Is adaptation a local responsibility?

Framing Responsibility on Local Television News

Acknowledgments: There are many who deserve thanks for their roles in the development of this project. First and foremost, this research would not have been possible without funding from the Jesse Bell duPont Fund. My Masters Thesis committee members were instrumental in providing ideas and fine tuning the finished product. The raw data provided by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, espe...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?

Adaptation is a Game

Software systems operating in unpredictable environments must be self-adaptive. Unfortunately, there is no agreed foundational model for adaptation. Already in 1963 Lofti Zadeh claimed that “it is very difficult—perhaps impossible—to find a way of characterizing in concrete terms the large variety of ways in which adaptive behavior can be realized”. His pessimism was due to the inherent difficu...

Parasite local adaptation in a geographic mosaic.

A central prediction of the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution is that coevolving interspecific interactions will show varying degrees of local maladaptation. According to the theory, much of this local maladaptation is driven by selection mosaics and spatially intermingled coevolutionary hot and cold spots, rather than a simple balance between gene flow and selection. Here I develop a gen...

Adaptation of health care for migrants: whose responsibility?

BACKGROUND In a context of increasing ethnic diversity, culturally competent strategies have been recommended to improve care quality and access to health care for ethnic minorities and migrants; their implementation by health professionals, however, has remained patchy. Most programs of cultural competence assume that health professionals accept that they have a responsibility to adapt to migr...