Sentences with phrase «special adaptations of»

Special adaptations of the skin and the circulatory system help to regulate the cutaneous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide

A former Russian princess who is an active sportswoman has devised this special adaptation of a classic Russian dish

Many elderly people require special adaptation of their homes due to mobility restrictions and poor health.

Not exact matches

Some argue Lewis would approve of movie adaptations if he could have known the quality of special effects and modern cinematography.

And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion lines in the film's honor.

Snapology programs are designed to be inclusive of all children and learning abilities through creating adaptations to each lesson plan to accommodate children with special needs.

Learn all about farm life, explore the forest, field, and wetlands looking for tracks and signs of plants and animals that live at Drumlin Farm year - round, discover the special adaptations that make birds of prey such skilled hunters, or journey back in time to learn about growing up in New England through cooking, stories, and games.

The UK also convened a security seminar in 2014 and contributed to two special projects on the Importance of Road Maintenance and on an International Climate Change Adaptation Framework for Road Infrastructure.

On islands, scientists sometimes see a «sped - up» version of evolution — when animals are closed off from the rest of the world, in places where there are few or no predators or competitors, they are able to branch out into special adaptations, eventually forming new species.

Their work resulted in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report and Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation.

The hardy plants known as living stones have a variety of special adaptations allowing them to thrive in challenging climates.

«We studied how adaptation changes the brain and were surprised to find that adaptation «tunes» the brain to a special mode of operation, called criticality.»

To show that something is an adaptation, you have to be able to explain the how and the why, show that it has some kind of special design, a design that solved a specific problem.

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

In this presentation, special emphasis will be given to the role of Ca2 + handling as a key regulator of (i) muscle weakness and (ii) beneficial adaptations observed after high intensity interval training.

• Editor and Lead Author, «The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability», IPCC Special Report on the Regional Impacts of Climate Change (1998) • Lead Author of IPCC Technical Paper No. 3, «Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio - Economic Implications,» (1997) • Editor, Working Group II Contribution to the Second Assessment Report Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations, and Mitigation (Scientific and Technical Analyses), (1996).

Anthony Janetos • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability» of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Contributing Author, Working Group I, «The Carbon Cycle,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2005) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report: Land Use, Land - Use Change and Forestry (2000) • Lead Author, Working Group I, «Greenhouse Gases: Sources and Sinks,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (2000) • Contributing Author, Working Group II, «Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems,» IPCC First Assessment Report (1990).

James J. Dooley • Expert Reviewer, «Carbon Dioxide Transport, Injection and Geological Storage,» IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2006) • Lead Author, «Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Cross-Cutting Chairman for «Market Deployment,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Lead Author, «Technical Summary,» IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Expert Reviewer, Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

The core topics covered in this course are the special senses of hearing, vision, and smell, with a special emphasis on the adaptive and ecological significance of sensory adaptations in primates.

Insulin benefits of exercise «One previous small study found that trained and untrained people who dose up on antioxidant supplements impair important exercise training adaptations such as improved insulin sensitivity and production of special proteins that actually help defend the body against oxidative stress caused by exercise,» says Tim Crowe, Associate Professor in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University and founder of Thinking Nutrition.

All of these can usually be corrected with special adaptations.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

MISS PEREGRINE»S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: Eva Green is the headmistress at a special school for gifted children in director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs» novel.

As with most other WGBH releases there are no on - disc special features, which is a shame since the closing credits indicate the existence, on the PBS web site, of an interview with Emmy - winning classic adaptation specialist Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay here.

The offbeat auteur, who has remained prolific and idiosyncratic for the past four decades, remains a victim to the glossy onslaught of hollow CGI special effects, and his latest, an adaptation of Ransom Riggs» 2011 young adult novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, is yet another exercise in empty - headed razzle dazzle.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).

Last January, we reported that Syriana director Stephen Gaghan had signed on to direct The Division, an adaptation of the Ubisoft video game about special military operatives sent in to a plague - ravaged Manhattan to execute gang members and troll other human players with high - tech gadgets and various different - colored...

... John Leguizamo continues his autobiography - through - monologue in his fifth solo HBO special, an adaptation of his stage hit John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown (Saturday, 10 / 9c).

Tom Hiddleston, James Purefoy, Sienna Guillory, Wheatley and more turned up on the red carpet in London Leicester Square for the special gala screening of the adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel.

Extras: Audio commentary from 1994 featuring Demme, Foster and Hopkins, screenwriter Ted Tally, and former FBI agent John Douglas; new interview with critic Maitland McDonagh; thirty - five minutes of deleted scenes; interview from 2005 with Demme and Foster; «Inside the Labyrinth,» a 2001 documentary; «Page to Screen,» a 2002 program about the adaptation; «Scoring The Silence,» a 2004 interview program featuring composer Howard Shore; «Understanding the Madness,» a 2008 program featuring interviews with retired FBI special agents; behind - the - scenes featurette; trailer; an essay by critic Amy Taubin along with, in the Blu - ray edition, a new introduction by Foster; an account of the origins of the character Hannibal Lecter by author Thomas Harris; and a 1991 interview with Demme.

Paper Towns has the special kind of uninspired (yes, I know that's an oxymoron, but bear with me here) filmmaking that seems part and parcel of YA adaptations.

In anticipation of next week's special preview of a new 4K restoration of Howards End at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Digital Editor Violet Lucca discussed this artful, complex adaptation and other Merchant - Ivory classics with FSLC Editorial Director Michael Koresky and Farran Smith Nehme, FILM COMMENT columnist and regular contributor to the New York Post.

Special Features New conversation between critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Michael Schlesinger Audio interview from 1991 where actress Elizabeth Montgomery discusses her father, actor Robert Montgomery Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme

Breaking down that special group of movies, CBR has run down all those adaptations that are worth more of your time, even if you don't really want to give it.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey New video essay by film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant's performance Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert PLUS: An essay by film critic Molly Haskell

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BAFTA - nominated story: An authentic adaptation of the famous 2000 AD sci - fi comic, composed of war, betrayal and revenge... Remastered visuals: Stunning high definition, totally remodelled characters, weapons & vehicles, new special effects and more!

So, if I have to live through direct - to - DVD sequels of The Amityville Horror or a TV show adaptation of Shall We Dance in order to get a loaded special edition Blu - ray of Pulp Fiction, I'd say it's a fair trade.

Helmed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), the adaptation of Veronica Roth's novel of the same name takes place in a futuristic Chicago and stars Shailene Woodley as Tris, a heroic young woman with special abilities.

Home from the Hill Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1960, 35 mm, 150m Vincente Minnelli's widescreen color melodramas for MGM are all very special, and this adaptation of William Humphrey's sprawling 1958 saga of an overpowering Texas landowner and his family (with echoes of Giant and The Big Country) is one of the finest.

12 Strong (R for violence and pervasive profanity) Adaptation of «Horse Soldiers,» Doug Stanton's best seller chronicling the declassified exploits of a Special Forces unit deployed to Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

She won Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for her appearance alongside Miles Teller in 2013's adaptation of Tim Tharp's book «The Spectacular Now», and followed up the role in Gregg Araki's thriller «White Bird in a Blizzard» the following year.

20th Century Fox has revealed a special Valentine's Day trailer for director George Tillman Jr.'s upcoming adaptation of Nicholas Sparks» recent novel, The Longest Ride.

In this week's special second segment, Whit Stillman talks with FC contributor Nick Pinkerton about his new film, Love & Friendship, adaptation, and the finer points of writing a novel.

SCREENDAILY — World premieres of Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game starring Jessica Chastain, and Dominic Cooke's Ian McEwan adaptation On Chesil Beach with Saoirse Ronan (pictured) are among 32 additional Special Presentations films to join the Toronto roster on Tuesday.

Special effects take pride of place in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories that is as technically accomplished as it is thinly conceived.

The young cast is excellent, with special call - outs for Lillis and Lieberher, and praise can't get any higher than to say their chemistry recalls not just Stranger Things, a show indebted to the novel IT, but the kids» banter and heartache in the daddy of all King adaptations, Stand By Me.