Sentences with phrase «about adaptation for»

We need more campaigners talking about adaptation for the global poor rather than all mitigation; same with the media.

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Comic fans are one of the hardest - to - please audiences imaginable for popular adaptations of their favorite books, so even getting a passing mark makes Disney look better than just about anyone else.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

But it also provides for assertions to be made about the rate, timing, and severity of shorter term adaptations.

Hollywood may be shy about attempting any other big - budget Bible adaptations for a while, but biblical themes transcend biblical adaptations, and God's truth will always be a compelling topic to creative minds — whether they recognize it or not.

Though he recognizes that what justice requires changes with changing circumstances, his thought about justice is so dominated by a «sense of things fixed» that little if any place is left for personal adaptation in its exercise.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

From Town & Village, a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long - lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour - long adaptations for children.

They had about as much institutional structure as street theater: lots of improvisation, plenty of borrowing and stealing from whomever they bumped into, and free adaptation of other people's ideas and property for their own purposes; but precious little polity, and no property at all (The Astonished Heart, 19).

Now that I've gone on about my love for Ottolenghi, check out my adaptation of his fritters below.

Playing for Keeps: Play that Keeps Love, Creativity, and Belonging First - Register now for API Live with international play expert Fred Donaldson Monday, January 23, 2012, at 9 pm EST / 6 pm PST join API Live to learn about Original Play and how we can understand it as parents for fostering self - esteem, transformation, security, welcoming, adaptation and many more qualities for our children's development and health.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 2016, UNICEF and WHO collected 13 country case studies about the BFHI, which document the country adaptations in implementation, achievements, challenges and lessons learned and recommendations for the global BFHI guidance.

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.

Observational data suggest that fathers are important in the maternal decision on how to feed the infant and that mothers choose to bottle feed or breastfeed for a shorter time when the father is not supporting breastfeeding.16 — 19 Moreover, supporting the father during breastfeeding may help to improve the mother's satisfaction with breastfeeding, duration of breastfeeding, and adaptation of both parents to parenting.10, 20 — 23 Despite these data, the fathers are poorly informed about the advantages of breastfeeding24, 25 and may have many concerns that are poorly addressed and that can negatively influence initiation and duration rates of breastfeeding.

Passionate about research, she worked on the Williams, Hawdon and DeRooy team examining the effects of supplementation on metabolic adaptation and breastfeeding and studied a subset of mother - baby pairs for her MSc.

A quick witted and genuinely funny man whose book about being a Labour party activist is essential reading for anyone who needs cheering up after yet another rained out leaflet round — in fact, I seem to remember insisting my new boyfriend (now my long - suffering husband) read it to see what life with me would be like (he listened to the radio adaptation!).

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

Another adaptation that became popular was direct development, that is, producing young without a tadpole stage, which is standard for about half of all frog species today.

NCAR's research is paid for by the National Science Foundation, and Busalacchi predicted that future research will shift toward more precise computer modeling and include more interdisciplinary research about the risks and the adaptation that is, or is not, happening along coastlines.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

«Up until now, the evolution of feathers was mainly considered to be an adaptation related to flight or to warm - bloodedness, seasoned with a few speculations about display capabilities» says the article's first author, Marie - Claire Koschowitz of the Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bonn.

Hallegatte estimates that the necessary adaptations would cost each at - risk city an initial $ 3 billion, plus 2 percent of the initial cost each year for maintenance and operation, putting the total yearly cost for the 136 - city sample in the study at about $ 50 billion — a quarter of NASA's space shuttle program.

The Arabian Gulf populations are an example of the capacity for local adaptation to allow corals to cope with conditions that prevail in the Arabian Gulf; this pattern tells us little about the limits of adaptability.

More about adaptations as a possible cause for Bordetella's reemergence Information on pertussis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pertussis information from the World Health Organization

Pikas, which include about 30 species all living at different altitudes, have likely evolved special adaptations for living where they do.

A different research group recently found that the Osiris gene cluster is under strong selection in an isolated population of the fly D. yakuba that has just begun adapting to a diet of poison - laden noni, another clue that learning more about these genes may be crucial for understanding OA resistance and this compelling model of ecological adaptation.

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

Rather CBT is an approach that relies on the use of many different techniques that are designed to deal with each unique situation and individual and focus primarily on the changing of particular behaviours, developing better strategies for managing troublesome situations, and learning how to think about, perceive and interpret circumstances in ways that lead to a healthier adaptation to conditions that are producing the symptoms.»

Some scientific problems with modern paleo movement include: 1) dogmatic insistence on the Raymond Dart model of «man the hunter», which has been contested and supplanted in paleoanthropology for decades; 2) ignorance about the speed of evolutionary adaptation, for example our very recent acquisition of lactase persistence and high amylase gene number; 3) focus on the diets of 80 - 10,000 years ago, dismissing the 40 million years when our lineage were predominantly herbivorous forest dwellers.

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Keto - adaptation is for people who are serious about eating well and take the low - carb approach as a lifestyle rather than a short - term solution to weight loss.

So the way you can think about it is not a really light load and not a really heavy load but basically kind of a medium load, the type of load you would use with right around 10 to 12 repetitions and so what that means is if all you're going after is getting yourself kind of tired out, really working the muscle and getting the maximum hormonal adaptation to strength training or to weight lifting or to lean muscle toning in the weight room — that 10 to 12 rep range is probably going to be a pretty good range for you if you really, truly are using about 75 % of your one repetition maximum.

I learned about the Optimized Fat Metabolism (OFM) program for fat adaptation.

On average, a healthy person can adapt in about two to three weeks, but adaptation can continue for 6 months to a year.

For about eight months I did a low carb adaptation of the GAPS diet (no winter squash, carrots, nuts except almonds, limited fruits - just green apples, berries and white grapefruit).

The take home message here is the body doesn't give a rat's ass about getting bigger; in fact «training for size» is a misnomer because size is a secondary characteristic to other adaptations.

Like most Wilde plays, it has been made into film and for television numerous times, although this version isn't a strict adaptation, causing the name to be changed, rightfully, to use a part of the play's secondary title, «A Play About a Good Woman».

Rachel Weisz stars in this adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier «s classic novel about an Englishman (Sam Claflin) who plots the murder of his cousin, only to fall for her charms.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

Her (Harron) torpid adaptation of Rachel Klein's novel about female sexual desire, jealousy, death wishes, and vampires at a girls» boarding school defeats Harron's talent for exploring darkness on the edge of kinkiness.

A great undertaking for director Ang Lee, this adaptation of the 2001 novel from Yann Martel asks about the entire world, but only gives murky answers.

Although much of the target audience will be completely uninformed about the source material for this otherworldly, masked crime fighter, it's safe to assume that very little of the original Spirit is present in this surprisingly dull adaptation.

Jerry Bruckheimer - one of the two Hollywood producers credited with creating the blockbuster format - recently gave an interview to Latino Review in which he talked about all his upcoming film projects, including the adaptation of the Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time videogame (advertisements for which have been digitally inserted into the upcoming chick flick Confessions Of A Shopaholic.

It's hard to imagine a creative trio bringing Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel, «Brooklyn,» to the screen as elegantly as star Saoirse Ronan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, and director John Crowley; it was a seamless fit for this sweeping coming - of - age adaptation about a an Irish girl relocating to America in the 1950's.

The Garden of Eden (R for profanity, nudity and graphic sexuality) Screen adaptation of the posthumously - published Hemingway novel of the same name about an American couple (Jack Huston and Mena Suvari) honeymooning on the French Riviera whose relationship becomes strained when they both fall in love with a naughty, Italian nymphet (Caterina Murino).

Jane Austin's novel goes «Bollywood» in this screen adaptation about an East Indian woman, Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai), who knows she's too good for the likes of Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), a North American with obvious prejudices about her country and culture.

Cast: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Cleary, For his feature directorial debut, Elba chose an adaptation of the Victor Headley cult novel about a youth who witnesses his idealistic brother's assassination in Jamaica.

A film adaptation of Morgan's own stage play that was itself very much about the powers of television, the relationship between text, medium and audience has shifted in ways I'm not sure the film's makers have fully accounted for.

And if you wanted a one - stop - shopping option, why not go for We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel that featured all of the following: the mighty Tilda Swinton resenting her own motherhood, a truly psychotic teen, a high - school massacre and, naturally, an underage corpse.