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Improving environmental adaptation in crops is essential for food security under global change, but phenotyping adaptive traits remains a major bottleneck. If associations between single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) alleles and environment of origin in crop landraces reflect adaptation, then these could be used to predict phenotypic variation for adaptive traits. We tested this proposition in ...

Purpose – To examine issues of standardization and adaptation in global marketing strategy and to explain the dynamics of standardization. Design/methodology/approach – This is a conceptual research paper that has been developed based on gaps in prior frameworks of standardization/adaptation. A three-factor model of standardization/adaptation of global marketing strategy was developed. The thre...

Visual perception depends on saccadic eye movements to bring objects of interest onto the fovea. To achieve this with continuing efficiency, the oculomotor system needs to calibrate saccades so that they reliably land on their targets. Saccades can be made to systematically miss their target by shifting its position during the saccade, when the observer is oblivious to such a change. As a resul...

This paper introduces a unified framework for online adaptation of hidden Markov models (HMM) parameters to real-life conditions. Hence, it aims at improving the robustness of speech recognition systems. In addition, it describes some techniques developed to control the convergence of adaptation in unsupervised modes. Classically, two approaches have been used to adapt HMM parameters to new con...

This paper has three messages mainly, which are observed in a simple model of climate change, international trade and regional adaptation. First, trade can be viewed as a kind of adaptation to climate change and variability, as trade can help to reduce direct impacts of global climate change on a region’s welfare. In particular, the less affected and the richer nations are, the more they can pr...

While extensive empirical and theoretical literature has been developed on organizational adaptation, especially in strategic management, the broad application of the environment-organization has not been applied adequately to the growing global e-commerce research realm. In this paper, we apply the concept of "adaptive strategies" [Kraatz 1998] to e-commerce practices in the global arena to ad...

INTRODUCTION The cross-cultural adaptation of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment is important so it can be used with confidence in Portuguese language. OBJECTIVE To perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese version of the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment and to estimate its intrarater reliability. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a validation study. Fac...

Presenting incompatible images to the eyes results in alternations of conscious perception, a phenomenon known as binocular rivalry. We examined rivalry using either simple stimuli (oriented gratings) or coherent visual objects (faces, houses etc). Two rivalry characteristics were measured: Depth of rivalry suppression and coherence of alternations. Rivalry between coherent visual objects exhib...