Bogdanis et al. [2,3] analyzed the effects of high-repetition/moderate-load (hypertrophy) and low-repetition/high-load (neural adaptations) programs on anthropometric, neuromuscular, and endurance performance.
The bride, 34, and the bridegroom, 36, both work at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, she as the deputy director for the coastal East Africa program, managing conservation projects in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, and he as a manager of projects in Asia for the organization's climate-change adaptation program, which seeks ways to help animals and plants adjust to global warming.
This is even more likely as the now dominant adaptation program - the Delta Program - will end in 2014.
As a consequence the Netherlands was left without a national, overarching climate change adaptation program with concrete measures for all sectors for which adaptation to climate change is basically required.
A study by Schilling et al. (2012) contended that violent conflicts in Turkana, if not managed, are likely to undermine the gains made so far in supporting the adaptation program in the area (see also Scheffran et al. 2014).
The public pronouncements of the Rotterdam climate adaptation program are decidedly upbeat and ambitious.
What's more - it also disbands the Climate Change Adaptation Program, which helps communities tackle the threats of sea level rise and other consequences of the climate crisis.
While the city's climate adaptation program works with engineers and consultants on quantifying and minimizing flood risks, officials are also engaged in a vigorous public relations effort.
But the state has not mandated such planning, in part because midsize and small communities lack the expertise and data to determine just how hard climate change will hit them, said Jessica Grannis, adaptation program manager for the Georgetown Climate Center.
By taking highly visible adaptation measures to increase floodwater storage and retention (like the water plazas described below), program officials seek to marshal public support for the climate adaptation program by demonstrating to their fellow citizens that adaptation measures provide many economic and other benefits in addition to flood protection.
Although few cities have a formal adaptation program, "it depends on what we call 'adaptation,'" Carmin says.
