A corrupção é um fenômeno global. Sob os parâmetros teóricos e metodológicos da Análise Comportamental da Cultura, constitui nosso objetivo compor um panorama descritivo-explicativo da corrupção como prática cultural, mediante uma análise ...
Kester Carrara, Diego Mansano Fernandes
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Making measures count: Structured indicator selection to improve program success

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2020
Indicators are essential, yet often overlooked and undervalued, elements of conservation planning. This is concerning given that selection and implementation of indicators is vital to monitoring, evaluation and learning and can require substantial ...
Marjorie R. Liberati, Scott P. Sowa, Christopher A. May, Patrick J. Doran   +3 more
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Da Aplysia à constituição: evolução de conceitos na análise do comportamento From Aplysia to the constitution: evolution of concepts in behavior analysis

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2004
Objetivou-se apresentar a evolução de conceitos na análise do comportamento, especialmente nos trabalhos de Skinner, desde a definição do conceito de operante, de contingência de reforço, até os processos de seleção por conseqüências, seguindo o ...
João Claudio Todorov
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Análise experimental do comportamento e sociedade: um novo foco de estudo Experimental analysis of behavior and society: a new field of investigation

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2004
O estudo do comportamento em sociedades foi relegado por quase 50 anos, apesar das reiteradas propostas de Skinner considerando sua importância.
João Claudio Todorov, Maísa Moreira
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A novel framework for classification of selection processes in epidemiological research

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2020
Background Selection and selection bias are terms that lack consistent definitions and have varying meaning and usage across disciplines. There is also confusion in current definitions between underlying mechanisms that lead to selection and their ...
Jonas Björk, Anton Nilsson, Carl Bonander, Ulf Strömberg   +3 more
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Sex‐specific heritabilities for length at maturity among Pacific salmonids and their consequences for evolution in response to artificial selection

Evolutionary Applications, 2023
Artificial selection, whether intentional or coincidental, is a common result of conservation policies and natural resource management. To reduce unintended consequences of artificial selection, conservation practitioners must understand both artificial ...
Madilyn M. Gamble, Ryan G. Calsbeek
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From Operant Conditioning to Selection by Consequences

Interação em Psicologia, 2017
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Julie Vargas
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ADAPTATION, TELEOLOGY, AND SELECTION BY CONSEQUENCES [PDF]

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1993
This paper presents and defends the view that reinforcement and natural selection are selection processes, that selection processes are neither mechanistic nor teleological, and that mentalistic and vitalistic processes are teleological but not mechanistic.
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O sistema ético skinneriano e conseqüências para a prática dos analistas do comportamento Skinner's ethical system and consequences for behavior analysts' practice

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2004
Este artigo visa, a partir de uma análise crítica do sistema ético skinneriano, a apontar algumas das conseqüências deste sistema para a prática dos analistas do comportamento.
Alexandre Dittrich, José Antônio Damásio Abib   +1 more
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