Sentence examples for engineering adaptation from inspiring English sources

Vrba's view was that evolution by selection is not happening at a given level unless there is a benefit or engineering adaptation at that level.

Consider the peppered moth case: natural selection is acting on the color of the moths over time, and the population evolves, but no "engineering" adaptation emerges.

The mere existence however, of traits that benefit the group is not enough to show that they are adaptations; in order to be an adaptation, under Williams' view, the trait must be an engineering adaptation that evolved by natural selection.

Without such solutions, engineering adaptations of Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS) will exceed the costs of engineered systems by far and the reuse of equipment will become inefficient.

And does the evolution of species-level interactors produce species-level engineering adaptations and, if so, how often?

This was in spite of the fact that by 1987, the importance of distinguishing between evolution by selection processes and any engineering adaptations produced by these processes had been acknowledged by the workers Dawkins claimed to be following most closely, Williams and Maynard Smith.

This suggests that the engineering resilience, adaptation, and coping aspects of resilience are useful for describing the ability of patients to deal with symptoms of mental disorders.

We argue that engineering resilience, adaptation, and coping are processes that are subsumed within the broader systemic organization of bipolar disorder that ecological resilience characterizes, and that these different definitions of resilience are therefore not mutually exclusive.

Although a great diversity of metabolic engineering and adaptation approaches have been tested to boost xylose fermentation in biomass hydrolysates, yield and productivity of ethanol by genetically engineered S. cerevisiae strains are still much lower than those of glucose fermentation.

However, engineering resilience, adaptation, and coping capacity fail to capture the nonlinear dynamics that occur when a patient enters an alternative mental health regime, and the permanence or semipermanence of alternative regimes.

Interviews were conducted with risk managers in a case-study area in England to determine the factors influencing the choice between more traditional, engineering based, adaptation to flood risk and those focussing on vulnerability reduction.