Adapting Femininities

Adapting man adapting: curing, helping, consoling.

On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Yale University School of Medicine, I was invited to deliver the Silliman Lectures that were published in 1965 under the title Man Adapting. The main theme of the lectures and of the book was that the states of health and disease are to a large extent the expressions of the success or failure of the adaptive responses made by the person to the...

Girlhood, Sport and Physical Activity: The construction of young femininities in the transition to secondary school

adapting agility

people and project management issues rather than technical issues.4 Agile methods (see the related sidebar on page 22) are a recent set of development techniques that apply a human-centered approach to software production.5 The agile approach aims to deliver high-quality products faster, producing satisfied customers. We conducted an empirical study to investigate whether agile methods change a...

Adapting to Change

Biologists typically use the climatic conditions in which species currently live to project the likelihood that those climates will be available following a period of climate change, and these almost always predict dramatically high rates of species extinctions and biodiversity loss in future climates. In many instances, such predictions are warranted. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), for example...

Adapting tableaux for classification

We present an approach for studying logical properties of problemsolving methods (PSMs) for knowledge-intensive tasks. It is based on semantic tableaux (a deduction-style theorem-proving technique). We show how tableaux can be manipulated in a methodical way to formalize non-deductive style PSMs.