Example sentences for: reciprocity

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  • Thus there appears to be a "one way correlation"; whether the stimulus is agrin or laminin AChR aggregation is an excellent predictor of α-DG aggregation, but the converse is not found (see particularly [ 4 ] ). This lack of reciprocity will of course reduce the label correlation as measured in the present study.

  • The number of items complicating talks with the Palestinians is staggering: left-over commitments from previous agreements; questions of compliance and reciprocity; a volatile Palestinian population, which can easily be incited to violent disorders; a still-intact Hamas terrorism infrastructure; and, of course, difficult talks on the future of Jerusalem, settlements, borders, and the outlines of a Palestinian entity," the paper said gloomily.

  • NERC depends on reciprocity, peer pressure, and the mutual self-interest of its members to prevent any future occurrence like the 1965 incident.

  • One of the heralded potential examples, predator "inspection" in shoaling fish [ 21 ] has proved something of a controversy [ 20 ] . Various authors have questioned whether the observed behaviour is cooperation maintained by reciprocity in a Prisoner's Dilemma at all, rather than simple by-product mutualism [ 22 ] or some other mechanism [ 23 24 ] . In general, other candidate models to explain altruism among non-relatives have tended to be ignored [ 19 25 26 ] , and the usefulness of Prisoner's Dilemma as a paradigm for the study of cooperation is beginning to be brought into question [ 27 ] .

  • As a result, a large body of literature has grown up around the problem of finding optimal strategies for playing the game but "the preoccupation with new and improved strategies has sometimes distracted from the main point: explaining animal cooperation" [ 7 ] . Recent publications have concentrated on how special conditions such as kin selection [ 3 ] , iterated interactions [ 8 ] , spatial structuring [ 9 ] or indirect reciprocity through reputation [ 10 ] can escape the paradox and lead to evolution of cooperation.


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