50 results about "Behavioral response" patented technology

The system and method of producing an avoidance response in an animal, and more particularly, producing an avoidance response by illuminating the animal with light or sound of sufficient wavelength, intensity, frequency, and duration to create the desired avoidance response in the animal. The system and method of producing top predator behavior to produce an avoidance repose in an animal by utilizing one or more unmanned vehicles in the air, on land and/or in the water where the unmanned vehicles comprise illumination sources.

An automated infant massager system that monitors an infant's physical, physiological and behavioral response to the massage and can adjust the intensity of the massage and massager duration settings based on the responses of the infant and/or information from a user, preferably autonomously. A processor, which is operatively associated with the infant massager, coordinates overall operations and functions of the infant massager, as well as receiving information regarding the infant's physical, behavioral, and physiological responses to the massage. The user input through the remote receiver transmitter, and/or an associated bar code/radio-frequency identification (RFID) scanner, and/or direct communications with the processor may be employed. In a further embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of infant massaging units are controlled in network fashion by means of a processor and router, thereby permitting one or more infant massagers to be controlled by one or more users and allows one or more automated infant massagers to communicate and interface with electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

A socially intelligent agent (SIA) platform enables interactions with various different applications, thereby enabling easier programming of various applications and injecting socially intelligent agents thereto. An application adapter is provided to enable interaction between any application and the SIA platform. In operation, the user provides input via the user interface and the input is applied to the application via the application interface. The application processes the input and provides a social event indication to the SIA platform, via the application adapter. The SIA platform then process the social event and output an behavioral response. The motional response is sent to the application via the application adapter. The application processes the behavioral response and, when proper, output appropriate response to a user interface.

The invention provides a detection device and method for an instinctive fear behavior of an animal. The detection device for the instinctive fear behavior of the animal includes a box body, a visual stimulation device and a camera. The box body includes a behavior test box used for testing the instinctive fear behavior of the animal and a hiding box for the animal to hide after the animal makes an instinctive fear response. An opening is formed between the behavior test box and the hiding box for communication of the behavior test box and the hiding box. The visual stimulation device is used for sending a stimulus signal to the animal to stimulate the animal to make the instinctive fear response. The camera is arranged on the upper portion of the box body for recording the behavior response of the animal. According to the provided detection device and method for the instinctive fear behavior of the animal, the movement path and movement speed of the animal can be accurately obtained, and the reliability and stability of experimental results can be effectively improved.

Low probability of marine impact (LPMMI) sound signals have a modulation component selected to reduce a behavioral response from a marine mammal from that which would occur when transmitting another sound signal having approximately the same time duration component, approximately the same bandwidth component, and approximately the same center frequency component as the LPMMI waveform but having a modulation component comprising a frequency modulation.

Methods for identifying and modulating the subset of constitutively expressed locus-specific proteins in the brain, the deactivation of which selectively impairs the otherwise normal behavioral response to given stimulus, which is correlated with a particular elementary mental state.

The invention provides a method for ameliorating chronic pain signaling involving transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) by expressing PP1α in neurons. The invention also provides HSV vectors for expressing PP1α within neurons and compositions comprising such vectors.

A new neuro-behavioral test with analysis algorithms has been developed for use in screening individuals for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and for the quantitative evaluation of ADHD medication/therapy in diagnosed patients. This technique combines a 15 minute auditory-based test of attention with simultaneous EEG monitoring by a wireless, portable data acquisition device. This system acquires both behavioral response (i.e., reaction times to target stimuli, as well as errors of omission/commission) and EEG waveforms. All of the data is simultaneously processed by the algorithms to produce several representative indices. These indices are then combined to produce an overall neuro-behavioral index that represents the degree by which both “behavioral” and “EEG” attention is maintained throughout the test.

An eye movement-based methodology and assessment tool may be used to quantify many aspects of human dynamic visual processing using a relatively simple and short oculomotor task, noninvasive video-based eye tracking, and validated oculometric analysis techniques. By examining the eye movement responses to a task including a radially-organized appropriately randomized sequence of Rashbass-like step-ramp pursuit-tracking trials, distinct performance measurements may be generated that may be associated with, for example, pursuit initiation (e.g., latency and open-loop pursuit acceleration), steady-state tracking (e.g., gain, catch-up saccade amplitude, and the proportion of the steady-state response consisting of smooth movement), direction tuning (e.g., oblique effect amplitude, horizontal-vertical asymmetry, and direction noise), and speed tuning (e.g., speed responsiveness and noise). This quantitative approach may provide fast and results (e.g., a multi-dimensional set of oculometrics and a single scalar impairment index) that can be interpreted by one without a high degree of scientific sophistication or extensive training.

A method of routing customer inquires for an organization using an inbound or outbound caller or online echatter, typically in a call center, including steps of engaging in a communication with a customer wherein the customer provides an information inquiry, determining a number of staff members of the organization that are appropriate for responding to the inquiry, sending a first electronic message from the call center to each of the number of staff members for determining whether the staff member is immediately available for responding to the inquiry, receiving a second electronic message from one or more responding staff members indicating that the associated staff member is immediately available for responding to the inquiry (a positive behavioral response), selecting the best qualified staff member of those available, and facilitating direct communication between the selected staff member and the prospective customer.

An attractant for an insect trap functions by creating an attractive smell or other olfactory sensation, or an antennal response which elicits a behavioral response for a flying insect. In the case of the housefly (musca domestica), preferred attractant ingredients are tremethylamine, butyric acid, Z-9-tricosene (muscalure), and egg powder. Highly volatile attractant components are dispensed separately, and all air-borne attractants are mixed and distributed together to enhance the synergistic effects between them. The present invention is the first explicit report of the synergy between chemical attractants (e.g. trimethylamine and butyric acid) and food attractants, such as egg powder. If the attractants of the present invention are packaged in a cartridge, then precise amounts of the discreet chemical attractants can be metered out for optimum attraction of insects. Further, the concentrations of chemical components of the attractant composition comprising the present invention are tightly controlled to avoid objectionable odors, but at the same time, attract flies.

The invention discloses a bumblebee robot abdomen swinging control method based on virtual reality and reinforcement learning, and belongs to the technical field of bug robots. The control method comprises the following steps: (1) establishing a Q meter according to a set bumblebee abdomen swinging target mode, wherein the Q meter records accumulated discount reward points obtained by every action in every abdomen swinging mode; and (2) monitoring the abdomen swinging mode of a bumblebee at the current time, and producing movements to control abdomen swinging of the bumblebee on the basis of the Q meter and according to the reward point maximum principle. The interactive mechanism between the abdomen swinging behavior of the bumblebee and a visual stimulator is established by an algorithm, and the circumstance that a large number of bioexperiments are carried out to obtain a relation between stimulation and behavioral response is avoided. The motion behavior of the bumblebee is induced by visual stimulation, an enhanced learning algorithm is used as a control algorithm, a loop-locked control system is formed effectively, and abdomen swinging action of the bumblebee can be controlled accurately.

A method and system is provided to uniformly evaluate product characteristics and identifying risk factors associated with the products so that a comprehensive scoring system provides an attractiveness score by age brackets and also provides for a consistent quantification process so that an overall characterization may be viewed by a color coded scoring scheme. The scoring system is based on predetermined scores created for age brackets and pre-identified product attributes. Through user feedback a new product may be evaluated using a series of questions that are associated with the predetermined scores producing an overall attractiveness score. Through another set of questions and predetermined mitigation scores, a mitigations score may be developed for the product so that by combining the attractiveness score with the mitigation score and comprehensive product score may be produced indicative of risk. The invention also provides for exploring various categories of characteristics that may lead to particular behavioral responses to the product by age group.

The invention relates to application of trans-caryophyllene to a cyrtorhinus lividipennis attractant. The trans-caryophyllene is prepared into a mother solution through absolute ethyl alcohol; after being dissolved, paraffin oil or n-hexane is used for fields and a solution with the concentration is 10ppm to 10000ppm is used as the cyrtorhinus lividipennis attractant. Behavioral responses of adults of both sexes are determined through a Y-type olfactometer; when the concentration is 50ppm, the attraction rate on male insects reaches 36.67 percent; behavioral responses of young cyrtorhinus lividipennis are determined through an H-type olfactometer; when the concentration is 50ppm, the attraction rate reaches 48.65 percent. In a net house experiment determines, when the concentration is 500ppm, the attraction rate reaches 65.84 percent. In a field experiment, when the concentration is 10000ppm, the attraction rate on the young cyrtorhinus lividipennis reaches 37.16 percent and the attraction rate on adult cyrtorhinus lividipennis reaches 20.74 percent. The application provided by the invention determines that the trans-caryophyllene can be applied to the fields to attraction of the cyrtorhinus lividipennis, can be used for enhancing regulation and control on natural enemies and controlling insect density of rice insect pests and can also be used for regulating behaviors of each insect state indoors.