Sentence examples for Adaptive from inspiring English sources

The project is part of a trend of "adaptive urbanism", celebrated as a grassroots way of engaging communities to design and activate their cities.

"Although the development of new drainage infrastructure in the city is underway," the report noted, "the project is behind schedule and over-budget, demonstrating that the implementation of adaptive measures may still be a challenge for the local government".

These showed that people across cultures dreamed about similar things: for McNamara, evidence of an adaptive mechanism at work.

The resilient city is just as adaptive and able to adjust to a disruption by making new plans, taking new actions, or modifying behaviours and mandates to better accommodate the situation.

But why are they adaptive – beneficial to our survival as a species?

He has tried to reconcile them in the "adaptive markets hypothesis", which supposes that humans are neither fully rational nor psychologically unhinged.

It is contradicted by her own testimony, it is contradicted by Mr. Feyrer's testimony, it's contradicted by the most recent adaptive management plan review, it's contradicted by the prior studies, it is — candidly, I've never seen anything like it".

The classical, niche-domination strategy often entails minimising variation to squeeze out costs; the adaptive strategy involves maximising variation so as to find out which variant works best.

He explicitly derides "marginalist" and "adaptive" responses to environmental issues (such as those he himself proposes) as "another form of appeasement", and calls for "an all-out response to this unprecedented threat".

Largely because a number of big changes are coming at the same time: high-speed mobile networks, cheap tablet devices, the ability to process huge amounts of data cheaply, sophisticated online gaming and adaptive-learning software.

As the first rover with an adaptive-rate transmitter it will ultimately change data rates as needed to ensure reception.