Adapting to a changing world

Posterior cingulate cortex: adapting behavior to a changing world.

When has the world changed enough to warrant a new approach? The answer depends on current needs, behavioral flexibility and prior knowledge about the environment. Formal approaches solve the problem by integrating the recent history of rewards, errors, uncertainty and context via Bayesian inference to detect changes in the world and alter behavioral policy. Neuronal activity in posterior cingu...

Adapting to a changing health care environment.

I feel very honored and privileged to assume the chairmanship of the American College of Cardiology Imaging Council (ACC), and would like to congratulate Dr. Neil Weissman on a job superbly done last year! The Cardiovascular Imaging Section of the ACC was formed in 2011 and is one of its largest (3,800 members as of May 31, 2014), the fastest growing (110% growth since 2012), and certainly the ...

Adapting California’s Ecosystems to a Changing Climate

Significant efforts are underway to translate improved understanding of how climate change is altering ecosystems into practical actions for sustaining ecosystem functions and benefits. We explore this transition in California, where adaptation and mitigation are advancing relatively rapidly, through four case studies that span large spatial domains and encompass diverse ecological systems, ins...

Adapting Agriculture to a Monocultural World

Adapting AppSec to a DevOps World

DevOps software development presents a fundamental challenge to traditional software security practices. Multi-day static and dynamic analysis run by a small pool of security experts is not a tenable model when the business demands multiple software releases per day. Modern system administration and quality assurance roles have adapted by using automation to empower developers to elevate code s...