Still, Rockford has become a case study of how an industrial area can respond to a shifting economic landscape.
The need to respond to a shifting political climate has been driven home ever since Russia's largest oil company, Yukos, came under attack last year from the authorities.
There is some evidence that, particularly within the context of anthropogenic changes, species tend to respond to a shifting environment via plasticity [ 5].
In order to improve our predictions on how species respond to a shifting environmental gradient, it is important that data are drawn from within the entire environmental space over which a species occurs.
Amazon is responding to a shift in consumers' purchasing patterns, said Tracy Ogden, a company spokeswoman.
In highlighting what Mr. Heywood called "off-the-beaten-path" experiences, the city is responding to a shift in Chinese tourism away from whirlwind, multicity group tours toward individual travelers who set their own itineraries.
It remains unclear whether the idea of a civil union, called a pacte civil de solidarité, or PACS, has responded to a shift in social attitudes or caused one.
HEK293 cells shifted to 1% oxygen for 72 h responded to a shift to 0.2% oxygen with increased stabilization of HIF1α (Stiehl et al., 2006).
People may change their views as a result of getting to know actual gay couples, or by responding to a shifting cultural climate, but let's not pretend a beefcake actor has the same sway.
However, it is unclear how the salinity of wetland ponds will respond to a recent shift in mid-continental climate to wetter conditions.
But he also said the company must respond to a global shift away from personal vehicle ownership to one in which personal ownership will be challenged by on-demand shared mobility.
