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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...adapt and change direction, “what remains of their existence will be nasty, brutish and short”. That’s the core message of a research paper on the oil corporates by one of the UK’s leading energy experts, Paul Stevens, a senior research fellow at the London-based Chatham House thinktank, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Present management strategies...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...Adapting the scheduling of the Games is inevitable Whichever solutions are considered climate change is having a significant impact on where and when both the Winter Olympics and Para-Olympics are held, and it is perhaps inevitable that adapting the scheduling and hosting of both games will have to be considered to accommodate the impact of a shorter ‘winter’ season....
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

Despite experiencing discrimination on account of their religion and culture, the Catholic Irish gradually gained acceptance in American society. ...The post-Famine period witnessed a continued influx of mainly Catholic Irish immigrants into the United States due to ongoing social and economic change in Ireland and American economic expansion. By the end of the...
Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change and alternative living: issues of adaptation and sustainability

...adaptation processes and strategies to find a natural solution to deal with this change. [An old woman sits with a laughing child on their laptop, surrounded by rural nature]How are we adapting to the changing natural environment?We, as humans, are evolutionarily designed creatures to survive using our innate capacities to co-live with the changing natural environment....
Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...et al., 2021). Adaptability and resilience are closely connected in sports because both help athletes and teams overcome challenges and perform under pressure. In such a fast-paced game every match presents a choice – either dwell on mistakes or learn from them. In psychological terms, resilience is the ability to cope with challenges and experiences of significant...
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...entre un cinéma d’Art et Essai et les grands complexes cinématographiques tient sur un point essentiel qui est l’argent. Dans les cinémas d’Art et d’Essai le prix des places se situe entre 2€50 et 6€. Dans les cinémas, dans les complexes industriels la place est entre 10 et 15€. Dans les cinémas d’Art ......
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...et comprendre quel lien existe entre la littérature de gare et le polar. Étape A Qu’évoque pour vous l’expression « littérature de gare » ? Quelles sont les origines de cette expression ? Comment la traduiriez-vous en anglais ? Answer L’expression « littérature de gare » évoque l’idée de romans faciles à lire mais de qualité médiocre. L’expression...
Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...adapt i.e. it is a rich nation (Beck et al, 2014 and Burdett, M. 2018). The UK government only agreed on funding for 2015 to 2021 of £1.2bn for coastal erosion and sea-flooding projects despite the projected need of that the UK will be £1bn a year for 50 years on river and sea defences (Environment Agency, cited by The Guardian, 2019). The UK government has prioritized...