Table of Contents: “…Mayer and Stefan Brunnhuber -- Ethological case study : infant abuse in Rhesus Macaques / M. …”

Table of Contents: “…4 Education for Freedom -- I: Association Psychology and the Development of Autonomy -- II: The 'Science' of Ethology and the 'Art' of Education -- III: The Powers of Education -- a. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Dougherty, Jo Ann Abe, and Carroll E. Izard -- Ethological perspectives on human development and aging / Klaus E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Barash -- Conflict and restraint in animal species : implications for war and peace / Hanna Kokko -- An ethological perspective on war and peace / Peter Verbeek -- Cooperation, conflict, and niche construction in the genus Homo / Agustín Fuentes -- Why the legend of the killer ape never dies : the enduring power of cultural beliefs to distort our view of human nature / Robert W. …”

Table of Contents: “…Grooming relationships in two species of chimpanzees / Yasuyuki Muroyama and Yukimaru Sugiyama -- Reproductive success story : variability among chimpanzees and comparisons with gorillas / Caroline E.G. Tutin -- Ethological studies of chimpanzee vocal behavior / John C. …”

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical contributions: literature analysis and conceptual models -- Tracing the roots of the organizational benefits of IT services -- Blockchain Technology as an Enabler of Service Systems: A Structured Literature Review -- FabLabs as Platforms for Digital Fabrication Services: a Literature Analysis -- IT-Support in Workplace Health Promotion: Mobile Apps on the Rise -- New ways to deal with Omni-channel services: Opening the door to synergies, or problems in the horizon -- Organizational Impact on Software Development of e-Services techniques -- Healthcare and the Co-creation of Value: Qualifying the service roles of informal caregivers -- Exploring Disparities in the Relationship between Corruption and Human Development using a Cluster Analysis -- Examining the impact of social networking sites on performance of service firms: evidence from Romania - Service systems analysis and design -- A Conceptual Modelling of the Key Components and Relations of Service Systems -- Social Media Marketing and Value Co-Creation: a Dynamic Performance Management Perspective -- Creative Industries and Big Data: a Business Model for Service Innovation -- More observations, more variables or more quality - Data acquisition strategies to enhance uncertainty analytics for industrial service contracting -- From Data Science to Value Creation -- Towards A Unified Approach To Identify Business Model Patterns: A Case Of E-Mobility Services -- Towards Requirements Analytics: A Research Agenda to Model and Evaluate the Quality of Unstructured Requirements Specifications -- A GIS-based Decision Support System for Locating Primary Care Facilities -- Combining data analytics with layout improvement heuristics to improve libraries' service quality -- Service organizations case studies and practices -- A Return on Our Experience of Modeling a Service-oriented Organization in a Service Cartography -- Content Analysis of Customer Reviews to Identify Sources of Value Creation in the Hotel Environment -- Beyond Quality of Service: Exploring What Tourists Really Value -- Multivariate Analysis of EU Convergence in Higher Education Services -- Does Community Service Make any Difference in University Rankings -- Digital Transformation at the University Of Porto -- The Role of Digital Tools and Platforms for Training Programmes Developed by the Organisations of the Banking Sector -- Fraud Risk Modelling: Requirements Elicitation in the Case of Telecom Services -- Mega sporting events and technology: the role of social networks in co-creating value for the Olympic Games -- Sustainability: service ecosystems, environment control and Transportation -- Towards a Proposal for the Sustainability Through Institutions in Public Transport Services in Times of Emergency -- Digital Services Development Using Statistics Tools to Emphasize Pollution Phenomena -- Service Orientation of Environment Control Processes -- Service ecosystems for the common good: a case of non-profit network organization -- Customer Satisfaction from Inner-city Services: a case study -- Using Ethological Approaches to Understand Skiers' Behavior in Cable Cars Queues in Order to Improve Overall Satisfaction: an Empirical Study Conducted in the Swiss Alps.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- The Biological Function of Cauxin, a Major Urinary Protein of the Domestic Cat (Felis catus) -- Putative Pheromones of Lion Mane and Its Ultrastructure -- Olfactory Response and Function -- Using Ethologically Relevant Tasks to Study Olfactory Discrimination in Rodents -- Comparisons of State and Likelihood of Performing Chemosensory Event Behaviors in Two Populations of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) -- Olfactory Communication in the Ringtailed Lemur (Lemur catta): Form and Function of Multimodal Signals -- Olfaction in the Gorilla -- Ecological Validity in the Study of Human Pheromones -- The Influence of Sexual Orientation on Human Olfactory Function -- Recognition within Species: Individual, Sex, Group -- MHC-Associated Chemosignals and Individual Identity -- Pregnancy Block from a Female Perspective -- The Wing-Sac Odour of Male Greater Sac-Winged Bats Saccopteryx bilineata (Emballonuridae) as a Composite Trait: Seasonal and Individual Differences -- Gender Specific Expression of Volatiles in Captive Fossas (Cryptoprocta ferox) During the Mating Season -- Do Spotted Hyena Scent Marks Code for Clan Membership? …”
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Table of Contents: “…., Occurring on the Romanian Black Sea Littoral -- Steppe-Forest Succession as a Conservation Problem -- Clonal Growth Modes in Plant Communities Along a Stress Gradient in the Central Apennines, Italy -- Relationship Between Phenology and Above - Ground Phytomass in a Grassland Community in Central Italy -- Evaluation of the Italian Apennine Ecosystems With Respect to Anatomical and Ethological Characteristics of the Roe Deer -- Conservation Planning and Management -- Planeco - Planning in Ecological Networks -- The cartography of landscape units in São Bento do Sapucaí - Serra da Mantiqueira (São Paulo, Brazil) -- Environmental Management For Biodiversity Conservation -- The Modena Botanic Garden: Plant Conservation and Habitat Management Strategies -- Forest Management in Protected Areas in Italy -- Traditional Management of the Rural Areas in Wallonia (Belgium) -- Nature Conservation in Practice -- Effects of Irrigations on Swamp Forests Drained by Lignite Mining -- Autochthony and Conservation of a Relict Population of Abies Alba Miller in the Apuan Alps Regional Park (Tuscany - Italy) -- Dune Slacks - An Endangered Habitat in the Conflict Between Nature Conservation and Groundwater Management -- On the Problems of Nature Conservation in the Desert Zone in Russia.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The model: The structural basis of awareness -- The role of the AIC in the control of network activity -- Evidence that the AIC is crucial for fluid intelligence -- Evidence that the AIC optimizes energy utilization -- Individual variability and maturation -- Distorted feelings produce mental illness -- 8 FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BRAIN: The asymmetric forebrain -- Ethological evidence of forebrain asymmetry -- Neuroanatomical evidence of forebrain and AIC asymmetry -- Clinical evidence of forebrain and AIC asymmetry -- Physiological evidence of forebrain and AIC asymmetry -- Psychophysiological evidence of forebrain and AIC asymmetry -- Two recent reviews uncover asymmetric activation of the amygdala and the AIC -- The alignment of autonomic, behavioral, and affective control -- Opponent inhibition -- Specialization and balance -- And something curious -- 9 A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT FEELINGS: Graded sentience and tail-wagging in dogs -- A quick review -- Scaling up homeostatic sentience -- Graded sentience -- Feelings in dogs -- How about Watson? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Importance of Formic Acid in Ethological States of Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius). 7. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: -- Introduction -- Four questions about animal behavior -- Animal behavior as an interdisciplinary study -- Interplay of questions: case study -- Hypothesis testing -- Part 1: -- Approaches To The Study Of Animal Behavior -- Chapter 2: -- History of the study of animal behavior -- Beginnings -- Intellectual continuity in the animal world -- Darwin's evolutionary framework -- Classical ethology -- Approach: evolutionary, comparative, descriptive field-oriented -- Classical ethological concepts -- Comparative psychology -- Approach: physiological, developmental, quantitative, laboratory-oriented -- Early concepts of comparative psychology -- Roots of physiological psychology -- Sociobiology and behavioral ecology -- More recent trends -- Field studies -- Cellular and molecular bases of behavior -- Behavioral biology -- Applied animal behavior -- Chapter 3: -- Genetic analysis of behavior -- Basics of gene action -- Goals of behavioral genetics -- Methods of behavioral genetics -- Inbreeding -- Artificial selection -- Inducing mutations and screening for change in behavior -- Finding natural variants and looking for genetic differences -- Hybridization -- Foraging gene as an example of behavioral genetics in action -- Candidate genes -- Linking a protein to a trait -- Locating all the genes associated with a trait -- Microarray analysis -- Important principles of behavioral genetics -- One gene usually affects several traits -- Genes work in interacting networks -- Behavioral variation and genes -- Environmental regulation of gene expression -- Dominance relationships in cichlid fish -- Song learning in male songbirds -- Importance of genetic background to behavioral genetics -- Networks of genes are responsive to the environment -- Epigenetics and behavioral genetics -- Complex relationships among genes -- Broader perspective -- Chapter 4: Natural selection and behavior -- Natural selection -- Common misunderstanding about natural selection -- Genetic variation -- Variation is common -- Raw material of genetic variation -- Variation and the response to natural selection -- Maintenance of variation -- Gene flow and genetic drift -- Correlated traits -- Changing environmental conditions -- Frequency-dependent selection -- Negative-assortative mating -- Evolutionarily stable strategies: fitness and the behavior of others -- Testing hypotheses about natural selection and adaptation -- Experimental approach -- Comparative approach -- Monitoring selection in the field -- Modeling the costs and benefits of traits -- Chapter 5: -- Learning and cognition -- Definition of learning -- Types of learning -- Habituation -- Classical conditioning -- Operant conditioning -- Latent learning -- Social learning -- Species differences in learning: comparative studies -- Ability to learn as a heritable trait -- Evolution and the variation in learning across species -- Other evidence of cognitive abilities in animals -- Tool use -- Detours -- Understanding numbers and other abstract concepts -- Self-recognition and perspective taking -- Chapter 6: -- Physiological analysis-nerve cells and behavior -- Concepts from cellular neurobiology -- Types of neurons and their jobs -- Message of a neuron -- Ions, membrane permeability, and behavior -- Behavioral change and synaptic transmission -- Structure of the synapse -- Integration -- Specializations for perception of biologically relevant stimuli-sensory processing -- Processing of sensory information for sound localization -- Predators and prey: the neuroethology of life-and-death struggles -- Processing in the central nervous system -- Brain changes underlying behavioral change -- Social behavior network -- Responding-motor systems -- Neural control in motor systems -- Locust flight -- Chapter 7: Physiological analysis of behavior-the endocrine system -- Endocrine glands and hormones -- Hormonal versus neural communication -- Types of hormones and their modes of action -- How hormones influence behavior -- Effects on sensation and perception -- Effects on development and activity of the central nervous system -- Effects on muscles -- Methods of studying hormone-behavior relationships -- Interventional studies -- Correlational studies -- Organizational and activational effects of hormones -- Defining the dichotomy -- Sex differences in the behavior of Norway rats -- Individual differences in the behavior of male tree lizards -- Questioning the dichotomy -- Dynamic relationship between hormones and behavior -- Reciprocal relationship -- Hormonal suppression of behavior -- Interactions between hormones, behavior, and environment -- Adjusting to the harshness and predictability of the physical environment -- Adjusting to onlookers in the social environment -- Detailed look at the hormonal basis of selected behaviors -- Helping at the nest -- Scent-making -- Migrating -- Chapter 8: -- Development of behavior -- Influences on behavioral development -- Development of the nervous system -- Development of nonneural structures -- Hormonal milieu -- Physical characteristics of the environment -- Experience through play -- Concept of sensitive periods -- Changing terminology-from critical periods to sensitive periods -- Timing of sensitive periods -- Multiple sensitive periods -- Some examples of sensitive periods in behavioral development -- Pulling it all together-the development of bird song -- Genetic, hormonal, and neural control of song -- Role of learning in song development -- Sensitive periods in song learning -- Own-species bias in song learning -- Social factors and song development -- Diversity of song learning strategies -- Developmental homeostasis -- Rehabilitation of chimpanzees after long-term isolation --…”

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Table of Contents: “…. -- El Salvador -- Electrical Utilities -- Electricity -- Elephants -- El-niño-Southern Oscillation -- Enclosure -- Endangered Species -- Endangered Species Act (1973) -- End-of-Pipe -- Regulatory Approach -- Energetics -- Energy -- Energy Crisis (1973) -- Enron -- Environmental Accounting -- Environmental Determinism -- Environmental Impact Statements -- Environmental Organizations -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Environmental Racism -- Environmental Refugees -- Environmental Services -- Environmentalism -- Environmentality -- Epidemic -- Epidemiology -- Equatorial Guinea -- Equilibrium -- Equity -- Erie, Lake -- Eritrea -- Estonia -- Estuaries -- Ethics -- Ethiopia -- Ethology -- Eucalyptus -- Eugenics -- European Union -- Eutrophication -- Everest, Mount -- Everglades -- Evolution -- Expertise -- Exploration, Age of -- Externalities -- Extinction of Species -- Extractive reserves -- Exxon Valdez -- Famine -- Farmers' Markets -- Farming Systems -- Farmland Conservation -- Fast Food -- Fate and Transport of Contaminants -- Fecal Coliform Bacteria -- Federal Emergency Management Agency -- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act -- Federal Land Policy and Management Act -- Feedbacks -- Feminist Political Ecology -- Feng Shui -- Fertility Behavior -- Fertility Rate -- Fertilizer -- Fiji -- Film, Representations of Nature in -- Finland -- Fire -- Fire Ant -- First Nations -- Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.) -- Fish Ladders -- Fisheries -- Flight -- Floodplains -- Floods and Flood control -- Fluoridation, Drinking Water and -- Fodder -- Food -- Food and Drug Administration (U.S.) -- Food Irraditation -- Food Webs (or Food chains) -- Forest Organic Act -- Forest Management -- Forests -- Forest Service (U.S.) -- Forest Transition Thesis -- Fortress Conservation -- Fossey, Dian -- Fossil Fuels -- Framework Convention on Climate Change -- France -- Fuji, Mount -- Fungi -- Gabon -- Gaia Hypothesis -- Galápagos Islands -- Gambia -- Game Theory -- Ganges River -- Garbage -- Garden Cities -- Gardens -- Gasoline -- Geer vs. …”
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