Tabla de Contenidos: “…II : Risk, disorder, and adaptation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Learning to Survive and Thrive in a Changed Climate -- Chapter 2: Community Risk Implications -- Chapter 3: The Stages of Adaptive Planning -- Chapter 4: The Role of Local, State, and Federal Governments in Climate Change Adaptation -- Chapter 5: Elements of a Successful Adaptation Plan: Obstacles and Constraints -- Chapter 6: Case Studies in Long-Term Disaster Risk Reduction -- Chapter 7: Case Studies in Climate Change Adaptation -- Chapter 8: International Case Studies in Climate Change Adaptation -- Chapter 9: Conclusions and Recommendations -- Back Cover…”

“…The fifth volume of ICLA 2016 proceedings, Dialogues between Media, focuses on the current interest in inter-arts studies, as well as papers on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse."Adaptation" is a key term for the studies presented in this volume; various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions, comics adaptations, TV series, theatre, and opera. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Preamble -- Chapter1 - Family-run ruminant grazing systems the in Mediterranean and Tropical areas and the challenges of sustainable development -- Ruminant grazing systems in Mediterranean and Tropical areas -- The potential contributions of ruminant grazing systems to SDGs and controversies -- A general framework for conducting research on the contribution of livestock grazing systems to sustainable development -- Chapter 2 - Adaptation to local and global shifts in livestock grazing systems -- Introduction -- Adaptation in Mediterranean and Tropical pasture vegetation -- Livestock robustness: physiological and behavioural levers of adaptation -- Genetic diversity and adaptation of local breeds to their breeding environment -- The mechanisms of adaptation analysed at the level of families and local communities -- Adaptation trajectories of livestock in the territories: where does grazing fit in? …”

“…It also reveals formerly unknown facets of the complex interplay of the two major biological adaptation mechanisms. The results apply to models from computational intelligence and evolutionary biology alike, thus contribute to the transfer of principles of biological adaptation to digital processing system…”

“…This work examines fantasy fiction, literal and figurative in fantastic film adaptation. Essays focus on movies and transformation and literal translation from text to film in the Lord of the Rings series, The Chronicles of Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Howl's Moving Castle, Finding Neverland, The Wizard of Oz and the Broadway adaptation Wicked, and Practical Magic…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Leo Wetzels -- Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception / Paul Boersma & Silke Hamann -- Perception, production and acoustic inputs in loanword phonology / Andrea Calabrese -- The adaptation of Romanian loanwords from Turkish and French / Michael L. …”