Ectotherms are “cold-blooded” animals such as reptiles‚ amphibians‚ insects‚ fish and worm. These animals rely on the outside environment for their body heat as they do not generate heat internally like a mammal or bird. Ectotherms have a variety of adaptations‚ many of them behavioural‚ to regulate their body temperature and keep it within the range in which they can be active; 10-30oC The Tiliqua or more commonly known as the blue-tongue lizard or just Blue tongue is the largest member of the skink
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Role Model: Billy Graham There are several different worldviews such as Christianity‚ Atheism‚ Naturalism and New Age Pantheism. Each worldview has a role model of some form. A role model is someone that is looked up to for advice and guidance. As one of the most admired and very influential man of his time‚ Billy Graham‚ can he be considered a role model for anyone; is it very possible. Billy Graham held a Christian Worldview‚ and can be considered a role model because of the way he values his
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According to Julie Sanders’s Adaptation and Appropriation‚ adaptation can be used to do three following rules. First‚ adaptation “can be a transpositional practice‚ casting a specific genre into another generic mode” (Sanders 18). Second‚ it involves offering “commentary on a source text” by revisiting points from the original text (Sanders 18). Lastly‚ it helps to make the text “‘relevant’ or easily comprehensible to new audiences and readership”‚ which means updating from the original text (Sanders
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in the bureaucracy‚ the dam-building industry‚ the international aid community‚ and India’s urban areas lord over the people of the valley. To Roy‚ projects like the dam take power away from the people and put it in the hands of a single authority who will decide who gets what water when‚ essentially the power of life and death. India’s democracy‚ for Roy‚ is “the benevolent mask behind which a pestilence flourishes unchallenged.” The author equates the forceful rehabilitation of the people to a
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Values determine the institutional landscape which in turn influences the adaptation options that we choose. Society consists of various social structures which includes regulatory factors like values and norms. These values and norms in turn influencing the choice and behaviour of the strategies of institutions for adaptation to climate change. Values are the wide concepts which are embedded in the social structures. These values are based on the core concept of the desirable preferences and the
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that time‚ been played by 102 actors in film adaptations (Leitch‚ 207). Since 2007‚ this number has increased due to publication of films such as The Frankenstein Theory (2013) and I‚ Frankenstein (2014). Such adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein date back as far as 1823 with the first theater production‚ Presumption (Florescu 151) and the first film version in 1910 by J. Searle Dawley. Showing that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Klaus Peter Berger Adaptation and supplementation of contracts by international arbitrators has always been one of the most important and also one of the most debated issues of international arbitration law. Two reasons account for this. First‚ the international arbitrator’s competence to adapt a contract to changed circumstances or to fill gaps in the contractual stipulations of the parties always involves a complex interaction of the applicable procedural law (the lex loci arbitri) and the
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Role model‚ this phrase forms an interesting play on words. Although it has come to have a variety of connotations‚ from a source of inspiration to a social icon‚ the word quite literally means a model for a role‚ a person one can strive to emulate. The notion of role model is unequivocally associated with the youth. It is the young‚ with the unlimited possibility of the future before them‚ who are influenced by the people the aspire to emulate. This is why the question of role models become important
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disadvantages of standardization strategies and adaptation strategies in a global environment. Standardization is the process by which a company makes it methods‚ especially its production processes‚ uniform/identical throughout its organization. Whereas for adaptation‚ a company would change their methods such as the price‚ promotion‚ packaging and/or the product itself in order to fit the needs and preferences of the market or a particular country. Adaptation occurs when any element of the marketing
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Desdemona would apparently never fall in love with a black man. Brabantio uses repetition to insist that Othello must have “enchanted” his daughter with black magic rather than their relationship consisting of true love. Similarly to the play‚ the film adaptation of Othello incorporates
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