Critical fluctuations observed in collective human behaviors

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misako Takayasu
Keyword(s):  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Critical Fluctuations

Explanation and Understanding in Animal Narratives

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Herman
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Strategic Oscillation ◽  
Experimental Narrative ◽  
The Way

With chapter 6 having described the way norms for mental-state ascriptions operate in a top-down manner in discourse domains, chapter 7 explores how individual narratives can in turn have a bottom-up impact on the ascriptive norms circulating within particular domains. To this end, the chapter discusses how Thalia Field’s 2010 experimental narrative Bird Lovers, Backyard employs a strategic oscillation between two nomenclatures that can be used to profile nonhuman as well as human behaviors: (1) the register of action, which characterizes behavior in terms of motivations, goals, and projects; and (2) the register of events, which characterizes behavior in terms of caused movements that have duration in time and direction in space. In braiding together these two registers, Field’s text suggests not only how discourse practices can be repatterned, but also how such repatterning enables broader paradigm shifts—in this case shifts in ways of understanding cross-species encounters and entanglements.

Phase separation of binary mixtures induced by soft centrifugal fields

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Zemb ◽  
Rose Rosenberg ◽  
Stjepan Marčelja ◽  
Dirk Haffke ◽  
Jean-François Dufrêche ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Separation ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Binary Mixtures ◽  
Liquid Mixture ◽  
Model System ◽  
Binary Liquid Mixture ◽  
Miscibility Gap ◽  
Critical Fluctuations ◽  
Binary Liquid

We use the model system ethanol–dodecane to demonstrate that giant critical fluctuations induced by easily accessible weak centrifugal fields as low as 2000g can be observed above the miscibility gap even far from the critical point of a binary liquid mixture.

scholarly journals Incorporating human behaviors into theories of urban community assembly and species coexistence

Oikos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan L. Avolio ◽  
Christopher Swan ◽  
Diane E. Pataki ◽  
G. Darrel Jenerette
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Human Behaviors

scholarly journals Attentional focus modulates automatic finger-tapping movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xilei Zhang ◽  
Xingxun Jiang ◽  
Xiangyong Yuan ◽  
Wenming Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Pose Estimation ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Finger Tapping ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Action Sequence ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Attention System ◽  
Innate Capacity ◽  
Empirical Foundation

AbstractThe majority of human behaviors are composed of automatic movements (e.g., walking or finger-tapping) which are learned during nurturing and can be performed simultaneously without interfering with other tasks. One critical and yet to be examined assumption is that the attention system has the innate capacity to modulate automatic movements. The present study tests this assumption. Setting no deliberate goals for movement, we required sixteen participants to perform personalized and well-practiced finger-tapping movements in three experiments while focusing their attention on either different component fingers or away from movements. Using cutting-edge pose estimation techniques to quantify tapping trajectory, we showed that attention to movement can disrupt movement automaticity, as indicated by decreased inter-finger and inter-trial temporal coherence; facilitate the attended and inhibit the unattended movements in terms of tapping amplitude; and re-organize the action sequence into distinctive patterns according to the focus of attention. These findings demonstrate compelling evidence that attention can modulate automatic movements and provide an empirical foundation for theories based on such modulation in controlling human behavior.

scholarly journals Identifying and prioritizing human behaviors that benefit biodiversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Selinske ◽  
Georgia E. Garrard ◽  
Emily A. Gregg ◽  
Alexander M. Kusmanoff ◽  
Lindall R. Kidd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Behaviors

Critical fluctuations of the field emission current

1994 ◽  
Vol 317 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 253-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.S. Shikhovtseva ◽  
K. Skwarek ◽  
J. Bȩben
Keyword(s):  
Field Emission ◽  
Emission Current ◽  
Critical Fluctuations ◽  
Field Emission Current

scholarly journals On the Fluctuation Induced Excess Conductivity in Stainless Steel Sheathed MgB2 Tapes

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchitra Rajput ◽  
Sujeet Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Coherence Length ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Excess Conductivity ◽  
Scaling Functions ◽  
Critical Fluctuations ◽  
Scaling Models

We report on the analyses of fluctuation induced excess conductivity in the - behavior in the in situ prepared MgB2 tapes. The scaling functions for critical fluctuations are employed to investigate the excess conductivity of these tapes around transition. Two scaling models for excess conductivity in the absence of magnetic field, namely, first, Aslamazov and Larkin model, second, Lawrence and Doniach model, have been employed for the study. Fitting the experimental - data with these models indicates the three-dimensional nature of conduction of the carriers as opposed to the 2D character exhibited by the HTSCs. The estimated amplitude of coherence length from the fitted model is ~21 Å.

The Application of Anthropological Knowledge to Modern Mass Society: An Anthropologist's View

1956 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
John Gillin
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Field Work ◽  
World Science ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Social Behavior ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

Are there any methods whereby we may understand the cultures of modern nation-societies both as to their detailed components and as to their total configurational characteristics? Anthropologists receive such queries because modern ethnological field work and other anthropological methods have been able to produce reliable descriptive analyses of so-called primitive tribes and small communities that are both comprehensive and detailed. And, on the basis of such data collected in a wide variety of cultures around the world, science has acquired not only a rich store of knowledge concerning the substantive varieties of human social behavior, but also a fairly elaborated theoretical apparatus regarding culture in general. With such knowledge and theory it is possible to explain and even to predict many human behaviors and attitudes that were formerly beyond the reach of science.

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