social systems, where the number of play partners of an individual is more restricted as only few can be trusted as play-mates. For bonobos, it seems it is safe to play with anyone. Play-partner diversity is important when thinking about adaptability: playing 100 times with the same individual requires less variation and adjustment of behaviour than playing 10 times with 10 different individual...

BACKGROUND Adaptations and assistive technology (AT) have an important role in enabling older people to remain in their own homes. OBJECTIVE To measure the feasibility and cost of adaptations and AT, and the scope for these to substitute and supplement formal care. DESIGN Detailed design studies to benchmark the adaptability of 82 properties against the needs of seven notional users. SETT...

This paper proposes a new strategy at the system level to evaluate and mitigate power system cascading outages adaptability considering protection system hidden failure. An explicit probability model of protection system hidden failures is established to demonstrate its effects on power system adaptability. The event tree is used to analyse the cascading outages sequences. Some adaptability ind...

Background In order to enhance social adaptability and communication skills of exceptional children, researchers are trying to find a more effective and reliable approach. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of Game Therapy and Emotional Intelligence Education on the social compatibility and communicative skills of hyperactive and deaf children. Materials and Methods The popula...

having the capacity of adaptability is one of the affecting factors of modern organizations success in response to changing customer demands and environment changes. the aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between self-efficiency and organizational capacity of adaptability. statistical population of this research, conducted in 2015 in ahwaz, includes all the faculty members ...

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BACKGROUND The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China resulted in great loss of life and property, and previous studies have focused on psychopathological symptoms in survivors after disasters. This study examined perceived family functioning and its predictors in disaster bereaved individuals eighteen months after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS This was a cross-sectional study...

Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social–ecological systems (SES). Three aspects are central: resilience, adaptability and transformability. These aspects interrelate across multiple scales. Resilience in this context is the capacity of a SES to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. Adaptability is part of resilience. It represen...