Pasting behavior

The Ontogeny of Pasting Behavior in Free-living Spotted Hyenas, Crocuta crocuta... 

Supporters claim that CERCLA and the court rulings promote economic efficiency because they internalize externalities they make "polluters" pay. Such reasoning has an economic basis only when companies did not practice due care (i.e., utilize disposal practices whose benefits exceeded costs at the time of disposal). Economic efficiency is about the present and the future, not about the past. What should be done about sunk costs or past behavior is not an economic question except insofar as those policies that pay for sunk costs might affect current and future decisions. 

Succinylation of rye starch (0.7-2.1%) changes the pasting behavior towards that of potato starch, decreasing the onset temperature, increasing the maximum viscosity and decreasing stability during holding at 96°C. Acetylation, on the other hand, makes the behavior of rye starch more like that of maize starch, with increased maximum viscosity and viscosity at 50°C. 

FIG. 1. Pasting behavior of different starches as measured using a Brabender amylograph. Viscosity is measured at varying temperatures a standard program starts at 50°C, then heats at 1. .vC/min until a temperature of 95°C is reached, and then the temperature is kept constant... 

Malamuth, N.M. A Multidimensional Approach to Sexual Aggression Combining Measures of Past Behavior and Present Likelihood. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 528 (1998) 123-132. 

Avoid hypothetical questions. Do not ask, How would you handle XXX but rather, How have you handled XXX You do not want candidates to give you speculative answers about how they might handle a situation in a perfect case rather, you want to know how they have really handled such situations. Remember, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. See Table 6.1 for examples of behavior-based questions. 

The best way to get at past behavior is to phrase your questions along the following lines ... 

Second, how stable is the company s relationship with this customer This can be measured by looking into his past behavior. Is the customer reasonably loyal to a partnership approach on principle In other words, is his buying independent... 

Social norms as I understand them are characterized by four features. First, they are non-outcome-oriented injunctions to act. In their simplest form, they take the form of unconditional imperatives "Always wear black at funerals." They may be contrasted with conditional, outcome-oriented imperatives "Always wear black in strong sunshine" (as do people in Mediterranean countries to maintain circulation of air between the clothes and the body). In a more complex form, they can be conditional imperatives that make the action contingent on the past behavior of oneself or others rather than on future outcomes to be achieved. Norms of reciprocity have this form Help those who help you, and harm those who harm you. Second, social norms are shared with the other members of one s society or of some relevant subgroup. Moreover, "the sharing itself is shared," as Charles Tavlor writes in a different context.16 All members know... 

Price, T.D., M.J. Schoeninger, and G.J. Armelagos. 1984. Bone chemistry and past behavior an overview. Journal of Human Evolution 13. 

Past behavior is no guarantee of future performance, but the trend is clear ... 

Gravitational N-body dynamical systems usually have only the current positions and velocities of the bodies as the observational evidence of their past history. The traces of their past behavior exist only as conceptual, theoretically computed orbits. However, the Laplace orbital resonance among the galilean satellites actually leaves a visible record of its behavior in a surprising and seemingly unlikely form Linear traces in distinctive geometric patterns clearly visible on the surface of the satellite Europa are a direct recording of the effect of the orbital resonance. 

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