Sentences with phrase «on other adaptations»

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After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

I merely want to point out that even so moralized and Christianized a society, a society that holds to an admirable ideology of law and justice, and conducts psychological research on adaptation, etc. — even such a society is basically violent, like every other.

The adaptation (starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Amanda Seyfried among others), serves as a darker take on the classic tale as well as a sort of Captain Hook origins story.

In other words, two millennia of creative and brilliant adaptation to powerlessness had a tendency of turning moral seriousness in on itself.

The power which had come to the Church in this atmosphere of universal acceptance had led to massive economic involvement on the one hand and an «adaptation» of the ideals of the Gospel on the other, an adaptation which also included residual superstition and paganism from pre-Christian times.

Creating Paleo adaptations of our favorite recipes (a.k.a. Paleofying) helps us stay on board with Paleo through the holidays (and many other times of the year), help us feel like we can still celebrate and partake in all of the fun and food luxury of the season.

I'm going to try them this way on the weekend and will also add your adaptation to the recipe for others to utilize.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

Gaucher works within the Evogenics Focus Group, which attempts to interpret genomic information from a historical or evolutionary perspective in order to study the origin and adaptation of life on Earth, and perhaps other planets.

These experiments confirmed that the observed cluster of adaptations resulted in resistance specifically to cercopithecine lentiviruses, but had no effect on restriction of other retroviruses, including lentiviruses of other, non-cercopithecine primates.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

But other researchers argued that natural selection would have quickly favored adaptations for efficient walking given the dangers on the ground, even while hominins were still scurrying up trees.

At the other end are adaptations so simple you can hardly call them «technologies,» such as the pencil U.S. Department of Agriculture engineer Marshall Begel keeps tucked into a splint on his hand so he can type with it.

On the other hand, in 2016 researchers found that the three - toed sloth had the lowest metabolic rate of any mammal, an adaptation that evolved to reduce fuel needs in the energy - poor forest canopy environment where it lives.

However, reliance by humans on cultural adaptations means that it is difficult to extrapolate from ecological relationships in other animals.»

In other words, one adaptation (viability on glucose) was accompanied by multiple potential exaptations.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

The researchers were able to see signs of watery adaptation not seen in other dinosaurs: a small nostril located far back on the head, apparently to limit water intake; relatively long forelimbs; big flat feet suitable for paddling as well as walking on muddy ground; and very dense limb bones, which would have allowed Spinosaurus to submerge itself rather than float at the surface.

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.»

If an error shuts down a critical gene, a cancerous cell will compensate by adjusting other genes» activity, frequently developing a dependence on such adaptations in order to persist.

Based on a morphologically based family tree, other researchers propose that an adaptation of some beetles for living and hunting in sand helped protect the first beetle parasites from the termite attack.

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.

Skin color, on the other hand, is thought to be an adaptation to different amounts and intensity of sunlight.

Other adaptations are more subtle — when, for instance, an animal hides food for the winter and remembers the place later on.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

Clearly informed by IPCC and other scientific studies, considerable progress has been made on the key issues of adaptation, avoided deforestation, technology transfers and a more geographically and sectorally balanced Clean Development Mechanism.

Catalyse a new generation of research on the genetic basis of drug resistance and of other forms of biological adaptation in pathogen populations, by providing a standard analytical framework for the design and interpretation of genome - wide association studies.

In May 2013 the Arctic Council decided to continue its work on the AACA initiative and requested the AMAP Working Group to «produce information to assist local decision - makers and stakeholders in three pilot regions in developing adaptation tools and strategies to better deal with climate change and other pertinent environmental stressors».

That could include some bizarre adaptations, including «sponges that are sticky and catch prey instead of filtering water; small bivalves / clams having changed to suck in tiny shrimps instead of filtering; polychaete worms feeding on others and detritus - eating sea cucumbers.»

Additionally, if we ask our visitors to look at an illuminated screen for, say, 15 or 20 minutes while we discuss various objects on the screen, even turning the display to low intensity levels would be enough to severely impact their dark - adaptation and would potentially ruin their views of objects through other telescopes.

When individuals rely on the presence of others to increase their chances of survival and reproduction, the emergence of adaptations that reduce this dependence can help rescue small populations from extinction.

On the other hand, training in the higher rep ranges (8 - 12) will stimulate more metabolic adaptations, which are important for increasing muscle size.

On the other hand, if you go too high on the rep range, let's say 1 set of 25 reps, the load is so light it won't produce any significant adaptatioOn the other hand, if you go too high on the rep range, let's say 1 set of 25 reps, the load is so light it won't produce any significant adaptatioon the rep range, let's say 1 set of 25 reps, the load is so light it won't produce any significant adaptation.

And so, to one or the other of those two things and a diet that's dominated by carbohydrate rich foods tends to generate an adaptation to being dependent on glucose that way.

The takeaway may be to avoid massively overloading on antioxidants in general — large amounts of antioxidants other than vitamin C may impair muscle adaptation to exercise.

This adaptation freed our arms and allowed us to conserve energy while moving over long distances, giving us more endurance than any other animal on the planet.

The other major benefit of using VESPA during this phase is it will dampen some of the negative impacts on fat - adaptation due to re-introduction of concentrated carbohydrates and sugars into the diet and fueling.

On the other hand, is it possible that there is also an adaptation effect that may come from maintaining steady levels of antioxidants (perhaps more relevant if hormesis is the fundamental explanation for the health benefits)?

They simply lack the other adaptations and experience to operate at high intensity for hours on end - in fact I would often recommend they intentionally do not until well experienced at a given race distance (exceeding one's LT multiple times throughout a race can EASILY result in «bonking»).

Newer research shows even more subtle genetic adaptations to dietary and other ecological niches which are adaptations to grains on a smaller scale.

If we equate de facto ketogenic diets with high - protein diets (which is not always correct) then the risks proposed by critics of this type of dietary approach are essentially those of possible kidney damage due to high levels of nitrogen excretion during protein metabolism, which can cause an increase in glomerular pressure and hyperfiltration.12 There is not wide agreement between studies; however, some infer the possibility of renal damage from animal studies, 99, 100 whereas others, looking at both animal models, meta - analyses and human studies, propose that even high levels of protein in the diet do not damage renal function.101, 102 In subjects with intact renal function, higher dietary protein levels caused some functional and morphological adaptations without negative effects.103 There may actually be renal - related effects, but on blood pressure rather than morphological damage.

Unlike other cinematic adaptations, «Death and the Maiden's» director doesn't hide the fact that the film is based on a play.

Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations, horror, and other genre films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised films, but with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.

Their take on the Bard is as imaginative as any other cinematic adaptation, plus a good deal funnier

I wonder, Jessie and others: Did you watch the first couple seasons of 21 Jump Street before forming an opinion on the big - screen adaptation?

Guadagnino is still threatening to produce a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria to be directed by David Gordon Green, and has three other projects on the go, including an adaptation of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and The Reliable Wife (a period romantic - thriller variation on Mississippi Mermaid about a mail - order bride who turns out to be a scheming vixen)...

On the one hand, it's not like Eastwood to take the piss out of his own work, but on the other, what better analogy for his adaptation process can there be than the conversion of a sky - blue all - American songbook to a shit - brown sung résumé, rendered all in blacks and greys save for the odd splash of salmon and the occasional scrap of tweeOn the one hand, it's not like Eastwood to take the piss out of his own work, but on the other, what better analogy for his adaptation process can there be than the conversion of a sky - blue all - American songbook to a shit - brown sung résumé, rendered all in blacks and greys save for the odd splash of salmon and the occasional scrap of tweeon the other, what better analogy for his adaptation process can there be than the conversion of a sky - blue all - American songbook to a shit - brown sung résumé, rendered all in blacks and greys save for the odd splash of salmon and the occasional scrap of tweed?

All animals may be equal, but some animals are more equal than others in this stage adaptation of George Orwell's presciently cautionary take on the dark side of human nature, as reflected in the noble (if ultimately unrealized) intentions of a group of animals who overthrow the humans and seize control of their farm.