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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Doadores de granulócitos, plaquetas e sangue total. O real perfil altruístico e seu capital social / Granulocyte donors, platelets and whole blood donors: the real altruistic profile and their social capital

Rocha, Pedro Capuani 29 May 2013 (has links)
O concentrado de granulócitos é um importante componente para o tratamento de pacientes oncológicos. A doação deste componente é mais complexa do que outras doações de sangue ou hemocomponentes, porque necessita de maiores esforços e assumção de riscos por parte do doador e, também, o uso de equipamento automatizado de aférese. O presente estudo tem o objetivo de aumentar o conhecimento sobre a população de doadores de granulócitos e avaliar a diferença entre suas motivações para realizarem as doações e seu capital social geral comparando com doadores de plaquetas e doadores altruistas de sangue total. Com esses resultados os hemocentros que realizam a coleta de granulócitos não só poderão ter informações mais objetivas que tornem mais eficaz o recrutamento deste tipo de doador e, consequentemente, aumentar a disponibilidade deste componente como também, identificando um perfil semelhante dos doadores de granulócitos na população geral de doadores o banco de sangue poderá fidelizar estes indivíduos e promover doações de sangue mais seguras. O perfil dos doadores de granulócitos foi avaliado a partir de um estudo caso-controle, sendo o grupo casos formado por estes doadores (n=64) e, os controles por doadores de plaquetas (n-64) e de sangue total (n=68), na razão de um caso para dois controles. Doadores de granulócitos são principalmente do sexo masculino e com idade mais avançada do que os controles. Com referência às motivações para doarem, doadores de granulócitos não se diferem substancialmente dos doadores de plaquetas, mas em relação aos doadores de primeira vez de sangue total há diferenças consideráveis principalmente no que diz respeito ao interesse nos resultados dos testes sorológicos. Doadores de sangue total são quase duas vezes mais motivados a doarem pelo recebimento dos resultados comparados aos doadores de granulócitos, bem como também se motivam mais a doarem para tirar o dia de folga do trabalho o que indica um gesto de menor altruísmo destes daodores. O perfil sócio determinante entre os grupos de doadores também se difere, doadores de granulócitos são pessoas efetivamente mais engajadas socialmente comparados aos controles e têm de uma rede comunitária mais coesa e confiável, concordando cerca de duas vezes mais do que doadores de plaquetas que têm vizinhos conhecidos que os ajudaria financeiramente (OR=2,49) ou concordando quatro vezes mais que doadores de sangue total que têm vizinhos conhecidos que estariam sempre prontos a ajudar outros vizinhos (OR=4,02). Concluimos que os resultados indicam que há a necessidade dos bancos de sangue utilizarem novas estratégias de recrutamento para aumentar a conversão de doadores, passando a utilizar, além do recrutamento interno, comunicações mais efetivas que, consigam atingir a população foco com maior eficiência, em locais onde a probabilidade de encontrar doadores mais engajados socialmente é aumentada, como clubes, centros comunitários ou associações / The concentrate of granulocytes is an important component for oncologic patient\'s treatment. Donation of this component is more complex than other blood components donations, because it claims more efforts and risks assumptions by the donor, and also the use of automated apheresis equipment. The present study is aimed to increase knowledge about the granulocyte donors´ population and evaluate differences among their motivations to accomplish donations and their general social capital, comparing with platelets apheresis donors and altruistic whole blood donors. These results may help blood centers, which carry granulocyte collection, not just to achieve much more objective information about these donors, but also to identify similar granulocyte donors´ profile within the general population. Blood banks may be able to achieve fidelity among these individuals and to promote safer blood donations. Granulocyte donors´ profile was evaluated in a case-control study. Cases were formed by granulocytes donors (n=64) and controls by platelet apheresis donors (n-64) and first time whole blood donors (n=68), in a ratio of one case per two controls. Granulocyte donors are mainly male and older than controls. Regarding the motivation to donate, granulocyte donors are not essentially different from platelets donors, but regarding first time whole blood donors, there are considerable differences, especially in respect to test seeking. Moreover, whole blood donors are almost twice more motivated to donate to take a day off at work, which shows a minor altruistic gesture. The determinant social profile among donors´ groups is also different. Granulocyte donors are effectively more social engaged people when compared to controls, and have a much more coherent and trustful community net, assenting about twice more than platelets donors, which have acquainted neighbors that would be ever ready to help other neighbors (OR=4.02). In conclusion, these findings indicate that is necessary to blood centers to use new recruitment strategies to increase donor´s retention. More effective communications procedures, besides internal recruitment, that achieves the target with more efficiency in locals where the probability to find donors more social engaged is increased, as clubs, community centers or associations must be warranted
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Social associations, relatedness and population genetic structure of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Iceland

Tavares, Sara B. January 2017 (has links)
In killer whales, fish- versus mammal-eating ecological differences are regarded as key ecological drivers of sociality, but the potential influence of specific target prey characteristics remains unclear. This thesis aimed to study the social patterns and dynamics of Icelandic killer whales feeding upon herring, a schooling prey that undergoes frequent changes in distribution and school size. I used a multi-disciplinary approach combining photo-identification and genetic data to understand the sociality, role of kinship and genetic differentiation within the population. Individuals sighted in summer-spawning and overwintering herring grounds during at least five separate days (N = 198) were considered associated if photographed within 20 seconds of each other. Photo-identified individuals were genotyped (N = 61) for 22 microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA control region (611 bp). The population had weak but non-random associations, fission-fusion dynamics at the individual level and seasonal patterns of preferred associations. The society was significantly structured but not hierarchically. Social clusters were highly diverse and, whilst kinship was correlated with association, it was not a prerequisite for social membership. Indeed, some cluster members had different mitochondrial haplotypes, representing separate maternal lineages. Individuals with different observed movement patterns were genetically distinct, but associated with each other. No sex-biased dispersal or inbreeding was detected. This study revealed that the Icelandic population has a multilevel society without clear hierarchical tiers or nested coherent social units, different from the well-studied salmon- (‘residents') and seal-eating populations in the Northeast Pacific. In the Icelandic population kinship drives social structure less strongly than in residents. These findings suggest effective foraging on schooling herring in seasonal grounds promotes the formation of flexible social groupings which can include non-kin. Killer whale sociality may be strongly influenced by local ecological context, such as the characteristics of the specific target prey (e.g., predictability, biomass, and density) and subsequent foraging strategies of the population.
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Variabilidade comportamental e seleção cultural: efeitos de esquemas análogos a reforçamento diferencial de variabilidade LAG e a CRF em processos de seleção de metacontingências

Kracker, Carolina Krauter 03 May 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:17:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carolina Krauter Kracker.pdf: 3705226 bytes, checksum: 2d14824d7cb8a26f483a95c38dd83639 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Metacontingencies are the product and the process of selection of cultural practices in the third level of selection by consequences, in which variation is a fundamental requisite for selection to occur. Three experiments were conducted with the objectives of investigate the effects of schemes analogous to differential reinforcement schemes of variability LAG, and CRF, upon the behavior variability in cultural selection processes, and to ascertain in which ways more or less variability along these processes would affect the selection of a new metacontingency, in the face of a change in the cultural consequences presentation criterion. In the Experiment I, 21 participants worked in trios, under the effect of schemes analogous to LAG 2 and LAG 1 for the products of responses of inserting numbers from 0 to 9 in spots placed in some computers´ screens. It was required, as a condition to the presentation of cultural consequences (bonus), that an aggregate product (PA) featured by an specific relation among the sums of the numbers inserted by the participants and by non-repetition of the sums between cycles, according to the n of the LAG contingence, was produced. It was observed that there wasn´t systematic production of this PA along more than two consecutive generations of participants and that only the specified relation among sums recurred along different generations. Stereotypies in the operant responses´ topographies and in the sums were found. In the face of the change in the criterion of presentation of the cultural consequences, featured by a different relation among the sums (new PA), the selection of/ by metacontingencies and cultural transmission occurred and the production of stereotypies was again observed. In the second experiment, that counted on 14 participants, similar experimental phases were conducted, except that there wasn´t a phase in which schemes analogous to LAG were in effect. The selection of/by metacontingencies and its transmission were verified in these conditions, and when the change in the criterion of presentation of the cultural consequences was made, a new cultural selection was observed in a similar moment of the occurrence of this phenomenon in the previous experiment; the practice was also transmitted. Behavior stereotypies were noticed, mainly in the first process of cultural selection that was described. There were 18 participants in the third experiment, in which a scheme analogous to LAG 1 for the sums was introduced; after 13 generations of participants the selection of/by metacontingencies was ascertained, as well as its transmission. It was observed that there was more variability in the responses topographies and in the sums, but patterns that indicated restrictions in the behavior variability were identified when the cultural selection occurred. It was concluded that the introduction of schemes analogous to LAG hampered the selection of/by metacontingencies and that a new cultural selection happened rapidly, despite of more or less behavioral variability in the microcultures´ stories previously the modification of the criterion related to the presentation of cultural consequences / Metacontingências são o produto e o processo de seleção de práticas culturais no terceiro nível de seleção por consequências, em que variação é requisito fundamental para ocorrência de seleção. Três experimentos foram conduzidos com os objetivos de investigar os efeitos de esquemas análogos a esquemas de reforçamento diferencial de variabilidade LAG e CRF em relação à variabilidade comportamental em processos de seleção cultural; e de averiguar de que maneira maior ou menor variabilidade ao longo desses processos afetariam a seleção de uma nova metacontingência, diante de uma mudança no critério de apresentação das consequências culturais. No Experimento I, 21 participantes trabalharam em trios, vigorando esquemas análogos a LAG 2 e LAG1 em relação a produtos das respostas de inserção de números de 0 a 9 em caselas dispostas nas telas de computadores. Exigiu-se, como condição para a apresentação de consequências culturais (bônus), que um produto agregado (PA) caracterizado por uma determinada relação entre as somas dos números inseridos pelos participantes e pela não-repetição das somas entre ciclos, de acordo com o n do LAG, fosse produzido. Observou-se que não houve produção sistemática desse PA por mais de duas gerações consecutivas de participantes e que apenas a relação entre as somas especificada recorreu por diversas gerações, observando-se estereotipias nas topografias das respostas operantes e nas somas. Diante da mudança no critério de apresentação da consequência cultural, caracterizada por uma relação diferente da anterior entre as somas (novo PA), ocorreu a seleção de/por metacontingências e transmissão cultural, novamente observando-se a geração de estereotipias. No segundo experimento, que contou com 14 participantes, fases experimentais semelhantes foram conduzidas, exceto que não houve uma fase em que esquemas análogos a LAG vigoraram. Averiguou-se que a seleção de/por metacontingências e sua transmissão ocorreram nessas condições e, diante de mudança no critério de apresentação da consequência cultural, nova seleção cultural foi observada em momento próximo ao verificado no experimento anterior, ocorrendo também a transmissão da prática. Estereotipias comportamentais foram notadas, principalmente no primeiro processo de seleção cultural descrito. Houve 18 participantes no terceiro experimento, em que se implementou um esquema análogo a LAG 1 para as somas; após 13 gerações de participantes, a seleção de/ por metacontingências com esse esquema em vigor pôde ser constatada, bem como sua transmissão. Foi observada maior variabilidade nas topografias de respostas e somas, mas padrões que indicaram restrição na variação comportamental foram identificados diante da ocorrência da seleção cultural. Constatou-se que a introdução de esquemas análogos a LAG teve como efeito dificultar a seleção de/ por metacontingências e que uma nova seleção cultural ocorreu rapidamente a despeito de haver maior ou menor variabilidade comportamental nas histórias de microculturas, anteriormente à mudança de critério para apresentação da consequência cultural de microculturas.
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Comportamento social e volume de substância branca cerebral em adolescentes vítimas de maus tratos / Social behavior and cerebral white matter volume in maltreated adolescents

Scarparo, Mariella Ometto 02 May 2016 (has links)
INTRODUÇÃO: A vivência de maus tratos na infância é apontada como um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento de comportamentos antissociais e traços psicopáticos. Estudos sugerem alterações estruturais de substância branca (SB) cerebral em vítimas de maus tratos, que podem estar subjacentes a sintomas psiquiátricos e dificuldades cognitivas. OBJETIVO: Investigar o comportamento social de adolescentes vítimas de maus tratos (A-VMT), através da comparação de suas habilidades sociais e traços de psicopatia com um grupo controle (GC), e de possíveis correlações destas medidas com os diferentes tipos de maus tratos e com o volume de SB cerebral. MÉTODO: Foram avaliados 67 A-VMT e 41 adolescentes do GC através do Questionário de Traumas na Infância (QUESI), da Psychopathy Checklist Youth Version (PCL-YV) e do Inventário de Habilidades Sociais para Adolescentes (IHSA). Também foram adquiridas imagens anatômicas cerebrais através de equipamento de ressonância magnética (1,5T Siemens Sonata) e realizadas análises de morfometria baseada em voxels (VBM). RESULTADOS: Os A-VMT apresentaram maior intensidade de traços psicopáticos e mais déficits de habilidades sociais que o GC. A negligência emocional foi a forma de maus tratos que mais influenciou a presença de traços de psicopatia e que mais associou-se a prejuízos de habilidades sociais específicas. O volume de SB de regiões do hemisfério esquerdo (giro angular, precuneus e lobo parietal inferior) correlacionouse negativamente com o fator afetivo da PCL:YV. Além disso, foram encontradas correlações positivas entre o volume de SB de regiões de hemisfério direito com fatores de psicopatia: o volume do lobo parietal superior direito correlacionou-se com características interpessoais e o do giro pré-central com o fator antissocial. CONCLUSÃO: Os A-VMT apresentaram déficits do comportamento social quando comparados ao GC. O volume de SB de áreas cerebrais envolvidas no processamento de informações sociais e reconhecimento de emoções se correlacionou com traços específicos da psicopatia. A vivencia de maus tratos na infância pode contribuir para déficits na cognição social, o que por sua vez, pode predispor esta vulnerável população a alguns comportamentos antissociais / Introduction: Child maltreatment is considered a risk factor for the development of antisocial behaviors and psychopathic traits. Studies suggest that specific white matter tracts may be vulnerable to child maltreatment and their alterations can be associated with psychiatric symptoms and cognitive deficits. Aim: Compare social skills and psychopathic traits between maltreated adolescents (MTA) and a control group, as well as their possible correlations with different types of maltreatment and white matter volumes.. Method: The sample was composed by 67 MTA and 41 youths from the CG. Brain images were acquired by magnetic resonance imaging equipment (1,5T Siemens Sonata) for voxel-based morphometry analyses. The clinical evaluation was carried out using Childhood Trauma Inventory (CTQ), Social Skills Inventory for Adolescents (SSIA) and The Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV). Results: MTA presented more psychopathic traits and social skills deficits than the CG. Emotional neglect was the only maltreatment subtype with significant effect on psychopathic traits, and it was correlated with specific social skills deficits. The white matter volumes of left hemisphere regions (angular gyrus, precuneus and inferior parietal lobe) were negatively correlated with PCL:YV affective factor scores. Moreover, positive correlations between white matter volume of right hemisphere areas (superior parietal lobe and precentral gyrus) and specific psychopathic traits (antisocial and interpersonal) were found. Conclusion: MTA presented social deficits when compared to CG. The white matter volume of brain areas associated with social information processing and emotion recognition was correlated with specific psychopathic traits. Child maltreatment may contribute to social cognition deficits and predispose this vulnerable population to psychopathic traits
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Uma investigação experimental sobre a interação entre comportamento social não-verbal e comportamento supersticioso / An experimental investigation about the interaction between non-verbal social behavior and superstitious behavior

Santiago, Jéssica Bezerra 20 April 2018 (has links)
Buscou-se investigar se a aprendizagem social pode facilitar a ocorrência de respostas supersticiosas, selecionadas pela relação acidental com eventos ambientais contíguos ao responder. Em uma atividade de computador, participantes podiam clicar em um mouse e havia um galão de água na tela que poderia encher-se de acordo com o esquema de reforçamento programado. O Experimento 1, realizado com oito estudantes universitários, foi composto por três sessões (delineamento ABA), alternando entre condições nas quais o participante atuou sozinho ou na presença de outro participante que também realizou a tarefa no mesmo momento. O segundo participante, porém, era um participante confederado com a experimentadora e respondeu à tarefa de forma previamente treinada. Os participantes foram expostos, em cada sessão, a esquemas de tempo variável de 15s (VT15s) e extinção (EXT) que foram alternados entre si a cada dois minutos. O participante confederado foi exposto aos esquemas de intervalo variável (VI15s) e EXT, e respondeu de forma constante em ambos os esquemas. Manipulou-se duas variáveis: o esquema de contiguidade e a exposição a outro indivíduo comportando-se na tarefa. Efeitos sobre as taxas de respostas dos participantes foram medidos. Não houve diferenciação do responder em função da mudança do esquema, porém houve diferença significativa entre as médias de respostas nas sessões individuais e conjuntas, permitindo a conclusão de que a manipulação da variável social produziu um efeito sobre as respostas. O Experimento 2 manipulou apenas a variável social. O esquema de reforçamento foi mantido em VT15s durante a sessão inteira em todo o experimento. Trabalhou-se com dois grupos de participantes, um no qual os participantes realizavam a sessão individualmente e outro grupo no qual outros participantes trabalhavam na sessão juntamente com um segundo participante, que, tal como no primeiro estudo, era um confederado que respondia de forma constante e previamente treinada, sendo exposto ao esquema de VI15s durante a sessão inteira. Observou-se uma diferença significativa entre as médias de respostas entre os dois grupos, o que mostra o efeito da variável manipulada. Além disso, observou-se uma variância significativamente maior das taxas de respostas dos participantes no grupo sem confederado em comparação com as dos participantes do grupo com confederado, que mostra um efeito de interação entre a variável social e o esquema de VT. O presente trabalho acrescenta dados novos tanto para a literatura de aprendizagem social quanto para a literatura de comportamento supersticioso, ao constatar que a variável social foi responsável por diminuir a variação das taxas de respostas de participantes expostos a um esquema independente, que, além disso foi independente desde o início da tarefa. Ademais confirmou-se achados sobre efeitos de facilitação social, sobretudo em uma situação de esquema não-contingente / The purpose of the present work was to investigate if social learning may facilitate occurrence of superstitious responses, selected by accidental relation with contiguous environmental events. In a computer activity, participants could click with a mouse and there was a water gallon on the screen that could fill itself according to reinforcement schedule programmed. The First Experiment was done with eight college students. It was composed by three sessions (ABA design), alternating between conditions in which the participant acted alone or in the presence of another participant, who also performed the task at the same moment. The second participant, however, was confederate with the experimenter and responded to the task in a previously trained manner. Participants were exposed, in each session, to 15s variable time schedules (VT15s) and extinction (EXT) which were alternated between each other every two minutes. The confederate participant was exposed to variable interval (VI15s) and exctinction (EXT) schedules and responded steadily in both schedules. Two variables were manipulated: the contiguity schedule and the exposure to another individual behaving on the task. Effects on participants rates of responding were measured. There was no differentiation in responding due to schedule change, however there was significant difference between mean rates of responses in individual sessions and in joint sessions, allowing the conclusion that the social variable manipulation had an effect on responses. The Second Experiment manipulated only the social variable. The schedule of reinforcement was maintained VT15s during the whole session in all the experiment. There were two groups of participants, one in which participants performed the session individually and another in which other participants performed in a session together with another participant. This participant, as in the First Experiment, was a confederate that responded steadily and in a previously trained manner, and was exposed to a VI15s schedule It was observed a significant difference between means of response of each group, which shows the effect of the manipulated variable. Moreover there was a significant higher variance in response rates of the individual group participants in comparison with response rate of the group with a confederate, which shows an effect of interaction between the social variable and the VT schedule. The present work adds new data to social learning literature as much as to superstitious behavior literature, upon verifying that the social variable was responsible for diminishing variation in response rates of participants exposed to an independent schedule, which beyond that, was independent since the beginning of the task. Furthermore it confirmed some findings of social facilitation effects, especially in a situation of non-contingent schedule
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Uma investigação experimental sobre a interação entre comportamento social não-verbal e comportamento supersticioso / An experimental investigation about the interaction between non-verbal social behavior and superstitious behavior

Jéssica Bezerra Santiago 20 April 2018 (has links)
Buscou-se investigar se a aprendizagem social pode facilitar a ocorrência de respostas supersticiosas, selecionadas pela relação acidental com eventos ambientais contíguos ao responder. Em uma atividade de computador, participantes podiam clicar em um mouse e havia um galão de água na tela que poderia encher-se de acordo com o esquema de reforçamento programado. O Experimento 1, realizado com oito estudantes universitários, foi composto por três sessões (delineamento ABA), alternando entre condições nas quais o participante atuou sozinho ou na presença de outro participante que também realizou a tarefa no mesmo momento. O segundo participante, porém, era um participante confederado com a experimentadora e respondeu à tarefa de forma previamente treinada. Os participantes foram expostos, em cada sessão, a esquemas de tempo variável de 15s (VT15s) e extinção (EXT) que foram alternados entre si a cada dois minutos. O participante confederado foi exposto aos esquemas de intervalo variável (VI15s) e EXT, e respondeu de forma constante em ambos os esquemas. Manipulou-se duas variáveis: o esquema de contiguidade e a exposição a outro indivíduo comportando-se na tarefa. Efeitos sobre as taxas de respostas dos participantes foram medidos. Não houve diferenciação do responder em função da mudança do esquema, porém houve diferença significativa entre as médias de respostas nas sessões individuais e conjuntas, permitindo a conclusão de que a manipulação da variável social produziu um efeito sobre as respostas. O Experimento 2 manipulou apenas a variável social. O esquema de reforçamento foi mantido em VT15s durante a sessão inteira em todo o experimento. Trabalhou-se com dois grupos de participantes, um no qual os participantes realizavam a sessão individualmente e outro grupo no qual outros participantes trabalhavam na sessão juntamente com um segundo participante, que, tal como no primeiro estudo, era um confederado que respondia de forma constante e previamente treinada, sendo exposto ao esquema de VI15s durante a sessão inteira. Observou-se uma diferença significativa entre as médias de respostas entre os dois grupos, o que mostra o efeito da variável manipulada. Além disso, observou-se uma variância significativamente maior das taxas de respostas dos participantes no grupo sem confederado em comparação com as dos participantes do grupo com confederado, que mostra um efeito de interação entre a variável social e o esquema de VT. O presente trabalho acrescenta dados novos tanto para a literatura de aprendizagem social quanto para a literatura de comportamento supersticioso, ao constatar que a variável social foi responsável por diminuir a variação das taxas de respostas de participantes expostos a um esquema independente, que, além disso foi independente desde o início da tarefa. Ademais confirmou-se achados sobre efeitos de facilitação social, sobretudo em uma situação de esquema não-contingente / The purpose of the present work was to investigate if social learning may facilitate occurrence of superstitious responses, selected by accidental relation with contiguous environmental events. In a computer activity, participants could click with a mouse and there was a water gallon on the screen that could fill itself according to reinforcement schedule programmed. The First Experiment was done with eight college students. It was composed by three sessions (ABA design), alternating between conditions in which the participant acted alone or in the presence of another participant, who also performed the task at the same moment. The second participant, however, was confederate with the experimenter and responded to the task in a previously trained manner. Participants were exposed, in each session, to 15s variable time schedules (VT15s) and extinction (EXT) which were alternated between each other every two minutes. The confederate participant was exposed to variable interval (VI15s) and exctinction (EXT) schedules and responded steadily in both schedules. Two variables were manipulated: the contiguity schedule and the exposure to another individual behaving on the task. Effects on participants rates of responding were measured. There was no differentiation in responding due to schedule change, however there was significant difference between mean rates of responses in individual sessions and in joint sessions, allowing the conclusion that the social variable manipulation had an effect on responses. The Second Experiment manipulated only the social variable. The schedule of reinforcement was maintained VT15s during the whole session in all the experiment. There were two groups of participants, one in which participants performed the session individually and another in which other participants performed in a session together with another participant. This participant, as in the First Experiment, was a confederate that responded steadily and in a previously trained manner, and was exposed to a VI15s schedule It was observed a significant difference between means of response of each group, which shows the effect of the manipulated variable. Moreover there was a significant higher variance in response rates of the individual group participants in comparison with response rate of the group with a confederate, which shows an effect of interaction between the social variable and the VT schedule. The present work adds new data to social learning literature as much as to superstitious behavior literature, upon verifying that the social variable was responsible for diminishing variation in response rates of participants exposed to an independent schedule, which beyond that, was independent since the beginning of the task. Furthermore it confirmed some findings of social facilitation effects, especially in a situation of non-contingent schedule
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Econometrics and decision making: Effects of communication of results

Soyer, Emre 14 June 2012 (has links)
This thesis incorporates three studies that analyze how information is presented in various contexts, how these different modes of presentation affect decision makers’ perceptions and how to improve communication of information to eliminate distortions. Chapter 1 features a scenario where experts make inferences given different presentations of a regression analysis, a widely used statistical method. Chapter 2 introduces an experience-based presentation mode and tests its effectiveness on decision makers with varying statistical abilities, across multiple probabilistic tasks. Chapter 3 demonstrates the effects of presentation mode and the number of available options on the amounts and distributions of donations to NGOs and their campaigns. Overall, the findings suggest that presentation mode is an important determinant of judgments and decisions, and they can be restructured to improve the accuracy of inferences. / Esta tesis incluye tres estudios que analizan cómo la información se presenta en varios contextos, cómo estos diferentes modos de presentación influyen las percepciones de los tomadores de decisiones y cómo mejorar la comunicación de la información para eliminar distorsiones. Capítulo 1 analiza una situación donde expertos hacen inferencias utilizando diferentes presentaciones de un análisis de regresión, un método de estadística ampliamente utilizado. Capítulo 2 introduce un modo de presentación basado en experiencia y pone a prueba su eficacia a través de múltiples problemas probabilísticas. Capítulo 3 demuestra los efectos del modo de presentación y el número de opciones disponibles sobre las cantidades y la distribución de las donaciones a las ONG y sus campañas. En general, los resultados sugieren que el modo de presentación es un determinante importante de las percepciones y decisiones, y pueden ser reestructuradas para mejorar la precisión de las inferencias.
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Effects of clozapine and alprazolam on cognitive deficits and anxiety-like behaviors in a ketamine-induced rat model of schizophrenia /

Phillips, Jennifer M. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2005. / Typescript (photocopy).
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Effets neurotoxiques et multigénérationnels d’une exposition périnatale aux faibles doses de polychlorobiphényles non-dioxin-like indicateurs (PCB-NDLi) dans un modèle murin / Neurotoxic and multigenerational effects of perinatal exposure to low-dose of polychlorinated biphenyls non-dioxin-like indicators (NDL-PCBs) in a mouse model

Karkaba, Alaa 14 December 2017 (has links)
Dans ce travail de thèse, nous avons évalué les effets neurotoxiques multigénérationnels de l’exposition des mères F0 gestantes et allaitantes aux polychlorobiphényles non-dioxin-like indicateurs (PCB-NDLi), à un profil mimant l'exposition humaine à partir de poissons contaminés, sur le développement et le comportement, y compris les réponses émotionnelles et les interactions sociales, des deux générations F1 et F2 des souris mâles et femelles, à différentes phases de leur ontogenèse. Deux faibles doses des PCB-NDLi : (i) la DJT, qui est de 10 ng/kg/j, et (ii) une dose environnementale de 1000 ng/kg/j, ont été administrés par accès libre aux souris mères F0. En fonction de la modalité d’exposition des parents F1 aux PCB, 4 groupes de génération F2 ont été obtenus, en croisant (i) des pères F1 exposés à des mères F1 non exposées, (ii) des mères F1 exposées à des pères F1 non exposés, (iii) des deux parents F1 exposés, ou (iv) des deux parents F1 non exposés (témoins), aux PCB en période périnatale. Nos résultats ont montré que les mâles adultes de la génération F1 ont manifesté un comportement dépressif-like ; alors que les mâles F2, issus uniquement des pères F1 exposés aux PCB, ont exhibé un comportement anti-dépressif-like, ce que suggère que l’exposition périnatale des souris F1 aux PCB-NDLi a induit une altération multigénérationnelle d’origine parentale du comportement de la résignation, et ce d’une façon sexe dépendante. De même, une altération sexe-dépendante de l’anxiété, a été détectée chez la génération F1 exposées durant la période périnatale aux PCB-NDLi comme uniquement les souris mâles d’âge moyen F1 ont développé un phénotype anxieux qui a été transmis aux souris mâles d’âge moyen F2, via leurs pères F1. En outre, une altération multigénérationnelle du comportement social a été détectée chez les souris mâles et femelles F1 et F2. D’une façon remarquable, chez la génération F2, des altérations comportementales dépendantes à la fois du sexe et de la dose, ont été trouvées, malgré l’absence d’effets chez leurs parents F1, effets qui dépendaient également de l’origine parentale, tels que la diminution significative du niveau de la préférence pour la nouveauté sociale chez les souris mâles F2, issues uniquement des mères F1 périnatallement exposées à la dose 10 ng/kg de PCB. Le dosage des biomarqueurs chez les souris d’âge moyen de la génération F1 a révélé une altération de nombreux paramètres biochimiques, y compris une augmentation du niveau de corticostérone et de l’activité de l’acétylcholinestérase / In this study, we evaluated the multigenerational neurotoxic effects of gestational and lactational exposure of F0 female mice to a representative mixture of the six indicator non-dioxin-like-polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) at environmentally low doses, a profile that closely mimics human exposure to contaminated fish. The tolerable day intake (TDI) of 10 ng/kg/day and a higher environmental dose of 1000 ng/kg/day were administered by free access to F0 mothers during pregnancy and lactation. Afterwards, the development and behavior, including emotional responses and social interactions, of the two F1 and F2 generations of Swiss male and female mice at different phases of their ontogenesis, were assessed. Depending on the mode of exposure of F1 parents to PCBs, four F2 generation groups were obtained by crossing (i) F1 fathers perinatally exposed with unexposed F1 mothers, (ii) F1 mothers perinatally exposed with unexposed F1 fathers, (iii) both F1 parents perinatally exposed, or (iv) both F1 parents perinatally unexposed (controls), to PCBs. Our results showed that F1 adult males showed depressive-like behavior whereas F2 adult males, coming from F1 mothers, perinatally exposed to PCBs, exhibited anti-depressive-like behavior. This result suggested an induction of a multigenerational alteration that was of parental origin, on the resignation behavior in a sex-dependent manner. Similarly, sex-selective anxious behavior was detected in F1 middle-aged males perinatally exposed to PCBs, which was transmissible to F2 middle-aged males, via their F1 fathers. Furthermore, a multigenerational alteration of social behavior was found in F1 and F2 male and female mice. Remarkably, some behavioral alterations in F2 generation were found, despite of the absence of effects in their F1 parents, such as a significant decrease in the level of preference for social novelty in F2 male mice, coming from F1 mothers perinataly exposed to 10 ng/kg of NDL-PCBs. The biomarker assays in F1 middle-aged mice revealed an alteration in many biochemical markers, including increased corticosterone levels and acetylcholinesterase activity in male as well as females.
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Vers une universalité des émotions : analyse de la capacité émotionnelle des vertébrés et invertébrés

Amzallag, Eva 12 1900 (has links)
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