scholarly journals Physiochemical behaviour changes during ripening in fruits of Trewia nudiflora Linn.

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 596-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kapil Ghai ◽  
P.K. Gupta ◽  
A.K. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Trewia Nudiflora ◽  
Behaviour Changes

Social marketing hackers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria M. Raciti
Keyword(s):  
Social Marketing ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marketing Professional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
The Many ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
Blind Spots

Purpose Social marketing has come of age. Today, the study is a legitimate discipline with a wealth of empirical evidence that manifestly demonstrates the ability to bring about behaviour changes for the greater good. As social marketers, the study is rapidly expanding the horizons, with a growing interest in the labyrinth of systems that influence the chosen social causes. The study has become brave and bold, but is the study now running the risk of romanticising the work and ourselves? It is time to recalibrate, to take stock and to address the elephants in the social marketing room. Design/methodology/approach Expanding on my Change 2020 Driving Systems Change panel presentation, this study is a provocation, a think piece, centred around two observed phenomena. Findings The first phenomenon observed is the many identities of the contemporary social marketer – hackers, change agents, heroes, political power brokers and master puppeteers. The second phenomenon observed is the accelerated interest in systems thinking for which the author propose three preconditions are needed – an awareness of the system(s); an acknowledgement that this study is a part of the system(s) and the need to decolonise social marketing. Originality/value This paper poses challenging questions but offers no solutions as to how social marketers should, could or do square up the blind spots, make peace with the paradoxes or unblinking the views. Not only would it be naïve to proffer solutions but it would also stifle the growth of you, the reader, in your journey to becoming an integrated person and woke social marketing professional.

scholarly journals An ant–plant mutualism through the lens of cGMP-dependent kinase genes

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1862) ◽  
pp. 20170896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Jean G. Malé ◽  
Kyle M. Turner ◽  
Manjima Doha ◽  
Ina Anreiter ◽  
Aaron M. Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Natural Variation ◽  
Foraging Behaviour ◽  
Dependent Protein Kinase ◽  
Ant Colonies ◽  
Cgmp Dependent Protein Kinase ◽  
Dependent Protein ◽  
Behaviour Changes

In plant–animal mutualisms, how an animal forages often determines how much benefit its plant partner receives. In many animals, foraging behaviour changes in response to foraging gene expression or activation of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that foraging encodes. Here, we show that this highly conserved molecular mechanism affects the outcome of a plant–animal mutualism. We studied the two PKG genes of Allomerus octoarticulatus, an Amazonian ant that defends the ant–plant Cordia nodosa against herbivores. Some ant colonies are better ‘bodyguards’ than others. Working in the field in Peru, we found that colonies fed with a PKG activator recruited more workers to attack herbivores than control colonies. This resulted in less herbivore damage. PKG gene expression in ant workers correlated with whether an ant colony discovered an herbivore and how much damage herbivores inflicted on leaves in a complex way; natural variation in expression levels of the two genes had significant interaction effects on ant behaviour and herbivory. Our results suggest a molecular basis for ant protection of plants in this mutualism.

scholarly journals Evaluasi Pembelajaran Nilai-Nilai Aneka dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Perilaku Alumni Latsar CPNS

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 946
Author(s):  
Burdan Ali Junjunan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Work Unit ◽  
Initial Capital ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Public Ethics ◽  
Behaviour Changes

The State Civil Apparatus (ASN) must be able to actualize the five basic values of ASN which consist of Accountability, Nationalism, Public Ethics, Quality Commitment and Anti-Corruption (ANEKA) based on Law Number 5 of 2014 concerning ASN. These basic values of ANEKA are the initial capital for ASN in carrying out its main duties and functions in the working institution. This study aims to determine the effect of understanding the basic values of ANEKA on behaviour change before and after basic training (Latsar) CPNS. This research uses mixed methods research. In the quantitative stage, data from 162 CPNS Class 1 to 12 the Year 2019 Latsar participants collected through a questionnaire survey were analyzed using the Paired Samples t-Test method technique, while the qualitative stage was conducted by conducting an interview process and open questionnaires to 162 CPNS Class 1 to 12 of 2019 and 8 supervisors of the work unit of the Latsar participants were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that there was an effect of the basic values of Accountability (X1), Nationalism (X2), Public Ethics (X3), Quality Commitment (X4) and Anti-Corruption (X5) in before and after attending CPNS Latsar on behaviour changes in Latsar participants. CPNS so that according to the supervisor of the work unit there was a significant change in the behaviour of the participants by the expected behaviour as a professional CPNS compared to before being included in the CPNS Latsar and there were obstacles experienced by the CPNS Latsar participants having difficulty actualizing ANEKA's basic values in the form of work behaviour.

scholarly journals State of Art of the Persuasive Technology using Social Media for Behaviour Change in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Syukran Kamalruzzaman ◽  
Sharkawi Che Din ◽  
Anuar Mohd Yusof ◽  
Nik Atilla Atasha Shamsuddin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Persuasive Technology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Behavioural Changes ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
Open Access Article

Persuasive technology is an evolving form of behaviour change agent that is becoming more popular with the emergence of social media. In 2020, 81% of Malaysian are active social media users who contribute to the escalation of behavioural changes using online platforms. This paper provides a verifiable review of 10 years of persuasive technology using social media for Malaysian healthcare and behavioural changes with the concern to (1) reviewing the effectiveness of persuasive technology using social media to behaviour changes, (2) outlining the technology methods, research methods, strategies, theories and targeted behaviour (3) stating the issues regarding the studied persuasive technologies and (4) highlighting the future research recommendation. Keywords: Persuasive technology, behavioural change, social media eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2021 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI6.3035

scholarly journals Increasing corvid tolerance to humans in urban ecosystems with increasing latitude

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Poddubnaya ◽  
Tatyana Korotkova ◽  
Polina Vanicheva
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Human Disturbance ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Flight Initiation Distance ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Alert Distance ◽  
Behaviour Changes ◽  
Hooded Crows ◽  
Flight Initiation

The rapid growth of cities causes behaviour changes in birds in response to urban environmental factors. The avian response to human disturbance has recently been studied by a non-invasive research tool as an alert distance (AD) and a flight initiation distance (FID) assessment. The tolerance of hooded crows (n = 395), jackdaws (n = 394) and rooks (n = 169) to humans was assessed by AD and FID. It was shown that the FID of all species is maximal during the summer, when the parents send clear “danger—fly away” signals to the young and the birds fly away. The AD and FID of the three species reliably correlates with the season. Rooks showed FID species-specificity in seven cities of Eastern Europe. Comparison of the attitude of birds to people in cities that have similarities in human culture showed that tolerance increases with increasing latitude in all species and is statistically significant only in the jackdaw. This should be taken into account in environmental protection measures.

scholarly journals Groping in the fog: soaring migrants exhibit wider scatter and do not properly adjust their flight in response to wind under low visibility conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Becciu ◽  
Michele Panuccio ◽  
Giacomo Dell'Omo ◽  
Nir Sapir
Keyword(s):  
Flight Speed ◽  
Migration Route ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Flight Behaviour ◽  
Cost Of Transport ◽  
Migration Direction ◽  
Low Visibility ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migrating Birds ◽  
Behaviour Changes

Atmospheric conditions are known to affect flight propensity, behaviour during flight, and migration route in birds. Yet, the effects of fog have only been rarely studied, although they could disrupt orientation and hamper the accomplishment of the journey. Soaring migrants modulate their flight speed and direction in relation to the wind vector to optimize the cost of transport. Fog could limit the visibility of migrating birds such that they might not be able to detect landmarks that guide them during their journey. Consequently, landmark-based orientation, as well as adjustments of flight speed and direction in relation to wind conditions, could be jeopardized when flying in fog. Using a radar system that operated in a migration bottleneck (Strait of Messina, Italy), we studied the behaviour of soaring birds under variable wind and fog conditions over two consecutive springs (2016 and 2017), discovering that migrating birds exhibited a wider scatter of flight directions and responded differently to wind conditions under fog conditions. Birds flying through fog deviated more from the mean migration direction and increased their speed with increasing crosswinds. In addition, airspeed and groundspeed increased in the direction of the crosswind, causing a lateral drift of the individuals. Furthermore, the response to tailwind was opposite to that predicted by optimal migration theory. Our findings represent the first quantitative empirical evidence of flight behaviour changes when birds migrate through fog and explain why low visibility conditions could risk their migration journey.

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