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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"community recovery"”.
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Assessing Macroinvertebrate Community Recovery in Post Restoration Silver Bow Creek, Montana
… analysis evaluates changes in benthic biotic community composition throughout the period of record (1986 to 2009). Transformations of historical data were necessary to standardize community information and calculate indices of biotic integrity. A multivariate method, Classification Strength …
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Assessing Macroinvertebrate Community Recovery in Post Restoration Silver Bow Creek, Montana
… analysis evaluates changes in benthic biotic community composition throughout the period of record (1986 to 2009). Transformations of historical data were necessary to standardize community information and calculate indices of biotic integrity. A multivariate method, Classification Strength …
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Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) management and native plant community recovery on sites selectively treated with Imazapic in Rocky Mountain National Park
… on non-target native species, and how the plant community recovers following cheatgrass control. In 2008, 12 permanent monitoring plots were established in six sites in RMNP, each with one reference and one imazapic treatment plot. Reference plots were chosen to represent the desired final …
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The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Post-Disaster Neighborhood Recovery: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
… Systems (PPGIS) as a tool for neighborhood recovery in post-Katrina and Rita New Orleans. The landfall of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast Region changed the way that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used for Emergency Management and Response, PPGIS, and community …
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A Framework for Building Back Better during Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Recovery
… for improved post-disaster reconstruction and recovery efforts. The slogan ―Build Back Better‖ (BBB) denotes improving the physical, psycho-social and economic aspects of communities during reconstruction and recovery to induce greater resilience. This research project has been designed to …
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Problems on decision making under uncertainty
… work include post-hazard large-scale real-world community recovery management, path planning of UAVs by incorporating feedback from intelligence assets, and closed-loop, urban target tracking in challenging environments. As an illustration of the properties shared by the solutions developed in …
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Local Labor Market Adjustment and Economic Impacts After a Major Disaster: Evidence From the 1993 Midwest Flood
This study also finds that impacts at the community-level may be highly variable even if the region as a whole recovers quickly. Local economies in the aggregate may recover but not all businesses recover. In Grafton, some businesses returned to their normal functioning soon after the event while …
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Statistical limits of graphical channel models and a semidefinite programming approach
Community recovery is a major challenge in data science and computer science. The goal in community recovery is to find the hidden clusters from given relational data, which is often represented as a labeled hyper graph where nodes correspond to items needing to be labeled and edges correspond to …
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Community detection in preferential attachment graphs
This thesis examines the problem of community detection in a new random graph model, which is a generalization of preferential attachment graphs. This model has some features that are more realistic than those of the often-studied stochastic block model (SBM). A message passing algorithm for …
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Towards ecological restoration strategies for Peninsula Shale Renosterveld: testing the effects of disturbance-intervention treatments on seed germination on Devil's Peak, Cape Town
… study primarily set out to further understand community recovery through determining the effects of interventions, implemented to mimic ecological drivers, on several seed germination criteria. Thirty-two interventions (comprised of five, crossed factors: burning, tillage, …
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Community vulnerability and capacity in post-disaster recovery: the cases of Mano and Mikura neighbourhoods in the wake of the 1995 Kobe earthquake
… a particular focus on the relationship between community vulnerability and capacity. Few studies have examined these interactions, even though vulnerability reduction is recognized to be a vital component of community recovery. Drawing from literature on disaster recovery, community development, …
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Continuity of care for substance misusing prisoners released to a local community drug treatment system: A quantitative analysis of the systems approach.
… performance rates of CC reflecting the prison-to-community transition for substance misusing prisoners (SMP) are low and, although guidance is extensive, non-clinical quantitative research describing this key process point within the UK criminal justice healthcare pathway is limited. Objectives: …
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The agricultural value chain between small or informal farmers and larger actors, whether the state or corporations. How is the C-19 crisis response to food supply shaping value chains?
… and spontaneous ventures, as critical to community recovery. Therefore, this study explores the role of these types of ventures and their intermediary role for small-scale farmers during a crisis. It also describes how they use social capital to promote small-scale farmer resilience. The …
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Invasion of Hurricane-Disturbed Scrub Communities on Barrier Islands in Mississippi: a Battle Between Native and Non-Native Ecosystem Engineers
… the ecosystem in a way that may prevent its recovery. I tested several hypotheses related to this idea within barrier island scrub communities dominated by Florida rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides Michx.). Hurricanes represent a major source of disturbance to coastal Florida rosemary …
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An Ecotoxicological Evaluation of Active Coal Mining, Sedimentation and Acid Mine Drainage in Three Tributaries of the Leading Creek Watershed, Meigs County, Ohio
… tests) and ecological (benthic macroinvertebrate community sampling) parameters. Persistent acute toxicity (mean 48-hr LC50 of 30.3% to C. dubia) due to low pH (mean of 5.4) and high concentrations of dissolved metals (ex: Al ~ 10 mg/L) were responsible for the significantly depressed benthic …
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Evaluation of shrub removal effects on understory richness and diversity in a native grassland
… in terms of the vegetation parameters and the community trajectories, (2) Is there a legacy effect of buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) on plant community recovery, and (3) Does the intensity or composition of shrub re-invasion vary across soil moisture gradients? Data were collected on both …
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Health risk differentials: implications of neighborhood conditions on various health outcomes in New Orleans, 2004-2009
… Katrina, an important topic in the context of community recovery following a disaster event. This dissertation follows the “three chapter (paper) journal format”. The first paper (Chapter 2) examines hot spots for unattended swimming pools and associated neighborhood predictors from 2006 to …
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Restoration of Degraded Land: A comparison of Structural and Functional Measurements of Recovery
… were to document the structural and functional recovery of differently restored areas, to understand better the relationship between the two, and to determine which types of measurements are best for assessing restoration success. To address these questions, an experimental system was created …
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Marine alien species of South Africa : threats and opportunities
… communities by M galloprovincialis, changes in community structure on the rocky shore of Marcus Island and the sandy shore of Langebaan Lagoon were measured. In both habitats, the invasion significantly altered community composition. On Marcus Island the effects were focused within the …
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Understanding and improving disaster risk governance to address small-scale recurring disasters: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand
… that address the emergency response to and recovery from small-scale recurring disasters. Thus, they fall through risk assessment processes because those processes do not sufficiently capture them thereby preventing their evaluation by higher levels in the decision-making process. This leads …