Sentence examples for transfer and adaptation from inspiring English sources

In 2009, the Horn of Africa Risk Transfer and Adaptation project (HARITA) of Oxfam America (OA) along with local and international organizations such as the International Climate Research Institute (IRI) at Columbia University, Swiss Re and Nyala Insurance (a private company in Ethiopia) were able to develop a more participatory weather index insurance product in Northern Ethiopia.

Pharmaceuticals are an often mentioned example for possible transfer and adaptation.

Developing better phylodynamic model frameworks (Grenfell et al., 2004) for modeling virus host transfer and adaptation will require collaboration between theoreticians and experimentalists.

It postulates that there is a core of genes responsible for keeping a species identity and auxiliary genes responsible for gene transfer and adaptation of strains to the environment.

In contrast, the theoretical insights developed from the Vygotskian tradition by Harré [ 27, 28] and Edwards [ 30, 31] provide an insightful critique of transfer and adaptation approaches because they suggest that human action and development arises through negotiations between the social and the personal worlds in ways that are relational rather than fixed or static.

Additional modifications include removable reference, auxiliary, and working electrodes; modifications to facilitate sample transfer; and adaptations for operation within an anaerobic chamber.

To our knowledge, this is the first report on the transfer, validation and adaptation of PQIs for the care of vulnerable older persons treated within an integrated service system, characterized by a single point of entry, case management, geriatric assessment and a multidisciplinary care team.

Meanwhile the new features in the Cancún Agreements are largely institutional rather than substantive: a Green Climate Fund to channel assistance to poor countries, new rules on measuring and supporting rainforest protection, new processes of monitoring emissions, a committee to promote technology transfer, and another on adaptation.

For instance, population-density-dependent gene induction by N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) influence symbiotic functions such as nodulation, nitrogen fixation, and surface polysaccharide production as well as several aspects of growth including plasmid transfer and stationary phase adaptation [8], [26] for reviews).

The latter group seemingly originates from the lateral gene transfer and likely reflects adaptation to specific environmental conditions, which is particularly notable in S. frigidimarina and S. pealeana, each containing nonoverlapping sets of 3 "rare" pathways (Fig. 4).

Led by China and India, developing nations insist that the developed nations provide significant financial assistance and technology transfer to support their mitigation (and adaptation) measures.