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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Adaptive cycle"”.
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Exploring a Biocultural Model of Resiliency in the lower Illinois River Valley from Middle to Late Woodland Periods
… leading into the conservation stage of the Adaptive Cycle.
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A strategic typology for UK small and medium sized enterprises. An investigation of influential factors and the development of a predictive typology
… rarely develop through all three domains of the adaptive cycle to be sufficiently eligible for categorisation by one of the four pure archetypes. However, similar patterns of strategic behaviour were observed for certain dimensions, largely independent of the industry type or size of the SME, …
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Cross-scale resilience for organisations: A study of three geographic regions
… elements moving through phases of an adaptive cycle (Gunderson & Holling, 2012). Cross-scale resilience is the ability of organisations to work in harmony with social-ecological systems. However, organisational literature on sustainability prioritises organisational resilience at the …
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The Endurance of Tell Qarqur: Settlement Resilience in northwestern Syria during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 1200 – 700 BC)
… to what ecologists alternatively call the adaptive cycle or the progression of the four ecosystem functions, concepts that are integral to resilience theory. This theoretical approach forms an interpretive framework that further illustrates the inhabitants of Qarqur’s ability to adjust to …
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Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for Medical Image Synthesis and Augmentation
… image processing since 2017. Then a novel adaptive cycle-consistent adversarial network (Ad CycleGAN) is proposed. We respectively use a malaria blood cell dataset (19,578 images) and a COVID-19 chest X-ray dataset (2,347 images) to test the new Ad CycleGAN. The quantitative metrics include …
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AVOIDING COLLAPSE: RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN VULNERABLE SMALL ISLANDS
… testing the explanatory value of the conceptual Adaptive Cycle model (Holling and Gunderson 2002). A recent crisis catalysed by severe drought (1970s) led to deep social and ecological changes (collapse in farming, migration and external dependence), while subsequent policies failed to address …
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A TD-MD: Transdisciplinary Double-Doctor, a journey to post-traumatic growth
… Second: Social Innovation, where I use the Adaptive Cycle metaphor to analyse different facets of my career representing each phase. Artefacts in this chapter include the two non-profits, the Cooperative, and the corporation I founded as well as programming I conducted in other …
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Institutional Resilience of Community-based Conservation to the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
… conservation in the area. I used the adaptive cycle framework of growth, maturation, collapse and reorganization to assess changes in structures and processes and to explore the past, present and possible future trends in ACA. Villagers largely considered the CAMCs as legitimate …
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Living with a changing climate: Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories, central Turkey
… data suggest that a series of four long-term adaptive cycles (Neolithic, Chalcolithic-Bronze Age, Iron Age-Classical, Byzantine-Ottoman) characterise the dynamic inter-play between people, climate and their environment. In each adaptive cycle, environmental change contributed (both positively …
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Factors influencing the capacity of communities to respond to coastal erosion in the upper Gulf of Thailand
Local communities must have a capacity to ameliorate coastal erosion impacts. Since coastal erosion operates over long time frames, understanding this capacity, or the abilities of communities to respond to the impacts and recover to maintain community functions, requires analysis of the past and …