Background/Objectives: Approach-avoidance behavior is critical for adaptive behavior. The neural basis of these behaviors has been investigated extensively, but the effect of odor valence is unclear. This study tested how positive, negative, and neut...
Subthreshold depression is a risk factor for depression among university students. Positive environmental reinforcement is a significant mediator of avoidance and depression in healthy university students. However, this relationship is understudied i...
Microplastic contamination is an increasing concern in terrestrial ecosystems, yet behavioral responses of soil-dwelling organisms remain less studied than conventional toxicity endpoints. This laboratory study assessed avoidance and mortality in thr...
This paper presents the application of imitation learning—specifically, Behavioral Cloning—to collision avoidance and path planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicles. The proposed approach enables machine learning models to learn navigation p...
Governments have been introducing strategies to reduce plastic waste. The reduction in plastic waste can be possible through single-use plastic avoidance. However, this is only possible with the proper understanding of the behavioral factors of singl...
2 August 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the stage of secondhand smoke avoidance behavior of adolescents in rural areas of Vietnam and the related factors affecting such behavior. The participants were recruited from two middle schools located in Hai...
Past research has identified that some individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who engage in target behavior (e.g., aggression, self-injury) maintained by negative reinforcement engage in the behavior to escape or avoid social in...
Avoidance behavior in adults with chronic dizziness is common. Here, we analyzed factors that are associated with avoidance behavior in a sample of adults with chronic dizziness and/or vertigo. Therefore, 595 patients with chronic vertigo and dizzine...
Some wind farms have implemented automated camera-based monitoring systems, e.g., IdentiFlight to mitigate the impact of wind turbines on protected birds. These systems have promoted the collection of large amounts of unique data that can be used to...
The exploration of ship collision avoidance behavior characteristics can provide a theoretical basis for ship collision risk assessment and collision avoidance decision-making, which is significant for ensuring maritime navigation safety and the deve...
With the development of intelligent waterborne transportation, mining collision avoidance patterns based on spatiotemporal and motion data of ships are crucial for the autonomous navigation of intelligent ships, which requires accurate collision avoi...
The health risk avoidance behavior of tourists in China, a country actively combating COVID-19, is of research significance. This study proposes and tests a model based on three theories—stimulus-organism-response model, motivation-opportunity-...
To address the limitations of conventional social force models in simulating high-density pedestrian crowds, this study proposes an enhanced model that incorporates visual perception constraints, group-type labeling, and collective avoidance mechanis...
Objectives: Fear of falling (FoF) is a common psychological phenomenon in later life and is often accompanied by avoidance behavior and activity restriction. Although FoF is associated with anxiety, depressive symptoms, reduced self-efficacy, and fea...
The menstrual cycle affects women’s emotional states, with estrogen and progesterone having predominant roles. However, it remains unclear whether the phases of the menstrual cycle also affect women’s motivational behaviors. In this study...
In order to prevent ship collisions, it is important to understand the behavior of navigators that leads to these collisions. The main cause of marine accidents in the Republic of Korea is attributed to navigator error, particularly in collisions. He...
Gaze behavior is a critical component of social interaction, reflecting emotional recognition and social regulation. While previous research has emphasized either situational influences (e.g., deception) or stable individual differences (e.g., attach...
Affected by the normalization of the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s lives are subject to many restrictions, and they are under enormous psychological and physical pressure. In this situation, health information may be a burden and cause of anxiety...
To address the formation control issue of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a finite-time control scheme based on terminal sliding mode (TSM) is investigated in this paper. A quadcopter UAV with the vertical takeoff property is considered, wi...
Traveling during off-peak season can mean cheaper flights, cheaper hotels, and the chance to see a destination at a less frenetic time of year. To alleviate the congestion of roads and tourist attractions, a better demand management plan is needed to...
Family-related factors play an important role in children’s socio-emotional adjustment during early childhood. Although maternal insecure attachment has been consistently associated with parenting processes and children’s socio-emotional...
Road anomalies, such as cracks, pits and puddles, have generally been identified by citizen reports made by e-mail or telephone; however, it is difficult for administrative entities to locate the anomaly for repair. An advanced smartphone-based solutio...
This paper proposes an enhanced local path planning method based on the Dynamic Window Approach (DWA), enabling a mobile robot to safely avoid obstacles and efficiently reach its destination. To overcome the limitations of the conventional DWA in han...
This research aims to analyze the effects of perceived environmental responsibility (PER), environmental knowledge (EK), new ecological paradigm (NEP), and environmental collective efficacy (ECE) on the high-quality broiler purchase intention of Chin...
Repeated water avoidance stress (WAS) for 10 days is a common rodent model to mimic the effect of chronic psychological stress on urinary bladder dysfunction. However, it remains obscure whether changes in the stress exposure period impact urinary bl...
Morphological or behavioral defense mechanisms are important evolutionary strategies for the survival of prey. Studies have focused on predation and competition, but infection has been overlooked, despite being a determining factor of distribution an...
Oxytocin (OT) is a nonapeptide hormone that is secreted into the brain and blood circulation. OT has not only classical neurohormonal roles in uterine contraction and milk ejection during the reproductive phase in females, but has also been shown to...
Aviation accounts for a disproportionate share of tourism-related carbon emissions. Many travelers express environmental concern but continue to fly, reflecting the well-documented attitude–behavior gap. This study examines the concept of fligh...
20 August 2022
Although Western studies showed that attachment insecurity was negatively related to adolescent altruistic behavior, few studies have investigated this issue among Chinese adolescents, and little is known about the mechanisms underlying the impact of...
COVID-19 has exposed university students to high-stress situations, and the percentage of individuals with depressive symptoms was high during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, subthreshold depression carries a risk for the subsequent development o...
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, the future water traffic environment will present a new pattern of coexistence of manned ships and unmanned ships, because unmanned ships are different from manned ships in situation underst...
Virtual geographic environments (VGEs) are extensively used to explore the relationship between humans and environments. Crowd simulation provides a method for VGEs to represent crowd behaviors that are observed in the real world. The social force mo...
Service robots perform versatile functions in indoor environments. This study focuses on obstacle avoidance using flock-type indoor-based multi-robots. Each robot was developed with rendezvous behavior and distributed intelligence to perform obstacle...
Under the traditional research framework of corporate social responsibility and tax avoidance, there is no agreement on whether charitable donations constitutes an altruistic behavior or a management tool. Using a sample of Chinese firms, this paper...
In order to investigate the influence of factors such as pheromones and avoidance behavior on the evacuation of heterogeneous crowds, a multi-speed cellular automata evacuation model based on asymmetric competitiveness is proposed for the evacuation...
Following exposure to trauma, avoidance behavior can be protective but also contribute to severe symptoms and interfere with exposure-based therapy. Extinction of fear conditioning by exposure to the same environment or environmental cues that were p...
Background: Anxiety disorders affect millions of people worldwide, but current treatments often have limited effectiveness and produce unpredictable responses in patients. This underscores the need for novel anxiolytics. While behavior-based screens...
Urban parks are key components of metropolitan green infrastructure, contributing to residents’ well-being. However, perceptions of disorder and safety may substantially shape how these spaces are experienced, particularly during evening hours....
Traditionally, foraging behavior has been explained as the response to a trade-off between energetic gain from feeding resources and potential costs from concomitant risks. However, an increasing number of studies has shown that this view fails to ex...
When designing a fish collection system for fishpass facilities, considering the approach–avoidance behavior of fish under different flow velocities and light colors, is essential to ensure a good fishpass efficiency. In this study, a generaliz...
3 July 2019
Sun protective behaviors and physical activity have the potential to reduce cancer risk. Walking is the most common type of physical activity in the United States, but it is unclear whether sun protective behaviors differ by categories of walking, su...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in persistent alterations in social cognition, trust, and behavior because of its long-term psychological and neurological effects. By conditioning individuals to associate proximity with risk, the pandemic-induced...
Organizations need high performance from their employees to achieve their goals, provide specialized services and products, and ultimately secure a competitive edge. Performance is also a source of satisfaction for employees, as it creates feelings o...
7 December 2022
Background: This study is a preliminary study on an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program that mitigates destructive experiential avoidance (DEA) behaviors, including self-harm behavior and addiction; Methods: Twenty participants aged 15&nd...
The concept of Future Work-Salience (FWSS) plays a pivotal role in ensuring sustainable employability. Previous studies on FWSS have primarily focused on career-related outcomes, neglecting the broader domain of proactive behaviors. Furthermore, the...
Understanding the mechanisms responsible for anxiety disorders is a major challenge. Avoidance behavior is an essential feature of anxiety disorders. The two-way avoidance test is a preclinical model with two distinct subpopulations—the good an...
15 July 2021
Social networking sites have determined radical changes in human life, demanding investigations on online socialization mechanisms. The knowledge acquired on in-person sociability could guide researchers to consider both environmental and genetic fea...
Analysis of spatiotemporal partitioning is pivotal to shed light on interspecific coexistence. Most research effort has involved large-sized carnivores and their prey, whereas little attention has been devoted to lagomorphs. We assessed spatiotempora...
One of the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all. Tobacco consumption is a serious health problem that affects smokers and non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS),...
8 June 2026
Drawing on the uncanny valley framework, trust theory, and similarity attraction theory, this study examines how customers’ multidimensional perceptions of humanoid service robots shape their approach and avoidance behaviors through two relatio...
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