Optimal foraging theory

Optimal Foraging Strategies of Camponotus pennsylvanicus Hypothesis 1.) Ants prefer food sources of a higher quality rather than of a lower quality. 2.) Ants are sensitive to foraging gains and predation risks. Predictions 1.) Ants will prefer to forage for sugar water that is highly concentrated rather than water that is less concentrated. 2.) Ants will prefer to forage close to their home net site rather than farther away from their home nest site. 3.) Ants will balance the trade-off between the risk of predation and food quality. Ants will take greater risks for high quality food than they will for low quality food. Methods For the low quality food source, a 1% sugar solution was made by measuring 1 gram of sugar and mixing it with…

Firstly, again with residential base, which he states on his article is also the hub of subsistence activities, the area where food procurement parties or foragers, generally start and end the process, as well as being the place where most of the manufacturing, processing, maintenance activities originate. To reiterate, Binford’s theory is that among forager residential mobility may vary considerably with both duration and spacing between sites, as well as size of the group itself. Another point…

there is no consensus as to whether decision making occurs unconsciously or consciously. Dijksterhuis (2004) define conscious thought to be a mental state which surrounds awareness; while unconscious thought, a reasoning which occurs while conscious attention is allocated elsewhere (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006). The deliberation-without-attention effect explains that unconscious processes are adequately suited for optimal decision making, as it is able to integrate large amounts of…

The opening words of his book, “Life is a series of decisions” (Dr. Kent Ingle, 2013), accurately describes his view. Dr. Kent Ingle quickly denounces the idea that on should find themselves in a routine; he believes that God always opens new doors, even if they don’t seem to line up with what appeared to be the path. These doors, according to Dr. Kent Ingle, are God’s way of providing a call to adventure. With these calls, one has two options: they can say yes to the call or they can deny the…

According to Mount Holyoke, there is a problem that some people are afraid of expressing their views and posing the information in public. Thus, they indicate the using of electronic mail can encourage the team members to be bold and attract a multitude of creative information and idea. Moreover, Phillips points out, there are a great number of group members who from diverse backgrounds will bring a large quantity of distinct messages. Therefore, she says the group will gain plenty of messages…

places that are currently experiencing sea level rise risks such as Florida, United States of America, and Calcutta, India (Lubin, 2014). Currently, Florida uses a decision making framework called SDM, structured decision making (Fackler, 2011). SDM is a proactive strategy that aims to identify the correct decisions with respect to different management objectives as well as the current knowledge of systems (ibid). This is optimal for Vancouver since the city is still at the beginning of sea…

Ethical Reasoning Ethical dilemmas can sometimes be very complex situations where the decision and individual makes could have a negative effect on either party, depending on which decision you choose. I believe that every person has the intention of doing the right thing but in some cases there is not a right choice and one or both sides of the situation could have negative consequences. For example lets take four individuals in a college setting, three guys and one girl. The guy’s names are…

helped me with porting these data from the tilt sensor into their DynaTIm data sorter. Which could handle the data flow and maintain a graphic user visual towards the parameters. For comparison we also connected the tree to a DynaTIm sensor from RinnTech. This process yielded us with some amazingly accurate values to the degree of 10000th. Even though the millisecond part of the code was a software oriented one and had minor calibration issues, our sensors worked just fine. They were actually…

In Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. lecture, Defining Moments he asked the important question about decision-making. He asked not how to make a decision about what is right vs. what is wrong, but he asked how do you make the decision of what is right vs. right. In the application food company, the decision to pick between the two applicants is a right vs. right decision. Based on both applicants’ qualifications hiring one over the other will result in that there is no right or wrong decision, both…

Making decisions, especially decisions associated with business or management, can be very stressful and time consuming. There is rarely the one perfect solution that fully satisfies all parties or elements of a problem, yet utilizing rational decision making through the six key steps can reduce manager workload, and yield the best possible decision for any number of problems. Chuck Williams writes "Decision making is the process of choosing a solution from available alternatives. Rational…