Sentences with phrase «challenge of adaptation»

The time is right to harness the momentum of the Paris Agreement and meet the global challenge of adaptation, according to a new brief.

Because the truth is that, unlike the challenge of mitigation — which can to some degree be met with technology, and market mechanisms, and policy reforms — the challenges of adaptation and loss & damage are absolutely going to elude the devices of politics as usual.

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The series» second major idea is that the Stone Age adaptations bequeathed to us a shared human nature that is fundamental to both our scientific understanding and our sense of moral challenge.

The Council mounted this challenge to the monistic cast of mind, a term that Weigel uses interchangeably with «totalitarian,» through a recovery and adaptation of the pluralistic principle articulated by Pope Gelasius I to Anastasius in 494 a.d.: «Two there are, august emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right» the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power.»

From the turn of the last century, through Prohibition and the Great Depression, throughout the challenges of survival in the 20th and 21st centuries, it is the story of one family's adaptation and reinvention, not once, but multiple times.

• Transform frustration and aggression into adaptation and cooperation • Keep your cool when your kids push your buttons, talk back or refuse to «play nice» • Nourish deep attachment with young and older kids • Help your ADD» ish child survive and thrive, even if you're ADD» ish yourself • Inoculate your kids from negative thinking and peer pressure that lead to anger, anxiety, depression, or behavior issues • Help children manage the emotional challenges of divorce

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.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

It was a challenge to translate a full programme from English to Spanish and make cultural and local adaptations, but all efforts have been worthwhile as hearing from my students in Mexico brightens my days as I know they are making a difference in the lives of many families.

Such adaptation will be a key cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.

«Atypical development, then, might reflect an inability to adapt to an environmental challenge, or an earlier adaptation because of a negative environment.

Only by understanding the geologic record of diversity, adaptation and climate variability can we hope to face the challenges ahead.

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

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Adaptation of wildlife and people to new conditions in the Arctic represents one of the most significant challenges for conservationists and local communities, not just in the future but right now.

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.

Sometimes, this takes the form of understanding recent adaptations that have evolved within human populations, which gives us an insight into the challenges that our ancestors faced and the kind of traits that helped them survive and prosper.

This extreme morphology raises many cellular challenges: in particular, the delay required to transport organelles and cargo from the soma to distant parts of the axon can reach several hours and is incompatible with the rapid adaptation of subcellular homeostasis.

The thing that I find most interesting about the hominin fossil record is the diversity of adaptations that evolved to meet the challenges of changing environments after 3.0 myr.

New research led by the University of Bristol has found that genes in the brain that play a crucial role in behavioural adaptation to stressful challenges are controlled by epigenetic mechanisms.

Inspired by Fluor's annual company - wide employee engineering challenge, the student challenge features a student - friendly adaptation of one of the company's previous challenges.

There it's addressing the critical — and interrelated — challenges of climate change and adaptation responses for horticulture, cassava and the red meat value chain.

This means to introduce a new challenge every couple of minutes (or even sooner) so no adaptation happens.

It contains more than 500 clear, helpful photos of Eisenberg and her students practicing 71 traditional yoga poses (from physically challenging to deeply restorative) with many adaptations.

The point of training is to overload your body, for your body to feel challenged by the demand, and for adaptation to occur.

That said, we also know that the microbiome plays a powerful role in adaptation to these foods, and that some of our guts may not be up for the challenge.

Following shortly thereafter with the John Travolta thriller The General's Daughter, West confirmed his standing as a Hollywood player and was soon priming up for his biggest challenge to date, the big - screen adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video game franchise.

By 2006 it was finally time for Lohman to come into her own on the big screen, a challenge she faced with commendable aplomb in director Michael Mayer's adaptation of the Mary O'Hara novel My Friend Flicka.

, this will be a more faithful adaptation — and a new kind of screenwriting challenge — for Mr. Anderson.

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

While the medium of cinema comes with its own opportunities and challenges, in comparison to theater, Smith said her interpretation of her character didn't change when heading into Almereyda's adaptation, so much as the visual presentation of the story.

The adaptation makes the most of this flexibility in its challenge mode.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Screen Rant got a chance to interview David Leitch on press day where we discuss how he challenged his choreography team to display Domino's powers, being the new kid on the block with the longtime Deadpool creative team of Rhett Reese, Paul Werneck, and Ryan Reynolds, and what he hopes to bring the the video game genre with his adaptation of The Division.

Though hardly a great film, Bryan Singer's ambitious adaptation of Stephen King's same - named novella * is nonetheless challenging, a bleak picture destined to be misunderstood by the masses.

Expanding his original adaptation of Deborah Moggach's novel about financially challenged British pensioners who have «outsourced» their remaining years, Ol Parker's segmented screenplay juggles so many diverse characters, contrived storylines and picturesque glimpses into colorful Indian culture that sometimes it's hard to keep track.

But before we get into the chronologically - challenged bent reality of Nicolas Roeg, Sophie and Lee take a moment to look at some of this month's films, including Marvel's new mystical entry into the MCU Doctor Strange, David Yates and JK Rowling's Harry Potter spinoff prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and the surprisingly political plastic toy adaptation Trolls.

A far less conventional and more challenging piece of animation is Anomalisa, a stop - motion romantic dramedy written and co-directed by Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award - winning scribe of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

As with any video game adaptation, there are going to be challenges when it comes to turning Shadow of the Colossus into a film.

Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.

The winning adaptation of the best - selling novel is a challenging but rewarding watch; one that confidently avoids the pratfalls of drama with a capital - D.

You may recall that Brian Kinsley offered a thorough examination of Joe Penhall's «The Road» screenplay for this column back in September last year, which already addressed many of the challenges inherent in this particular adaptation.

The most successful adaptation of the novel's themes may actually be Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, which hadn't the challenge of addressing the baggage James Whale brought to the material, to say nothing of Mel Brooks.

In Tom Tykwer's wryly comic adaptation of Dave Eggers» novel, Tom Hanks stars as a struggling American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

That said, Michael Lewis's terrific book presented an enormous challenge for adaptation, between its many characters who scarcely intersect and its necessary explanations of complex financial instruments.

The film, which is touring in a new digital restoration for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of European art cinema, a minimalist manifesto, and the easiest entry point into the challenging anti-Masterpiece Theatre of Straub and Huillet, a husband - wife duo who co-directed more than 30 films (all of which can be loosely categorized as «adaptations») before Huillet's death in 2006.

The Greatest Living Director's adaptation of Ernest Cline's VR tech - epic doesn't drop until March 30 2018, but the challenge to spot all the «easter egg» nuggets of pop culture gold became the convention's favourite past time.

That the resulting film is excellent viewing distracts from how challenging this adaptation about an orphan, a dreamcatching giant, his violent brethren and the Queen of England must have actually been to bring to life....

Tom Harper, who directed War and Peace, said he was convinced it was Dano's curiosity in one of Tolstoy's most challenging characters that had driven his «risky» decision to move from Hollywood to a relatively small British production, even when the adaptation still had no international broadcasters attached.

This «updated» adaptation of Dumas» work is pretty flimsy, but the actors playing the characters seem to know this, and rise to the challenge of making it all light and fun.