Adaptation - Science topic

Bryan Christiansen

Southern New Hampshire University (USA)

Mergen Dyussenov

Astana IT University (Kazakhstan)

The growing interconnectedness of global business has led to a surge in international assignments, especially in the disruptive technology sector. Despite their importance, the large failure rates of these assignments highlight the need for effective strategies to support cross-cultural adaptation. This study examines the key factors that influence the success of international assignments, with an emphasis on the challenges and opportunities within the disruptive technology sector. To address the central question — "What factors affect the effectiveness of international assignments in cross-cultural settings?" — this study uses an integrative literature review to analyze findings from empirical, theoretical, quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, and ethnographic research. The findings suggest that cultural intelligence, overcoming language barriers, building trust, and adapting to diverse cultural environments are critical to achieving positive outcomes. The study also introduces the concept of Third Culture Individuals (TCIs), i.e. those uniquely positioned to overcome cross-cultural challenges due to their ability to seamlessly integrate into different cultural environments. By identifying these factors, this study offers insights into international human resource management, offering practical strategies to improve the success rates of international assignments. These findings have broader implications for strengthening organizational competitiveness and advancing individual career growth in a globalized economy.

and are each posted illegally (I am the senior editor of the book, in which these chapters appear).

I have written to the authors of these chapters today demanding they be removed.

Kind Regards

Colin Butler

Colin D. Butler PhD, MSc, BMed, DTM&H Honorary Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Hello

Could anyone introduce a free codon adaptation tool? The URL of Java Codon Adaptation Tool (JCat) does not open for me and I have urgent need to do this and calculate the CAI index and GC percent.

Thank you

Bangladesh is the largest low-lying deltas in the world. Most land is naturally inundated for 6-8 months every year. Threats of sea level rise, constant flooding and storm surges worsening the situation. Farmers are practising floating bed cultivation in some parts of the country. Department of Agricultural Extension have taken initiatives to extend the technology country-wide. is this the right adaptation strategy?

Chadwick’s Hotdogs

“Hi ya doin scuutch”, I began, “You know my goddam name. My fucking name is Chadwick now get the fuck over it.” If you’re reading this then you probably don’t know who I am. Occasionally people call me quirky. The women call me so kinky that they sometimes want something besides a hotdog from me. “Why the fuck did you raise your hand then lower it to mock me. Are you done dashing piece of shit.” Then the streaky bloke opened his fat mouth, “I was the fucking substitute teacher and you were only 13. Cannot you feel my pain.” Talk about excuses. If I had a cent for every excuse this bloke and dipshit has made then I’d probably not have to be Hot Dog Man. I know what you’re fucking thinking. Originally I was going to be hyena man but, I resembled a werewolf too much and people don’t want to think of the bad guys from the Lion King. Tell you the fuck what. “See your ass later, you putz. You fucking McFuckWork . You’ve gotta be the biggest cocksucker I ever met in education and you aren’t even in the higher kind. Billionaires are shitty as it is. Rising to the top brings the worst out in everyone.”

Ch. 1: One Sonoma Bech Down, God Knows how many to go.

“Room. Room. You bastards listen to me”, I exclaimed like the mighty roaring lion I was and still the fuck am, “You may call me a smut peddler but, how the fuck else am I gonna live. How the fuck else am I gonna live.” “You sure have one fuck of an imagination”, Some prostitute dressed up as bun came up to me, “You’ll need to sail way before this siren will sing your way into a New Yorker’s trap.” “Look toots”, I responded levelly, “Ain’t no fucking way that I’m going cow tow to some real bitch like you. You are a real bitch if you begin a fucking sentence complimenting my imagination then end with my ass in a trap. That is a mother fucking backhanded compliment if I ever knew one.” I slapped the bitch in the face then like the silly bastard I am the fuck away. I started crying to because she was some bitch. A real sexy one that I could probably bulldoze.

Ch 2: Doing the fucking predictable

“They say the more accurate I can predict my day from beginning to end, the closer I am to the grave like a fat Tony. Fat Tony recently died of diabetes.” “Sorry for your goddam loss, Chadwick”, began my sidekick, “Catch Up is my fucking name and I rub myself all over you until we fight crime to the fullest and beat criminals down to the dullest.” For Christ’s sake, I fucking love Catch Up but I wouldn’t stick a wiener in him no matter how light my loafers got, or so I figured, “Look Catch Up, you’ve got some way of putting things. And by putting I mean wording. Don’t make a statement about you rubbing up against me.” Catch Up looked at the ground.

Donald Hebb proposed that consciousness is synonymous with learning, and he believed that the neocortex is centrally involved in this process (Hebb 1949, 1961, 1968). In humans, electrical stimulation of the posterior cingulate cortex adjacent to the parietal cortex and M1 evokes sensations related to the vestibular sense: vertigo, dizziness, and a sense of falling (Caruana et al. 2018). This region of the cingulum innervates many regions of the neocortex that have been implicated in balancing the head with respect to the gravitational axis: the supplementary motor area, the retrosplenial cortex, the inferior parietal cortex, MT/MST, and the insular cortex (Fig. 1; Caruana et al. 2018; Chen et al. 2011; Fukushima et al. 2011; Guldin and Grüsser 1998; Rancz et al. 2015). Under normal circumstances when fully adapted, the vestibular sense via the otolith hair cells operates unconsciously through the cerebellum (Eccles et al.1967). However, once there is a change in the gain of the vestibular input, consciousness is summoned to signal the start of the adaptation process. After returning from space astronauts typically experience dizziness and disorientation which can lead to vomiting (Demontis et al. 2017). Dizziness and disorientation can last up to five days (Carriot et al. 2021). Returning astronauts have difficulty standing, stabilizing gaze through the vestibular reflex, and walking and turning their bodies at every corner (Lawson et al. 2016). In fact, they voluntarily suppress their head movements to minimize the use of the vestibular system before adapting to earth’s 1G gravitational field. The adaptation process can be eased by spending time in a swimming pool. Also, when in a space station for many days astronauts can feel that they are resting on their side, i.e., 90 degrees with respect to the vertical, visual axis, due to the lack of gravity (Carriot et al. 2021). This is especially true when the eyes are closed. Indeed, it is known that vestibular illusions can negatively affect the way astronauts pilot their space crafts (Carriot et al. 2021).

A trip to Mars and back will require four separate adaptations to changes in gravitational force, all of which will be experienced consciously: (1) going from 1 G to 0 G when leaving the earth; (2) going from 0 G to 0.38 G when landing on Mars; (3) going from 0.38 G to 0 G when leaving Mars; and (4) going from 0 G to 1 G when landing on earth (Lawson et al. 2016). Both neocortex and cerebellum are involved in the adaptive process. The neocortex consciously monitors the process, and the cerebellum finalizes the adaptation at the level of the Purkinje neurons by resetting the vestibular gain (Lisberger et al. 1984).

The next time you decide to drink too much alcohol remember that you are putting your vestibular system under conscious/neocortical examination, since the alcohol diminishes the responsivity of the vestibular hair cells by altering the fluid in the vestibular canals (Shibano 2013), thereby causing a decrease in the gain of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (Tianwu et al. 1995).

To conclude, anytime the brain needs to adapt to a new sensory experience consciousness is summoned. Awareness of all sensory changes imposed on the body is central to survival. For example, being conscious of an upset stomach that lasts for weeks can compel many to go to a doctor to avert death through cancer.

Figure 1: Regions of human neocortex that mediate the vestibular sense as verified with fMRI: the parietal cortex, the temporal cortex (including MT/MST), the insular cortex, and the premotor cortex (including the supplementary motor area). From figure 3B of Lenggenhager and Lopez (2015).

Individuals with leg length asymmetry often adapt at the pelvis via posterior or anterior innominate rotation. This is a very common adaptation. But, does the actual adaptation itself change pelvic height? i.e. does a posterior innominate adaptation lower the ipsilateral acetabulum, and does an anterior innominate adaptation raise the ipsilateral acetabulum?

I and many of my colleagues have looked endlessly to find the text that this graph is associated with and so far there has not been any luck whatsoever. If anyone knows the citation affiliated with this diagram please let me know. Thank you all.

Integrating environmental considerations from the outset in sustainable tourism plans is crucial for minimizing negative impacts and promoting the long-term preservation of natural resources. Here are some key steps to ensure the integration of environmental considerations:

By following these steps, sustainable tourism plans can effectively integrate environmental considerations right from the outset. This proactive approach ensures that environmental conservation is a central pillar of tourism development, leading to more sustainable and responsible practices.

Could this be considered a valid translation/back translation procedure if you translated a questionnaire from e.g. English to Chinese using one machine tranlsation engine and then back translated the obtained questionnare from Chinese to English using other machine translation engine; and resulted English version looks okay when compared with initial one?

Hello to all,

I am a Bioanthropologist. I am conducting research on the adaptation of rural communities in Côte d'Ivoire to the disruptions they experience in their environment. My work allows me to understand how risk is socially constructed and the link it has with the resilience strategies developed locally.

Thus, in the study on the adaptation of populations to the shortage of drinking water, the results showed a return to traditional water sources to compensate for the uncertainty of modern alternative water sources. However, considering the risks to which these communities are exposed due to the consumption of untreated surface water and the difficulty of supply, I have proposed as a strengthening of investments in hydraulic works for the collection of the resource to improve the conditions of access to drinking water for these communities in rural areas.

I would like to get your opinions on this issue and if possible some suggestions.

Thank you very much.

Adverse childhood experiences refer to a group of potentially traumatic events that

a person can experience during the early years of life, for which the individual has no coping

skills

Dear All

There is a special discount of 600 CHF for [Atmosphere IF 3.110] Special Issue "Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation to Urban Heat". If anyone is interested in a research collaboration, please let me know. The deadline is 30 January 2023. Thanks

Both climate change adaptation and resilience models and frameworks are in practice. I would like to know what are the similarities and differences between these two frameworks in terms of theory and practice. More specifically, would like to know empirical evidence on what are the effectiveness and added values of each framework in programming.

I am looking for the SACQ questionnaire and its manual. The test was constructed by Robert Baker and Bohdan Syrik (1989). It is for research purposes.

Any leads would be helpful.

Regards

When study how human adapt new technology we can categories the factors into categories:

can help with adaptation

can prevent the adaptation

from psychology perspective what is the reasons and factors which can prevent human from adapting new technology?

Hi everyone!

I’m doing a research on the impact of the financial and non-financial motivators on the employees motivation in Sweden, but the problem is that I couldn’t find any questionnaire/scale that suits my research.

What should I do?

Can I adjust a questionnaire? Change the questions?

What are the required steps and tests?

Best regards

Ez

My team an I would be very happy about literature recommendations.

Thank you for your support!

How can all these can be integrated in a best way? I would love to hear and read case studies, especially from least developed countries.

I am doing a systematic review about a psychotherapy intervention manual for adults which has been adapted to be used for children between ages 7-17. I am wondering if anyone knows about references regarding evaluation of such adaptations?

What aspects are most important to remember when adapting psychotherapy for children that was originally developed for adults?

I am looking for which parts are crucial to remember when doing such adaptations such as

the importance of making the format appropriate for their development, using metaphors to make difficult concepts easier to understand etc. I would love to find out more about important aspects that needs to be considered when translating such interventions.

If anyone knows about sources of knowledge about how best to adapt psychotherapy for children I would be very grateful.

Specifically, I am interested in adaptation of FWI which takes into account the different types of vegetation or biomass under study.

For example, I know a study about the adaptation of FWI to Mediterranean forests ( ). Do you know similar studies that consider vegetation properties and characteristics when calculating FWI?

Other question is the following:

as FWI was originally introduced for the Canadian forests, do you know FWI performance for very differents ecosystems (e.g., taiga)?

I collected over 300 participants data (6-point-likert / 19 statements) because of adapt a English language survey to my language. I want to do not only CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analisys) but also do Rasch analysis for validation of adapted scale in R.

- How can I do that with R?

- Only Rasch analysis is enough to confirmation?

- How can I write reporting results?

hello,

i try to implement depth decoder in the using Tensorflow,

my question is :

how to concatenate the #6 layer with the #4 layer, the shapes aren't equals ?

the image of the decoder attached bellow !

#depth #concatenation

I am a student trying to write a marketing essay, and I found the topic of standardization versus adaptation is really interesting. But I still don't have any clue about the specific question that I can work on. This topic seems to be very well developed and I don't know if there is still a gap left for a not-so-clever student like me.

Do you have any suggestions? I am quite interested in social media strategy though, do you think it would be an appropriate topic in this area?

Thank you.

I would like to explore all performance metrics to evaluate an auto-scaling system.

The desired auto-scaling system scales out/in a web application, which is hosted in the cloud environment.

I know some metrics such as (1) Cost, (2) Response time, (3) Delay time, (4) Resource utilization, (5) Total Provisioned VMs, (6) Oscillation mitigation (or scaling overload), (7) Time to Adaptation, (8) VM minute, (9) Contradictory scaling decisions, (10) Contradictory scaling actions, (11)The rate of SLA Violation, (12) Stability, . . .

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Dear all,  

I am currently a guest editor for the special issue "Mediterranean Olive Trees and Olive Oil under Climate Change", which will be published by the journal Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395, 2019 JCR impact factor = 2.259, Quartile 1).

The deadline is June 2021. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested and also feel free to disseminate this message in your groups.

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Although there has been witnessed impressive development in digitalization in almost every sector still there are many developing countries where SMEs are facing problems in adopting e-commerce. What are the possible reasons that SMEs are facing problems in adopting e-commerce?

Hello everyone,

I’m working on a project in which I need to detect anomalies in a particular scene (two background scenes). The anomaly could be anything (bolts, pliers, glasses, etc.). However, I have generated synthetic data training with unity because I have very few realistic images and here comes the problem. I was looking throughout different techniques like Domain Adaptation since I need to find a solution that implies training on synthetic and doing inference on real ones, but each of them seems to be focused on the class of the image and thus could fail in finding particular anomaly. I’m not an expert in this field and I’d like to hear an expert’s opinion since I am a little bit stuck :(

thank you very much for you answers!

Any good recent reviews/articles to advise for understanding the basics from A to Z, on bacterial chemotaxis, please?

--> Molecular basis, genes involved, proteins and ligands interactions

--> Diversity of Chemoreceptors and Chemoeffectors/habitat

My knowledge needs to be refreshed! Many thanks,

Caroline

I am trying to adapt Sf21 cells to serum-free adherent culture in Gibco® Sf-900™ III SFM. According to the manufacturer protocol, cells will be attached tightly and it will require additional force. Unfortunately, in my case the cells are attached too tightly and every passage I lose cells. Also many cells become in elongated shape after adding 75% Sf-900™ III SFM. I have to solve this problem.

I'm asking for kind advice from experts. Thank you so much for considering your very precious time.

Hello!

Hope everyone is doing alright during these turbulent and uncertain times.

I am working on my masters dissertation (MSc International Management) and would like to answer the research question of "how adaptable are frugal health care systems in developed markets?" (such as U.S.). I am really stuck as I cannot get hold of any experts to interview and data/literature is limited, as I have found so far. Does anyone have an idea of how I could tackle the methodology or has any tips on where to get data from in this area.

P.S. : Would not mind changing the angle on research question in order to make finding data/literature easier.

Many thanks in advance, feel free to contact me, if you have further questions.

- Juliana

Hi,

I am writing a paper with the title (above) and am wondering whether anybody could recommend a journal, or book, that may be interested in such an article.

Thanks in advance,

Grace Russell

What is the rate of adaptation of drip irrigation technology in India? What are the barriers towards adaptation of this technology?

Can you please share any relevant publication?

With Climate Change and all, I will tell you what I think is a minimum needed for survival and that is: literally a completely, fully, entirely new outlook on life AND that being FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING and involving all our work-a-day pursuits -- a wholly new way of life (and "full-blown" way of action/work) and a source of wholesomeness and great actions and GOOD:

Every hour/day/week/month/year, etc. you wake up mindful, informed (and get more informed as ever needed to proceed ASAP), dedicated, and completely persistent and consistent in acting for the earth-life-dignity of your CAUSES and related CAUSES. Serious life as pursued will be nothing but your involvement and active-dedication to CAUSES (maintaining rational, workable consistencies, and AS MUCH IN ACTION as possible, to actually achieve or actualize the causes). Satisfaction will have nothing to do with "being easy-going" NOR with typical or traditional ideas (notions) of happiness, nor with any [supposedly] other way of (or toward, or for) "satisfaction" -- "rewards" of life many of you, much of the time, thought likely would come with "freedom" and "general happiness" (as historically thought about) but such will be clearly seen as blatant, flagrant, and shameful irresponsibility of old ways considered not worth even thinking about FOR ANY GOOD PURPOSE or any goal in the world (you will have plenty else to think about and with integrity and dignity AND FOR DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY)(plus, there is inherent irrationality in the old views: one way or others of expecting -- and basically even counting on -- MAGIC). BUT, now, all the old happiness/play/satisfaction/fun in-and-with any other "things" or activities will naturally and rationally and personally come to be seen as that which eliminates true dignity and integrity and any worthwhile (or even real) satisfactions -- now with you having the dignity and integrity of work on AND for your CAUSES. With this new way (for all we see for ourselves and for any decent folk we will associate with), SOON nothing else will will "do"; we will have a new way to real dignity, better understandings, and some true, real, good lasting, progressive satisfaction, and with greater loving kindness and equanimity (as we accept we do what we do and others do as their own best in the same vein). As indicated, the way is to operate (LIVE) IS ONLY in terms of CAUSES and inter-related or necessarily simultaneous or successive CAUSES. Developing and accomplishing (in action as much as possible and necessary) will be ALL for the CAUSES which will be your life -- the "all" of your life that matters or has any implications for yourself or others. And, this is also at least as all other decent human beings doing all major things of working life will know you, and that is how you will know them. This is all simply a commitment to understandings, and engaging in wholesome pursuits (which, AGAIN, will be in terms of CAUSES). The causes will be shared only as well, rationally, and wholesomely pursued through group action BUT may well be otherwise that which is done alone (individually), if that is how things are going to get done.

This is the formula for self-breeding of the species and for any real decency and for the survival of the species itself. I cannot imagine how anything else will be sufficiently adaptive; in fact, anything else breeds ignorance, confusion, chaos and irresponsibility (an easy logical and sound argument to make). (I want to live, I want humans who follow me to live; DO YOU?)

Hello!

Is someone aware of if exist a Spanish version of the Motivations for Play in Online item inventory created by Yee (2006)? I found a French version, but not a Spanish one.

Yee, N. (2006). Motivations for play in online games. In Cyberpsychology and Behavior (Vol. 9, pp. 772–775). https://doi.org/10.1089/cpb.2006.9.772

Hi!

I am currently translating and adaptating a questionnarire about attitudes towards inclusion, and I would like to have suggestions about specific literature in translation and cross-cultural adaptation of questionnaires.

In particular, the amount of freedom that I have to change the original text to fit the new context is quite a challenging topic.

Do you have suggestions?

Thank you!!

I have already read these:

- Sousa, V. D., & Rojjanasrirat, W. (2011). Translation, adaptation and validation of instruments or scales for use in cross‐cultural health care research: a clear and user-friendly guideline. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17, 268–274.

- Harkness, J. Л., Villar, A., Edwards, B., Johnson, T. P., Lyberg, L., Ph. Mohler, P., … Smith, T. W. (2010). Translation , Adaptation , and Design. In J. A. Harkness, M. Braun, B. Edwards, T. P. Johnson, L. Lyberg, P. M. P., … T. W. Smith (Eds.), Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (pp. 117–140). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

- Cieciuch, J., Davidov, E., Schmidt, P., & Algesheimer, R. (2016). Assessment of Cross-Cultural Comparability. In C. Wolf, D. Joye, T. Smith, & Y. Fu (Eds.), The sage handbook of survey methodology (pp. 630–648). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

- Willis, G. B. (2016). Questionnaire Pretesting. In C. Wolf, D. Joye, T. Smith, & Y. Fu (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology (pp. 359–381). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

- Behr, D., & Shishido, K. (2016). The Translation of Measurement Instruments for Cross-cultural Surveys. In C. Wolf, D. Joye, T. Smith, & Y. Fu (Eds.), The sage handbook of survey methodology (pp. 269–287). London: SAGE Publications.

- Colina, S., Marrone, N., Ingram, M., & Sánchez, D. (2017). Translation Quality Assessment in Health Research: A Functionalist Alternative to Back-Translation. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 40(3), 267–293.

Hi there,

I have ddRADseq data, with RAD-loci assembled de-novo using the STACKS pipeline for two species and their hybrids. As such, I was wondering how I could estimate Fst for each of those putative loci without using BayeScan. This is because many of my samples are hybrids which violate the model assumptions of the program.

I have seen a method mentioned which uses the ' Bayesian implementation of the F-model' by Gompert et al 2012, but I am unsure how to practically put this into use. I have also tried using outFLANK, but it needs a data-set containing no missing data.

Thanks a lot.

Rowan

Climate change affects fishereries in numerous ways. What are the most important insights we have on adaptations to these changes, at government, industry and community levels.

I am intended to use the SACQ for my research and need the manual of it. If anyone can share please let me know. Thanks

Accidentally we went for a field trip to collect the Gracillaria for the CIDA project where we come across this new event and that was the first record in the global scale as well.

Often intentionality and finding the intentions behind an action is considered a high level brain function. This is evident in TOM (theory of the mind). A rational approach requires however time consuming mental processes, as illustrated by the elaboration of psychological theories. Hence, approximate, even incorrect intention attribution, in a more bayesian perspective, has a heuristic value in behavioral adaptation This relates to the renewed interest for the citation : «ces mystères nous dépassent feignons d'en être les organisateurs» from Jean Cocteau, Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921). Thank you for intuitively as well as theoretically informed comments.

In the last years, science have been showing a increasement of disease specific questionnaires. How you evaluate this sceanario and which are the positive/negative points of a specific questionnaire?

Change is nature, and climate is changing. Human capacity in boosting and controlling climate change is still a debatable issue and has the scope of investigation. Whatever the level of human intervention in boosting climate change, human capacity of controlling climate change is very limited. We may slowdown the rate of changing climate but for sure, we cannot prevent it. Climate change is inevitable. The only realistic way to fight against climate change is adaptation.

For a sustainable adaptation, we must understand both positive and negative effects of climate change. Earth is a complete dynamic system and always trying to keep the system in a balance. Hence, when climate change is bringing future challenges for us, it is also bringing equal amount opportunities. For a better future, we must identify both challenges and opportunities.

Can you see any opportunities in climate change?

adaptation anther culture wheat

I am investigating learning and problem solving patterns/behaviours of Grey Squirrels (and would like to know everything possible on the subject.

Any research links or citing would be much appreciated.

I'd like to show a particular dance company as a kind of organic or dynamic organization whose cast of actors/dancers shifts its members (the cast grows or decreases in size for every show) as a way of adaptation according to the demands of the company (i.e., types of show scheduled). Thank you.

What economically viable alternates, a farmer is left with, for paddy straw management, when its in-situ incorporation leads to higher emissions of Methane (CH₄), a gas about 25 times more potent than Carbon-di-oxide (CO₂) in causing global warming? Is it still right to advise farmers to incorporate paddy straw back into their fields, as most of the State Agricultural Universities highly emphasize on this approach without knowing its consequences in long-run?

I must now, at least for a moment, speak more generally:

FIRST: _YES_, I said DELUSION and meant it in its typical and serious meaning.

We must curb clearly (when examined realistically and rationally -- and all based on REAL actual experience, as it is) wrongful behavior (HERE: action), speech, and thought, _OR_ I profoundly 'feel' the clear sense of misery and extinction. I, myself, and with and for those I know well, 'see' all this with certainty, too -- though it is possible not all of these people 'sense' doom, admittedly. I do (for what that might be worth).

I say most-active efforts must personally be made to curb _ALL_ of this, no matter how benign it may SEEM to be (for reasons YOU can understand as well) -- THAT IS my view. (What may seem like "a little" may beget A LOT.) (Thus-changing MAY or may not be possible; it IS clearly unlikely, looking at "theory" (esp. Psychology; and, its research), philosophy, and history: but this should make us really try, not give up.) [ Before extinction: many, many terrible troubles may precede this (of course). Not wanting to be so thoroughly unpleasant, let me say: Have a nice day. Reading all my "stuff" would help, this day and henceforth. (WE must stop playing in the 'fields' of our Earth.)

P.S. I posted a very positive and affirmative (pro-adaptation) answer to: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_you_choose_between_two_or_more_mutually_exclusive_hypotheses_with_equal_explanatory_power_and_scope . Perhaps this will help you know the whole "me" and not be negative or skeptical. And: I am consistent. ]

Adaptation methods to SDS success stories is needed in desert and semi-Desert environments.

This is a very interesting project that could test how Transformational Adaptation Analytical framework can be applied as Adaptation policy actions. There is a possibilty to address gaps in Sustainable Livelihoods Frameworks towards ensuring adaptation. Hopefully this project will adress questions of knowledge, politics, scale and dynamics that failings in the current adaptation efforts in food resilience area. In terms of knowledge, lots of efforts focus on the local context at the expense of ‘dealing with big shifts in the state of global markets and politics’. In the age of globalisation, exclusive focus on the local misses the influences of global forces, therefore, this research project needs to categorically look at transformational adaptation as widely accepted as a necessity and opportunity but remains an ambiguous topic and task. In food security adaptation, the scale of the climate change challenge and the growing influence of outside interests mean that transformation is both especially likely and desired. Transformational adaptation in and of agriculture was recently recognised as a priority and an emerging field of research (Walker et al. 2009; Park et al. 2012).

Trees don’t grow in deserts (e.g., Sahara). Why? – The answer to this question is based on a particular combination of evolutionary history, physiology and ecology.

Do you agree with this statement?

Could you explain your point of view?

[I’m a Brazilian biologist and writer. I write about science (mainly about population biology) and would like to know the opinion of colleagues from any field of scientific knowledge (and from other countries).]

See also Habitat, environment and ecological niche (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Habitat_environment_and_ecological_niche).

The question just came into mind, though it might be a wrong question to ask (as per many people)

Are there some (practical) adaptation and mitigation strategies possible for the microplastics problem in the marine environment?

Dear all,

I am wishing to investigate on linkages between microfinance and sustainable (renewable) energy and/or climate change issue. I have found the area has limited previous studies. Thus, I am looking for suggestions, opinions, advices and sources of material, literature and data.

It would be helpful, if you put your thought about different dimensions of the linkage between mentioned issues.

Particularly, how microfinance can support to sustainable energy and/or climate change adaptation?

You can suggest me from both institution’s and borrower’s perspectives.

Thanks in advance.

Adaptations correspond to physiological ranges (reaction norms, somatic adaptations). According to the theory of facilitated variation, such dynamic physiological restorations of the phenotype in response of variable environmental conditions are the outcome of genetic constraints (e.g. plasticity and robustness of developmental pathways). Therefore, when somatic adaptation occurs, exposing the phenotype to different selective conditions, physiological ranges can be "easily" shifted (i.e. their evolutionary shift is facilitated) by mutation, or genetic reassortments from the existing variability in the population (Baldwinian evolution). In other words, one of the key characteristics of adaptations would be their evolvability, or to say this with the words of Gould and Vrba (1982), "cooptability for fitness". Evolvability can thus be strongly conserved at the level of core molecular processes. Adaptations would then be selected to be both physiologically adaptable, i.e. to function in "a range of ways" in response to changed conditions ("dynamic restoration" or somatic adaptation), and to be evolvable. In other words, the "cooptability for fitness" would be under selection.

In my view, this idea implies that all adaptations at the organismal level should be partly selected to be "preaptations" (sensu Gould and Vrba 1982, Paleobiology), i.e. structures that retain the potential to enhance fitness (adaptive function) in variable conditions. Gould (2002, the structure of evolutionary theory) suggested that this selection should act at higher hierarchical level (species selection). However, the fact that adaptations that are selected in specific conditions are also selected to be physiologically modifiable, or to function in “a range of ways”, would make them likely to have fitness-increasing effects (aptations) that are not those they were selected for during their historical genesis, i.e. to become exaptations. Could this be a bet-hedging strategy also selected at organismal level?

That is, exaptations would also have a non-random origin (contra Gould & Vrba 1982), while this does not rule out the possibility of non-aptations as a possible source of exaptations. In this scenario, exaptations from nonaptations (spandrels s.s.) would be less frequent than exaptations from previous adaptations. Note also that the measurable adaptations are a subset of the extant ones, due to the overall scarcity of available historical data.

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Many species of living organisms have colonized the Earth, and this may have happened sequentially. Which of these communities was more susceptible to evolution? Is it about natural selection?

While globalization promotes mobility and opportunities to work in different countries, cultures and traditions in the world. Often some degree of adaptation is required to make sure that one present a valuable contribution to academic institution.

It is a hot topic of the all development institutions of the world.

My topic is Adaptation of African students to China. Any suggestions and submissions as well as sharing of literature is welcomed.

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

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The Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) is working to increase capacity around what are known as "bottom-up approaches" to adaptive water resources management. These methods have an emphasis on system vulnerabilities and involve active stakeholder involvement in the decision-making processes.

We would like to create a forum of common solution finders to help institutions and individuals ask questions, brainstorm, share insights, and support experimentation and adoptions when it comes to bottom-up approaches towards resilient water management. This material will be showcased on an evolving "Knowledge Platform" to be hosted at http://agwaguide.org.

Can adaptation targets be harmonised? What do you think?

Can it help to understand adaptive strategies of them?

Any idea?

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Hi, anyone measured adaptation toward a behaviour?

would appreciate if you can share methodology and any scale items ?

How could I have information about blood flow restriction training and cardiovascular function adaptations?

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adaptation general predator  to low quality prey or diet by artificial selection based on development time "main" and survival rate.

However I feed non-adult stage or post-adult stage only with this diet  to minimize the negative effects of the low nutrition.

I am compiling a series of historical case studies of transformative adaptation to major environmental changes, such as dryland salinity brought about by land clearing and changes in water availability due to high irrigation diversions and so on. I am keen to learn of examples that provide a perspective on social processes and decision making in relation to adaptive responses by people, particularly that relate to changes in societal values relating to the environment, how knowledge was used to scope choices for adaptation and how rules (legislation, policies, behaviours and norms) either enabled or constrained those choices. Any pointers to relevant literature would be gratefully received.

Dear community,

I need to write a paper on the topic "adaptation of farming to droughts in the country of Niger, Sahel"for one of my university courses. 

I already found some papers, mainly from the 80´s and 90´s, so I am particularly interested in recent publications.

Thanks in advance!

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Does anyone know what are the specific effects (adaptations) of this particular exercise called: Quadriceps Eccentric Exercise or Reverse Nordic Lower (http://s0www.utdlab.com/contents/image.do?imageKey=EM%2F100189 ) ( https://youtu.be/B6gclHMQDj8 )  on either rehabilitation or prevention of knee injuries, or perhaps on its effects on some performance parameters (RFD, VJ, COD, etc.)?

Also what are the exercise guidelines regarding the FITT-VP principle?

Please provide research articles or anecdotal evidence.

Thank you.

Adaptation for global warming can be expected from sea turtle in followings

such as changing their nest depth, changing nesting site and change in breeding season. Is there any other ways can you expect turtles can adapt? does any authors provide evidences for such adaptations?

In my opinion, not all the adaptations are a response to climate change. For example, late sowing, attributed always as a response to changing climate, may be, most of the time, an outcome of crop intensification. When we are cropping multiple crops the sowing of these crops may shift early or late which actually is not a response to climate change. Similar to this, what other adaptation you think are not a response to climate change

I don't know the standards that used to define the adaptation, and it may confused with many other terms refers to change like mutation, therefore, I hope that all researchers can help me in writing the definition for adaptation and what's the difference between adaptation and change?

The group of bacteria grow in the presence of salt and alkaline pH.The dual extremeties make them intersting to study to the fundamental research and biotechnological applications.

The asymmetry could be in reaction time, sensitivity to movement or to brightness, postural adaptations, etc.   I found an article regarding 30 days post injury, but am interested in scientific documentation of years after injury. .

I'm interested to learn of research efforts to document the changing climate's effects on and subsequent adaptations (phsiological and behavioral) of alpine species of animals: species that inhabit the arctic-alpine zone of North America's western mountain ranges (including the upper subalpine forests), and likewise in Eurasia and SA.  I'm interested in learning of published work as well as in-progress studies.  My primary interest is vertebrate species and how they are both directly and indirectly affected by changing climate patterns. 

I was trying to adapt BHK-21(C-13) cells to serum free conditions. Cells were initially cultured with 10% FBS and I was trying to intervene the serum. For this I used Excel CD 302 medium, VP-SFM medium using the sequential adaptation method. Upto1% FBS cells were growing fine different media and cells were not growing in the media with less than 1% FBS. Can any one suggest me the why these cells were not growing in serum free medium? Any supplements required for BHK 21 cells to grow under serum free conditions?

As a nerve regeneration speed is 1 inch per month, and as the distance between the primary sensory neuron and the toes of the foot is about 20 inches, the usual rule is to consider that we can hope a nerve regeneration only until 20 months.

Through somatosensory rehabilitation method we are able to change the somaesthetic condition after years. Do anyone know article about  this border of 20 months ? We would like to publish a paper about our results to focus about the possibility to stimulate neuroplasticity mechanisms even after 20 months.

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