This study explores the perceptions of community dwelling older adults with regards to adopting and using CIDAs as an assistive tool for the home adaptations process.
There is plenty of cheap, black-and-white, ingenious futurism, such as the underground dwelling pods in the excellent adaptation of Forster's The Machine Stops.
While the methodology is being applied to a range of buildings and scenarios, this study concentrates on night-time overheating in UK dwellings with simple and achievable adaptation measures investigated.
That means that their similar stocky body shape evolved separately as an adaptation to a ground-dwelling lifestyle, a process known as convergent evolution.
Horror icon Boris Karloff voiced the cave-dwelling curmudgeon in an earlier 1966 animated adaptation.
One notable early study on high altitude adaptation involved a pair of ranid frog species, the high altitude dwelling Rana kukunoris and the low altitude dwelling R. chensinensis [ 22].
While we were writing this article, another paper on high altitude adaptation in lizards was published in which the highland dwelling P. vlangalii was compared to its lowland relative P. przewalskii [ 60].
Triatoma dimidiata, a Chagas disease vector widely distributed along Central America, has great capability for domestic adaptation as the majority of specimens caught inside human dwellings or in peridomestic areas fed human blood.
This spectacular adaptation puts C. darwini at a considerable advantage over other forest dwelling species of orb spiders, by allowing Caerostris to ensnare abundant insects or other prey flying over water.
Among the examples of convergent evolution are the earthcreepers (Upucerthia sensu lato) that despite a similar external morphology represent several independent adaptations to terrestrial life in open country [ 14, 17], and the parallel adaptation of Limnoctites, Spartonoica and Limnornis/Phleocryptes lineages to a marsh-dwelling life-style [ 15].
