Group size, group composition and ranging behaviour
The influence of ethnic group composition on focus group discussions
... This was an exploratory study with several limitations, some of which were largely beyond the researchers’ control and occur generally in focus groups. For ex- ample, some focus group participants appeared to bond ...
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Informal Insurance with Endogenous Group Size
... the group has to agree is the extent of insurance provided by the group, that is, the income sharing ...The size of the insurance group decreases since members whose participation constraint ...
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Group size and composition of Tursiops truncatus (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in a coastal insular habitat off southeastern Brazil
... observed group composition indicates that the protected and shallow waters (≤18m) of the inner Cagarras Archipelago may be used during the austral winter and spring as a nursery or calving ...protected ...
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Group size and composition of work groups as precursors of intragroup conflicts
... indicate, group size is negatively connected to SOC-IS ...entire group, must preserve and maintain its ...entire group functioning and, in turn, reflect badly on the subgroup, which these ...
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Group size and composition in the Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis in an urban environment
... Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Received: 26 March 2012 The Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis, a cooperatively breeding woodland bird, is declining in the southern parts of its range where its ...
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A model for group size dependent behaviour decisions in insects using an oscillator network
... of group behaviour in ...neighbour’s behaviour (Shaw, 1962; Partridge and Pitcher, ...cooperative behaviour (Hamilton, ...of behaviour and the memory of ...avoidance behaviour ...
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On the Size and Structure of Group Cooperation
... Finally, these stationary equilibria will, for our purposes, prove useful as they highlight potential social conflicts generated by the interaction of patient and impatient individuals. Even as an imperfect estimate, the ...
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Group behaviour in financial markets
... the composition of markets and the behaviour of different traders is in fact very ...the behaviour of different participants is restricted and typically relates to either the local and private ...
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Individual and group preferences over risk: does group size matter?
... 3. Results Figure 2 displays the proportion of lottery A choices (safe option) as average for each of the ten decision problems listed on the bottom axis. The dashed line shows the predictions under the assumption of ...
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Group preferences over social risk: does (group) size matter?
... either these subjects are genuinely indifferent towards different lotteries, or they are irrational (do not respect monotonicity), or it is just a mistake. For our purpose, we consider this behaviour a “mistake” ...
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Analysis of group size, composition and activities, of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) in the region of Sado estuary
... 4.1. Census of the community The small size of this community of the Sado region makes it possible to carry out a complete census. Censuses were made through photo-id, which is a frequently used method in studies ...
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Comparisons of Group Size, Composition and Movement of Herbivorous Reef Fish in Jamaica and Grand Cayman Island
... heterospecific group split, investigators continued to observe the original focal ...replicate group was haphazardly selected by locating either an individual or a group of conspecific individuals ...
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The River Loire and Phytoplankton Group composition - A Review
... possible late summer P limitation for green algae (Descy et al., 2011), and the very high nitrate availability according to high agricultural pressure at the middle and lowland river stretches (Bouraoui and Grizzetti, ...
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Neighbouring-group composition and within-group relatedness drive extra-group paternity rate in the European badger (Meles meles)
... and EGMP per litter were lower in the unrestricted, but generally not in the restricted, analyses. That the rates of EGO and EGMP were lower in the unrestricted analyses probably arose because cubs with unassigned ...
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Group Size and Social Ties in Microfinance Institutions
... observe behaviour in simulated MFI scenarios ...influence behaviour by changing particular variables of the experimental environment, holding all other aspects ...
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Group lending with endogenous group size
... equilibrium size of the borrower group from the perspective of a pro…t- maximizing ...optimal group size determined by the level of social capital of the marginal borrower that is eligible for ...
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Group lending with endogenous group size
... equilibrium size of the borrower group from the perspective of a pro…t- maximizing ...optimal group size determined by the level of social capital of the marginal borrower that is eligible for ...
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Group Dynamics and Behaviour
... As seen in the first chapter of this study, subjects examined in recent group dynamics studies are mostly similar to the past researches. The main difference is some topics – such as characteristics of individuals ...
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Choosing the group size for group testing to estimate a proportion
... The group size obtained by equating the absolute value of the influence of a group showing the trait with one not showing the trait provides an estimate with a smaller mean squared error[r] ...
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Group Size and Network Formation
... population size of the minority type and (iii) any combination in which some indi- viduals of the minority type connect to all individuals of the majority type and some others connects to the number of individuals ...
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