We all want children to achieve their full potential. Supporting them with their behaviour will give them the skills to achieve this. Positive behaviour support intervention is child-centred and individualised in order to provide highly targeted support to reduce behaviour that challenges and increase ...
Graham and Burghardt (2010) reviewed the field of play behaviour64and suggested to biologists to be bold and to take seriously the challenges that play behaviour provides in terms of evolution and general applicability for survival. One can equally argue that it is premature to even consider play...
Chapter 3 focuses on educational activities with examples of some that have been found useful. Each activity has these components: why use it?, time it takes, what one needs, how it is done, variations, and source. Chapter 4 concerns facing the challenges of facilitating a group, making ...
learning the skills that you need to do a job” and the aim of training a dog is to create a sociable, obedient and adaptable individual who can cope emotionally with the challenges that it may face throughout its life. A well-trained dog should be emotionally stable and able to live in...
The broader socioeconomic impacts that such behavioural changes could have on cities, for example, on the social fabric of communities7, economic networks and local businesses and urban infrastructure systems, are not well understood. Motivated by these critical challenges, we used empirical data from...
Here are some additional examples. The first is one that is suitable even for young children: The trophy would not fit in the brown suitcase because it was so small. What was so small? In this case, the special word used is “small” and the other word is “big.” Here is the orig...
The International Sedentary Assessment Tool (ISAT) is a sedentary behaviour module that addresses these needs by providing: an itemized list of questions in order of their established relationship with health; the cap- acity to use any item separately; and, examples of modes (e.g., Smartphone...
Scaling up comes with the sorts of challenges macroecologists have been grappling with for decades (e.g., transmutation, nonlinearity, and emergent properties). Download: Download high-res image (601KB) Download: Download full-size image Figure 1. New questions that are possible under the macro...
The reason why we need to allow for multiple examples of each behaviour is that behaviours can be polymorphic. For example, pecking at the ground may manifest differently than pecking at a raised bowl, or a peck may become less frenetic as the bird becomes satiated. We estimated the accuracy...
First, skill advancement extends well beyond formal education, suggesting that nested specialization pathways persist throughout a career, beyond the schooling phase (Supplementary Figs. 29 and 30). This observation challenges the traditional view that education is the primary driver of human capital ...