The phrase "a number of adaptive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple adaptive elements, strategies, or features in a context that requires specificity about their adaptability.
Example: "The project includes a number of adaptive technologies that enhance user experience."
Alternatives: "several adaptive" or "various adaptive".
Since the variational mesh adaptation is the base for a number of adaptive moving mesh and mesh smoothing methods, the result in this work can be used to develop simple implementations of those methods.
The leaves of trees have a number of adaptive features, including size, number, location, and chlorophyll content of chloroplasts; size, number, and structure of stomates; thickness of epicuticular wax and cuticle; leaf stiffness and strength; and the size, number, and spacing of veins.
They also presented a number of adaptive OFDM techniques and their performances [29].
They also provided a number of adaptive OFDM techniques and their performance in [19].
In the past decade, a number of adaptive hypermedia learning systems have been developed.
In most cases, solving a function problem requires a number of adaptive or non-adaptive calls to a SAT solver.
Plus, customers need to live stream to multiple different devices, which requires a number of different adaptive bit rate technologies.
The first 10 My of the radiation were marked by strong phenotypic and ecological divergence among ancestors of modern lineages, whereas the remaining 20 My were marked by stasis around a number of probable adaptive peaks.
A number of such adaptive programs are known to accompany aging and are thought to have decreased energy requirements for ancestral hunter-gatherers in their 30s, 40s and 50s.
The formation of intracellular amyloid fibrils is a widespread phenomenon in eukaryotes [ 1- 4] and it has been found related to a number of beneficial adaptive cellular functions [ 5- 11], to protein-encoded heritable information transmission in yeast [ 12- 15], and to a variety of important diseases in mammals [ 16- 20].
A number of examples of adaptive gene amplification have been identified, primarily in cases of microbial adaptation to nutrient limitation and in human cancers [44].
