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An information campaign to stop bullying in our schools is a major campaign for prosocial behavior. This is a problem that society must deal with, and we are attempting to do it through popular media.
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Held Thursday 09/14/2017, the Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosted a symposium discussing behavioral finance. This event included keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, and an interactive audience experiment, exploring topics of technological progress in our overall economy.
Details: fordschool.umich.edu/events/2017/behavioral-finance-sympo...
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Colaptes rufipileus Ridgway, 1877 - male Guadalupe flicker (mount, FMNH 9271, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA).
This species is also known as Colaptes cafer rufipileus and Colaptes auratus rufipileus.
Birds are small to large, warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered, bipedal vertebrates capable of powered flight (although some are secondarily flightless). Many scientists characterize birds as dinosaurs, but this is consequence of the physical structure of evolutionary diagrams. Birds aren’t dinosaurs. They’re birds. The logic & rationale that some use to justify statements such as “birds are dinosaurs” is the same logic & rationale that results in saying “vertebrates are echinoderms”. Well, no one says the latter. No one should say the former, either.
However, birds are evolutionarily derived from theropod dinosaurs. Birds first appeared in the Triassic or Jurassic, depending on which avian paleontologist you ask. They inhabit a wide variety of terrestrial and surface marine environments, and exhibit considerable variation in behaviors and diets.
This now-extinct bird's geographic distribution was restricted to Guadalupe Island, a couple hundred miles offshore from the western coast of Baja California, Mexico. Flickers are members of the woodpecker family (Picidae). Human introduction of goats and cats to Guadalupe Island resulted in this flicker’s extinction. The sharp, pointed beak of flickers is used to access insects in wood via chiseling.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Piciformes, Picidae
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How to Improve Your Child's Positive Behavior by Relinquishing Control by Jennifer Johnston-Jones, PhD
Primary School students were rewarded for all their positive behavior with a special event with Luau Relay Races.
The Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy (BABAT) is an affiliated chapter of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts.
Formed in 1979, BABAT is perhaps best known for the annual conferences it has hosted at UMass (Amherst) every year for over 30 years. This conference is for professionals, teachers, students, and persons interested in the areas of behavior analysis, autism, developmental disabilities, ethics, behavioral medicine, staff development, and more.
Anita Li (M.S. ABA '13) from Florida is about to get a participant for one of the operant chamber experiments. An operant chamber is a container in which an animal is placed that has various manipulanda (like levers, or in our case, IR hoops) that are linked to some consequence (food, water, lights, etc). They are used to study learning.
This is the Tatty Old Girl (right bottom) and (I think) The Pale Golden Youngster. The Old Girl buzzed the youngster from its perch (unfortunately behind an intervening tree from my camera) and they made passes at one another quite low to the ground with a couple of goes at talon locking (which I missed with the camera) before they went up quite steeply soaring high above. I don't think it was mating behaviour? The Tatty Old Girl is easily identified because almost half her tail feathers are missing and a flight feather from each wing. I have been seeing her with groups of youngsters for the last year and a half, and I feel her role is sort of teacher/protector ... and I think the Pale-golden Youngster cops a lot of teaching from the adults ... but, hey! how would I know anything for sure?
Even a kitty-plush ignores you. :P
This was given to me as a gift after I found out that my cat, Hannah Jane, died after medical complications from the vet.
I truly respect and pitty bird photographers for their patience. Learning a lot about Blue Heron parenting behavior on Harvey Pond in Westmoreland, NH
Currently considered a subspecies of White Wagtail, Motacilla alba. A vagrant at Pismo Creek Mouth, Pismo Beach, CA.
In Union City, we also learned what to do and not to do in school. For example, being on the honor role is a "yes", while shanking you friend in the locker room shower is a distinct "no". Thanks Union City High!
PANEL SESSION FOUR: CHALLENGING BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES
Moderator: Roberta G. Balstad
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University; Professor of Populations, Columbia University; Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Rockefeller University
Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge; Fellow of St. John's College
Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
The Globalization of Green Values: The Culture and Politics of Sustainability
Denis Hayes, President, The Bullitt Foundation;
National Organizer of the first Earth Day
Parker Mitchell, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Engineers Without Borders
Andrew Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University