As we considered potential stopgap measures for this population, whatever we decided to implement had to fit within very specific budgetary and personnel constraints.
For this reason, whilst plasticity may offer an important stopgap measure for populations facing environmental change, evolutionary adaptations over multiple generations will still be essential for ensuring persistence into the future (Bradshaw and Holzapfel 2006), especially when environmental change occurs over a large area and long period of time (e.g. climate change; Lynch and Lande 1993).
The idea was to provide the stopgap measure for the neediest until 2014.
That dysfunction is on full display this week as members of Congress struggle to agree on a new stopgap measure for the second half of this fiscal year, beginning March 27.
That program, Child Health Plus, has been a good stopgap measure for those who otherwise would receive no health care at all.
Stopgap The radio education programme is a useful stopgap measure for students in Sierra Leone, where primary school attendance rates are 73 per cent for boys and 76 per cent for girls, and secondary school rates 40 per cent for boys and 33 per cent for girls.
These results are consistent with prior research and with our hypothesis that PLTL had potential as a stopgap measure for students who elected not to enroll in the optional laboratory courses.
This is beyond the means of most families, who might keep on going to the hospital to receive stopgap measures for emergencies, but stop short of getting surgery.
This week politicians will attempt to broker their seventh stopgap measure in this fiscal year and reach a deal on federal spending for the next six months in order to avert the first government shutdown since 1995.
That potentiality doesn't seem too likely, except as a stopgap measure to allow for more negotiation time, if the FREEDOM Act fails.
For others, however, it's only a stopgap measure while they search for a more stable job.
