This year the honours fell to Sarah Phelps' smart, sharp adaptation of Agatha Christie's greatest novel, And Then There Were None, which came to its riveting conclusion last night as tensions continued to rise on Soldier Island and five became four, then three and, finally, two.
Hossein Amini's short, sharp, chic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel stars Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst as the wealthy Yank couple touring Greece with a certain duality of purpose in 1962; Oscar Isaac is the silver-tongued tourist scam artist who warily takes them on.
It uses a sharp new adaptation by Mark Ravenhill that emphasises the dark comedy and diversely rich theatrical inventiveness in a piece that Brecht kept revising as developments in physics and world politics threw new light on the vexed central question of the social responsibility of scientists.
"Fear is a really weird thing," says the antihero of this scalpel-sharp, blackly comic adaptation of Dan Wells's 2009 YA bestseller.
(C ) Codon usage was measured by the Codon Adaptation Index (Sharp and Li, 1987 ).
This method was preferred over others (e.g., codon adaptation indices; Sharp and Li 1987) as it makes no assumption as to an optimal level of bias as defined by comparisons to reference sets of highly expressed genes.
Positive psychology articulates a role for hope, wisdom, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance in human adaptation in sharp contrast, proponents claim, to the negative biases of a conventional psychology that is too focused on distress and psychopathology to the exclusion of positive experiences [ 2].
Aside from very obvious things like the teeth of carnivores tending towards being sharp, some major anatomical adaptations are strongly linked with certain behaviours.
Yes, in recent years, the traditional Orange Tree audience has been more used to seeing George Eliot adaptations than sharp, contemporary new writing, but that's not to say that, while some might be discomfited by what they see, others may get a taste for it if they try it.
Toby Jones and Lesley Sharp star in the BBC1 adaptation, which updates the setting to the present day.
Codon adaptation index (CAI; Sharp and Li 1987) also serves as a proxy for expression.
