Radiotherapy was widely used to combat cancer.

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Access to life saving radiotherapy is limited or non existent in many areas.

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.

About 90 out of every 100 people (90 ) with T1 glottic cancers are cured with radiotherapy or surgery alone.

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.

Radiation therapy Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy, X ray therapy, or irradiation) is the use of ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

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.

Radiation Radiotherapy is used when drug treatment is failing to control the pain of a growing tumor, such as in bone metastisis (most commonly), penetration of soft tissue, or compression of sensory nerves.

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.

Additionally, 192Ir is used as a source of gamma radiation for the treatment of cancer using brachytherapy, a form of radiotherapy where a sealed radioactive source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment.

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.

Even a relatively small amount of material such as cobalt 60 used in radiotherapy could cause serious harm if combined with conventional explosives in a so called dirty bomb (or otherwise deliberately used to expose the public to dangerous radiation).

We have substantially stepped up our Internet presence, we have revitalized our public seminar programme, and we have conducted a series of media campaigns on important topics, including nuclear security, radiotherapy, nuclear power and earlier this month the Chernobyl Forum report.

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.