Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

The upper beak is notched near the tip, an adaptation which enables falcons to kill prey by severing the spinal column at the neck.

Diversity in agricultural production is one key to productivity, as it enables risk management and preserves potentials for adaptation and change.

At least some of the species also have adaptations in their behavior to enable them to approach potential hosts They also have an adaptation of the jaw that enables them to lash out sideways in passing a victim ; the jaw is asymmetrical, and there is continuous selection for the asymmetry that currently is less frequent in the population, because host fishes are more alert to defend themselves on the side on which they have been attacked in the past.

Perhaps their most distinctive adaptation is the unique dentition that enables this species to sieve Antarctic krill.

When the traffic is not voice but data such as fax or email, the TRAU enables its rate adaptation unit function to give compatibility between the BSS and MSC data rates.

The most obvious adaptation is this bird's cryptic coloration, which enables it to blend in with its environment and avoid predation.

* Device recognition of mobiles, smartphones, PDAs, etc., which enables the individualized adaptation of the presentation transmitted to different types of devices.

It enables the actors to make " quick and accurate decisions and adaptation of operations to respond to emerging threats and opportunities ".

They reproduce via direct development, an ecological and evolutionary adaptation that has allowed them to be completely independent from free-standing water.

The toes of the gecko have a special adaptation that allows them to adhere to most surfaces without the use of liquids or surface tension.

Bacteria and many other microbes, including fungi and algae, often secrete polysaccharides as an evolutionary adaptation to help them adhere to surfaces and to prevent them from drying out.

In their adaptation to their habitat, such vines are planted far apart, as their principal source of moisture is dew, and they often are trained in the shape of low-spiralling baskets, with the grapes hanging inside to protect them from the winds.

Koppenaal and Glanzer ( 1990 ) attempted to explain these phenomena as a result of the subjects ’ adaptation to the distractor task, which therefore allowed them to preserve at least some of the functions of the short-term memory store.

Sister Miriam Joseph described the three parts of the Trivium thus: Grammar is the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought ; logic is the art of thinking ; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.

He held that this support was an adaptation to the immediate time as opposed to a trait that was installed in them throughout their youth.

He also began developing bluescreen techniques: one of the first films to use them was the 1958 adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novella, The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy.

One adaptation helping both predators and prey avoid detection is camouflage, a form of crypsis where species have an appearance which helps them blend into the background.

This adaptation allows bromeliads in hot or dry climates to open their stomates at night rather than during the day, which prevents them from losing water.

Another notable anatomical adaptation among beaked whales is a slight depression in the body wall that allows them to hold their pectoral flippers tightly against their bodies for increased streamlining.

The tough body is able to withstand great pressure, likely an adaptation to survive attempts to eliminate them by mashing or scratching.

After an excursion into the world of comic-books and cartoons ( another of Resnais's enthusiasms ) in I Want to Go Home ( 1989 ), an ambitious theatrical adaptation followed with the diptych of Smoking / No Smoking ( 1993 ): Resnais, having admired the plays of Alan Ayckbourn for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, Intimate Exchanges, a series of eight interlinked plays which follow the consequences of a casual choice to sixteen possible endings.

He had a development deal with Newharts producers MTM Enterprises and persuaded them to buy the rights to produce a pilot for an American adaptation of the British sitcom The Young Ones.

Their stage work of the 1950s included the revue Two on the Aisle, starring Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, with music by Jule Styne ; Wonderful Town, a musical adaptation of the play My Sister Eileen with music by Bernstein ; and Bells Are Ringing, which reunited them with Judy Holliday and Jule Styne.

One type of genetic adaptation needed was the altering of the digestive processes of animals like cows to allow them to digest the boron-heavy grass successfully and without ill-effects.

Samson bears many similar traits to the Greek Herakles ( and the Roman Hercules adaptation ), inspired himself partially from the mesopotamian Enkidu tale: Herakles and Samson both battled a Lion bare handed ( Lion of Nemea feat ), Herakles and Samson both had a favorite primitive blunt weapon ( a club for the first, an ass's jaw for the latter ), they were both betrayed by a woman which led them to their ultimate fate ( Herakles by Dejanira, while Samson by Delilah ).

Townshend later remarked in the film Amazing Journey, that with Tommy, and with Daltrey's adaptation to portraying the character on-stage, the singer evolved from what was essentially a tight, tough guy to one who outstretched his arms, bared his body to the audiences, and began to truly engage them.

Nigel Kneale, responsible for the adaptation, said the production came about purely because Todd had turned up at the BBC and told them that he would like to play Heathcliff for them.

He is often incorrectly cited as the founder of soft inheritance, which proposes that individual efforts during the lifetime of the organisms were the main mechanism driving species to adaptation, as they supposedly would acquire adaptive changes and pass them on to offspring.

Nonetheless a 1952 catalog from the memorial industry still included 8 pages of them, broken down into, Georgian and Classical detail, a Gothic and Renaissance adaptation, and a Modern variant.

Soviet space program officials suspected disturbance of Titov's vestibular system was to blame, leading them to begin early investigations into what is now known as space adaptation syndrome, or space sickness.

Chimichangas, like flautas and taquitos, are a fast-food adaptation of traditional dishes in a form that can be stored frozen and then quickly fried as needed ; they are also rigid and easily hand-held, and thus easy to eat by people while walking or driving.

There are, so my biologist friends tell me, mechanisms of adaptation and defense that are just too complete and too satisfactory.

As childhood adaptation to the reality principle developed, so too ' one species of thought activity was split off ; it was kept free from reality-testing and remained subordinated to the pleasure principle alone.

In the afterword of a later edition, Bradbury notes that the film adaptation changed the ending so that Clarisse ( who, in the film, is now a 20-year-old school teacher who was fired for being unorthodox ) was living with the exiles.

Critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film was the greatest adaptation of the novel and remarked on Dunst's performance, " The perfect contrast to take-charge Jo comes from Kirsten Dunst's scene-stealing Amy, whose vanity and twinkling mischief make so much more sense coming from an 11-year-old vixen than they did from grown-up Joan Bennett in 1933.

The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film.

When Le Guin finally requested that Miyazaki produce an anime adaptation of her work, he refused, because he had lost the desire to do so.

Some species such as Rosa rugosa and Rosa pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight prickles, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots ( both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes ).

An adaptation of the song, named " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Earth ", was written by Charles Randolph Grean, Fred Hertz and Leonard Nimoy ( Nimoy recites the text as Spock explaining how the star-people wish upon an earth and so forth ).

: We once again appeal to the industrialized countries, particularly those who have not done so, to urgently ratify and fully implement the Kyoto Protocol, and to provide concrete support in all our adaptation efforts to cope with the effects of climate change and sea level rise.

As Stephen Roy Miller argues in his 1998 edition of A Shrew ( although he does so in support of his adaptation theory ), " the differences between the texts are substantial and coherent enough to establish that there was deliberate revision in producing one text out of the other ; hence A Shrew is not merely a poor report ( or ' bad quarto ') of The Shrew.

The 2000s saw supervised techniques reach a plateau in accuracy, and so attention has shifted to coarser-grained senses, domain adaptation, semi-supervised and unsupervised corpus-based systems, combinations of different methods, and the return of knowledge-based systems via graph-based methods.

After seeing this film, Harrison Ford was so impressed by Andrew Davis ' directing work that he immediately signed on to play Dr. Richard Kimble in Davis ' adaptation of The Fugitive.

This is interesting because Malagasy winter temperatures sometimes rise to over, so hibernation is not exclusively an adaptation to low ambient temperatures.

One passage of the Aetia, the so called Coma Berenices, has been reconstructed from papyrus remains and the celebrated Latin adaptation of Catullus ( Catullus 66 ).

In Follett's novel, it is implied that the ship may have been sabotaged ; this is directly confirmed in the TV adaptation, even going so far as to show that William Adelin was assassinated whilst on a lifeboat.

* 30 Rock characters Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney perform an adaptation of the skit, but much like Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, do so without understanding the joke.

The customary ‘ grid ’ type subdivision planning so common to most Midwestern cities is impractical of adaptation when looking at a map of the present city.

Genetic defects of most forms of dwarfism caused by bone dysplasia cannot be corrected, so therapeutic interventions are typically aimed at preventing or reducing pain or physical disability, increasing adult height, or mitigating psychosocial stresses and enhancing social adaptation.

As a child, Johnny Depp was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him ; he collaborated with Tim Burton on a theatrical film adaptation which opened in 2012, in which he plays Barnabas.

Durang has denounced the Robert Altman 1987 film adaptation of Beyond Therapy, calling it " horrific " and accusing Altman of totally rewriting the script " so that all psychology is thrown out the window, and the characters dash around acting crazy but with literally no behavioral logic underneath.

The writer became a pariah for a time following American Psycho ( 1991 ), which later became a cult hit, more so after its 2000 movie adaptation.

Much more so than in any of the sequels, the adaptation of 1 Henry VI has multiple characters addressing the camera continually throughout the play, oftentimes for comic effect.

By Axel Cleeremans and Luis Jiménez, learning is defined as " a set of philogenetically advanced adaptation processes that critically depend on an evolved sensitivity to subjective experience so as to enable agents to afford flexible control over their actions in complex, unpredictable environments " ( Cleeremans 2001 ).