There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

The pun can also be heard in the theatrical adaptations.

Batman has also starred in multiple video games, most of which were adaptations of the various cinematic or animated incarnations of the character.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

* Jimmy Murakami, also known as Teruaki Murakami ( 村上輝明 ), animator and director whose work includes adaptations of Raymond Briggs ' The Snowman and When the Wind Blows

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

Moreover, film adaptations of some novels are in preproduction, such as David Farland's The Runelords, and also Terry Brooks ' Magic Kingdom of Landover as well as The Elfstones of Shannara.

Primarily used by the United States military, it is also used by numerous other countries and organizations and even in civilian adaptations.

There have also been many television adaptations of the novel, including:

In the 21st century, the legend lives on, not only in literature but also in adaptations for theatre, film, television, comics and other media.

Although a complete theory of evolution also requires an account of how genetic variation arises in the first place ( such as by mutation and sexual reproduction ) and includes other evolutionary mechanisms ( such as genetic drift and gene flow ), natural selection appears to be the most important mechanism for creating complex adaptations in nature.

He was visited once by Basil of Caesarea who took many of his ideas and implemented them in Caesarea, where Basil also made some adaptations that became the ascetic rule, or Ascetica, the rule still used today by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and comparable to that of the Rule of St. Benedict in the West.

Egg-burying would have been beneficial to the early evolution of pterosaurs, as it allows for more weight-reducing adaptations, but this method of reproduction also would have put limits on the variety of environments pterosaurs could live in, and may have disadvantaged them when they began to face ecological competition from birds.

It also causes sunburn, and has other medical effects such as the production of vitamin D. Ultraviolet light is strongly attenuated by Earth's ozone layer, so that the amount of UV varies greatly with latitude and has been partially responsible for many biological adaptations, including variations in human skin color in different regions of the globe.

Transylvania is often associated with vampires ( chiefly due to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula and its film adaptations ) and the horror genre in general, while the region is also known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history.

There have also been many digital adaptations of traditional puzzle games, including solitaire and mahjong solitaire.

These predatory adaptations working together may also have implications for the origin of flapping in paravians.

He also provided voices for the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image, and starred as Dirk Gently in the BBC Radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

There are also different adaptations or alterations of Allan variance, notably the modified Allan variance MAVAR or MVAR, the total variance, and the Hadamard variance.

Various commercial game adaptations have also been created.

He also recorded adaptations of Asterix books and Alice in Wonderland, and provided the voice of the King in the early animated Muzzy films.

Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, three operas ( by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin ), a role-playing game, and the 1978 chart-topping song by Kate Bush.

The Team may also suggest certain physical adaptations within the school to better suit the needs of the child.

This adaptation made quite a lot of changes many of which can also be found in later adaptations:

There have also been numerous international adaptations over the years.

If these tail adaptations were for balance and stability while turning, especially at high speeds, it wouldn ’ t explain why other predatory theropods lacked them.

In developing his argument that natural selection can explain the complex adaptations of organisms, Dawkins ' first concern is to illustrate the difference between the potential for the development of complexity as a result of pure randomness, as opposed to that of randomness coupled with cumulative selection.

* Lamarck's is a proto-evolutionary theory of the inheritance of acquired traits, whose main purpose is to explain adaptations by natural means.

This idea, called the argumentative theory of reasoning, attempts to explain why many cognitive heuristics which should help to solve problems instead bias decisions, instead framing those biases as adaptations developed to help win arguments.

Because the concepts require all sorts of specific human capacities ( an intuitive psychology, a tendency to attend to some counterintuitive concepts, as well as various social mind adaptations ), we can explain religion by describing how these various capacities get recruited, how they contribute to the features of religion that we find in so many different cultures.

He has argued that cooking food is obligatory for humans as a result of biological adaptations and that cooking, in particular the consumption of cooked tubers, might explain the increase in hominid brain sizes, smaller teeth and jaws, and decrease in sexual dimorphism that occurred roughly 1. 8 million years ago.

Various adaptations of job-analytic methods include competency modeling, which examines large groups of duties and tasks related to a common goal or process, and practice analysis, which examines the way work is performed in an occupation across jobs.

Despite adaptations to a more terrestrial life than the common hippopotamus, pygmy hippos are still more aquatic than all other even-toed ungulates.

Extensive xeromorph adaptations in all probability evolved several times ; it is not known if the common ancestor of the cactus-like Rhizanthium and Euphorbia lineages was xeromorphic — in which case a more normal morphology would have re-evolved namely in Chamaesyce — or whether extensive xeromorphism is entirely polyphyletic even to the level of the subgenera.

It is an original story, which is common for comic book adaptations which seldom feature direct translations.

Stylistically, the historic house types of Roaring Spring are largely vernacular adaptations of nationally common styles between the 1870s and early 20th century.

TUBS notation has been adapted by several people ; the most common adaptations use different symbols in the boxes to represent different sounds, for example different ways of hitting a drum or even different musical pitches.

These plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water's surface-the most common adaptation is aerenchyma, but floating leaves and finely dissected leaves are also common.

Since nest predation is common, several adaptations have evolved in this species.

Due to its exceptionally exciting rhythm, the " Sabre Dance " established a place for itself in common concert practice, leading also to various adaptations in popular music.

Their adaptations include webbed feet, which in one way or another ( as flippers ) are common to all sea-going mammals.

In order to accommodate the full fields of the Penn Relays and other meets, special adaptations are made with a movable curb on the backstretch to stagger the runners to arrive at a common break point in lane 5, rather than the conventional lane one.

Various adaptations to other languages, such as the English name John, became common male given names in the Christian world, and further adaptations to make the name female, such as Joanna, also became common female given names.

As with many shorthand systems, there are few strict rules on how to write it, so it is common for users to make personal adaptations for their own use.

Although Stierlitz was a much-loved character, he was also the butt of a common genre of Russian jokes, often satirising his deductive trains of thought, with unexpected twists, delivered in the deadpan style of the voice-overs in the film adaptations ; for example:

Many early suggestions focused on adaptations for an aquatic lifestyle, following the hypothesis that hadrosaurids were amphibious, a common line of thought until the 1960s.

They show, rather, adaptations of benchrest ideas for the more common hunting rifle.

While some of these conversions were direct adaptations of existing statistics into the slightly modified second edition rules, others, like the optional psionics system, were completely reinvented from the ground up and had little in common with their previous incarnations.

As folklore vampires are defined in their need to feed on blood and on their manipulative nature ; a theme held common through the many adaptations.

Charles Darwin's theory of Natural Selection is one of the more common psychological adaptations to be studied in history.

One of the most common activities when these neural adaptations are constantly happening is walking.