behavioural characteristics
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbehaviouralandcharacteristic
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behavioural
adjective
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjə.rəl/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ.əl/
relating ...
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characteristic
noun[C]
uk/ˌkær.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/us/ˌker.ək.təˈrɪs.tɪk/
a typical or noticeable quality of someone ...
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(Definition ofbehaviouralandcharacteristicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This institutional heterogeneity presages a great diversity of motives, objectives and behavioural characteristics.
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Behaviour analysts assert that the behavioural characteristics of individuals arise and persist through the reinforcement contingencies that those individuals encounter in their environments.
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The participants completed a questionnaire on demographic and behavioural characteristics.
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In addition, the roles of gender, together with feeding and behavioural characteristics of the host, have been assessed in structuring these communities.
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The classical ethologists' great contribution was to describe species-specific behavioural characteristics.
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There is no indication in these results that, in selecting for intelligence, we inadvertently selected for other major behavioural characteristics.
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Table 1 shows the basic sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics.
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However, behavioural characteristics, or phenotypes, are so complex it is difficult to imagine that a single gene product could be responsible.
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This inventory contains 64 items, comprising eight subscales, which measure the cognitive and behavioural characteristics of eating disorders.
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The existence of pleiotropic links between morphological and behavioural characteristics, if found, as we suspect, to be widespread, could have important consequences.
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Rather, interspecific aggregation is likely to be the result of behavioural characteristics of each ectoparasite species.
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In the evenings, subjects recorded several behavioural characteristics in daily logbooks.
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It offers the highest security level because it relies on our unique physical or behavioural characteristics.
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Additional research is exploring the behavioural characteristics of the internal resonances and pressure variations of the saxophone body through amplification.
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Constantly breeding brothers and sisters together, all too frequently results in dogs with odd behavioural characteristics.
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The cognitive and behavioural characteristics and qualities of these animals are such that it is unethical to treat them as expendable for research.
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