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- ...tion would be either a frictionless migration of labour, or a frictionless adaptation of labour and product costs, in response to a recessionary change in demand5 KB (747 words) - 05:27, 28 September 2012
- ...ements may be issued. This feature allows an almost infinite extension and adaptation of a text editor to one's personal needs. Word processors, such as Word<sup5 KB (632 words) - 05:58, 28 November 2009
- :''This section is an adaptation of a review of the book, Christiansen MH, Kirby S. (editors/authors) (2003) But perhaps the most interesting idea about pre-adaptation comes from the work of neuroscientist Michael Arbib on ‘mirror’ neurons10 KB (1,467 words) - 20:05, 20 September 2013
- ..., [[Barbara Cook]], [[Dave Garroway]], and [[Jack E. Leonard]], and a 1960 adaptation for television featured [[Shirley Temple]] as the old gypsy Floretta, [[Ang ...version of ''Babes in Toyland'' with a plotline very similar to the Disney adaptation, has a book by Rebecca Ryland and music and lyrics by [[Bill Francoeur]].<r12 KB (1,893 words) - 10:33, 17 August 2009
- ...lem in science? / Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby -- Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche / Steven Pinker -- The language mosaic and its evolu5 KB (732 words) - 16:44, 21 October 2011
- ...telligence generally converge on the fundamental purposes of intelligence--adaptation to the environment and learnng from experience (Cianciolo and Sternberg 200 ...quences, and knowing when and how to escape from the environment requiring adaptation (Matthews et al. 2004).17 KB (2,442 words) - 16:21, 26 January 2015
- ...and ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. "The Merry-Go-Round," a half-hour film adaptation of Bradbury's "The Black Ferris," praised by ''Variety'', was shown on ''St ...]] starred in ''[[Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)|Fahrenheit 451]]'' (1966), an adaptation of Bradbury's novel by [[François Truffaut]]. A [[Fahrenheit 451 (2007 fil10 KB (1,503 words) - 10:11, 8 June 2009
- ...ace Hodges played Lord Emsworth in a [[1933 in film|1933]] [[silent film]] adaptation of ''[[Summer Lightning]]'' * [[Peter O'Toole]] portrayed him in a 1995 [[BBC]] adaptation of ''[[Heavy Weather (Wodehouse novel)|Heavy Weather]]'', broadcast in the10 KB (1,601 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...help of an elongated [[wrist]] [[bone]] which serves as a [[thumb]]: this adaptation of the wrist rather than its fifth digit serves as an interesting example o5 KB (854 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- *Holland, John H (1975), ''Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems'', University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbo4 KB (585 words) - 13:56, 26 September 2007
- ...f [[Phage experimental evolution#Expermental adaptation|phage experimental adaptation]] studies.14 KB (2,002 words) - 16:06, 24 October 2013
- Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of ''Lolita'', not to be confused with the Adrian Lyne 1997 rendition starr4 KB (637 words) - 17:07, 12 March 2021
- ...rwin surmised that the swim bladder of skeletally heavy fish evolved as an adaptation for control of buoyancy but was exapted as a respiratory organ in certain f11 KB (1,641 words) - 20:57, 3 September 2018
- ...il length of around 31-37 cm)<ref name="Fleagle">{{cite book|title=Primate Adaptation and Evolution|accessdate=|author=J. Fleagle|authorlink= |coauthors= |date=16 KB (885 words) - 09:10, 6 June 2009
- * A 1999 [[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)|film adaptation]] directed by [[Michael Hoffman]] transfers the setting to 19th-century Tus5 KB (884 words) - 05:50, 9 June 2009
- ...and [[reproduction|reproducing]] on land. Those early plants with these [[adaptation]]s were favored by [[natural selection]], and of those plants, those that s6 KB (841 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2009
- ...cohere in this way, but as a whole are capable of (and sometimes require) adaptation to one another, and to a changing environment in order to maintain a stable ...taneously or in sequence – of the four functional problems that we called “adaptation,” “system (not unit) goal attainment,” “integration,” and “patt19 KB (2,881 words) - 20:41, 16 June 2009
- ...the palace was also used as Victory Square in Michael Radford's 1984 film adaptation of [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[1984]]''. The third annual [[European Soci5 KB (797 words) - 12:14, 13 September 2012
- ...ls with the flow of [[fluid]]s, i.e., [[liquid]]s and [[gas]]es. It is an adaptation of [[Classical mechanics#Newton's laws of motion|Newton's laws of motion]]6 KB (916 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
- ...isceral obesity, and coronary artery atherosclerosis: product of a primate adaptation}}5 KB (702 words) - 17:23, 25 April 2013
- ...namic features of the environment. Then, we present evidence that strategy adaptation can occur without (a) conscious consideration of different strategies or (b6 KB (874 words) - 21:11, 14 October 2010
- ...r to survive, the fourth chapter explains that the forms that are better [[adaptation|adapted]] to their circumstances will be selected to produce offspring, sim6 KB (1,043 words) - 23:43, 5 December 2010
- ...5)00170-1 |issn=}}</ref> In this study, surgery risk was assigned using an adaptation of the [[American College of Cardiology]] and [[American Heart Association]7 KB (906 words) - 00:26, 23 May 2012
- *1727: ''Double Falsehood'' by Lewis Theobald, identified by him as an adaptation of a Shakespeare play, now believed to be ''Cardenio''; see 16136 KB (830 words) - 04:34, 24 July 2023
- 1. Study of cold-adaptation of [[microorganism]]s, [[plant]]s (= cold hardiness), [[invertebrate]]s, an ...freezing, [[Freeze drying|freeze-drying]], hibernation, cold tolerance and adaptation, [[cryoprotectant|cryoprotective compounds]], medical applications of reduc13 KB (1,770 words) - 11:49, 2 February 2023
- ...nter]]''), who had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'', wrote:6 KB (957 words) - 17:37, 9 December 2019
- ..."live vaccines prepared from microorganisms which have undergone physical adaptation (e.g., by radiation or temperature conditioning) or serial passage in labor7 KB (1,004 words) - 10:12, 30 May 2009
- | author = Neurovestibular Adaptation Integrated Research Team6 KB (930 words) - 22:38, 26 May 2008
- ...d condition of the Eloi reflected a subsequent [[evolution]]ary process of adaptation to this new environment where the presumed natural human traits of strength6 KB (1,128 words) - 10:09, 25 February 2024
- ...drift]] and the other evolutionary forces was important in the process of adaptation. He described the relationship between genotype or phenotype and [[Fitness7 KB (990 words) - 08:51, 30 June 2023
- ...en the overall availability of large animal prey was still low; thus their adaptation was likely at a disadvantage when new forms had filled the gaps left by the ...ated to the ancestors of whales, underwater hearing must have been a later adaptation.<ref>{{cite journal|author = J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, L. J. Roe14 KB (2,189 words) - 12:14, 14 February 2024
- ...y as early as the Lower [[Paleolithic|Palaeolithic]] era. Much later, the adaptation to new conditions as glaciation retreated and forests took over inland, mea6 KB (1,026 words) - 08:44, 12 July 2014
- | title = The Brain of Musicians: A Model for Functional and Structural Adaptation7 KB (816 words) - 08:21, 15 January 2010
- ...g that "Haldane's questions are the appropriate next stage in learning how adaptation can evolve. We are now ready to reap the benefit of the fact that Haldane w6 KB (1,007 words) - 00:06, 25 February 2009
- ...ctane rating|high-octane]] component of [[gasoline]]. The first commercial adaptation of that process began operation in 1942 and the process played a very impor7 KB (1,092 words) - 09:49, 28 July 2023
- ...ctability of American cuisine began to change during World War II with the adaptation of Italian-American and Chinese foods. Spaghetti was served to American G7 KB (1,032 words) - 10:28, 27 June 2023
- ...wis Theobald of a play by Shakespeare. It is now widely believed to be his adaptation of a lost play, Cardenio by Fletcher and Shakespeare.15 KB (2,427 words) - 05:07, 8 February 2022
- ...rian romance in German, possibly written around 1190. It is a fairly loose adaptation of the romance of the same name by the medieval French author Chrétien de This work is, like ''Erec'', an adaptation of a work by Chrétien de Troyes (his ''Yvain'' or ''Chevalier au Lion'').13 KB (2,164 words) - 20:26, 21 August 2009
- ...00 years ago. They refer to the seminal period of psychological/cognitive adaptation to environmental circumstances as the <u>e</u>ra of <u>e</u>volutionary <u> ...eech]]. They aim to bring an [[adaptationist]] approach to [[Psychological adaptation|psychological mechanisms]] similar in a way adaptionist explanations abound47 KB (6,542 words) - 05:48, 20 February 2024
- * "Adaptation" (2012) – prequel to ''The Cloud Roads''. In the collection ''Stories of7 KB (887 words) - 13:44, 22 December 2023
- ...mistry of the glycerol is the bacterial form. These differences may be an adaptation on the part of Archaea to [[hyperthermophile|hyperthermophily]]. However, Although dramatic, this adaptation is most common in the extremely thermophilic archaea. Although not unique,14 KB (2,053 words) - 05:54, 9 June 2009
- ...History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan (expanded edition): An Adaptation of the Yüan chʾao pi shih, Based Primarily on the English Translation by6 KB (925 words) - 02:11, 18 March 2009
- ...rt: A Graphic Adaptation'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/11-Report-Graphic-Adaptation/dp/0809057387/ref=pd_bbs_sr_10/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=11946 KB (811 words) - 08:35, 23 February 2024
- ...undoubtedly had a large influence in its construction. The arrangement and adaptation of old blues songs was something Plant had much prior experience at during6 KB (1,008 words) - 15:48, 1 April 2024
- ...o Broadway in 1903. Best known is the unusually successful Hollywood movie adaptation of 1939, starring Frank Morgan as the Wizard and [[Judy Garland]] as Dorot ...al political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s. The 1902 stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], oil magnate [[John D.21 KB (3,359 words) - 08:51, 24 June 2023
- ==Menopause: epiphenomenon or adaptation?== ...fe span. These include menopause either as an [[epiphenomenon]] or as an [[adaptation]].38 KB (5,612 words) - 10:23, 8 May 2023
- ...nt presentation, "Dinosaurs versus Mammals: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Adaptation in Iraq", used evolution|evolutionary biology to describe the competition b | title=Dinosaurs versus Mammals: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Adaptation in Iraq15 KB (2,223 words) - 07:28, 18 March 2024
- ...oosely based upon Hamilton's writings. As of 2006, however, a more serious adaptation of the Matt Helm novels was in the early planning stages, with DreamWorks h7 KB (1,032 words) - 15:05, 20 January 2012
- ...ale is prosecuted. Use in the vicinity of minors is considered "nuisance" (Adaptation of the law, beginning of 2005).8 KB (1,179 words) - 10:09, 28 February 2024
- ...Behaviour'' 23, no 2. (1984), 204-20.</ref><ref>P.A. Corning, 'Biological Adaptation in Human Societies: A "Basic Needs" Approach', ''Journal of Bioeconomics 2,8 KB (1,179 words) - 23:10, 16 February 2010
- ...1904 Olympics were American. The ruleset used in the 1904 Olympics were an adaptation of catch-as-catch-can, with some restrictions on dangerous holds and the in8 KB (1,288 words) - 11:08, 29 September 2020
- ...e Steinbeck would ultimately write only two stage plays (his second was an adaptation of ''The Moon Is Down''), and because Kaufman was an experienced playwright The stage adaptation was a smash hit, starring [[Broderick Crawford]] as the dim-witted but phys15 KB (2,448 words) - 00:06, 9 March 2023
- ...nter]]''), who had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'', wrote:7 KB (1,203 words) - 18:06, 17 February 2020
- One of the biggest components of usability is [[accessibility]], the adaptation of products to ensure they are usable by people with various disabilities:8 KB (1,186 words) - 09:00, 28 April 2024
- ::*Carbon C. & Leder H. Face adaptation: Changing stable representations of familiar faces within minutes? volume 18 KB (1,060 words) - 22:30, 8 November 2010
- | | title = Culture Warriors: Marine Corps Organizational Culture and Adaptation to Cultural Terrain8 KB (1,236 words) - 18:47, 3 April 2024
- ...e theory that attempts to explain such phenomena as [[adaptation (biology)|adaptation]] and [[speciation]].18 KB (2,617 words) - 06:31, 9 June 2009
- ...iceable characteristic is the exaggerated size of the canines, probably an adaptation to deal with prey of a large size, possibly of a similar size to themselves9 KB (1,326 words) - 07:06, 10 July 2008
- ...nter]]''), who had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'', wrote:8 KB (1,304 words) - 11:22, 28 February 2020
- ...a new screenplay from scratch or from a book or play which is called an ''adaptation''. Since the medium is collaborative, fixed conventions dominate the writte9 KB (1,373 words) - 08:53, 20 September 2013
- Current consensus holds it likely that ''Double Falsehood'' is an adaptation of a lost play ''Cardenio'' by Fletcher and Shakespeare.8 KB (1,207 words) - 06:35, 2 February 2022
- Just to prove that evolution is about adaptation rather than improvement, this product of three million years' development p8 KB (1,245 words) - 10:17, 10 September 2011
- ...ls of the stress produced by regular moderate muscular exercise results in adaptation of the muscles to achieve more mass, strength, and power, enabling the exer ...hat '<i>what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger</i>' — implying an 'adaptation' response — or the aphorism that '<i>what makes something a medicine44 KB (6,407 words) - 15:57, 24 June 2015
- ...nary history, the use of bipedal movement came forward several times as an adaptation, including at what many consider to be an influential point in [[human evol ...an-like biped is considerably larger than in other extant apes. This is an adaptation that increases the stability of the knee joint and prevents the distal end30 KB (4,844 words) - 16:42, 9 October 2013
- ...0) [http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/57/1/14 Is depression an adaptation?].''Arch.Gen.Psychiatry'' 57:14-20. PMID 10632228. :*'''<u>Conclusion:</u>''' Is depression an adaptation? At present, we do not have the evidence needed to say for sure. However, i31 KB (4,553 words) - 18:17, 18 July 2016
- A television film adaptation, made by the [[BBC]], with partners including [[WGBH-TV|WGBH Boston]], scre9 KB (1,404 words) - 16:53, 7 February 2018
- ...ted to the force between two current elements, as described by Grassmann's adaptation of [[Ampère's equation]], described next.11 KB (1,675 words) - 17:41, 23 April 2011
- shifts in the reading frames of genes may prove to be mal-[[adaptation|adaptive]] and even lethal.10 KB (1,440 words) - 23:48, 12 February 2010
- ...https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability]</ref> Most people now accept these conclusions, but ther9 KB (1,503 words) - 15:56, 17 July 2023
- ...[editor] (2004) ''Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation''. 372 pages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 81141 4. | [http://boo ...and physiology figure prominently. It is within this context of biological adaptation that regulation of the internal milieu is understood and in which both home243 KB (35,084 words) - 07:35, 10 April 2024
- ...namic features of the environment. Then, we present evidence that strategy adaptation can occur without (a) conscious consideration of different strategies or (b10 KB (1,555 words) - 15:54, 15 May 2011
- ...was quite prescient, and anticipated, by decades, the subsequent work on [[adaptation]] and mutation by bacterial chemists and microbiologists.9 KB (1,423 words) - 16:37, 23 September 2013
- ...of the BAT-specific uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is essential for effective adaptation to the cold exposure of the extra-uterine environment. This is mediated by ...he newborn, brown adipose tissue (BAT) is essential for ensuring effective adaptation to the extrauterine environment, and its growth during gestation is largely33 KB (4,830 words) - 18:24, 26 July 2017
- ...]]'' and had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the first film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'',</ref> for which Condon was already noted a9 KB (1,403 words) - 17:06, 26 July 2010
- ...was quite prescient, and anticipated, by decades, the subsequent work on [[adaptation]] and mutation by bacterial chemists and microbiologists.9 KB (1,433 words) - 16:34, 23 September 2013
- ...]]'' and had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the first film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'',</ref> A selection from ''The Manchurian Ca9 KB (1,452 words) - 10:16, 8 April 2023
- ...so gave Korolev funding to develop the [[Molniya (rocket)|Molniya]] (8K78) adaptation of the R-7. ...uced to replace those used in the original design. The first stage used an adaptation of the [[NK-15]] known as the [[NK-33]], the second stage a similar modific18 KB (2,946 words) - 11:47, 2 February 2023
- ...Oh, D. Schneider, R. E. Lenski, and J. F. Kim. 2009. "Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli". ''Nature'' 461:1243-1247.11 KB (1,540 words) - 07:09, 26 March 2024
- The [[traditional video game]] is a genre of video game that is an adaptation of a non-computer game. Sub-genres include [[video board game]], [[video ca12 KB (1,919 words) - 04:35, 15 July 2013
- ...different habitats. The studies yet suggest the variability in regards of adaptation of species that originate from humans in different habitats. In other words10 KB (1,508 words) - 21:37, 14 February 2010
- ...earchers have proposed this modification to be a very ancient evolutionary adaptation. CENP-A plays an important role in the cell cycle by associating with other10 KB (1,473 words) - 20:28, 28 January 2008
- ...kin J. (editor). ''Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521811414.</ref>11 KB (1,526 words) - 15:42, 9 June 2011
- ...ugh the adaptation of what they call “schemes” or “templates.” The adaptation is a process-oriented resolution of problems that are able to be personaliz25 KB (3,512 words) - 21:34, 25 May 2024
- ...tning (1933)'' at the ''IMDB''}}</ref> A 1938 [[Cinema of Sweden|Swedish]] adaptation, under the title ''[[Thunder and Lightning (1938 film)|Thunder and Lightnin10 KB (1,595 words) - 16:50, 7 February 2018
- ...The invention of translation, the creation of new metabolic pathways, the adaptation of organisms to extreme environments, and the emergence of multi-cellular l ...s can be extended to defined mixed communities to study the plasticity and adaptation of the "metagenome", comprising the genomes of all members of a microbial c42 KB (6,267 words) - 20:40, 8 June 2010
- ...sive generations. The sorting process of natural selection results in the adaptation of the population to changing environmental conditions affecting reproducti11 KB (1,649 words) - 13:38, 16 May 2024
- ...0-7}}</ref> Given enough time, this passive process can result in varied [[adaptation]]s to changing environmental conditions.<ref name="understandingevolution"> ...win was able to observe variation, and infer natural selection and thereby adaptation, he was unable to explain ''how'' variation might arise, or be altered over53 KB (7,846 words) - 16:55, 24 May 2012
- **August 23 ''Dr. Who and the Daleks'', first film adaptation9 KB (1,326 words) - 05:46, 11 December 2023
- ...ant’s immune system, affecting the metabolism and cell signaling pathways. Adaptation of ''M.grisea'' is so efficient that even rice cultivars (bred to resist th11 KB (1,596 words) - 11:39, 18 May 2009
- ...selection as increasing the 'fitness' of the species, meaning its better 'adaptation' to its environment. ...stock. Given time, a passive process of natural selection can result in [[adaptation]]s and [[speciation]]s (see [[evolution]]). Less dramatically, natural sele49 KB (7,544 words) - 04:34, 19 September 2013
- 83. Holland, J.H. 1975. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press. Reprinted 87. Holland, J.K. 1975. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press.23 KB (3,026 words) - 11:38, 13 June 2010
- ...ugh the adaptation of what they call “schemes” or “templates.” The adaptation is a process-oriented resolution of problems that are able to be personaliz28 KB (3,940 words) - 15:18, 29 December 2007
- But perhaps the most interesting idea about pre-adaptation comes from the work of neuroscientist Michael Arbib on [[Mirror neurons|‘11 KB (1,618 words) - 20:07, 20 September 2013
- ...nter]]''), who had collaborated with Condon on the screenplay for the film adaptation of ''The Manchurian Candidate'', wrote:10 KB (1,553 words) - 18:24, 8 February 2020
- ....org/xmas_tree.htm "All about the Christmas tree: Pagan origins, Christian adaptation, & secular status"] ''ReligiousTolerance.Org,'' December 13, 2003.</ref> Th23 KB (3,520 words) - 09:03, 9 August 2023
- ...for-word reproduction of the original and often could include considerable adaptation by scholars, translators, and copyists. A good deal of interest in the earl11 KB (1,657 words) - 15:17, 2 September 2009
- ==Models of adaptation==28 KB (4,435 words) - 03:31, 14 October 2013
- knowledge bases are formed through the adaptation of what they call The adaptation is a process-oriented resolution of problems that are64 KB (9,033 words) - 15:17, 29 December 2007
- ...J. ''Irish Settlements in Eastern Canada: A Study of Cultural Transfer and Adaptation'' (1974)13 KB (1,633 words) - 11:20, 18 April 2008
- ...blications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/contents.html Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessmen ...l provide financial resources, technology and capacity-building to support adaptation in developing countries. The USA has signed, along with most other countrie54 KB (8,007 words) - 06:42, 7 April 2014