Some other studies also indicated the importance of tangible support for adaptation to a chronic disease.
Although the assessment of interactivity and data varied both across countries and user experience, a general conclusion is that a geographic visualization tool, like VisAdapt, can make climate change effects and adaptation alternatives tangible and initiate discussions and collaborative reflections.
The TangiSense interactive table is presented; it is connected to a multi-agent system making it possible to give the table a certain level of adaptation: each tangible object can be associated to an agent which can bring roles to the object (i.e., the roles are the equivalent of a set of behaviors).
Tangible examples of large-scale adaptation measures are few and far between, and those that do exist typically relate to publicly funded infrastructure projects.
It was found that farmers are highly dependent on government policies and projects, and the effectiveness of policies is measured by short-term, immediate, and tangible benefits rather than long-term adaptation strategies.
Climate change adaptation frameworks often emphasize tangible community vulnerabilities, but typically fail to recognize that healthy, vibrant, and resilient communities are also based on many factors that are experiential in nature.
The findings from regression analyses we conducted for the indices of acceptance of life with the disease, depressive symptoms and quality of life confirmed again the most critical role of tangible support for all these indices of adaptation to psoriasis.
Thus, adaptation strategies are familiar and have tangible individual-level benefits.
Specifically, their disadvantages are tangible in three aspects: construction of self-identity, academic adaptation crisis, and development opportunities.
Among different types of social support, tangible support was found to be the best predictor for the all adaptation indices.
