Latin America s Adaptive Gangsters

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Adaptive governance (flexible, distributive, and learning based).

Adaptive systems struggle with order and creativity as they evolve.

But these neurons are also part of an adaptive, regenerative system.

which made me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world.

Many Parties also mentioned measures that would enhance adaptive capacity in general.

North argues that competition is a key force driving adaptive efficiency among institutions.

Ants became dominant after adaptive radiation at the beginning of the Paleogene period.

A vibrant and progressive private sector facilitates economic diversification and adaptive structural change.

Tenets Common attachment behaviours and emotions, displayed in most social primates including humans, are adaptive.

Productivity growth stems from enhanced adaptive capabilities to use modern technology and commercialize new knowledge.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy.

The issue is related to enhanced adaptive capabilities to participate in fragmented production spread across countries.

What of the large advanced countries? For historical reasons, the policy mindset is less flexible and adaptive.

As explained by James W. Woodward, when the material conditions change, changes are occasioned in the adaptive culture, but these changes in the adaptive culture do not synchronize exactly with the change in the material culture, this delay is the culture lag.

And these tensions have deep evolutionary roots, so selfish behavior is adaptive in certain circumstances fight or flight.

The emerging pattern of production may demand free mobility of labour with enhanced skills, knowledge and adaptive capabilities.

An integrated, transparent, adaptive and enforceable regulatory framework is essential for fisheries and oceans sustainability and that of its industries.

Beauty is an adaptive effect, which we extend and intensify in the creation and enjoyment of works of art and entertainment.

General adaptive syndrome In terms of measuring the body's response to stress, psychologists tend to use Hans Selye's general adaptation syndrome.

In evolutionary biology and in psychology, such capabilities are presumed to have evolved to serve the adaptive function of inbreeding avoidance.

Following the physicist Fritjof Capra, one should regard living organisms, social systems, and ecosystems as an interconnected and interdependent, complex adaptive system.

Such an approach requires incorporating psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, physics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and other disciplines that study complex adaptive systems.

There is an adaptive logic to being kind to those with whom we continually interact we scratch their backs, they scratch ours.

Essentially, this proved that the human body is capable of creating complex adaptive systems as a result of local events with feedback.

While many alternative approaches and methodologies are available, the criteria based assessment process presented in this report represents a potentially adaptive solution.

The web of contracts, however, can also be understood as complex adaptive market systems, which encompass the state and family relations as well.

More than a year ago, Poland decided to take part in the new Phased Adaptive Approach, which will primarily protect America s European allies.

Quantum evolution differed from these styles of change in that it involved a drastic shift in the adaptive zones of certain classes of animals.

R D related FDI in the region is of an adaptive type, with some degree of new product development for local or regional conditions.

Community based organizations that work with persons with disabilities are engaged in providing enhanced service delivery capacity such as job coaching, training and adaptive equipment.

A country driven approach, supporting the implementation of urgent and immediate activities identified in national adaptation programmes of action, as a way of enhancing adaptive capacity

Complexity theory and organizations, also called complexity strategy or complex adaptive organization, is the use of complexity theory in the field of strategic management and organizational studies.

The T helper cells (Th cells) are a type of T cell that play an important role in the immune system, particularly in the adaptive immune system.

Data obtained from animal experiments show that harmful physiological changes result from the inability of the brain and body to respond to repeated stress with adaptive modifications in structure and function.

Adaptive DPCM (ADPCM) is a variant of DPCM that varies the size of the quantization step, to allow further reduction of the required bandwidth for a given signal to noise ratio.

Support to mobile pastoralism in the drylands should receive a higher level of priority under the UNCCD given pastoralists specific adaptive management practices and traditional knowledge of coping strategies in drylands conditions.

He underscored also some factors that determine adaptive capacity of human systems, including the level of economic wealth, access to technology, information, knowledge and skills, and existence of institutions, infrastructure and social capital.

Examples include technology for conservation and sustainable use such as resilience of ecosystems, and adaptive capacity and technology that makes use of genetic resources such as crops with higher resistance against extreme climate events.

So it may be premature for the Party to celebrate the success of its adaptive strategy. China s rulers may have stalled democratic trends for now, but the current strategy has, perhaps, merely delayed the inevitable.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that unless adaptive measures are taken, climate change is projected to approximately double by the 2050s the percentage of its population at risk of hunger and associated health effects.

Time is of the essence. The world needs a flexible, adaptive, ethical, and transparent approach to treatment and prevention that allows for rapid decision making in the development phase and effective coordination in the deployment phase.

The Least Developed Countries Fund of the Global Environment Facility provides funds for the enhancement of those countries' adaptive capacity and the implementation of their national adaptation plans of action and grants for their environmental projects.

(i) To disseminate relevant information to decision makers and practitioners and promote the use of integrated and adaptive marine farming systems that reduce waste, protect ecosystem services, better control pollutants and use the most regionally appropriate species