This paper concerns the relationship between the detectable and useful structure in an environment and the degree to which a population can adapt to that environment We ex plore the hypothesis that adaptability will depend unimodally on environmental variety and we measure this component of environmental structure using the information theoretic un certainty Shannon entropy of detectable enviro...

Article history: Received 30 July 2013 Available online 9 September 2013 Emotional intelligence and career adaptability are crucial psychosocial meta-capacities for successful adaptation in various spheres of life, including the realm of careers. However, little is known about the relationship between emotional intelligence and Savickas's (2005) notion of career adaptability. The current resear...

This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate individual differences in the neural underpinnings of sentence comprehension, with a focus on neural adaptability (dynamic configuration of neural networks with changing task demands). Twenty-seven undergraduates, with varying working memory capacities and vocabularies, read sentences that were either syntactically simple or c...

There are large individual variations in strategies and rates of sensorimotor adaptation to spaceflight. This is seen in both the magnitude of performance disruptions when crewmembers are first exposed to microgravity, and in the rate of re-adaptation when they return to Earth's gravitational environment. Understanding the sources of this variation can lead to a better understanding of the proc...

The rate of oxidation of glucose and alanine at low temperatures by washed cells of psychrotrophic strains of Pseudomonas is related to growth temperature.

Protocol adaptation between services is a key functionality for ensuring successful interactions. Previous work has mainly interested in either compatibility analysis which targets at the direct service interaction, or constructing adapters for service protocols. In this paper, we are rather interested in characterizing whether two service protocols are adaptable without constructing an adapter...

Software reuse and hardware integration are key factors to offer flexible, low-cost smart environments. Until now, we have been using a static process called the SCD-process to allow a tool-supported realization of such smart environments. The SCD-process is comprised of three different phases: specification, configuration, and deployment. As an initially specified environment is expected to ch...