Sentences with phrase «range of adaptations»

It attempts to provide a single rationale for a huge range of adaptations — which we know arose at different times in the course of human evolution.

Early mammals had a surprisingly wide range of adaptations, ranging from the tree - climbing Agilodocodon (top) to the swimming Castorocauda (in the water) and the burrowing Docofossor (bottom).

Until recently, arachnologists trying to unravel how spiders» vast range of adaptations arose built family trees based on morphology and behavior.

The study also reveals how the ground tit genome can be characterised by a range of adaptations to the environment it calls home.

«And shrimp are a great test case for evolution because you can find different species all over the world living at various depths and with a range of adaptation requirements.»

This could include reductions in the range of adaptation options that can be implemented, increases in the costs of implementation, or reduced efficacy of selected options with respect to achieving adaptation objectives.

Not exact matches

This optical adaptation enables the sheet camera to produce high quality images over a wide range of sheet deformations.

The primitive birds, without flight adaptations such as the muscle pulley system, wouldn't have been capable of the full range of flapping motion birds today use.

In 2011, Science's editors will be watching a smaller detector at the Large Hadron Collider called LHCb, which will study B mesons in great detail; new techniques that should lead to the discovery of many more genes contributing to adaptation; an ignited fusion burn at the National Ignition Facility; broadly neutralizing antibodies, which are capable of disabling a wide range of viral variants; the first plug - in hybrid electric cars whose batteries are charged from a wall socket go on the market; and the results of the first phase III trial of a malaria vaccine.

The mammal vertebral column is highly variable among species, reflecting adaptations to a wide range of lifestyles, from burrowing in moles to flying in bats.

Those two fungal species show an important adaptation: The optimal growth temperature for the fungi coincides with the range of temperatures that are suitable for the development of sea turtle embryos, the researchers found.

«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.

The device is an adaptation of a solid - state x-ray detector technology we have developed over the last fifteen years, now modified to function as a high - speed, high dynamic range electron diffraction camera.

A route - map approach is taken, identifying adaptation measures to span the plausible range of extreme water levels and creating timetables for investment and...

This could help avoid their own local extinction due to ever - increasing habitat degradation in their original range, could provide potentially robust stock for denuded areas, and assist in shortening the time needed for adaptation of stocks yet naïve to such extremes.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

Stress is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome.

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.

«By adaptation, we mean a range of options based on existing technologies, such as switching varieties of a crop, installing irrigation or growing a different crop, one better suited to warmer temperatures,» said Lobell, the associate director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford.

Efforts to identify host range and cell tropism of TMAdV, as well as the specific sequence changes responsible for adaptation to growth in cell culture, are currently underway.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits (including diseases) of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits, including diseases, of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

To this effect, plants have developed a wide range of chemical signalling compounds that enable them to optimise their adaptation to their respective environments.

To determine whether the major human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum exhibits fragmented population structure or local adaptation at the northern limit of its African distribution where the dry Sahel zone meets the Sahara, samples were collected from diverse locations within Mauritania over a range of ~ 1000 kilometres.

Impacts of introgressive hybridisation may range from genomic erosion and species collapse to rapid adaptation and speciation but opportunities to study these dynamics are rare.

A wide range of evidence from the natural and social sciences is presented to understand present and past anatomical and behavioral adaptations, and to view humans and our ancestors as members of diverse animal and plant communities.

It supports the Hedonic Adaptation Prevention (HAP) model, which says consistent positive experiences and keeping a check on «wanting more» can keep us in the upper half of our «set range» of potential happiness.

This will allow your body to focus on that specific adaptation and pave the way for greater range of improvement in the future.

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 adaptation.

Range of motion, neuromechanical, and architectural adaptations to plantar flexor stretch training in humans.

This is one of the best bench press workouts because you can get a variety of intensities, a variety of repetition ranges, and a variety of adaptations.

So the way you can think about it is not a really light load and not a really heavy load but basically kind of a medium load, the type of load you would use with right around 10 to 12 repetitions and so what that means is if all you're going after is getting yourself kind of tired out, really working the muscle and getting the maximum hormonal adaptation to strength training or to weight lifting or to lean muscle toning in the weight room — that 10 to 12 rep range is probably going to be a pretty good range for you if you really, truly are using about 75 % of your one repetition maximum.

From what I understand your theory is that training with variety of rep ranges / weights in the same workout leads to greater overall muscle fiber fatigue and therefore adaptation?

More video games these days give the user full range of motion which targets more than one part of the body, also offers a wide selection to avoid any muscle adaptation too soon.

(The reason for a range is because of a number of variables like your own adaptation to heat, humidity, altitude etc..

The easiest way to understand how these factors drive the differences in adaptations between full range of motion training and partial range of motion training, is to look at isometric training at either short or long muscle lengths.

This produces joint angle range of motion - specific and and velocity - specific adaptations, as well as greater improvements at the endurance end of the strength - endurance continuum.

We can't have one without the other.1 Furthermore, it's recommended that a wide variety of rep ranges are utilized for hypertrophy training, thus we must train in each spectrum throughout the annual plan to maximize resulting adaptations.

With P.H.A.T. the idea is that, instead of focusing on specific training adaptations (hypertrophy, maximal strength, power etc.) individually for weeks at a time like with linear forms of periodization, you will perform exercises in both the lower rep ranges (3 - 5 reps) and higher rep rages (12 - 20 reps) within the same given week.

The production design of the shimmer has invited several comparisons to Tarkovsky's Stalker, a film whose influence on production design has most recently manifested in the most unexpected of places — dystopian YA adaptations ranging from Mockingjay to The Maze Runner, which have taken the otherworldly designs of «The Zone» and stripped them of their initial surreality.

By the late teens he was helming a series of notable films starring William Farnum, ranging from historic adaptations (a seven - reel version of A Tale Of Two Cities [1917] and a ten - reel Les Miserables [1918]-RRB- to Zane Grey westerns (Riders of the Purple Sage [1918], The Rainbow Trail [1918]-RRBof notable films starring William Farnum, ranging from historic adaptations (a seven - reel version of A Tale Of Two Cities [1917] and a ten - reel Les Miserables [1918]-RRB- to Zane Grey westerns (Riders of the Purple Sage [1918], The Rainbow Trail [1918]-RRBof A Tale Of Two Cities [1917] and a ten - reel Les Miserables [1918]-RRB- to Zane Grey westerns (Riders of the Purple Sage [1918], The Rainbow Trail [1918]-RRBOf Two Cities [1917] and a ten - reel Les Miserables [1918]-RRB- to Zane Grey westerns (Riders of the Purple Sage [1918], The Rainbow Trail [1918]-RRBof the Purple Sage [1918], The Rainbow Trail [1918]-RRB-.

The list of nominees for best animated feature showcase a diverse range of sensibilities: three studio movies with varying commercial traditions in play, a 2 - D French - produced adaptation of children's book, and a mature Japanese biopic from one of the masters of the medium.

Elgort has had lots of success playing characters in young adult adaptations The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent series but I haven't seen him give much range in either.

As the list of calamities pile up on Marc Forster's long - troubled adaptation of «World War Z,» ranging from star Brad Pitt and Forster's tense relationship to simply a nervous comment from Paramount, it can be hard to discern whether these contentious elements are simply a time - honored staple of studio filmmaking or something much more foreboding.

The Cannes Film Festival is in full - swing and acclaimed director Todd Haynes» (Carol, Far From Heaven) highly - anticipated adaptation of Brian Selznick's YA novel Wonderstruck was one of the first films screened at the fest — and it was met with reviews that ranged from raves to lukewarm.

Films from Velvet Goldmine to Moulin Rouge to Down With Love have proven that few actors possess McGregor's dynamism, but in this adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's Beat - era novel, he plays to the other end of his range.

«The new year promises plenty of action, star turns and first - time comic book adaptations to satisfy a wide range of consumers and to continue the momentum of 2015's banner year for moviegoing.»

Initially, he did not read it with the possible intention of doing another big screen adaptation of the story, according to producer Kevin Loader, who is a partner of Michell's in their London - based production company Free Range.

VARIETY — Toronto - born actress Sarah Gadon has been working in the entertainment industry since she was in elementary school, but she considers her role in Netflix's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's «Alias Grace» the first chance she's had to truly express her range as a performer.

After a year or so of countless stage adaptations ranging from a recitation of the novel in its entirety to a themed party and (just this week) a dance piece, Baz Luhrmann's celluloid version of The Great Gatsby has...