Sentences with phrase «adaptive process of»

According to Margaret Cornish, former director of the CCBC in Beijing and now a representative in Beijing for the law firm Bennett Jones, «Investments in Canadian resources by Chinese SOEs offer an opportunity to Canadian firms and governments to accelerate (the) adaptive process of augmenting existing supply chains, managerial networks and sources of technology.

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«Injury mitigation technologies; comprehensive representations of biomechanical processes; regenerative actuation technologies; adaptive sensing and control technologies; and advancements in potential suit human - to - machine interfaces» must first be developed.

Xilinx develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of technologies — from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud.

But the question arises: Do dinosaurs and finches possess their specific features in order to realize particular goals or because during the course of evolutionary experimentation they have accidentally acquired adaptive functions by an impersonal process of natural selection?

Attempts at nuclear fusion are not part of some biological adaptive «survival of the fittest» process but show our transcendence of a merely material law of control and direction.

While biological evolution of adaptive species may have occurred through a series of localized internal (or non - purposive) teleologies, the concrescence or bringing together of physical and biological processes corresponds to both a globally internalized (non-purposive) and globally externalized (purposive) teleology of the observable universe.

Sian says: «As well the part of our immune system known as «innate immunity», the body also has processes in place called «adaptive immunity» which is when the body recognises a virus it has encountered before and initiates a response.

Participants will learn to use selected art techniques as intervention tools to help clients learn and practice more adaptive patterns of feeling as part of the process of play therapy.

Participants will learn to use selected art techniques as intervention tools to help clients learn and practice more adaptive patterns of behaving as part of the process of play therapy.

Now the purchasers of that building, George and Stacy Fakiris, have come before the Town Board at its June 3 meeting to present the first architectural drawings of the adaptive reuse that they have planned for it: a 60 - unit apartment complex that will put the new EEO process to the test.

Non-state representatives included housing developers, nonprofits, and faith - based organizations, and together the group focused on a variety of issues that included the application process for housing development opportunities, solutions for zombie properties, adaptive reuse, ways to expand community services and resources, and ways to increase overall homeownership.

This process is seamless and adaptive — for example, in the ventriloquist illusion, the perceived location of a sound shifts toward the location of visual stimulus if they are presented at the same time.

In this new dendritic learning process, there are a few adaptive parameters per neuron, in comparison to thousands of tiny and sensitive ones in the synaptic learning scenario,» said Prof. Kanter, whose research team includes Shira Sardi, Roni Vardi, Anton Sheinin, Amir Goldental and Herut Uzan.

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

«They provide us with an echo of real ecological processes, like adaptive radiations, when an organism rapidly diversifies due to a change in environment or to fill a new niche,» O'Dwyer said.

The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.

This is the first example of adaptive evolution triggered by interspecies introgression in domesticated animals, which gave us a clue that introgression event between divergent species may be an important resource for evolutionary adaptation and could largely facilitate this process.

Adaptive immunity is conferred by the integration of DNA sequences from an invading element into the CRISPR array (adaptation), which is transcribed into long pre-CRISPR RNAs (pre-crRNAs) and processed into short crRNAs (expression), which guide Cas proteins to specifically degrade the cognate DNA on subsequent exposures (interference).

Across the large lakes of this region, the hybrid population then diversified in a process known as «adaptive radiation» (evolution of multiple new species adapted to different ecological niches).

Such costs include: (1) metabolic energy that must be devoted to mating and meiosis; (2) energy and time expended locating a mating partner; (3) that only 50 % of parental genes are transmitted to any given progeny or that two individuals are required to produce one progeny (resulting in the so - called 2-fold cost of sex); and (4) the fact that two genomes that have run the gauntlet of adaptive selection are shuffled during the process, breaking apart well - adapted genomic configurations [57].

At the time this was probably rather useless genomic variation, but has now become incredibly beneficial millions of years later when the opportunity for major adaptive radiations arose, changing the way we think about evolutionary processes.»

Like Darwin's finches, the cichlids are a dramatic example of adaptive radiation, the process by which multiple species «radiate» from an ancestral species through adaptation.

The combination of two processes makes this high - resolution 3D imaging possible: lattice light - sheet microscopy (LLSM), which images one slice of the cell at a time, and adaptive optics (AO), which corrects for any blurriness.

My research interests are currently centered around hominin evolution and functional and adaptive morphology, but I am still in the process of discovering my ultimate PhD track.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

For HIV to develop into full - blown AIDS, the virus must deplete a subset of immune cells called CD4 + T cells, disabling an infected person's adaptive immune system in the process.

We are applying an interdisciplinary approach to study the consequences of aberrant activation of the cAMP / CREB / CRTC signal circuit on these adaptive responses and how cooperative signaling with other pathways promotes oncogenic processes in oral, head, and neck cancers.

The process of adaptive radiation, in which one ancestral lineage adaptively diversifies into multiple ecologically distinct species, may underlie much of the diversity of organisms on earth.

This process of adaptive diversification driven from the top - down due to enemies (rather than the bottom - up) may help to explain the enormous diversity of plant - feeding insects generally.

Even more interesting is that natural selection by these parasitic wasps on gall form is ongoing and still very strong, providing both a window into past processes of diversification and a divination of future adaptive diversification in this gall midge lineage.

We demonstrate use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated laser guide star (LGS) Shack - Hartmann images, using the CANARY adaptive optics instrument on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope and the European Souther... ▽ More The performance of adaptive optics systems is partially dependant on the algorithms used within the real - time control system to compute wavefront slope measurements.

We demonstrate use of a matched filter algorithm for the processing of elongated laser guide star (LGS) Shack - Hartmann images, using the CANARY adaptive optics instrument on the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope and the European Southern Observatory Wendelstein LGS Unit placed 40m away.

The strict limit in proliferative potential of normal human somatic cells - a process known as replicative senescence - is highly relevant to the immune system, because clonal expansion is fundamental to adaptive immunity.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

«The findings point to an adaptive process related to the benefits of detecting the needs of the child,» said Vilarroya in a press release, «such as identifying the newborn's emotional state.»

Researchers concluded that all traits now seen Yakutian horses are the product of very fact adaptive processes.

It also could erase some of the training gains that happen as a result of going through the natural adaptive process.

This adaptive process may fail to occur during short - term studies but the human body is more than capable of adjusting to the sulfur load of real foods, given a proper time frame.

«Deception of self and others is a common and adaptive process that plays an important role in the maintenance of both interpersonal relationships and of individual mental health (Baumeister, 1993; Taylor & Brown, 1988).

Consequently, your body metabolism (amount of energy burnt at rest) slows to prevent you continuing to lose weight — a process known as adaptive thermogenesis.

These cells, along with dendritic cells, recognize the incoming undigested food particles, toxic agents, and bacterial components as foreign invaders, and present them to cells of the adaptive immune system called T and B lymphocytes, leading to clonal expansion (proliferation or multiplication of specific subsets of T and B cells) and recruitment of more pro-inflammatory immune cells to the gut through a process called leukocyte homing.

However, the strength of hormetic processes lies in their potentially adaptive capacity throughout the lifespan.

It has been proposed that inflammaging can be regarded as both an age - related increase in inflammation, and a concomitant adaptive activation of anti-inflammatory processes.»

«A lot of how we understand those less adaptive or maladaptive ways of dealing with conflict to take hold is through a process called coercion, which is what happens when one partner uses emotional pressure to get the other to agree to make some kind of a change.»

«Adaptive learning is the process of automatically recommending content to users based on user profile data, stated interests, content they like / dislike / comment on, data on their calendar and mandatory learning ─ usually displayed via a personalized «wall».

New teaching concepts like adaptive learning are gaining ground that aims to transform the learner from passive receptor of information to collaborator in the educational process.

The myriad of skills students are embracing on the technical side of this authentic lesson in a flipped classroom are amazing; the myriad of lessons I am learning on the adaptive side of this process are equally impressive!

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

These tools, while adaptive and potentially allowing the educator to save time, do little to engage students in learning, help them see the relevance in academic material, and make the process of learning these important concepts personal.

The paper first examines the conditions, processes, and activities characteristic of each setting and then outlines how teachers can use their knowledge of these two conflicting paradigms to design a Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm (MALP) that can help Hmong learners succeed academically.