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Habitat use and behaviour of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong River of Laos
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Stacey, Pam J., Hvenegaard, Glen T.
This field study addressed a number of natural history parameters of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong River of Laos that were not well-documented, including diving behaviour, foraging ecology, habitat use, social behaviour, group size, and diurnal movements. Irrawaddy...
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"Socializing is my favourite": Analyzing the interplay between shyness, verbal irony use, and stereotype perception
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This thesis investigates the relationship between levels of shyness, verbal irony use, and the presence and influence of associated stereotypes. Although recent studies of personality and figurative language have addressed varying research questions, there has been little direct exploration of...
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Behaviour of Helianthus annuus L.: an ethogram for sunflower, and the effect of potential competitors on soil nutrient patch use
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Individual organisms mediate their relationship with their environment through behaviour, which can have consequences at higher levels of biological organization such as populations and communities. Plants express diverse behaviours in response to their environments, but many aspects of behaviour...
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Contribution of the Big 5 personality traits to the mental health of Canadian adults and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic was first detected in China in December 2019 and spread to other countries quickly. Many studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected mental health. Individual differences such as personality could influence people’s responses to the...
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2014-01-01
Schlägel, Ulrike E, Lewis, Mark A.
Animals of many species demonstrate movement behaviour in which decisions are based on a variety of information. Effects of resources have been studied widely, often under the assumption that the environment is constant over the course of the study. Much less understood is the role of dynamic...
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Spring 2020
This dissertation examines the influence of various extra-linguistic aspects on language comprehension. While language comprehension is generally understood to be influenced by real-world context, and by certain individual difference variables such as the listener’s mood, it is unclear how an...
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Modes of Metaphor and Me: The Role Shyness Plays in the Interpretation of Visual and Verbal Metaphors
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This thesis examines whether or not one's level of shyness affects one's interpretation of visual and verbal metaphors. Current research demonstrates that shyness correlates positively with more negative interpretations of counterfactual irony and that personality traits are related to certain...
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Spring 2022
Background Several studies have linked neighbourhood social and economic characteristics to preschool-aged children’s emotional and behavioural problems. Although income inequality has been identified as a risk factor for mental health and behavioural outcomes among adolescents, no studies have...
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2019-03-01
Leys SP,, Mah JL,, McGill PR,, Hamonic L, De Leo F,, Kahn AS
Sponges perceive and respond to a range of stimuli. How they do this is still difficult to pin down despite now having transcriptomes and genomes of an array of species. Here we evaluate the current understanding of sponge behavior and present new observations on sponge activity in situ. We also...