Wherever I may roam: social viscosity and kin affiliation in a wild population despite natal dispersal. [PDF]
Behav Ecol, 2016 Dispersal affects the social contexts individuals experience by redistributing individuals in space, and the nature of social interactions can have important fitness consequences. During the vagrancy stage of natal dispersal, after an individual has left its natal site and before it has settled to breed, social affiliations might be predicted by ...
Grabowska-Zhang AM +3 more
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A gamified choice experiment of traditional African vegetable varieties in West Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONEUnderstanding trait preferences of value chain actors is essential for designing demand-driven breeding programs for traditional African vegetables (TAVs).
Sidol Houngbo +10 more
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Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International JournalCorporate knowledge becomes enterprise strategic resources for sustaining corporate competitiveness by transferring irreplaceable diversified knowledge among employees.
Tsan-Ching Kang +3 more
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Factors influencing dentists’ choice of restorative materials for occlusal cavities: a cross-sectional study from Palestine [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjective To assess the factors influencing dentists’ choice of restorative materials for posterior restorations, with a particular emphasis on the perceived influence of social media on patient preferences among general dental practitioners in Palestine.
Naji Ziad Arandi
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Sago Rice as an Environmentally Sustainable Food [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 Sago rice is artificial rice made from sago starch and others flour by extrusion process. This study aims to recommend the sustainability of sago rice as a staple food to deal with climate change by utilizing technology to explore and innovate the sago ...
Puspantari W +7 more
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Designing Performative Artifacts for Symmetrical Mediation
Diseña, 2018 This paper introduces some design propositions that aim at enlightening the design of adaptive artificial mediators of social interactions. The argument presented herein is framed in the context of working definitions of cooperation and collaboration ...
Juan Salamanca
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Dynamic utility: the sixth reciprocity mechanism for the evolution of cooperation [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Game theory has been extensively applied to elucidate the evolutionary mechanism of cooperative behaviour. Dilemmas in game theory are important elements that disturb the promotion of cooperation.
Hiromu Ito, Jun Tanimoto
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Scaling the phase-planes of social dilemma strengths shows game-class changes in the five rules governing the evolution of cooperation [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Game theory has been extensively applied to help explain how cooperative behaviour is promoted in human and animal societies. How do humans and animals establish reciprocity when confronting a social dilemma?
Hiromu Ito, Jun Tanimoto
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Viscosity and social cohesion in temporal lobe epilepsy. [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 1992 Clinical case reports suggest that viscosity, the behavioural tendency to talk repetitively and circumstantially about a restricted range of topics, is common in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Such patients are also reported to exhibit heightened levels of social cohesion, the tendency to become interpersonally "clingy".
S M, Rao +6 more
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Enhancement of Filtration and Rheological Properties of Water-based Drilling Fluid Prepared using Nigerian Ohia Bentonite and Local Additives [PDF]
Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology, 2021 Using beneficiated local bentonites as an alternative to imported Wyoming bentonite for drilling fluids preparation has technical, economic, and social advantages.
Akeem Arinkoola +6 more
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