If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity.
The case has attracted the attention of bloggers and even the loosely organized hacking group Anonymous, which have questioned everything from the behavior of the football team to the integrity of the investigation.
"UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against S.S. Lazio for the improper conduct of the club's supporters (racist behavior) during the UEFA Europa League group stage match on Thursday 20 September between Tottenham Hotspur FC and the Italian side, " read a UEFA statement.
Some hope for Merck and Schering's sales may come from Impact Rx, a prescription data service that bases its predictions on the behavior of a select group of doctors who prescribe high volumes of drugs.
All this may seem obvious, but it is clearly worth me prattling on about it, because the recently released 14th Annual Mystery Shopping Study by the etailing group found some appallingly bad behavior among merchants on this topic.
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"What has mobilized so many people, within our group and beyond, are the comments and behavior of some FDA officials and what we believe to be incorrect scientific conclusions, " said Douglas Park, an Arena shareholder in San Diego who used to work for the company.
"IKEA would hereby like to inform this group and its organizers: Your behavior is affecting the normal operations of the IKEA cafeteria, " the notice said.
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Those who manage or have any responsibility for the conduct of a group or work unit already know to squash bullying behavior.
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Those who witnessed rudeness also were less willing to invest extra effort to help others in their group, according to the study, published in 2009 in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
But the behavior of rats in the odorized box wasn't significantly different in either group, suggesting the familiar scents left by the odorizing rat suppressed conditioned fear responses, researchers said.
While the behavior might be limited to one or two people, the effect reverberates throughout the group.
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The headlines in this our 30th year of The Forbes 400 belong not to the old stalwarts but to a younger group of entrepreneurs marching their way up the ranks, particularly those who are profoundly impacting social behavior online.
But the group's policy director, John Wonderlich, maintained there were plenty of other abuses involving improper behavior by officeholders that had yet to be exposed.
The findings are "pretty good evidence" that violent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior, says Dr. L. Rowell Huesmann, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor.
Doubling its staff of scientists and technicians to more than 350 people, the Seattle-based nonprofit group plans to build over the coming decade a series of "brain observatories, " computational tools to map neural behavior.
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