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In the meantime, the utility planner struggles with how to approach the planning process in this changing environment. Perhaps these issues are more critical in the transition, since so many of the traditional parameters ol planning have disappeared, and lew new parameters have taken their place. 

Insofar as complex adaptive systems can be regarded as being essentially open-ended problem-solvers, their lifeblood consists mostly of novelty. The ability of a complex adaptive system to survive and evolve in a constantly changing environment is determiimd by its ability to continually find — either by chance, or experience, or more typically both insightful new strategies to increase its overall fitness (which is, of course, a constantly changing function in time). 

In Sec. 128 it was found that the vacant proton level of indicator 2 lies at 0.192 electron-volt below the occupied level of (HaO)+ in dilute aqueous solution. Using the successive increments listed in the last column of Table 39, we find, counting upward, that the value for indicator 5 is —0.052, referred to the same zero of energy. Proceeding by the same stepwise method to No. 6 we find for the energy of the vacant proton level the positive value +0.038. This still refers to the occupied level of the (II30)+ ion in dilute aqueous solution. It means that work equal to 0.038 electron-volt would be required to transfer a proton from the (H30)+ ion in very dilute solution to the vacant level of No. 6 in the concentrated acid solution in which the measurements were made. A further amount of work would be required to transfer the proton from the occupied level of No. 6 to the vacant proton level of one of the H2O molecules in the same concentrated solution. This is the situation because, as mentioned above, the changing environment has raised the proton level of the (HaO)+ ion relative to that of each of the indicator molecules. 

Despite its weaknesses (such as described in the 1975 collection of essays The Mythical Man Month [11]), the traditional software development life cycle (collect requirements, design, implement, test, deploy, maintain) has remained the standard framework for software development. However, in recent years it has become clear that the life cycle is not well suited to applications that are experimental in nature (i.e., where there is no precedent for the particular kind of application) or that exist in rapidly changing environments. This has led to the development of agile methodologies (also known as lightweight... 

During the course of this chapter we have described the changing environment that will eventually see the pharmaceutical industry producing a range of products and services far removed from the blockbusters of today. This poses significant challenges to these corporate behemoths. The avalanche of... 

While data collected about dmg regulation at a fixed point in time are static, dmg regulation itself is highly dynamic. Dmg regulatory functions are performed in response to a changing environment. This means that the current dmg regulation systems in some participating countries may now differ from the system in operation at the time of data collection. 

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Issar, A. S. and M. Zohar (2004), Climate Change - Environment and Civilization in the Middle East, Springer, Heidelberg. 

Increased information to the cells through internal sensors and transcription factors. Cells, therefore, became somewhat more aware of the changed environment and more able to respond to needs and risks presented by new resources for growth. This is a major theme of organisational improvement throughout evolution. 

Despite the reservations about their efficiency as individual cells, we have to stress that prokaryotes as a whole were and are extremely successful (see Whitman et al. in Further Reading). In closing the account of them we must not forget their rapid reproduction and their easy adaptation to a changing environment. This evolution... 

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The first sub-Section deals with the history of indicating safety, how the scope of research evolved, and how research into safety provides new insights and continuous improvement in indicating the safety performance of an organization. The last sub-Section discusses the influence of the changing environment on the way safety is indicated nowadays. 

Why should we not believe that bodies change in relationship to changed environments We have reason to believe MCS is more than likely an indicator of this kind of change. We may, in fact, have a new body amongst us, a body that is less tolerant to invasive chemical exposure, that is asking for change in a visceral kind of way. 

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