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Showing 1 to 20 of 4177 for “"ADAPT"”.
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To adapt or not to adapt? : Writers and writing across prose fiction, theatre, and film 1823-1938
… of prominent British literary writers in adaptations of their works to theatre and film between 1823 and 1938 to understand how unregulated adaptations, new media, media rivalries, the variable position of writers within and across media, and other social, cultural, economic, and legal …
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Bridge/Adapt: A Systematic Cognitive Rehabilitation Curriculum
… under two broad approaches: remediation and adaptation. Computer-assisted cognitive retraining (CACR) is a remediation approach using a computer platform to deliver cognitive exercises. CACR therapy can lead to improvements in memory and attention for adults with chronic ABI. However, memory …
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The Duty to Adapt to Climate Change
… do to prevent these coastal hazards, but wecan adapt to climate change. This dissertation explores the possibility of theexistence of a legal duty to adapt to climate change in the legal jurisdictions ofQueensland, Australia and South Africa. It is argued that such a duty will most likelyfall on …
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Live, Work, Adapt: Deconstructing Work-Life Balance
… and work. How can home and work environments adapt to the changing needs of society? The initial hypothesis was that a proposed shared living complex has the potential to provide social support and strengthen accessibility to programs where the individual can gain a better quality of life. …
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Learning to Adapt Neural Networks Across Visual Domains
… a sub-field in machine learning called domain adaptation (DA) has emerged that jointly uses the annotated data from the source domain together with the unlabelled data from the target domain of interest. For a classifier to be adapted to an unlabelled target data set is of tremendous practical …
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Does the human skin microbiome adapt to antibiotic exposure?
… skin microbiota are unknown. How does antibiotic adaptation affect the ability of S. epidermidis to interact with host immune systems, inhibit pathogens and keep a healthy microflora? This project aims to characterise five S. epidermidis bacteria samples isolated from the skin, before and after …
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Learning to Adapt to Diverse Data and Systems Heterogeneity
… and 3) the amount of resources available for adapting to the target task. In addition, for privacy-sensitive tasks where data is held on device, on-device training is required, exacerbating existing challenges. Although current knowledge transfer and efficient deep learning approaches can in a …
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Cal-Adapt and the usability of climate adaptation tools
… produced by the State of California called Cal-Adapt. Based on interviews with local officials and climate professionals across California, I find that climate tools like Cal-Adapt do provide value. They deliver information needed by local officials to think through future conditions and lobby …
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Learn to Generalize and Adapt across Domains in Semantic Segmentation
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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ADAPT: Approach to Develop context-Aware solutions forPersonalised asthma managemenT
… solutions for Personalised asthma managemenT (ADAPT), which can be used as a guideline to create solutions supporting asthma management in a personalised way. ADAPT proposes context-aware reasoning as an appropriate tool to achieve the personalisation that is required to address the …
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Theory and implementation evaluation to the STAP/ADAPT diversity programme
… Office implemented one such programme: the STAP/ADAPT programme, which is the focus of this evaluation. The evaluation consisted of two parts, namely: a theory and an implementation evaluation.
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Solarize America : how policy networks adopt and adapt good ideas
… and institutional capacity into account both by adapting policies to suit local needs and by redefining their relationships with each other to better support implementation. Policymakers can improve their network's ability to support innovation by establishing strong cross-sectoral ties, by …
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Do bacteria implicated in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia adapt to antibiotic exposure?
… key traits that bacteria present because of adaptation to antimicrobial treatment. In this study, a clinical strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was exposed to antibiotics that are commonly prescribed to treat VAP patients, and tested its ability to grow and form biofilms through in vitro …
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Adapt, Survive or Die - Metabolic Imbalances and the Enteric Nervous System
… In this thesis the questions “do enteric neurons adapt to survive in conditions of obesity/type 2-diabetes (T2D) related metabolic imbalances? Or do they die?” are asked. Obese and T2D patients have high rates of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The GI tract comprises the body’s largest surface to …
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Severely Stressed Astrocytes Adapt to Injury and Still Protect Neighboring Neurons
… in astrocytes. In Aim 1, we examined natural adaptations to proteotoxic stress in astrocytes. Our studies demonstrate that the astrocytes surviving a severe proteotoxic insult are resistant to subsequent challenges due to upregulation of the antioxidant biomolecule glutathione. Prior to this …
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Inventors, explorers, experimenters : how parents adapt homes for children with mobility problems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Learning to Adapt Cognitive Control Across Paradigms: Evidence for Domain-General Control Strategies
… of our activities depends on how we learn to adapt cognitive control: Usually, we focus and redirect our behavior towards our objectives when facing a particularly challenging task or when irrelevant information activates a response that conflicts with our goals, while we relax and let events …
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Failure to adapt; Intelligence Failure and Military Failure as Functions of Strategic Failure?
… and military failures through the lens of adaptation failure. This paper asserts that there is reason to believe that certain causal elements of alleged intelligence failures reside more so in the province of politics, than in the collection and analysis domain of intelligence tradecraft. …
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