cooperative behaviour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcooperativeandbehaviour
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cooperative
adjective
uk/kəʊˈɒp.ər.ə.tɪv/us/koʊˈɑː.pɚ.ə.t̬ɪv/
willing to help or do what ...
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behaviour
noun
uk/bɪˈheɪ.vjər/us/bɪˈheɪ.vjɚ/
the way that ...
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(Definition ofcooperativeandbehaviourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is impossible to say which swarm provoked thiscooperativebehaviour, and which swarm followed.
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Cooperativebehaviourin the presence of cheaters constitutes altruism towards the cheaters.
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Individuals that defect from cooperation and therefore do not pay the cost but nevertheless benefit from thecooperativebehaviourof others are called cheaters.
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There can be few societies where less emphasis is placed oncooperativebehaviourthan our own.
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So we reject our null hypothesis that privatization has led to greater public investment throughcooperativebehaviouramong the new resource owners.
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In general one would therefore have to resort to norms or rules in order to ensurecooperativebehaviour.
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Cooperativebehaviourbenefits the group of neighbouring microbes but comes at a fitness cost for the cooperating individuals.
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Those policies define the resource-wise contributions of the network participants, the share of the utility gain, dealing with conflicts and mechanisms to enforcecooperativebehaviourof the participants.
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This is clearly highly relevant for biofilms, because cheating and the maintenance ofcooperativebehaviour against the cheating load are understood so well for this most social group of bacteria.
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However, this lowering of trust results in lesscooperativebehaviourwhich, in turn, makes it harder for the proponent to persuade the opponent to accept its future proposals.
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Scholarship recipients must also be noted for theircooperativebehaviour, friendliness, helpfulness, respect for teachers and fellow students, and obedience to school rules.
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Through cultural group selection, culturally specificcooperativebehaviourcan evolve to support large societies.
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On the assumption that the game can model transactions between two people requiring trust,cooperativebehaviourin populations may be modeled by a multi-player, iterated, version of the game.
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