In biology, the definition of physiological adaptation goes like “changes in the basic metabolome of an organism to maintain homeostasis under the worst of environmental circumstances and trends”. Here, it becomes important for us to understand two basic terms: metabolome and homeostasis. Metabolome...
The environment is a rich and complex concept that does not have a precise and universal characterisation.Footnote10In the human case it may include built spaces, natural spaces, generic surroundings, technological contexts, etc. It is difficult to define by itself, as its definition(s) would n...
Charles Darwin's travels on HMS Beagle taught him that islands are an important source of evidence for evolution. Because many islands are young and have relatively few species, evolutionary adaptation and species proliferation are obvious and easy to st
which has been employed by multiple disciplines, including teacher education. We then broadly define the resilience of academics as their capacity to learn from and adapt to stress; our definition is perhaps less about individual personality characteristics...
With technological advancements in diagnostic imaging, smart sensing, and wearables, a multitude of heterogeneous sources or modalities are available to proactively monitor the health of the elderly. Due to the increasing risks of falls among older adult
Our definition of a conversation aid is a patient decision aid that is used to facilitate a shared decision making conversation between a patient and a health professional [5, 8]. They are designed for encounter-based use but can be tailored to be used before and after an encounter [7]. ...
While this pattern does not satisfy the strict local versus foreign definition of local adaptation [4], the interaction term between the origin soil type and the destination soil type does indicate that there are segregating alleles that cause saline-origin genotypes to respond differently to saline...
using Gene Ontology as a reference for the definition of groups of genes [10]. We used DCA in a different context; it was applied to a limited set of experimental conditions, with no functional assumptions concerning the relationships between genes. DCA efficiently revealed the structure of the...
As a possible definition for fitness, we have chosen it to be proportional to the number of unpaired nucleotides in the hairpin loop of the secondary structure. This definition yields four levels of fitness, as revealed by the color code. Let us imagine a population of sequences at 37 °C...
Fraser’s (2006, p. 171) definition of justice as “parity of participation” is useful for understanding the promise, pitfalls, and possibilities of LLA because it aligns neatly with the language of participatory planning commonly used in adaptation practice but also used as a basis and means ...