in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of City Planning. This thesis has two principal objectives. Firstly it attempts to measure the environment, defined by activity and space, to see how it changes and how it is formed. The rationale for this search is that unless we obtain this information we cannot tell where maladjusted activity and space relationships exist, an...

This qualitative case study described the development of adaptive competence in older workers using a Model of Adaptability and Adaptation developed by Dr. Douglas T. Hall (2002). Few studies have focused on the development of adaptability in workers when faced with change and no studies have focused on the development of adaptability in older workers. The focus of the study was on Hall’s three...

–Until adaptability can be calculated and measured, it is difficult to understand or promote. This paper defines adaptability and offers a way to measure it based on communications theory. Adaptability is a complex process which requires a number of supporting processes and definitions. The concept of state-pairs is developed and used to describe communicating entities, interfaces, comparison, ...

In an age of sustainability focussed on the short term of carbon reduction, it is important that we maintain an understanding of the broader characteristics which make places sustainable over the longevity of time. Adaptability as a design characteristic embodies spatial, structural, and service strategies which allow the physical artefact a level of malleability in response to changing operati...

Regular readers were found to adjust the routine of reading to the demands of processing imposed by different orthographies. Dyslexic readers may lack such adaptability in reading. This hypothesis was tested among readers of Hebrew, as Hebrew has two forms of script differing in phonological transparency. Event-related potentials were recorded from 24 regular and 24 dyslexic readers while they ...

Dynamic optimiser design currently assumes that diversity is a desirable property towards achieving adaptability, as a population-based optimiser contains an implicit memory. This paper examines the applicability of this assumption. Population-based algorithms of different size are tested against optimisers using a single solution. Results presented here suggest that this view is somewhat simpl...

This paper discusses our initial work in developing metrics for software adaptability. In this paper we have developed several metrics for software adaptability. One of the advantages of the metrics that we have developed is that they are applicable at the architectural level. Since architecture development is the first stage of the design process, the extent to which the architecture is adapta...

Research on career adaptability predominantly uses variable-centered approaches that focus on the average effects in terms of the predictors and outcomes within a given sample. Extending this research, the present paper used a person-centered approach to determine whether subgroups with distinct adaptability profiles in terms of concern, control, curiosity and confidence can be identified. We a...

The need for adaptation can be largely justified today by the increasing use of a large variety of interactive services by the whole population using various computer devices in different technical and social environments. Adaptation can apply to many aspects of software: presentation, data, services or assistance according to many factors like user characteristics, interaction platforms, envir...

It is well known that it is possible to achieve adaptation for “free” in function estimation under a global loss. It is unclear, however, why and how the adaptability is achieved. In this article we show that adaptability is achieved through information pooling. It is first shown that separable rules, which figure prominently in wavelet and other orthogonal series methods, lack adaptability; th...