Sentences with phrase «adaptation programs in»

During the Copenhagen conference representatives from poor vulnerable nations begged developed countries to: (a) commit to reduce GHG emissions to levels necessary to prevent dangerous climate change; and (b) to fund adaptation programs in developing countries that are necessary to protect the most vulnerable from climate change impacts that could be avoided or compensate for the damages that could not be avoided.

The third minimum ethical criteria for judging any second commitment period under the UNFCCC is that it must provide adequate funding to support adaptation programs in developing countries given that some developing countries have done nothing to cause climate change and must take steps to avoid harsh impacts.

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The ruling assumption seems to be that the human self is programmed in some paragenetic way to seek meaning by ever more appropriate adaptation to an ever - enlarging environment.

The growth of paid - time religious programming and its adaptation to and endorsement of the economic competitive basis of American broadcasting represents in many ways the final takeover by television of the last of its programming to be independent of its economic intentions.

The adaptation of the gospel to television is no different: there needs to be a clear and impartial analysis of the message and practices of those programs and organizations that call themselves Christian in order to determine how they stand in relation to the historic tenets of the Christian faith.

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

The program is an adaptation of the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction Program founded by Jon Kabat - Zinn, Ph.D., at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and featured in the Bill Moyers» PBS TV series Healing and thprogram is an adaptation of the Mindfulness - Based Stress Reduction Program founded by Jon Kabat - Zinn, Ph.D., at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and featured in the Bill Moyers» PBS TV series Healing and thProgram founded by Jon Kabat - Zinn, Ph.D., at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and featured in the Bill Moyers» PBS TV series Healing and the Mind.

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

A coastal buyback program, which is one proposed solution in our priority adaptation bill, would allow the state to purchase properties that suffer chronic storm damage.

It's not reasonable to expect that we can do a sustained exploratory program without the capability of testing systems and studying human adaptation to space in low Earth orbit.

Governments in the developing world are also now pooling their resources into sovereign insurance funds that make payouts for climate adaptation programs, said Fatima Kassam of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Co., a specialized agency of the African Union.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

«In terms of climate adaptation, building a border wall is an act of self - sabotage,» said Dan Millis, a program manager with the Sierra Club's Borderlands project.

«As the story goes with exercise - induced changes in strength, neural adaptations are contributing first with muscle growth playing a more prominent role in the latter portion of a training program: however, there is little direct evidence that this is actually true in an adult partaking in a resistance training program,» said Dr. Jeremy Loenneke, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve article.

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.

So the shark - specific signature of adaptation found in the Bag1 gene may indicate an alternative, or modified role for this important gene — one that could alter its tendency to inhibit programmed cell death in sharks.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate changIn Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate changin Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

In addition, general principles of cryobiology, development of inventory databases for individual programs, and adaptation of long - term storage systems and cryogenic equipment for different situations will be presented and discussed.

Through the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program, a research that focuses on the development and adaptation of climate - smart technologies for sustainable intensification of farming systems in South Asia is in progress.

PhD Scholarship: The Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, part of the Unep (Un Environment Program)- DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Partnership, invites applications for a PhD research project focused on technologies for climate change adaptation in the context of sustainable development.

The Senior ECPA Fellows Program seeks to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the U.S. and Latin America in innovative solutions and technologies related to the areas of clean energy, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, and reducing emission from deforestation.

The human body makes remarkable adaptations to limit the amount of energy that it expends in a given day, so if fat loss is your goal, a very aggressive exercise program might not do much for you.

Kraemer, W.J., et al, Physiological adaptations to a weight - loss dietary regimen and exercise programs in women.

There is in fact some research showing that muscular adaptations are enhanced when program variables are altered outside of traditional norms.

Regarding this excerpt: «There is in fact some research showing that muscular adaptations are enhanced when program variables are altered outside of traditional norms.»

That said, as with all AX programs, exercise swaps can be made to overcome the lack of a barbell with dumbbell adaptations coming in as suitable replacements.

These two interrelated adaptations should ideally be addressed sequentially — one after the other — rather than simultaneously in your training program.

Without getting into Exercise Physiology 301, here are some basic adaptations to strength work, starting with the earliest levels and moving to the ones in the intermediate to advanced stages of a program.

In natural bodybuilding, neural adaptations for a particular training program completes at the end of fourth week.

For example, if you really need to get stronger to Front Squat heavier, you need to go through thorough programming and have to put the work in over weeks to see physical adaptations to allow you to Front Squat heavier.

Some of these programs push the athlete into the state of over-reaching (if you visualize the adaptation curves, they will be going down in this case), after which athlete might super-compensates more than if more «conservative» program is used.

In addition to helping to create adaptation, you're also expanding your «motor program» and avoiding overuse injuries via pattern overload.

Either way, it seems likely that the exercise producing a greater activation of the muscle will ultimately lead to superior muscular adaptations, when included in a program.

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.

This adaptation of the popular espionage paperback centers on a cell deep in the Ruskies» spying program in which cadets are trained to use sexuality as a weapon.

FX's co-president of original programming Nick Grad told Variety, «What We Do in the Shadows only gets better with age thanks to this brilliant adaptation for television by co-creators Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi.»

(courtesy Sundance Film Festival) An image of the animated Neil Gaiman adaptation Wolves in the Walls (Chapter 1), by Pete Billington and Jessica Shamash, which will appear in the New Frontier VR Experiences program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

Justin Torres» novel of the same name is one of the most beloved and acclaimed coming - of - age stories in recent memory, and so it's promising to see its adaptation land in the NEXT program at Sundance.

The drawings of ocean plants, as imagined by fifth graders in a Massachusetts summer program, had the craziest of adaptations.

On the night before Halloween in 1938, «The Mercury Theater on the Air» radio program presented an adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds.

He continued to research cultural adaptation of social - emotional learning programs and investigate ways in which the AYLE program could better fit the East African context.

The 2017 Wonders Material Adaptation Project (MAP) provides guidance for streamlining the 2017 Wonders literacy program in grades K - 6.

In the adaptations condition, teachers were organized into grade - level teams around a practical improvement goal and given structured opportunities to use their knowledge, experience, and local data to extend or modify program components for their students and local contexts.

In this randomized trial of a reading intervention, we study a scaffolded sequence of implementation in which schools first develop proficiency by implementing the program with fidelity before implementing structured adaptationIn this randomized trial of a reading intervention, we study a scaffolded sequence of implementation in which schools first develop proficiency by implementing the program with fidelity before implementing structured adaptationin which schools first develop proficiency by implementing the program with fidelity before implementing structured adaptations.

The authors conducted a cluster - randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of structured teacher adaptations to the implementation of an evidence - based summer literacy program that provided students with (a) books matched to their reading level and interests and (b) teacher scaffolding for summer reading in the form of end - of - year comprehension lessons and materials sent to students» homes in the summer months.

The new study, published in The Lancet, looked at a program in Perth, Australia which is an adaptation of a program that is popular in the U.S. (That program was formerly known as «Baby, Think it Over.»

This tension also arose in the adaptation of the program to suit the different needs of students, teachers, and the school.

In addition to her research, she has made a notable contribution to the prevention field through a series of published guidelines for making adaptations to evidence - based programs across a broad range of cultural groups.