Characteristics and adaptation

Wang, M.C., Reynolds, M. and Walberg, H. 9%1) Handbook of Special Education Research and Practice, vol. 1 Learner Characteristics and Adaptive Education, Oxford Pergamon. 

Major Characteristics and Adaptation Range of Commercial Cereal Grains... 

SAN resins possess many physical properties desked for thermoplastic appHcations. They are characteristically hard, rigid, and dimensionally stable with load bearing capabiHties. They are also transparent, have high heat distortion temperatures, possess exceUent gloss and chemical resistance, and adapt easily to conventional thermoplastic fabrication techniques (7). 

Because heat-transfer equipment for solids is generally an adaptation of a primarily material-handhng device, the area of heat transfer is often small in relation to the overall size of the equipment. Also pecuhar to sohds heat transfer is that the At varies for the different heat-transfer mechanisms. With a knowledge of these mechanisms, the At term generally is readily estimated from temperature hmita-tions imposed by the burden characteristics and/or the construc tion. 

Among the existing separation techniques, some - due to their intrinsic characteristics - are more adapted than others to processing large amounts of material. Such processes, which already exist at industrial level, can be considered in order to perform an enantioselective separation. This is the case for techniques such as distillation and foam flotation, both of which constitute well-known techniques that can be adapted to the separation of enantiomers. The involvement of a chiral selector can be the clue which changes a nonstereoselective process into an enantioselective one. Clearly, this selector must be adapted to the characteristics and limitations of the process itself. 

The fundamental characteristics of compression are the same for centrifugal and reciprocating compressors. The manner in which these fundamentals are interpreted must be adapted to the particular machine type and operating characteristics, and this accounts for the difference in design procedures. 

The quantification of adaptation is difficult because it is unlikely that any plant is in a state of perfect adaptation to its environment since it is made up of a collection of ancestral characteristics and the process of adaptation is occurring continually. Indeed, Harper (1982) has argued that we should refer to abaptation rather than adaptation - evolution from rather than evolution towards. We can say that adaptation to an environment depends on the possession of an optimum combination of characters that minimises deleterious effects and maximises advantageous effects (Bradshaw, 1965). We must bear in mind, however, that non-adaptive characters may evolve in parallel with adaptive characters by pleiotropy, and that the direction of adaptive change is limited by the available genetic resources of the species (Harper, 1982). This is part of the reason why Harper (1982) argues that... 

Davis M.E., Brownb D.C., Dirainb M.S., Dawsonc H.D., Maxwellb C. and Rehbergera T. (2006). Comparison of direct-fed microbial and antibiotic supplementation on innate and adaptive immune characteristics of weanling pigs . Reprod Nutr Dev, 46, S63-S77. 

The main characteristics and regularities, characterizing the considered class of kick-excited self-adaptive dynamical systems are as follows ... 

The rock rose (Cistus ladanifer L.) is a typical Mediterranean plant well adapted to thin soils with low nutritional characteristics and water holding capacity as some of those found in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) (Carvalho Cardoso, 1965). This metallogenetic province is renowned by the existence of important polymetallic massive sulfide deposits and because was exploited for base metals since pre-Roman times. 

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