Browsing by Subject "adaptation"
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Barriers to the adoption of alley cropping as a climate-smart agriculture practice: lessons from maize cultivation among the maya in southern belize
(MDPI AG, 2017-07-21)Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a necessity, as the agricultural sector will need to adapt to resist future climatic change, to which high emissions from the sector contribute significantly. This study, which ... -
Cold adaptation and replicable microbial community development during long-term low-temperature anaerobic digestion treatment of synthetic sewage
(Oxford University Press, 2018-05-25)The development and activity of a cold-adapting microbial community was monitored during low-temperature anaerobic digestion (LtAD) treatment of wastewater. Two replicate hybrid anaerobic sludge bed-fixed-film reactors ... -
Does the lack of mannitol accumulation in an isolate ofrhodella maculata(rhodellophyceae, rhodophyta) from the brackish baltic sea indicate a stressed population at the distribution limit?
(Informa UK Limited, 2010-11-01)The unicellular red alga Rhodella maculata Evans is reported for the first time from the central Baltic Sea (habitat salinity 5 psu). To evaluate whether this Baltic isolate is locally adapted to the brackish environment, ... -
Effects of temperature and salinity on the survival and development of larval and juvenile palaemon serratus (decapoda: palaemonidae) from irish waters
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011-04-20)The combined effects of temperature and salinity on the survival and development of larval and juvenile Palaemon serratus from the west coast of Ireland were investigated. Survival over time was measured at thirty combinations ... -
Exile, pistols, and promised lands: Ibsen and Israeli modernist writers
(MDPI, 2019-09-17)Allusions to Henrik Ibsen's plays in the works of two prominent Israeli modernist writers, Amos Oz s autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) and David Grossman s The Zigzag Kid (1994) examined in the context ... -
Guidelines and training initiatives that support communication in cross-cultural primary-care settings: appraising their implementability using normalization process theory
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-04-27)Background. Guidelines and training initiatives (G/TIs) available to support communication in cross-cultural primary health care consultations are not routinely used. We need to understand more about levers and barriers ... -
Overlaps in the regulatory networks of Listeria monocytogenes in response to environmental cues
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-30)The facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is a highly adaptable organism widely distributed in the environment. The ingestion of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes by at-risk individuals can ... -
Role of listeria monocytogenes b in survival of lethal acidic conditions and in the acquired acid tolerance response
(American Society for Microbiology, 2003-05-01)The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes can acquire enhanced resistance to lethal acid conditions through multiple mechanisms. We investigated contributions of the stress-responsive alternative sigma factor, or ... -
Structured patterns in geographic variability of metabolic phenotypes in arabidopsis thaliana
(Springer Nature, 2012-12-27)Understanding molecular factors determining local adaptation is a key challenge, particularly relevant for plants, which are sessile organisms coping with a continuously fluctuating environment. Here we introduce a rigorous ... -
Systematic review: associations between family functioning and child adjustment after pediatric cancer diagnosis: a meta-analysis
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-09-25)Objectives A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to investigate associations between family functioning and child adjustment (patient/siblings) after pediatric cancer diagnosis. Methods Database searches were ... -
Systematic review: family resilience after pediatric cancer diagnosis: figure 1.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-06-19)Objectives A systematic review was conducted to (1) investigate family resilience in the context of pediatric cancer, and (2) examine theoretical, methodological, and statistical issues in this literature. Family resilience ... -
The association between openness and physiological responses to recurrent social stress
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The tea landscape of assam: multi-stakeholder insights into sustainable livelihoods under a changing climate
(Elsevier BV, 2018-04-01)Tea plays a pivotal role in India's national economy, with the state of Assam the world's largest regional producer of black tea. However, various socio-environmental factors are threatening tea production and the livelihoods ... -
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ... -
Unravelling the complexity of salt marsh ‘fucus cottonii’ forms (phaeophyceae, fucales)
(Informa UK Limited, 2017-05-25)Genetic affiliation, nuclear DNA content, and gamete functioning were examined in small salt marsh Fucus from three localities in western Ireland. Individuals with small and dioecious receptacles were found at all localities, ...