Sentences with phrase «of adaptation activities»

«Increased Presidential engagement on climate adaptation issues would both elevate the importance of adaptation activities within the government and raise the profile of the adaptation challenge with the nation as a whole.

The report focuses on existing strategies and plans that some countries have developed to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, including on elements of the prioritization and implementation of adaptation activities.

Not exact matches

Child psychologist Jean Piaget believes that play has two primary features: it is done «for the pleasure of the activity [something Burke and Huizinga ignore] and without any effort at adaptation to achieve a definite end.»

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

These adaptations are cultural phenomena, and hence they are significant activities of the brain.

These include the development of new strategies and activities to promote climate change adaptation by building on our scientific research, strengthening internal capacity, and preparing producer - oriented tools for implementation.

Through a variety of fun, age appropriate, educational hands - on activities, stories, live animal encounters, and adventures on Zoo grounds, Toddler Totes takes you and your child on an investigative exploration of the Zoo's animal collection examining animal body parts and adaptations, such as noses on koalas or tails on tigers.

Which can possibly lead to: Easier adaptation to the lower - intensity endurance activity of early labor.

By the same token, evidence of coastal adaptation can also mark human activity and a strategy for meeting the brain's growing energy needs.

The adaptation makes sense: reducing enzyme activity keeps more free cortisol in the body, which allows the liver and kidneys to maximize stores of glucose and metabolic fuels — an optimal response to prolonged starvation and other threats.

In this activity you'll investigate what the adaptations of birds in your area tell you about those birds» lifestyles.

Dr. Walter Voit led the team that created «Polycraft World,» an adaptation or «mod» for «Minecraft» that allows players to incorporate the properties of chemical elements and compounds into game activities.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

In the case of Influenza A, the loss of RNA exosome activity severely compromises viral infectivity, but also manifests in human neurodegeneration suggesting that viruses target essential proteins implicated in rare disease in order to ensure continual adaptation.

Speakers will address emerging research on connections between exercise and arrhythmia, adaptation to physical activity, and molecular mechanisms of cardioprotection.

Furthermore, these results explicitly link fetal survival to adaptations of the placenta and the transcriptional activity of fetally derived placental tissues.

The major metabolic consequences of the adaptations of muscle to prolonged MCT administration during endurance training were higher activities of enzymes involved in energy production and macronutrient utilization.

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

However, although this adaptation allows survival it has secondary effects, because the increased lifetimes of proteins increase the probability of their undergoing undesirable chemical modifications, such as oxidation, glycation and cross-linking, which can alter their activities.

Although it is difficult to draw conclusions about the presence or lack of functional adaptations from a comparative study between different subjects, the finding of Herzog and colleagues (Herzog et al., 1991) supports the hypothesis that length - dependent adaptations may be provoked not only by immobilisation but also by habitual activity and the functional demands it imposes.

Using some sense with your lifestyle habits and activities can mean all the world of difference between a state of fat adaptation where you have sustainable energy and mental clarity or a state of sugar burning where you are feeling sluggish, having brain fog and carbohydrate cravings.

Within a few hours, other hormonal activities will speed up and the body will go through a series of hormetic adaptations that actually make it stronger.

The last chapter of the book is all about injury and illness; Bob and I share our personal stories of illness and injury to show that despite health problems you can make adaptations or find new activities.

The result is the creation of rT3 which has no biologic activity and the creation of starvation mode (also called metabolic adaptation).

Things most likely won't be slowing down in 2012 for Paramount either, with a roster that boasts the Brad Pitt - starring adaptation of Max Brooks» best - selling novel «World War Z,» «G.I. Joe: Retaliation,» another installment in the highly profitable «Paranormal Activity» franchise, and the «Borat» pairing of Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles will bring audiences «The Dictator.»

Deadline reports Ready Player One, Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's bestselling sci - fi novel, is scheduled for a December 15, 2017 release date, meaning instead of reading about a kid playing video games, you'll get to watch a kid play video games, an activity universally agreed upon as being the most fun.

This relatively inexpensive adaptation allows you to quickly push tables together for collaborative activities, or move bookshelves out of the way to open up more space, ultimately creating a more flexible learning environment.

The main areas covered in this work booklet are: Species Classification Distribution of organisms Sampling Predator prey graphs Adaptations Pyramids of biomass Carbon cycle Water cycle Eutrophication Global warming Food security Sustainable fisheries Microprotein Within the booklet are a range of different activities for students to work through to help them remember the content.

I've also provided a set of teacher notes to accompany the resource which opens up the activities to a variety of adaptations which does mean the eight activities can be used over-and-over again, even with the same class!

The PowerPoint is supplemented with a comprehensive explanation of each starter activities which also, in parts, includes some ideas for adaptations to keep the resource fresh and useful.

I have combined a number of resources and added some of my own to create a rotation activity involving mini-practicals about adaptation.

Recognizing key features of a persuasive speech - Higher Level Reading Skills Adaptation of opening fight scene in Romeo and Juliet Character Analysis activity sheets for Tybalt and Benvolio (Higher order reading skills - L. 5) Script writing frame for lower ability

This resource, comprising of a Silent Shakespeare: The Tempest 1908 PowerPoint and PDF, provides a range of activities based on the 3Cs and 3Ss of film to help young people to explore this silent adaptation of the play.

That animal and adaptation will be used for subsequent parts of this activity.

Assessing Collaboration Quality in Synchronous CSCL Problem - Solving Activities: Adaptation and Empirical Evaluation of a Rating Scheme

Each learning activity includes baseline instructional guidance for teachers and provides implementation and adaptation guidance for teaching a variety of learners, including reluctant readers, English language learners, and students with disabilities.

In this exploratory study, we started with the well - researched and sophisticated activity of video annotation and then made three adaptations to the video annotation method (near - peer video; expert feedback; video study approach) and also implemented it with early - stage rather than late - stage teacher education students.

Students become a part of the learning process with activities about plant and animal adaptations, the human body, matter, force and motion, simple machines, the solar system, and more!

The investments go into the adaptation of existing technologies and in - house development activities.

GBM's approach empowers communities to take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).

Through experiential learning activities, students engage in scientific inquiry, gain a stronger understanding of plant life cycles and adaptations, and grow their own healthy stewardship ethic.

As the title of this exhibition, this question, to be posed reciprocally, opens the doors to this home and invites the artists to reflect on mutual understanding as a creative activity produced when there's an engagement with unfamiliarity and transformation in exchanges with others and within our own mechanisms of adaptation.

Two elements stand out — the weekly video episodes unravelling the personal stories of people involved in agriculture adaptation activities in two countries, Kenya and the Philippines; and the peer assessment project on adaptation action in agriculture.

These elements include binding targets for some nations, differentiated responsibilities (especially between developed and developing countries), phased reductions in emissions, some form of international emissions trading, and assistance to developing countries for their mitigation and adaptation activities.

Activities supported by the five regional commissions include, among others, the creation of strategies to integrate climate change consideration into development plans, the assessment of the economic impacts of climate change, and the evaluation of the costs of mitigation and adaptation.

Adaptation activities can reduce the health - related impacts of some of the anticipated food security challenges (Ch.

These webinars provide assistance to state and local health departments to conduct analytic and programmatic activities aimed at reducing the health consequences of climate change and variability, and to develop public health adaptation strategies.

Parties also decided to accelerate activities under the workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition in accordance with decision 1 / CP.17, paragraphs 7 and 8, by, inter alia, intensifying, as from 2014, the technical examination of opportunities for actions with high mitigation potential, including those with adaptation and sustainable development co-benefits, with a focus on the implementation of policies, practices and technologies that are substantial, scalable and replicable, with a view to promoting voluntary cooperation on concrete actions in relation to identified mitigation opportunities in accordance with nationally defined development priorities.

This manual provides guidance on how to conduct sound analysis for the development of national policies and activities that would — if adopted — accelerate the transfer and diffusion of selected mitigation and adaptation technologies in a particular country.

This activity report provides an overview of mitigation and adaptation finance in the context of the Multilateral Development Banks» strengthened commitment to work with clients, other development finance institutions, the private sector, and stakeholders to tackle climate challenge with targeted and innovative finance.