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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Resilience assessment"”.
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Post-Disaster Road Network Resilience Assessment
… order to assess the operational performance and resilience of the South Island regional road network following a potential Alpine Fault Magnitude 8 earthquake, this project was funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) under the National Science Challenge (NSC) – …
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Regional infrastructure resilience assessment and urban planning applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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FReAK: fault injection based resilience assessment of Kubernetes
… This underscores the necessity for thorough resilience testing. Resilience assessment of Kubernetes, the most widely adopted container orchestrator, using nearly 12000 fault injections in the control plane of Kubernetes performed using FReAK, an automated fault injector, is presented in this …
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Resilience Assessment and Resilience-based Risk Mitigation for Community Building Portfolios
The resilience of a community is determined by its ability to withstand and recover from disruptions due to natural or manmade hazards. While a consensus has developed in disaster-related research in recent years that community infrastructure should be designed, managed and regulated to achieve …
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Vietnamese Resilience Assessment: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Scale Validation
… study examines the validity of the Vietnamese Resilience Assessment (VRA), the Vietnamese-translated version of the Resilience Youth Development Module (RYDM), which is considered to be a reliable and reasonable instrument to survey the levels of external and internal assets for American …
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System Resilience Assessment and Improvement with Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… framework to enable the systematic and automatic assessment of power networks considering wireless charging of the drone during the scanning. This chapter incorporates the resilience-oriented line priority index to periodically prioritize the power lines based on their specifications and …
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Pavement Resilience Assessment Using Pavement Condition Data Before and After Hurricane Harvey
Areas located in the coastal regions are frequently exposed to the increasing risk from coastal disasters like storm surges, flooding, erosion, and rising sea levels which directly threaten civil engineering infrastructures, especially the transportation assets. This research is focused on …
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A Systemic Approach for Risk and Resilience Assessment of Food Supply Chains
… technique that goes beyond the traditional risk assessment method to obtain a reliable risk management system is essential. This research addresses this gap by adopting a system dynamic modelling approach to create a comprehensive systemic risk management model. <br/>The primary goal of this …
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CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Network Modelling for Flood Resilience Assessment and Recovery Optimisation of Urban Rail Transit
A majority of studies on transport resilience assessment employ network modelling to quantify the changes in topological attributes under random or targeted failure scenarios. This approach is insufficient to capture the multidimensionality of infrastructure resilience and falls short in …
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Development of a Resilience Assessment Methodology for Networked Infrastructure Systems using Stochastic Simulation, with application to Water Distribution Systems
… achieving resilient and sustainable communities. Resilience concepts allow improved decision making in relation with risk assessment and management in water utilities. However, in order to operationalize infrastructure resilience concepts, it is fundamental to develop practical resilience …
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A resilience assessment framework for shipping companies which learns from past accidents by using a Fuzzy Cognitive Maps-based approach
… more cleverly be identified and linked to the resilience engineering abilities, which will allow assessing the resilience level within a shipping company. Thus, by achieving the aforementioned aim, it is expected to improve overall safety within the maritime domain.;Therefore, in this research …
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Building Careers That Bounce Back: A New Measure of Career Resilience (SYCRA Scale/Systems-Based Career Resilience Assessment) for Working Adults in U.S.
Career resilience is increasingly recognized as essential for navigating the complexities anduncertainties of contemporary work environments. However, existing scholarship has primarily emphasized individual traits while overlooking the broader contextual and systemic factors that shape career …
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Preserving Biodiversity for a Climate Change Future: A Resilience Assessment of Three Bay Area Species--Adenostoma fasciculatum (Chamise), Arctostaphylos canescens (Hoary Manzanita), and Arctostaphylos virgata (Marin Manzanita)
… to climate change factors. However, species resilience can predict success into the next century. Resilience is defined as the ability to withstand climate change factors, whereas vulnerability is defined as susceptibility to climate induced stress or damage. </p> <p>Chaparral and coastal …
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Physical-socio-economic systems integration for community resilience-informed decision-making and policy selection
… and land use policies. Comprehensive community resilience assessment and improvement requires the analyst to develop a model of interacting physical infrastructure systems with socio-economic systems to measure outcomes that result from specific decisions (policies) made. There is limited …
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
Resilience planning for critical infrastructure (CI) is essential for mitigating disruptions caused by natural hazards, particularly in flood-prone urban areas. This research explores the application of resilience concepts, CI interdependency models, and quantitative assessment frameworks to …
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Statistical Analysis of Resilience Distribution and Application to Rural Electric Distribution System subjected to Hurricane Wind
… and models are proposed to quantify the resilience of power systems against hurricane events. However, these frameworks contribute to the urban area's large-scale transmission system or networked power delivery system. They are barely applicable to the rural power distribution system, …
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Seismic Resilience of Rail-Truck Intermodal Freight Transportation Networks
… a framework for assessing intermodal network resilience incorporating key component level input models is lacking in the literature. This study introduces a framework for quantifying the time evolving functionality and consequently resilience of rail-truck intermodal freight transportation …
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Resilience Engineering via Bifurcation and Ecological Network Analysis: Demonstrated in an Electric Power Case Study
… disruptions and cascading failures, making resilience a critical concern. Traditional risk management and resilience assessment methods often struggle with the nonlinearity and dynamic behavior of these systems. This dissertation proposes a novel approach combining Bifurcation Analysis (BA) …
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The Impacts of Biofuel Expansion on the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems in Ethiopia
… biofuel expansion as a disturbance to the resilience of social-ecological systems. Examining this issue through a resilience framework illustrates the dynamics of such systems, identifying potential trade-offs and regime shifts. Additionally, this research highlights the differentiated …
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Data-centric methods for optimization and pattern discovery in networked systems
… first problem is concerned with assessing the resilience of the US air transportation network from an operational perspective. As a complex network comprising over 5,000 public airports and countless interfaces with other transportation systems, the impact of any disruption in the air network …
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