What's the difference between adaptation and inadaptation?

Adaptation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
  • (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (4) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
  • (5) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
  • (6) A more radical surgery is recommended but with the limitation that the operative method must be adapted to the operative finding.
  • (7) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (8) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
  • (9) The morphology and physiology of the large adapting unit (LAU: Fig.
  • (10) We therefore conclude that the hyperphagia of chronic exercise in humans may be linked with significant gastrointestinal adaptations.
  • (11) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
  • (12) Other experiments and results concerning spontaneous tumour frequency suggest that the strain is well adapted to standard environmental conditions, and could be useful for biomedical research.
  • (13) 98, 309-319] was adapted for the measurement of the asialoglycoprotein receptor in rat liver.
  • (14) During the first three weeks of adaptation drastic changes in the parameter were seen.
  • (15) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
  • (16) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (17) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
  • (18) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (19) A plaque hybridization assay was adapted to rotavirus.
  • (20) The data suggest that the hypothalamic beta-E containing neurons were unable to adapt to nicotine's repeated effects on this system.

Inadaptation


Definition:

  • (n.) Want of adaptation; unsuitableness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In particualr, evaluation criteria utilised in de testing school inadaptation or to controle knowledge, play an important selective role.
  • (2) The therapy of these patients should focuse on the development of ego-identity, including the treatment of the family members, the modification of the inadapted behavior and a special endocrinological therapy.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that frequent shifts usually reflect the capacity and motivation to respond differentially to different situations; or that, conversely, too few shifts show a perseverative tendency paralleling inadaptivity in real-life behavior.
  • (4) Continuous Inadaptability group with the five to six year old children showed scarcely any problems.
  • (5) 3) The extreme inadaptability group with the four year old children showed a connection with the change of adaptation and the various Psychological Tests.
  • (6) In an inbred low-activity (LA) strain of Drosophila melanogaster with a low level of fitness and a complex of inadaptive characters, in situ hybridization reveals an invariant pattern of distribution of three copia-like elements (mdg-1, mdg-3, and copia).
  • (7) The most frequent methodological insufficiences are the obvious heterogeneity of the treatment groups, the insufficient use of standardized evaluation instruments and the inadapted ness of certain experimental protocols to the goals being pursued.
  • (8) It seems from our experience and from the literature that such haemorragic accidents are not particularly frequent in congenital coagulation deficiency and contribute only for a few to creation of a psychomotor inadapted population.
  • (9) Inadaptation of the refractory periods was demonstrated equally in Groups II and III in all ages whilst the control subjects showed normal adaptation, p less than 0.05.
  • (10) The institutionalized women showed much greater incidence of all types of inadaptability.
  • (11) Inadaptive properties of the HA line were observed to be expressed at the organism and cell levels, which is reflected by later induction of heat shock puffs.
  • (12) In the alcoholic women, the first five factors were labeled high interpersonal adaptability, heterosexual role inadaptability, female role ambivalence, female identification problems, and maternal role inadaptability.
  • (13) Social relations around the handicapped are generally presented in terms of economic dependence and social inadaptation.
  • (14) Finally, serious school failure leads us to question how special education works, when considering inadaptation only as a consequence of deficits.
  • (15) The results are the following; (Formula: see text) Those results demonstrate that CEI is associated with a renal inadaptation to sodium restriction.
  • (16) A study of adrenal medulla secretion showed that it was inadapted to the fall in blood pressure, with no increase in dopamine secretion.
  • (17) In the University of Alberta women, the first five factors were heterosexual and general social inadaptability, heterosexual interests and adaptability, homosexual tendencies, conflictual sexuality, and emancipated female role concepts.
  • (18) We observed tricuspid regurgitation in all the patients probably due to valvular inadaptation to the high ventricular pressure.
  • (19) The data were factor analyzed: five major factors were identified: (1) heterosexual social role inadaptability; (2) parental role inadaptability; (3) homemaker role inadaptability; (4) general affective (neurotic) instability; and (5) maternal role inadaptability.
  • (20) Four groups: Continuous Adaptability (45.0%) Acquired Adaptability (18.3%) Continuous Inadaptability (16.7%) Extreme Inadaptability (20.0%) 2) The inadaptability groups (Continuous Inadaptability and Extreme Inadaptability) of the two to three year old children did not correlate to the change of adaptation and personality of the child, and the relationship between the mother and child.

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