Organizational response to the changing environment

It might be able to self repair, and even respond to dramatic changes in the immediate environment.

62. For debate Responses to individual and population ageing have evolved piecemeal.

77. Biomimetic materials react to chemical and electric stimuli by changing size or chemical diffusivity.

Further research is needed on the response of ground level UV to changes in ozone, as well as to climate driven changes in other atmospheric parameters.

47. In Africa as elsewhere, the changing nature of conflict requires new responses.

The Director General should respond effectively to Member States' evolving needs, varying the services provided as appropriate to each region in question.

It changes, and it morphs in response to stimuli.

They have the advantage of ensuring greater flexibility to respond to change and stimulate innovation through interaction.

This gives the GM a flexibility that would permit it to respond to the evolving circumstances in a proactive way.

The European Union stands ready to take the urgent action necessary to respond to the challenge of climate change called for in the Ministerial Declaration.

React to it.

The tenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention had adopted a programme of work on adaptation and response measures, an important step in mainstreaming adaptation into the international response to climate change and into sustainable development planning.

It would have been helpful if consolidated tables had been included, explaining reasons behind changes in projected expenditures.

The new geography of South South trade and investment flows (SPC, para.

Agriculture is already responding positively to climate change mitigation through substitution of fossil fuels, continued energy efficiency and carbon sequestration.

All posts at the P 4 level have been reclassified accordingly, and the distribution of assignments reflects these changes.

Although the private sector had a vital part to play, responding to climate change was first and foremost the task of governments, with industrialized countries taking the lead as they were responsible for most of the world's current GHG emissions and were best placed to make the necessary changes and assist others to do the same.

58. It is very important that associations offering support services to SMEs be dynamic and responsive to changing SME needs and changes in the environment in which SMEs operate.

This evolution reflects changing trading patterns and globalized production processes.

The Committee requests that the posts in the Logistics Operations Section be administered with necessary flexibility, allowing for a better response to changing workload demands.

The United Nations needed to develop a coherent, cooperative and effective response to transition situations for the United Nations system as a whole.

The CD should respond to its call.

Switzerland immediately reacted to the crisis.

This change, which is clearly seen in Africa, calls for an appropriate response from the United Nations.

Both have been explained here.

The change in political will, primarily among countries that had previously opposed the drafting exercise, represented an international response to a phenomenon which had been plainly in evidence in 1996.

They must also respond to prompts, query the system, judge response times and issue commands.

(a) The acceleration versus time history data from each channel shall be reduced to the shock response spectrum, ensuring that the spectra are presented in the form of equivalent static acceleration plotted as a function of frequency.

Currently, the United Nations was much larger, and that change should be reflected in the Committee.

(a) The important role of agriculture in combating climate change

They must be flexible and responsive to our rapidly changing and integrating world, and they must be consistent with the Charter and advance its principles and purposes.

And there is one reaction that's probably the easiest fusion reaction to do.

It is contemporary biology that transformed the general concept of atoms from things that make nature act into things that make human beings act.

Responding to ageing in advance would enable countries to reap the demographic dividend produced by reduced fertility rates.

And the way we react to them has changed radically over the centuries, as have our preferences for them.

III. Responding to situations of conflict

First, the things that are obvious, that you're familiar with the environment changed the speed, the scrutiny, the sensitivity of everything now is so fast, sometimes it evolves faster than people have time to really reflect on it.

Their vote was a protest against globalization, a rejection of the contemporary world, with its distant and incomprehensible governing mechanisms. Like the anti globalization movement, the new anti Europeanism can be regarded as a demand for a different European model an alter Europeanism.

The dialogue on urban cultures looked into how cities are responding to the globalization of cultures and how culture can be used in the planning, design and management of cities.

Hold regular meetings and conferences to review, develop, and amend such criteria to respond to developments in counterterrorism and the terrorist threat.

Because it's on this molecular level things change and they act different.

Recent amendments to the Constitution were the most significant reflection of changes in policies concerning women.

75. The rapid transformation of international economic relations had led the international community to gear its thinking and activities to the goal of a world which embodied the notions of dialogue, cooperation, partnership and solidarity with a view to achieving development.

In addition to the UNICEF mission and mandate, this MTSP is based on and responds to the 2004 MTR of the 2002 2005 plan trends and changes affecting children and shifts in the international context in which UNICEF operates, including within the United Nations system itself.