Sentences with phrase «more as an adaptation»

, I found it interesting to spot the differences between the original and the adaptation, and I perhaps understood it more as an adaptation, but I still didn't think it was much good.

The cassava is a drought - resistant crop that is recently being used more as an adaptation to the current dry lands.

Not exact matches

As the movie business grows more saturated with stories about costumed vigilantes, studios are trying to find ways to differentiate their own comic book adaptations.

Unlike productive assets such as businesses or farmland, gold is «purchased in the buyer's hope that someone else... will pay more for them in the future,» declares Warren Buffett in an adaptation from his latest shareholder newsletter.

It isn't surprising that as the audiences who first became fans of characters like The Avengers, X-Men and Deadpool get older, that their modern movie adaptations will be marketed more toward adults.

The «more primitive elements of animal consciousness — palpable hunger and thirst, fear and rage, pleasure and pain — are as clearly evolutionary adaptations to an ever more elaborate ecosystem as fur and feathers, toes and digits, eyes and ears.»

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Possibly it goes back to Abraham as recorded in Genesis 17, though this is more likely a later adaptation of the patriarchal stories to the covenant idea.

but a t some point he lost it, and is not because of his stinginess to buy players, our core is good and has been for sometime now, his biggest problem was adaptation, change to the new EPL, his philosophy dating back 20 years does not work anymore and he knows it, because of this his biggest flaw all others came out to light, lack of rotation of his players favoring some over others, stubbornness that applies to his transfer policy buying for the future just as he had 20 more years ahead, players playing out of their natural positions, ARSENAL FLOPS who knows under other Managers they could have been great, for some reason they were signed in the first place, they must had some talent, best example is Campbell....

It's always a bit more difficult in the first season for adaptation, but I have no reason to leave this place, I love it, the fans love me and I want to stay,» as quoted by Sky Sports.

The adaptations occur in the form of a larger muscle grown by increasing the cross sectional fiber size and allowing more weight to be moved later on as the size and strength of the muscle increases.

Due to lack of regular minutes on the pitch as well as struggles in adaptation, it is believed that... [Read more...]

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The following posts support infant carrying as an evolutionary adaptation and a biological imperative, as well as highlighting areas that need more research.

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«We think that the garter snake's evolved resistance to the newt's toxin can be used as a model for understanding complex adaptations that involve more than one gene,» McGlothlin said.

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

As the genomes of the two types of fly mixed, those genes responsible for Dark - fly's unique adaptations should become more common in the colony kept in the dark.

«A more complete understanding of the yeast adaptation response to extreme environments, such as microgravity, and the risks associated with potential infection is vital for long - term crew health and safety.

As a growing body of research illuminates the current and future scope of flooding, adaptation strategies are beginning to look more attractive than the traditional (and bankrupting) cycle of rebuilding.

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

«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.

Chris McGowan takes his readers on fascinating tours of the animal world, organised not by phylum or location but by biophysical concepts such as energy economy, scales of size and life cycles, and adaptations to the elements of earth, air, fire (or temperature to be more precise) and water.

(This approach is also called analogical, as opposed to univocal or equivocal, and has a more general application: a single term [e.g., «alive»] may be predicated all along the scale of being, but only if suitable adaptations are made at each threshold.)

One impetus for the study was to investigate how a future warmer climate would affect the demand of water, especially as more cities are seeking out climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.

As they described it, exaptation is a counterpart to the more familiar concept of adaptation.

New research led by Holton and colleagues at the UI posits that our chins don't come from mechanical forces such as chewing, but instead results from an evolutionary adaptation involving face size and shape — possibly linked to changes in hormone levels as we became more societally domesticated.

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

Through Exultant Ark Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that, although much of animal behaviour has come about as the result of evolutionary adaptation to serve a straightforwardly practical function, there are elements of play that require a more joyful explanation.

«The anoxic conditions have been present in this area for hundreds of years, but the large numbers of jellyfish are a recent occurrence, so their tolerance of their stinging tentacles is presumably a more recent adaptation, as is their use of jellyfish as a food source,» Braithwaite says.

Hellmann expects to see more local adaptation in the duskywing than in the swallowtails, as they are more isolated from their southern cousins.

The adaptation allows the plant to use scant resources, such as water and nitrogen, more efficiently.

More recently, the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range launched an Assisted Migration Adaptation Trial, testing out nine tree populations from the U.S. in that Canadian province, to ensure that the latter nation's timber production stays strong as the climate warms.

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.

Some high - altitude people, such as Andean highlanders, have an adaptation that adds more oxygen - rich hemoglobin to their blood.

They have contributed to a stack of books on the issue that could fill a library: all five of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the 2012 Global Energy Assessment, countless journal articles, and special reports on issues such as adaptation, renewable energy, and more.

Our data demonstrate that loss of IL - 15Rα results in a remodeling of fast skeletal muscles to a more oxidative phenotype that manifests as a greater exercise capacity and resistance to fatigue in mice due, in part, to adaptations in mitochondria — phenotypes that were only observed in IL - 15Rα — KO mice.

Today, in a world where many people have ready access to a wide variety of foods at their local groceries, the adaptations can act more as limitations to the kinds of foods you can eat to remain healthy.

But on a planet with a warming climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever - higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

«In Southern Europe, adapting to some of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to climate extremes has already been implemented and radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.

As Darwin wrote, the advantages of «conquering other males in battle or courtship, and thus leaving a numerous progeny are in the long run greater than those derived from rather more perfect adaptation to the conditions of life.»

As impact scientists, we tend to lag behind physical scientists in our understanding of this (as we are the next step along in the scientific process of drivers — impacts — adaptation): It's not complacency, more trying to understand exactly what the uncertainties are, how big they could be, and then understanding their interactionAs impact scientists, we tend to lag behind physical scientists in our understanding of this (as we are the next step along in the scientific process of drivers — impacts — adaptation): It's not complacency, more trying to understand exactly what the uncertainties are, how big they could be, and then understanding their interactionas we are the next step along in the scientific process of drivers — impacts — adaptation): It's not complacency, more trying to understand exactly what the uncertainties are, how big they could be, and then understanding their interactions.

In addition, the data reveal that this was a more genetically diverse population than the central and western European hunter - gatherers living during the same epoch and that they also show pattern of adaptation to high latitude environments, including high frequencies of low pigmentation variants as well as a gene region associated with physical performance, which shows strong continuity into modern - day northern Europeans.

We have to thank our physical and mental response to danger, commonly known as stress, for keeping us safe and sound through all phases of evolution, including the present one, but chronic stress is more like a nasty side - effect to the unbalanced relation between the hectic progress of the modern lifestyle and our relatively slower adaptation to it as organisms.

These adaptations include improved inter - and intra-muscular coordination, as well as more efficient rate - coding.

One of the most important adaptations that the body goes through in the process of becoming more aerobically fit is known as «aerobic coupling.»

There may be adaptations that would limit the increases in muscle activity as subjects become more accustomed to the motion of the flexible bar.»