Sentences with phrase «aspect of adaptation»

The report is not completely full of danger signs, however, arguing that another aspect of adaptation is making sure people and businesses are prepared for new opportunities that are projected to arise.
The source material's missing humor represents the most neutered aspect of this adaptation, as if Wells had balked at the idea of having to balance outrageously nasty sparring with black - hearted laughs, fearing it would be impolite for the audience to snicker at the deeply incisive judgments the characters bandy about.
However, the most entreating aspects of this adaptation are Hepburn and Harrison.
Presentations from representatives of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) set the scene for the discussions by highlighting the scientific aspects of adaptation and adaptation co-benefits from a global perspective.
The MRBI therefore seeks to identify projects that exemplify different aspects of adaptation and distil insights and lessons from them.
Adis is also a PhD candidate at Utrecht University Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development where his research is focusing on the transnational aspects of adaptation governance.
Capacity building - In the context of climate change, capacity building is developing technical skills and institutional capabilities in developing countries and economies in transition to enable their participation in all aspects of adaptation to, mitigation of, and research on climate change.

Not exact matches

The author admitted to fans of the story — both in written and televised form — that there may be some aspects of the novels that are spoiled by seeing the acted adaptation first, but also acknowledged how the story differs between the two mediums.
By establishing a metaphoric adaptation of certain aspects of Whitehead's thought, he is able to integrate into his novel the second great need of modern man — a viable metaphysics.
The good news for us: the proposed bond includes several aspects of our priority climate change adaptation bill.
In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.
The first vision is that all metric aspects of form contribute to adaptation and that, consequently, all are fine - tuned by evolution over time.
«While naked moles - rats are extreme in many aspects of their biology, we predicted that we would see similar molecular adaptations in the HAS2 gene in other mole - rats and subterranean mammals, yet they remain unique even among other mole - rats within the family.»
In his paper, Okal reflects on the progress made since the catastrophic event of 2004 in various aspects of tsunami science, warning and mitigation and more generally in tsunami resilience, i.e., the preventive adaptation of communities to this form of natural hazard.
CryoLetters is a bimonthly international journal for low temperature sciences, including cryobiology, cryopreservation or vitrification of cells and tissues, chemical and physical aspects of freezing and drying, and studies involving ecology of cold environments, and cold adaptation
«Although Charles Darwin laid out his theory of evolutionary adaptation more than 150 years ago, this aspect has long been neglected in the context of ocean change.»
To determine the feeding relation between Typton and its host Tedania, as a partial aspect of their overall symbiotic relationship, we focused on morphological adaptations and phenotypic characters of fire - sponge shrimps that may be related to their feeding ecology, and examined their stomach contents.
The authors concluded «[This study] shows that resveratrol supplementation exerts favorable metabolic adaptations that in many aspects mimic the effects of caloric restriction and / or endurance training.»
Additionally, our results emphasize the importance of the methodological aspects for determining intestinal microbiota in clinical trials, if intestinal microbiota composition is to be considered a measure of postnatal adaptation.
I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.
«It's the most expensive makeup I've ever had,» says Oscar - winner Mark Rylance of his performance - capture title character in The BFG, Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.Rylance worked to develop every aspect of...
This second attempt at a screen adaptation of the revered Capcom video game series is unbelievably awful in every aspect.
This new Tomb Raider clip from Warner Bros.» upcoming movie reboot proves that director Roar Uthaug has absolutely nailed the visual aesthetic of the 2013 video game, but is capturing that aspect enough to pull off a successful adaptation?
However, for me one great aspect of this overpopulated super-fuck-fest is a increase in adaptations of more adult «Hero» stories one such title of course is the pansexual scarlet sociopath known as Deadpool.
Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.
For all of the references in their films, No Country and True Grit are the Coens» only adaptations of novels.1 Indeed, one of the most underappreciated aspects of their work is its literary quality.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Grade: A): The third and final installment of Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's «Rings» trilogy (winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecOF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Grade: A): The third and final installment of Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's «Rings» trilogy (winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecOF THE KING (Grade: A): The third and final installment of Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's «Rings» trilogy (winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecof Peter Jackson's epic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's «Rings» trilogy (winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecof J. R. R. Tolkien's «Rings» trilogy (winner of 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecof 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director) is unique in the annals of movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecof movie sequels: a Part Three that fulfills the story and themes of its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspecof its predecessors with a blissful unity and satisfaction, and surpasses them in character development, emotional depth, visual splendor and every other aspect.
The perfect centerpiece of this dichotomy is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, probably the entry best liked by critics but most refuted by devotees of the books, who claim that the adaptation has missed key aspects of the original novel and harmed the overall progression of the series.
There's a Lovecraftian aspect to the proceedings that Carpenter explored more his literal Lovecraft adaptation «In the Mouth of Madness» in 1995.
Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale adaptation will do away with a major aspect of the original novel.
Writer and director Billy Ray («The Hunger Games,» «Captain Phillips») knew that timeline wasn't going to fly with a 2015 American adaptation, and while he loses a bit of the «Remains» aspect of the original story as a result, the time in which he places the flashback, post-9 / 11 Los Angeles, is a genius move.
With its heart so clearly in the right place, it's hard to come down too hard on Martin Duffy's same - named cinematic adaptation of Brook's text, but the film is so intent on capturing the spiritual aspects of its title character and its namesake that it gives short shrift to the tragedy of its familial disintegration, discarding subtlety, too, in its proselytizing wake.
One of the most interesting aspects of Ransom Riggs novel (which has been altered for the movie adaptation) is the strength of the female roles.
And there are aspects of Wonderstruck, his adaptation of a Brian Selznick book that follows two children decades apart from each other as they explore the same museum, is a solid enough concept.
This A-grade essay explores aspects of the 2017 National Theatre tour adaptation as performed at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen.
This Bundle covers the Topics of Adaptation, DNA structure, Genetic Engineering and Cloning and Also includes aspects of Natural Selection and Evolution.
Due to their reluctance to do big screen adaptations after the massive failure of Super Mario Bros in 1993, Nintendo was not ready to move away from some of the foundational aspects of the character.
Scala's most recent exhibition is Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination (2012), an international survey that explores the symbolism of the hybrid body in contemporary works inspired by sources ranging from folklore and science fiction to recent advances in genetic engineering, prosthetics, and other aspects of bodily adaptation.
Even with the tangles, adaptation is still a pretty basic aspect of reducing climate risk.
At least half of the 60 - plus S&T related positions identified in the Academy report will involve some level of involvement in one aspect or another of climate change: scientific research; assessment of climate change impacts; analysis and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation strategies; development of energy and other technologies for a carbon - constrained economy and society; and so on.
This policy document is drawn from a chapter on climate change and migration in a forthcoming report by the International Bar Association on the «Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation
-- change its brief and focus away from simply investigating human - induced climate change and its impact, consequences plus possible mitigation and adaptation measures to truly researching all aspects of our planet's climate and
Furthermore, the implementation of REDD + activities can maintain and enhance ecosystem services that can support societal adaptation, and REDD + actions may also influence aspects of adaptive capacity.
It outlines the mitiga - tion and adaptation potential of organic agriculture and addresses main opportunities, challenges, insti - tutional and policy aspects, thus placing this dis - cussion in a broader context, which also addresses consumer aspects and policies.
Compared with previous reports, the IPCC site says, «the AR5 will put greater emphasis on assessing the socio - economic aspects of climate change and implications for sustainable development, risk management and the framing of a response through both adaptation and mitigation.»
Thus, Danzig sets up adaptation as a necessary complement to robustness as a crucial aspect of strategy and decision - making under uncertainty.
A new UNEP report shows reveals that the cost of this adaptation could reach $ 150 billion by 2030, underlining how vitally important this aspect is.
Individual adaptation decisions comprise well known aspects of risk assessment and management (top left panel).
One aspect of the decision making process that seems to get short shrift is quantifying the costs involved in mitigation and adaptation versus the potential costs of future events (obviously, the scenario discovery you mentioned would be the first step to quantifying the full range of possible outcomes).
Rather, it is that SRM and CDR, along with mitigation and adaptation, could be implemented in such a way as to complement one another, with different policies brought to bear on those aspects of climate risk which they are best suited to address.
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