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Showing 1 to 20 of 3751 for “"resilience"”.
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Retrofitting for resilience
This thesis explores the incentives and barriers to retrofit single-family and small multi-family homes in Boston, in response to the city's declared goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 while protecting citizens from extreme weather events induced by climate change. Considering small …
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Building resilience: Resilience for nursing students undertaking their final clinical placement
… (Milton-Wildey, Kenny, Parmenter, & Hall, 2014). Resilience is the recovery that occurs to successfully find a way through stress and adversities (Stephens, 2013). This research evaluated an educational intervention with follow up support to improve resilience and decrease perceived stress in …
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Resilience analysis: a mathematical formulation to model resilience of engineering systems
Resilience of engineering systems is related to their ability of absorbing both gradual and abrupt changes under exposure conditions and rapidly recover from disruptions. In this thesis, we develop a general stochastic formulation to model the recovery process and quantify system's resilience. In …
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Urban resilience through diversity
… understanding of the meaning and definition of Resilience. According to Kayatekin, 2019, Landman 2012, there are differ¬ent meanings of Resilience in urban terms. Kayatekin, 2019 also simplifies the definition into two parts, with one drawing from Material Science and another from Ecology. The …
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Improving supply chain resilience
… chain was proposed to improve the supply chain's resilience. A statistical model was constructed to select the optimal location of the central warehouse for the proposed multi-stage supply chain. After evaluating the resilience to disruptions and the cost effectiveness of supply chains, the …
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Architecture Afloat: Disaster Resilience
Following a natural disaster, buildings are destroyed, communities are separated and families are left without a place to live. As these disasters are expected to intensify and become more frequent, many people and communities are at risk. Natural disasters repeatedly reveal a lack of preparedness …
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Resilience in Men with Prostate Cancer: Relationship between Resilience, Social Support, and Distress
… intervention. In this research we examined if resilience and social support were protective factors for distress, and if resilience mediated the relationship between social support and distress. Participants were comprised of 44 PCA patients. Baseline questionnaire assessing resilience, social …
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A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
… justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and environmental justice community facing cumulative pollution burdens and increasing climate impacts. The Resilience District aims to pilot policies, …
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A Qualitative Examination of Resilience Among Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Using the Resilience Portfolio Model
… to do so. This indicates a form of strength and resilience worthy of study to expand literature, policy, and practice centered on caregiving with grandchildren. Although some studies have explored areas such as grandparents’ resourcefulness, positive caregiving appraisal, protective factors, and …
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Political subculture : a resilience modifier
… and Moral-to determine whether pre-evaluated resilience values and predicted response to disaster coincide with actual event outcomes. By using the Social Vulnerability Index values as a baseline metric for a quantifiable measure of resilience, the author found that political subculture does …
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Resilience in bereaved Zulu families
This study investigated resilience factors in thirty bereaved Zulu families who lost a family member between one and four years prior to the study. The researcher used self-report questionnaires to access an array of information that could not be accessed through direct observations. In each …
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COMPASSION SUSTAINMENT: BURN NURSE RESILIENCE
… capital (PsyCap)—comprising hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism—and the sustainment of compassion among burn nurses exposed to chronic patient suffering. Recognizing the critical role of compassion in healthcare, the research addresses the gap in understanding if positive adaptive …
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COMPASSION SUSTAINMENT: BURN NURSE RESILIENCE
… capital (PsyCap)—comprising hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism—and the sustainment of compassion among burn nurses exposed to chronic patient suffering. Recognizing the critical role of compassion in healthcare, the research addresses the gap in understanding if positive adaptive …
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A Measurable Model Of Resilience
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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Developing resilience through local food
<p>Using resilience from the perspective of the two-book series on the subject by Brian Walker and David Salt, the following is an illustration of how the conventional food system, in the way its production is disconnected from the local environment and the people it serves, creates instability and …
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Redefining Resilience in Healthcare Leadership
… a leadership communities of practice. The term resilience has been misunderstood within healthcare and is often thought of as an inherent trait that leaders possess, rather than a skill that can be developed. As such, this study explored reimagining resilience as a set of abilities leaders can …
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Taxis as pervasive resilience sensors
… proposes a method to quantitatively measure the resilience of transportation systems using GPS data from taxis. The granularity of the GPS data necessary for this analysis is relatively coarse; it only requires coordinates for the beginning and end of trips, the metered distance, and the total …
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