Sentences with phrase «question of adaptation»

This month, Paris suffered once again major floods, which, according to Anne Hidalgo, poses «clearly a question of adaptation of the city to climate change».

(It was not a question of adaptation as Mundadan suggests, but not rejecting the social milieu in which the Christian converts were born.

Maybe not needed, but the IPCC should definitely have a committee looking into these questions, and questions of adaptation strategies, too, should all else fail to solve the problems facing us — an IPHN subcommittee of the IPCC.

Not exact matches

The movie may not have answered those questions, but the book adaptation of the movie, which Disney / Lucasfilm had to sign off on before it was published, is more conclusive.

Those who fully understand the key lesson of our 2014 adaptations will also know why Jonathan's question made me cringe.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

It may be, she suggests, that this question is irrelevant; the purpose of humanity from a biological point of view, our successful adaptation, has been to make meaning.

The book in question, The Sword in the Stone, was the first volume in what was to become a tetralogy of very loose adaptations from Malory (its author referred to it as «a preface»).

«First he has not come in straight to a big club, he had an intermediate stay in Europe so the adaptation is less of a question mark.

A good indicator of the adaptation of republican thought to the question of work is given by Etienne Vacherot's treatment of it in his celebrated 1859 work, Democracy.

«Although the trial by McManus et al does not settle all questions regarding self - titration based on self - measurement, it is an important step toward adaptation of treatment for patients who want to actively take part in their own risk - factor control,» write Peter M. Nilsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden, and Fredrik H. Nystrom, M.D., Ph.D., of Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, in an accompanying editorial.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

«Our finding, in a species so distantly related to humans and lacking symbolic language, raises numerous questions about the kinds of understanding of «folk physics» and causality available to nonhumans, the conditions for these abilities to evolve, and their associated neural adaptations,» the authors conclude.

This raises the question of whether these bunodont teeth were inherited by all otters from a common ancestor, or evolved independently in different otter lineages over time because of the evolution of similar adaptations to thrive in similar environments.

For Ullrich and Thiel, the direct evidence of a rapid and complete adaptation to zero gravity in less than a minute begs the question as to whether previous cell changes measured after hours or days were also the result of an adaptation process.

Studies in companion papers explore the genomic adaptations of penguins, genomics of nearly extinct species, lineage - specific selection in birds, paleoviral infiltration in bird genomes, and many other questions.

Does this mean that some traits, like for instance a «timing of hair growth» knock out mice or cave dwelling albino insects should not be considered an adaptation, since the «lack of a trait» trait often is a question of an single accidental mutation and accidents happen all the time: — RRB -.

By integrating the sequence data and the associated metadata, we have established laboratory and bioinformatics - based methods that enable us to investigate scientific questions including: the tropism of ZIKV for dendritic cells and the antiviral response of the cells during infection (Bowen et al. 2017); investigating the phylogenetic diversity of strains obtained by Biodefense and Emerging Infections (BEI) Resources and distributed to virologists (manuscript in preparation); the genetic determinants of ZIKV host adaptation in C6 / 36 mosquito vs. Vero cells; and the diversity of ZIKV circulating in limited geographic regions, including Barbados, Colombia, and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.

Intriguingly, aragonitic CWC species are found close to and even below the aragonite saturation horizon (Roberts et al., 2009a; Findlay et al., 2014), raising the question of whether species adapted to lower saturation states may have inherent adaptations to future lower pH ocean conditions.

Anthropological and population genetics, applied to questions of modern human origins and subsequent migrations and local adaptations.

«One of the enemies of happiness is adaptation,» says Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University who has been studying the question of money and happiness for over two decades.

My question is, if I observe my urine reading go down while my blood measure stays up, will that be indicative of adaptation?

Perhaps you can answer one question to which I've been unable to find an answer online, keto subreddits notwithstanding: during the first weeks of initial keto adaptation, are there any weight loss benefits specific to ketosis (i.e., beyond the potential advantages commonly associated with calorie restrictions and moderate / non-ketogenic low carb diets)?

My question relates to the idea of «metabolic damage,» which some folks online explain as an adaptation of the body to reduce the rate of metabolism during periods of starvation, i.e. calorie restriction.

The main reason I pose these questions is that it has been discussed in other studies the principle that, fat mobilization and use as substrate happens after a period of adaptation for which 15 days seems not sufficient.

Yet he mentioned that he's known other SD's who have, in various ways (e.g., marrying their Sugar Baby) ended or evolved their sugarlives, but found it a very good question in terms of his own reasons for possible Sugarbowl departure or adaptation.

The questions people have in mind when there's a film adaptation of these books is whether it can be translated on to the big screen to their satisfaction.

Ready Player One is a novel which loves»80s pop culture, and as you're probably aware, Steven Spielberg is a big part of»80s (and»70s, and»90s, and» 00s) pop culture — so when it was announced that he would direct the adaptation of Ready Player One, which takes place in a virtual reality simulation called the OASIS, the question as to whether he would reference his own films was brought to light.

I mean the darker, more unnerving question of how a movie adaptation of Paula Hawkin's bestselling novel, cast with a pair of Hollywood's most mesmerizing actresses (Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson), penned by celebrated «Secretary» screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, and directed by acclaimed «The Help» helmer Tate Taylor can go so disastrously off the rails.

While these meetings haven't been officially confirmed and neither has the project in question, the one that makes the most sense is the aforementioned adaptation of Ernest Cline's nostalgia - filled, video game - playing novel.

And when the movie in question happens to be an adaptation of one of the most beloved children's novels of all time, the potential for disappointment looms especially large.

The question is whether the adaptation of this acclaimed young adult novel can be a cinematic tearjerker it needs to be to win over Academy members.

Even though the adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett best - seller had detractors like Professor Melissa Harris - Perry questioning the historical accuracy of its depiction of Mississippi maids in the Sixties, there's no denying that Viola Davis delivered an Oscar - worthy performance as the movie's lead character, Aibileen Clark.

With David Fincher hard at work on the first English - language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's best - selling novel, you can bet that will be one of the most - asked questions in studio exec offices in 2011 on both sides of the Atlantic.

has been the rhetorical question surrounding Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis» adaptation of David Mitchell's novel, which stacked six different timelines in a nesting - doll structure that unfolded in chronology for the first half and reverse chronology for the second.

Tomorrow: I made a judgment call some of you may question and opted to skip On the Road (an adaptation of the Kerouac novel starring Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart; I can see it later) to catch Bernardo Bertolucci's first film in nine years.

It features some incredible actors and performances from William Hurt and William H. Macy and is a solid adaptation of the ones in question.

Ramin Bahrani's remarkable adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book questions the very nature of dystopia

The big question mark is director Goold, who is making his debut here after directing a couple of British Shakespeare adaptations for television.

Adaptations of younger - skewing fiction always face the question of faithfulness to source material, especially when it comes to their more gruesome or harrowing passages.

As we inch toward summer blockbuster season, one of the biggest question marks on the calendar is the video game adaptation Warcraft.

That's because the Shakespeare and Milton work in question are two big budget studio films with CGI - loving directors at the helm, and in the former's case it's more of an unraveling of the lore surrounding William Shakespeare than an adaptation.

John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's «The Road» has been a big question mark for film - goers ever since it was yanked from the 2008 awards season.

While we would love to imagine an Eno soundtrack for The Hobbit, Halo, Tintin, or any of the other blockbusters Jackson has been tied to, the movie in question is The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

Between the ascension of Marvel Studios and it's competitors filling the movie theaters with comic book adaptations, audiences have been beaten over the head with origin stories and heroes who question the point of their existence.

Sam Mendes is returning to the literary cannon with another book adaptation but this time, the story in question also involves one of the director's passions.

Whether or not a copy of the original novel Annihilation sits on your bookshelf, you'll come out of the movie adaptation with questions.

The characters are good, no question it's a nice mystery and a good script of Franklin's adaptation of Mosley's novel, but the story is also a bit difficult to follow, and if you can't keep up with all the characters you'll end up not knowing or caring what happens for the last half of the film.

He was responding to a question from an Italian journalist who observed that two of the three Italian films in Competition were in English, Paolo Sorrentino (whose The Great Beauty recently took best foreign language Oscar) is there with Youth, starring Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine, and Matteo Garrone (director of previous Cannes prize - winner Gomorrah) brings an adaptation of fantastic Neapolitan classics in Tale of Tales.