"Design today is a global activity, and we want to be responsive to the local conditions that give design its flavor, its content and its specificity," he continued.
The New America Foundation, which is based in Washington, characterizes itself on its Web site as interested in "work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy".
Traditional or vernacular built form evolves to achieve higher human comfort by using locally available building materials and construction technology and is more responsive to the geographic conditions.
Dendrogram tree analysis of the genes showed patterns responsive to the treatment conditions.
Our finding that expression of a cold dehydrin gene is less responsive to the growth conditions in the arctic species than it is in the temperate species is in agreement with reports on a less-responsive expression of "response to stimulus" genes in stress-adapted plant species, (Brosche et al. 2005; Taji et al. 2004).
While both the public and academic sectors recognize the importance of addressing social inequities in healthcare, there is room for improvement in the training of family physicians, who report being ill-equipped to provide care that is responsive to the living conditions of these patients.
Energy experts call this concept "demand response," because the idea is to make power demand responsive to the real-time conditions of the grid.
And these works are less divisive than religious texts because their insights are not contingent on the acceptance of a particular mythology, are based on reason, not revelation, and are therefore open to discussion and more responsive to the continually changing conditions we find ourselves in.
But as an educational anthropologist I worry about how these approaches will be integrated with Chinese cultural values and be made responsive to the concerns and conditions of local Chinese communities.
In its physiological setting, the local concentration of the cytoplasmic Ire1 kinase/RNase module is responsive to the protein-folding conditions inside the ER lumen.
