Sentence examples for shift or adaptation from inspiring English sources

This suggests that even if response shift or adaptation is evident in the relative importance allocated to the five domains, patients in this study nevertheless experienced considerable suffering and reduction of their QOL owing to uncontrolled or unacceptable symptoms and physical function.

Species persistence will depend on geographic range shifts or adaptation in response to warming patterns as novel climates and community assemblages arise.

However, we do not know with certainty if fragmentation was caused by sea level drop during glacial maximums, shifting marine currents, or adaptation to different environmental conditions existing between the two basins.

Is it a result of ancient host or prey shifts [65], [66] or adaptations to current environments?

Either plasticity or adaptation could drive phenotypic shifts, but phenotype-genotype associations confirm that at least some of the phenotypic change has a genetic component.

Whether clones win or not reflects the extent to which NFDS acquires sufficient magnitude to shift the adaptation scores of clones to levels at which selection preferentially removes them.

This is particularly interesting when the first adaptation induced a repulsive shift or even no change in preferred orientation after a first test.

Higher utility may be due to response shift, to patient adaptation or to the general public's exaggerated fear of the morbidity and disability associated with diabetes [ 21, 22].

The striking difference between the pelvis and femur of Australopithecus and those of Homo probably registers a major shift in adaptation between the two groups.

The design also provided a sensitive probe of any perceptual shift, since adaptation within each field should differentially bias the percepts, amplifying the perceptual difference between the test stimuli.

Therefore, mucA mutations have previously been considered to be "pathoadaptive", since their occurrence and the subsequent action of natural selection shift bacterial adaptation to the pathologic lung environment [49].