Dissertations / Theses: 'Resiliece'

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Duiculescu, Beatrice Ioana. "Can resilient urban design support social resilience?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22719.

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This research is a small part of a bigger field of research made before by other authorsregarding the humans in the urban public space. It has a small context compared to otherstudies, but a big impact inside the community. It aims at finding answers to questions thatother researchers asked before, but under different circumstances and they displayed them through different ways such as documentary films (The social life of small urban spaces 1980, How to live in a city 1964).After experiencing the city life of Malmö and some questions have been raised, the concept of resilience intersected with the interest of social public life in a neighbourhood. In order to have the theoretical framework to answer the research question, the thesis follows a literature review, where the concepts of resilience, urban resilience, resilient urban design and social resilience have been explored.Next, after exploring the city of Malmö, some case studies have been chosen and studiedthrough direct observation in different months starting with March and various times of theday. In the methodological approach section the methods are explained as well as a detailed presentation of the biggest tool used for this research: observational drawing. The tools used for the observation are field notes, observational drawings and photographs. The cases are spread throughout the city and are located in neighbourhoods with different urban tissues. The results reveal all the observational drawings made during the field visits and the field notes written. They show how people use the spaces in all three case studies depending on the weather or other external factors.The discussion reveals the complexity of the relation between concepts and the empiricaldata, following the initial aim of the research throughout the discussion. This thesiscontributes with important outcomes to the field of urban studies creating awareness about the urban context and its influence on people. The findings of this study show a diversity and creativity of users in using the public space.

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Norman, Jenna. "Resiliens : En studie om diskrepansen mellan begreppet resiliens och den empiriska tillämpningen." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-128239.

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Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att genom enkäter undersöka om det finns en diskrepans mellan det teoretiska begreppet resiliens och den empiriska tillämpningen. För att besvara denna fråga undersöks följande delfrågor: Vad ingår i olika teoretiska resiliensbegrepp? Hur ser innebörden av resiliensbegreppet ut hos svenska krishanteringsaktörer idag? Hur arbetar svenska krishanteringsaktörer för resiliens för att göra städer säkrare i framtiden? Denna studie ska vara till hjälp för krishanteringsaktörer i deras förståelse för vad resiliensbegreppet är och finna kunskap i dessa tre resilienskoncept för att kunna använda det i sitt praktiska arbete när de talar om att arbeta för resiliens. I denna studie har tjugosex stycken enkäter skickats ut till personer som på något sätt arbetar med krishantering. Respondenterna arbetar på olika nivåer (kommun, länsstyrelse, myndighet, privat sektor samt forskare). Forskning och teorier kring resiliens kommer baseras på Brian Walker & David Salt som beskriver ingenjörsteknisk resiliens och ekologisk resiliens i boken Resilience thinking därefter förklarar Ulrich Beck enligt boken Risksamhället hur man måste arbeta för framtiden och inte se bakåt för att planera efter det som skett i dåtid. Pickett, McGrath, Cadenasso & Felson beskriver i sin forskning Ecological resilience and Resilient cities hur hållbarhet är en viktig del i resiliens. Avslutningsvis beskrivs det tredje resiliensbegreppet, nämligen Socio-ekologisk resiliens där Carl Folke lyfter upp vikten av att utveckla resiliens för det socio-ekologiska systemet för att skapa en anpassningsförmåga som möjliggör kontinuerlig utveckling, som ett dynamisk adaptiv samspel mellan att upprätthålla och utvecklas i förändring. För att kunna minska diskrepansen mellan begreppet resiliens och den empiriska tillämpningen krävs att det först och främst finns en förståelse för och en kunskap om begreppet resiliens. Därefter krävs det en samverkan mellan olika aktörer speciellt att krishanteringsaktörerna tar del av de forskningsresultat som framkommer för att kunna implementera det praktiskt och på så sätt få nya innovativa idéer att arbeta efter.
The purpose of this qualitative study is through survey investigate if there is a discrepancy between the theoretical concept of resilience and the empirical application. To answer this question this study examines the following issues: What is included in various theoretical resilience concept? What is the meaning of the resilience concept at the Swedish crisis management actors today? How does the Swedish crisis management actors use resilience to make cities safer in the future? This study will be helpful for crisis management actors in their understanding of what the resilience concept and find the knowledge of these three concepts to use it in their practical work when they talk about working for resilience. In this study, twenty-six questionnaires was sent out to people who in some way are involved in crisis management. The respondents in this study work at different levels (municipal, county government, government, private sector and researchers). Research and theories of resilience is based on Brian Walker and David Salt describing engineering technical resilience and ecological resilience in the book Resilience thinking then Ulrich Beck explains according to the book Risk Society how one must work for the future and not look backwards and plan because of what was happening in the past. Pickett, McGrath, Cadenasso & Felson describes his research Ecological Resilience and Resilient Cities how sustainability is an important aspect of resilience. Finally the third concept is described, namely socio-ecological resilience where Carl Folke lifts the importance of developing resilience for the socio-ecological system to create an adaptability that allows for continuous development, a dynamic adaptive interaction between maintaining and developing in change. In order to reduce the discrepancy between the concept of resilience and the empirical application it requires, first and foremost an understanding and a knowledge of the concept of resilience. Then it requires a collaboration between various stakeholders especially the crisis management actors to take part of the research evidence and have a will to implement it practically and as a result get new innovative ideas to work with.

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Shields, Lee Brantley. "Teacher Resilience in Central Virginia: How Veteran Teachers become Resilient." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97613.

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Teacher Resilience in Central Virginia: How Veteran Teachers become Resilient Lee Brantley Shields ABSTRACT The development of teacher resilience is important in improving teacher retention. This study identified reasons veteran teachers have remained in the classroom; individual and contextual factors of resilience; significant challenges the teachers have encountered; and strategies the teachers used for dealing with the challenging situations. This was a qualitative study that included interviews with 15 teachers in a rural school division in Central Virginia. Data analysis occurred through deductive coding of the transcribed interviews using qualitative data analysis software. The findings for this study identified seven factors that veteran teachers indicated were important in their decision to remain in the classroom. The study also identified 22 individual factors of resilience and 10 contextual factors presented through the experiences of the veteran teachers. The veteran teachers described four challenges that they have faced in their school division and the strategies they used to overcome those challenges. The study concludes with the discussion, implication, and conclusion of the findings.
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Teacher Resilience in Central Virginia: How Veteran Teachers become Resilient Lee Brantley Shields GENERAL AUDIENCE ABSTRACT The development of teacher resilience is important in improving teacher retention. This study identified reasons veteran teachers have remained in the classroom; individual and contextual factors of resilience; the most significant challenges the teachers have encountered; and strategies the teachers used for dealing with those challenging situations. This was a qualitative study that included interviews with 15 teachers in a rural school division in Central Virginia. The findings for this study provide practitioners with a framework to develop a resilient culture within their schools.

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Gravenstein, Gretchen. "Resilience in urban civic spaces: guidelines for designing resilient social-ecological systems." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17642.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Blake Belanger
Resilience in social-ecological systems, defined by ecologist C.S. Holling (1973), is the persistence of systems after a disturbance. This theory of resilience is becoming increasingly important, especially in urban areas where human systems dominate. Therefore, creating resilient social-ecological systems is emerging as a focus for many landscape architects when designing urban landscapes. Researchers and practitioners have created frameworks and strategies for applying resilience theory, but designers are still lacking tangible methods they can use to implement design strategies to create resilient landscapes. This research presents a set of resilient design strategies, so landscape architects can have a tool to design generally resilient social-ecological systems in urban areas. In order to discover strategies which improve system resilience, I conducted a literature review and created a perceptual model of the social-ecological systems operating in the study site, Washington Square Park in Kansas City, Missouri. The perceptual model determined systems and system components I focused on in this research. These systems are soil, water, vegetation, fauna, and people. Strategies suggested by Jack Ahern (2011), Brian Walker and David Salt (2006), and Kevin Cunningham (2013) for creating resilience determined strategies which were applied to the system components in order to evaluate the park for resilience. The strategies suggested are modularity, redundancy, tight feedbacks, and ecosystem services. In addition, the system components and strategies were used to analyze case studies. I used strategies discovered in the case study analyses along with goals for the redesign of Washington Square Park, discovered by analyzing the site and previous park documents, to create the guidelines. I then used the guidelines to create a design proposal for the park. The current state of the system components in the park and the proposed state from the redesign were used to show the guidelines’ success in increasing the general resilience of Washington Square Park. These guidelines have potential to increase resilience in other urban civic spaces through a similar methodology I used for Washington Square Park. In addition, the guidelines have the potential to further research in applying resilience theory to the design of landscapes.

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Oliveira, Rodrigo Ruas. "Toward cost-efficient Dos-resilient virtual networks with ORE : opportunistic resilience embedding." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/71908.

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O atual sucesso da Internet vem inibindo a disseminação de novas arquiteturas e protocolos de rede. Especificamente, qualquer modificação no núcleo da rede requer comum acordo entre diversas partes. Face a isso, a Virtualização de Redes vem sendo proposta como um atributo diversificador para a Internet. Tal paradigma promove o desenvolvimento de novas arquiteturas e protocolos por meio da criação de múltiplas redes virtuais sobrepostas em um mesmo substrato físico. Adicionalmente, aplicações executando sobre uma mesma rede física podem ser isoladas mutuamente, propiciando a independência funcional entre as mesmas. Uma de suas mais promissoras vantagens é a capacidade de limitar o escopo de ataques, através da organização de uma infraestrutura em múltiplas redes virtuais, isolando o tráfego das mesmas e impedindo interferências. Contudo, roteadores e enlaces virtuais permanecem vulneráveis a ataques e falhas na rede física subjacente. Particularmente, caso determinado enlace do substrato seja comprometido, todos os enlaces virtuais sobrepostos (ou seja, alocados neste) serão afetados. Para lidar com esse problema, a literatura propõe dois tipos de estratégias: as que reservam recursos adicionais do substrato como sobressalentes, protegendo contra disrupções; e as que utilizam migração em tempo real para realocar recursos virtuais comprometidos. Ambas estratégias acarretam compromissos: o uso de recursos sobressalentes tende a tornar-se custoso ao provedor de infraestrutura, enquanto a migração de recursos demanda um período de convergência e pode deixar as redes virtuais inoperantes durante o mesmo. Esta dissertação apresenta ORE (Opportunistic Resilience Embedding – Mapeamento com Resiliência Oportunística), uma nova abordagem de mapeamento de redes para proteger enlaces virtuais contra disrupções no substrato físico. ORE é composto por duas estratégias: uma proativa, na qual enlaces virtuais são alocados em múltiplos caminhos para mitigar o impacto de uma disrupção; e uma reativa, a qual tenta recuperar, parcial ou integralmente, a capacidade perdida nos enlaces virtuais afetados. Ambas são modeladas como problemas de otimização. Ademais, como o mapeamento de redes virtuais é NP-Difícil, ORE faz uso de uma meta-heurística baseada em Simulated Annealing para resolver o problema de forma eficiente. Resultados numéricos mostram que ORE pode prover resiliência a disrupções por um custo mais baixo.
Recently, the Internet’s success has prevented the dissemination of novel networking architectures and protocols. Specifically, any modification to the core of the network requires agreement among many different parties. To address this situation, Network Virtualization has been proposed as a diversifying attribute for the Internet. This paradigm promotes the development of new architectures and protocols by enabling the creation of multiple virtual networks on top of a same physical substrate. In addition, applications running over the same physical network can be isolated from each other, thus allowing them to coexist independently. One of the main advantages of this paradigm is the use of isolation to limit the scope of attacks. This can be achieved by creating different, isolated virtual networks for each task, so traffic from one virtual network does not interfere with the others. However, routers and links are still vulnerable to attacks and failures on the underlying network. Particularly, should a physical link be compromised, all embedded virtual links will be affected. Previous work tackled this problem with two main strategies: using backup resources to protect against disruptions; or live migration to relocate a compromised virtual resource. Both strategies have drawbacks: backup resources tend to be expensive for the infrastructure provider, while live migration may leave virtual networks inoperable during the recovery period. This dissertation presents ORE (Opportunistic Resilience Embedding), a novel embedding approach for protecting virtual links against substrate network disruptions. ORE’s design is two-folded: while a proactive strategy embeds virtual links into multiple substrate paths in order to mitigate the initial impact of a disruption, a reactive one attempts to recover any capacity affected by an underlying disruption. Both strategies are modeled as optimization problems. Additionally, since the embedding problem is NP-Hard, ORE uses a Simulated Annealing-based meta-heuristic to solve it efficiently. Numerical results show that ORE can provide resilience to disruptions at a lower cost.

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Engvall, Charlotte. "Förbättrade förutsättningar för resiliens inom specialiserad barnsjukvård : tillämplighet av ”Resilience Assessment Grid”." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36618.

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Inom specialiserad barnsjukvård finns behov av säkerhetsstrategier utvecklade för komplexa adaptiva system. Tillvägagångssätt från ”Resilience Engineering” kan användas när säkerhetsstrategier utvecklas, men erfarenheten av detta är begränsad inom sjukvården. Masterarbetet genomfördes för att utforska hur ett förbättringsarbete kring att utveckla och använda instrumentet ”Resilient Assessment Grid”, RAG, kunde stödja medarbetarnas förutsättningar att arbeta på ett resilient sätt. Förbättringsarbetet genomfördes enligt Nolans förbättringsmodell. Studien var en fallstudie med kvalitativ ansats på en vårdavdelning inom specialiserad barnsjukvård. Studieresultatet visade att arbetet med att utveckla och använda RAG kunde stödja medarbetarnas förutsättningar att arbeta på ett resilient sätt genom att de fick tillgång till ett sätt att mäta förutsättningar för resiliens och genomföra strategiska förbättringsinterventioner. Medvetenheten och kunskapen om patientsäkerhet och resiliens ökade, vilket har lett till en ökad förståelse för verksamheten, och för vad som är viktigt för god patientsäkerhet. Vi har hittills inte kunnat påvisa förbättrade förutsättningar för resiliens genom att använda instrumentet RAG. Innan längre tid förflutit och ytterligare RAG-mätningar gjorts kan vi varken påvisa eller utesluta att förutsättningarna kommer förbättras. Erfarenheterna från masterarbetet kan nyttjas i kommande initiativ, inom komplexa adaptiva system i hälso- och sjukvården, som syftar till att förbättra förutsättningarna för resiliens.
This master´s thesis explores how an improvement work of developing and using the “Resilience Assessment Grid”, RAG, can support the potential for resilient performance on a paediatric ward, in light of the need for new safety strategies developed for complex adaptive systems. A qualitative case study of the improvement work was conducted. The improvement work was done according to the Model for Improvement. The work of developing and using RAG for measuring and managing resilient performance, supported the employees' potential for resilient performance by helping them in implementing strategic improvement interventions. The awareness and knowledge of patient safety and resilience increased, which led to increased understanding of the system and the needs of the system in terms of patient safety. We have not been able to show that the potential for resilient performance has improved by using RAG for measurement. We can neither demonstrate nor exclude that the potential will improve before further measurements have been made. Experience from the present study can be used in future interventions of improving the potential for resilient performance and patient safety in a complex adaptive system in the health care setting.

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Goloway, Stephanie. "Happily Ever Resilient: A Content Analysis of Themes of Resilience in Fairytales." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4518.

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One in 4 children in the United States lives in a family impacted by the chronic, heritable disease of substance use disorder (SUD), also known as alcoholism or addiction. Recent research has demonstrated that resilience is a key protective factor against developing the disease in adolescence and adulthood and that the neurological roots of resilience lie in the child's experiences in early childhood. In spite of this, few resources related to family SUD or current models of resilience are included in preservice teacher preparation for early childhood educators. This study examined whether key components of Masten's model of resilience are found in fairytales, a form of literature commonly used in early childhood teacher preparation programs. A qualitative, descriptive, deductive content analysis was conducted on 24 fairytales from 22 different cultures, using a tool derived from Propp's morphology of fairytales and Masten's model of resilience. Results indicated that the texts of 96% of these stories contained multiple specific references to the 3 dominant evidence-based factors for resilience: attachment/relationships, initiative, and self-regulation. When broken into the 7 subcategories of these 3 protective factors, as identified by Masten, 9 fairytales contained examples of all 7 protective factors; 9 had examples of 6, and another 5 had examples of 5. The results of this study may be used to provide teacher educators with resources to better prepare preservice early childhood teachers to understand and nurture resilience in children, while addressing existing mandated learning objectives related to emergent literacy. This will benefit all children the teachers will work with, but especially those who are impacted by SUD and other forms of trauma.

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Phillis, Marcie J. "Resilient Resistors: Women Trauma Survivors Narrate Resistance and Resilience Following Traumatic Life Experiences." OpenSIUC, 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1644.

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Previous studies of resistance in the field of sociology have focused on many types of resistance but have not examined poor women’s resistance in the aftermath of trauma. Psychologists have examined trauma recovery and resilience, but have not examined these topics from an integrated, sociological perspective. In this work, I synthesize current scholarship on resistance from sociology with resilience in psychology and address these existing gaps. Through open-ended, semi-structured interviews with twenty-three women who suffered traumatic life events, I answer the following questions: How do women narrate their rebound from trauma and how do they define those experiences? What are the commonalities in women's narratives of overcoming? How do race, class, sexuality, and poverty intersect to affect resistance and resilience for these women? What themes emerge in women’s discussions of overcoming trauma? What aspects of their trauma recovery involve resistance and resilience? My findings show that women trauma survivors are resilient and resistant in a number of ways: through understood therapeutic means including self-help, support groups, therapy, reading about and watching programs regarding the subject, discussing trauma and recovery with family and friends, using mentors, engaging in positive spirituality, and through creative expression. I found women were resistant in less traditionally understood ways. These include choosing to get help with coping from therapy or support groups against the wishes of loved ones or others due to stigma. Other methods included renaming themselves “survivor”, “thriver”, or reject labels entirely, and creating new, resilient selves. Finally, I found that survivors of traumatic life events often rejected community norms regarding how gender is “done,” by rejecting femininity, eschewing marriage, living as out lesbians, or choosing not to have children. Two unique findings emerged through the data collection. The first was that women from lower socioeconomic backgrounds frequently rejected the idea of victimhood, identified as survivors, or chose no label at all. They narrated their transition from victim to survivor as a sudden choice as opposed to, as the literature suggests, a process. Second, I find that there is a very particular script for coping in women from lower classes which frames traumatic life experiences as, “just part of being a woman.” I find that these frequently women employed a “tough guise” identity to reclaim respect in their low-income communities. I further find that women recreate new, socially valorized identities free from stigma by engaging in prosocial coping.

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Burnard, Kevin J. "Establishing the resilient response of organisations to disruptions : an exploration of organisational resilience." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12489.

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The focus of this thesis is to investigate resilience at an organisational level. The research aims to identify and establish the features of resilience within the response of an organisation to disruptive and crisis events. Natural disasters, pandemic disease, terrorist attacks, economic recession, equipment failure and human error can all pose both a potentially unpredictable and severe threat to the continuity of an organisation's operations. As a result, disruptive events highlight the need to develop robust and resilient organisational and infrastructural systems capable of adapting and overcoming complex disruptive events.

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Gaffney, Tim W. "Ego-resiliency, resilience, substance use, and risky behavior : some measurement and structural models /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Stephenson, Megan. "The Resilient Unknown: An Analysis of How Communicative Resilience is Built among Refugee Populations." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535467471875586.

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Meyer, Kristine Myhrwold. "Becoming more resilient perceptions of resiliency development education in post-secondary students /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Mascarenhas, Nina(Nina Theresa). "Collaborative governance in regional climate resilience planning : a case study of the Resilient Mystic Collaborative." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128969.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).
by Nina Mascarenhas.
M.C.P.
M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

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Farag, Mohamed S. "Development of Resilient Safety-Critical Systems in Healthcare Using Interdependency Analysis and Resilience Design Patterns." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10981524.

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In the U.S. medical sector, software failures in safety-critical systems in healthcare have led to serious adverse health problems, including patient deaths and recalls of medical systems. Despite the efforts in developing techniques to build resilient systems, there is a lack of consensus regarding the definition of resilience metrics and a limited number of quantitative analysis approaches. In addition, there is insufficient guidance on evaluating resilience design patterns and the value they can bring to safety-critical systems.

This research employed the interdependency analysis framework to evaluate the static resilience of safety-critical systems used in the healthcare field and identified software subsystems that are vulnerable to failures. Resilience design patterns were first implemented to these subsystems to improve their ability to withstand failures. This implementation was followed by an evaluation to determine the overall impacts on system’s static resilience.

The methodology used a common medical system structure that collects common attributes from various medical devices and reflects major functionalities offered by multiple medical systems. Fault tree analysis and Bayesian analysis were used to evaluate the static resilience aspects of medical safety-critical systems, and two design patterns were evaluated within the praxis context: Monitoring and N-modular redundancy resilience patterns.

The results ultimately showed that resilience design patterns improve the static resilience of safety-critical systems significantly. While this research suggests the importance of resilience design patterns, this study was limited to explore the impact of structural resilience patterns on static resilience. Thus, to evaluate the overall resilience of the system, more research is needed to evaluate dynamic resilience in addition to studying the impact of different types of resilience design patterns.

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Pandit, Arka. "Resilience of urban water systems: an 'infrastructure ecology' approach to sustainable and resilient (SuRe) planning and design." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53443.

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Increasing urbanization is a dominant global trend of the past few decades. For cities to become more sustainable, however, the infrastructure on which they rely must also become more efficient and resilient. Urban infrastructure systems are analogous to ecological systems because they are interconnected, complex and adaptive, are comprised of interconnected components, and exhibit characteristic scaling properties. Analyzing them together as a whole, as one would do for an ecological system, provides a better understanding about their dynamics and interactions, and enables system-level optimization. The adoption of this “infrastructure ecology” approach will result in urban development that costs less to build and maintain, is more sustainable (e.g. uses less materials and energy) and resilient, and enables a greater and more equitable creation of wealth and comfort. Resilience, or the capacity of a system to absorb shocks and perform under perturbations, can serve as an appropriate indicator of functional sustainability for dynamic adaptive systems like Urban Water Systems. This research developed an index of resilience (R-Index) to quantify the “full-spectrum” resilience of urban water systems. It developed five separate indices, namely (i) Index of Water Scarcity (IWS), (ii) Relative Dependency Index (RDI), (iii) Water Quality Index (WQI), (iv) Index of Network Resilience (INR), and (v) Relative Criticality Index (RCI), to address the criticalities inherent to urban water systems and then combines them to develop the R-Index through a multi-criteria decision analysis method. The research further developed a theoretical construct to quantify the temporal aspect of resilience, i.e. how quickly the system can return back to its original performance level. While there is a growing impetus of incorporating sustainability in decision making, frequently it comes at the cost of resilience. This is attributable to the fact that the decision-makers often lack a life-cycle perspective and a proven, consistent and robust approach to understand the tradeoff between increased resilience and its impact on sustainability. This research developed an approach to identify the sustainable and resilient (SuRe) zone of urban infrastructure planning and design where both sustainability and resilience can be pursued together.

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Erdem, Gizem. "Test of Resiliency Models on Depressive Symptomatology among Substance Abusing Runaways and Their Primary Caretakers." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211910432.

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Hall, Frida, and Emelie Kazemi. "Resiliens hos svenska ungdomar : En studie om resiliens som moderator i relationen mellan traumaupplevelse och traumasymtom och en påbörjan av validering för Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ)." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Psykologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166901.

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I studien undersöktes huruvida resiliensstärkande faktorer påverkar relationen mellan traumaupplevelser (PTH) och traumasymtom hos svenska ungdomar 15–17 år, relativt individuella traumaupplevelser. Med studien avsågs också påbörja en validering av instrumentet Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) för målgruppen.I urvalet ingick 650 elever och totalt sample för databearbetning var 616 personer, 47.9% flickor, 51.8% pojkar och 0.3% annan könsidentitet.Studien fann inte stöd för att resiliens mätt med ARQ eller anknytningsstil mätt med Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) modererar effekten av PTH på traumasymtom, vilket ej går i linje med fynd från tidigare forskning. Resultat från studiens enkla regressionsanalyser indikerade dock att hög grad av resiliens och trygg anknytningsstil predicerar låg grad av traumasymtom, vilket lånar vikt till att det finns tydliga kopplingar mellan resiliens och utvecklandet av traumasymtom.Inga signifikanta könsskillnader avseende PTH framkom, men signifikanta skillnader med måttlig effekt återfanns avseende traumasymtom och resiliensstärkande faktorer. Pojkar uppvisade fler resiliensstärkande faktorer, medan flickor uppvisade fler traumasymtom, vilket går i linje med tidigare forskning.Undersökning av den interna strukturen i ARQ genomfördes med en konfirmatorisk faktorsanalys, där föreliggande studie finner bristande passform vid användandet av ARQ i en svensk kontext. Författarna uppmanar framtida forskare att vidare utforska och anpassa ARQ till en svensk normgrupp.

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Amoaning-Yankson, Stephanie. "A resiliency framework for planning in state transportation agencies." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49123.

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This thesis presents a framework for resiliency planning in state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies. The development of this framework is motivated by the need for more resilient transportation systems, due of the increasing frequency and the effect both natural and man-made catastrophic disasters have on transportation systems. The resiliency framework is based on the urban transportation planning framework and is thus applied in the broader context of general transportation planning. The resiliency framework is then applied in a preliminary review to three statewide transportation plans to show the resiliency deficiencies of those plans and how the framework may be applied to increase resiliency. These plans are selected from three different states with diversity of locations and without any preconceived notions about their incorporation of resiliency in their planning process. This preliminary review reveals a reactive nature towards investments that increase an agency’s resilience. This may be attributed to the problem of limited funding for transportation investments, as well as, limited knowledge by the transportation agencies about the return on such resiliency investments, mostly due to the uncertainty associated with the occurrence of catastrophic disasters, especially the predictability of weather-related events. However, post-disaster transportation system overhauls provide enough evidence for the need for more systemic ways of addressing resiliency in planning processes.

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Rhaesa, Danne Pike. "Resilience." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1588669.

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Joseph, Mary Morella. "Risk and resilience in adolescence and young adulthood : a cross-sectional study of educationally resilient children in St. Lucia." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/b6b0e3bb-c382-45e2-a40f-328b1d57f0c6.

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Aguilar, Johnny R. "Resilient cities: an analysis of resilient urban form." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54268.

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This thesis studies the theories, scientific evidence and spatial relationships within urban form to determine means and deviations that developments can use to determine the resiliency of urban form within a given location. Resiliency within urban form functions as modulations around a morphological mean. Rather than replicate the mean, resilient cities modulate with low standard deviations around the mean. As a result, while many look aesthetically different, resilient cities are structurally more similar than dissimilar. Cities can use this information to inform their projects on a schematic design level to determine if they are improving their urban form or if they are deviating from the resilient mean.

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Mills, Michelle M. "The resilient child : emotional space." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45302.

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MEYER, DANIEL. "Resilient Supply Chains : A Framework to Position Vendor Managed Inventory Digital Solutions and Enhance Resilience of Supply Chains After Disruptions." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-284539.

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We live in an era where markets are more dynamic and the product life cycle is shorter, an era where concepts such as smart manufacturing and mass customization form part of daily life in industries and where consumption rates of products and services are rising. All these result in more dynamic, global, complex and fragile supply chains. Disruptions are negative impacts on business continuity in companies and when a supply chain is disrupted there is only one way to tackle the challenges originated and is the ability to be resilient. Based on a systematic literature review, this thesis lay out a framework to position Vendor Managed Inventory digital solutions in order to provide full visibility in the supply chains, and enhance agility and flexibility skill sets in the organizations to be resilient after massive disruptions such as the COVID-19. The conclusions of this work provide a positive outlook of the capabilities of VMI solutions to create more resilient supply chains.
Vi lever i en era där marknader är mer dynamiska och produkters livscykel kortare. En era där koncept som smart tillverkning och mass-anpassning är en del av dagliga livet i industrier och där konsumtionsnivåer av produkter och tjänster ökar. Allt detta resulterar i mer dynamiska, globala, komplexa och känsliga försörjningskedjor. Störningar påverkar kontinuiteten i verksamheten negativt hos företag och när en försörjningskedja påverkas av störningar finns det bara ett sätt att hantera utmaningarna som uppstår och det är genom förmågan att vara motståndskraftig. Baserad på systematisk litteratursökning, lägger denna avhandling fram ramverk för att positionera Vendor Managed Inventory digitala lösningar för att förse full synlighet i distributionskedjan och förbättra rörlighetens och flexibilitetens förmågor i organisationerna för att bli mera uthållig efter massiva störningar som COVID-19. Slutsatserna av detta arbete ger en positiv syn på möjligheterna för VMI-lösningar för att skapa mer motståndskraftiga försörjningskedjor.

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Ekberg, Klas, and Gustafson Cornelia Spång. "Social-ekologisk resiliens inom kommunal planering." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Samhällsbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36782.

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Med tanke på att mer än hälften av jordens befolkning numera lever i städer och trenden fortsätter stiga, blir det allt viktigare att skapa resilienta städer. Städer som är resilienta är mer motståndskraftiga och mindre känsliga mot störningar. För att rikta fokus mot kommunal planering har inriktning gjorts mot begreppet social-ekologisk resiliens. En stad som är social-ekologiskt resilient kan främja ekosystemtjänster långsiktigt i de störningar urbana miljöer kan utsättas för. Ekosystemtjänster är beroende av biologisk mångfald och för att inte göra avkall på biologisk mångfald är det viktigt att markanvändningen planeras väl. I studiens teoretiska referensram beskrivs därför sex strategier som kan användas inom kommunal planering för att främja social-ekologisk resiliens. Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur kommunalt planeringsarbete ser ut för social-ekologisk resiliens i dagsläget samt vilka likheter och skillnader som finns kopplat till experters utlåtanden och studiens teoretiska referensram. Målet är att redogöra för denna skillnad och hur det skiljer sig för att synliggöra vad som behöver förbättras på kommunal nivå för att främja social-ekologisk resiliens. Metoden för att ta reda på det var i form av kvalitativa intervjuer av experter samt kommunala planerare från tre av Sveriges största kommuner: Stockholm, Göteborg och Uppsala. Till de kommunala intervjuerna gjordes även en kompletterande innehållsanalys av de tre kommunernas översiktsplaner för att ge ytterligare information där den var bristande i resultatet av intervjuerna. En jämförelse gjordes sedan mellan social-ekologisk resiliens enligt experternas utlåtande, teoretiska referensramen och kommunal planering. Resultatet visar att kunskap om begreppet social-ekologisk resiliens saknas bland de studerade kommunerna. Alla kommuners planering strävar efter att arbeta för vad Folke (2006) definierar som social-ekologisk resiliens utan att göra det medvetet. Det finns kopplingar till begreppet inom dessa kommuners planering, men används inte aktivt att sträva efter i planeringen. Däremot arbetar samtliga av kommunerna indirekt med strategier för social-ekologisk resiliens med prioritering av de kortsiktiga, rekreativa och hälsofrämjande kvaliteterna för människan. Med grund i den bristande kunskapen och den indirekta planeringen för social-ekologisk resiliens dras slutsats i att den viktigaste av strategierna är att bredda deltagandet och främja lärandet för att öka kunskap och förståelse kring varför diverse beslut tas. Tvärsektionellt arbete kan bidra till att rätt kunskap finns när motsägande intressen ställs mot varandra vid beslutsfattande.
Given that more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and the trend continues to rise, it is becoming increasingly important to create resilient cities. Cities that are resilient are more resistant and less sensitive to disturbance. In order to limit the scope of the study to municipal planning, the focus has been centered on the concept of social-ecological resilience. A city that is social-ecological resilient can promote ecosystem services in the long run in the urban environment despite the disruptions that it can be exposed to. Ecosystem services are dependent on biodiversity, and in order not to compromise biodiversity, it is important that land use is well planned. The study's theoretical framework, therefore, describes six strategies that can be used in municipal planning to promote social-ecological resilience. The purpose of the study is to investigate how the theoretical framework and the interpretations of experts differ from the municipal planning and analyze similarities and differences between them. The aim is to account for these differences in order to show what needs to be improved at the municipal level to promote socio-ecological resilience. The methods consisted of qualitative interviews with experts on the subject area and municipal planners from three of Sweden's largest municipalities: Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala. A content analysis was also made on municipal plans to supplement the interviews. Finally, a comparison was made between social-ecological resilience through the experts’ points of view, the theoretical framework and municipal planning. The results show that knowledge of the concept of social-ecological resilience is lacking among the municipalities studied. The planning of all municipalities strives unconsciously to work for what Folke (2006) defines as social-ecological resilience. Although there are links to the concept within municipal planning, it is not used actively towards planning. On the other hand, all municipalities examined in the study indirectly work with strategies for social-ecological resilience, with priority given to the short-term, recreational and health-promoting qualities for humans. The study concludes that the most important of the strategies for social-ecological resilience is to broaden participation and promote learning, in order to spread more knowledge and understanding about why various decisions are made. Internal interaction between departments can also lead to the availability of right knowledge when conflicting interests are set against each other in decision-making.

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Sousa, Paulo. "Proactive Resilience." Doctoral thesis, Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/14298.

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This thesis introduces a new dimension over which systems dependability may be evaluated, exhaustion-safety. Exhaustion-safety means safety against resource exhaustion, and its concrete semantics in a given system depends on the type of resource being considered. The thesis focuses on the nodes of a fault-tolerant distributed system as crucial resources and on understanding the conditions in which the typical assumption on the maximum number of node failures may or may not be violated. An interesting first finding was that it is impossible to build a {node-exhaustion-safe intrusion-tolerant distributed system under the asynchronous model. This result motivated the research on developing the right model and architecture to guarantee node-exhaustion-safety. The main outcome of this research was proactive resilience, a new paradigm to build intrusion-tolerant distributed systems. Proactive resilience is based on architectural hybridization and hybrid distributed system modeling: the system is asynchronous in its most part and it resorts to a synchronous subsystem to periodically recover the nodes and remove the effects of faults/attacks. The Proactive Resilience Model (PRM) is presented and shown to be a way of building node-exhaustion-safe intrusion-tolerant distributed systems. Finally, the thesis presents two application scenarios of proactive resilience. First, a proof-of-concept prototype of a secret sharing system built according to the PRM is described and shown to be highly resilient under different attack scenarios. Then, a novel intrusion-tolerant state machine replication architecture (based on the PRM) is presented and a new result established, that a minimum of 3f+2k+1 replicas are required to ensure availability, on a system where f arbitrary faults may happen between recoveries, with at most k replicas recovering simultaneously

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Scherer, Laura Alves. "Dinamismo do comportamento resiliente: uma reflexão sobre a expatriação de brasileiros na china." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2013. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/4668.

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This study aims to analyze the resilient behavior of Brazilian expatriates in China, in the face of expatriation experience. As a research method was adopted a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve Brazilian expatriates in China, which were analyzed with the technique of content analysis (Bardin, 2011). The categories of analysis defined a priori were: the experience of expatriation, situations of adversity, dynamic of behavior resilient, and, factors and resilient results. These categories were defined based on the theoretical approach of Hofstede (1991), Grotberg (2005) and Minello (2010). Were also defined two categories of analysis not a priori - emotions and feelings related to family and perception of Chinese culture related to business - which emerged from the respondent s reports. As a result, it is emphasized that the experience of expatriation has lots of adversities in everyday situations, especially related to cultural differences between Brazilians and Chinese, like the different habits of hygiene and food smells, gestures, Chinese language, and communication in order to understand the thinking of the Chinese people. Accordingly, the first expatriates reaction was denial, manifested by anger, irritation, insecurity and disgust; This is due to the fact that such situations were not part of the mental model of Brazilians expatriates interviewed, which resulted in cultural shock. However, one of the adversities that was more evident among respondents was related to geographical distance, which generated the feeling of suffering because of missing relatives and people who were living in Brazil. In the professional environment, the timezone was an element that contributed to the stress of expatriates due to long working hours they had to do to participate in the activities of the company in both time of Brazil and China. Thus, it was possible oscillation between moments of emotional stability and moments of grief and isolation, which can be related to the dynamics of resilient behavior of expatriates, sometimes positive, sometimes negative. It is noted as resilient factors, the search for social support in co-workers, on the internet, on courses and search for groups of Brazilian or foreign, seeking to learn more about Chinese culture, Chinese and English language. For expatriates married, nuclear family (spouse and children) was more united, representing a strong emotional support to face the difficulties of expatriation together. Another result of this experience, as a consequence of the positive resilient behavior, was the opening of consciousness to understand the Chinese culture, that reflected in maturity, patience, personal development, and professional growth and development.
Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar o comportamento resiliente de brasileiros expatriados na China, diante da experiência de expatriação. Como método de pesquisa adotou-se uma abordagem qualitativa, de caráter exploratório e descritivo. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com doze expatriados brasileiros na China, as quais foram analisadas sob a luz da técnica de análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 2011). As categorias de análise definidas a priori foram: a experiência de expatriação, situações de adversidade, dinâmica do comportamento resiliente e, fatores e resultados resilientes. Estas categorias foram definidas com base no enfoque teórico de Hofstede (1991), Grotberg (2005) e Minello (2010). Também foram definidas duas categorias de análise não a priori - emoções e sentimentos relacionados à família e percepção da cultura chinesa relacionada aos negócios-, que emergiram a partir do relato dos entrevistados. Como resultados, destaca-se que a experiência de expatriação está repleta de situações de adversidades cotidianas, especialmente relacionadas às diferenças culturais entre brasileiros e chineses, tais como os diferentes hábitos de higiene e alimentação, cheiros, gestos, idioma chinês, e comunicação no sentido de compreender a forma de pensar dos chineses. Nesse sentido, a primeira reação dos expatriados era a negação, manifestada por raiva, irritação, insegurança e ojeriza; isso se deve pelo fato de que tais situações não faziam parte do modelo mental dos expatriados brasileiros entrevistados, o que ocasionou em choque cultural. No entanto, uma das adversidades que mais foi evidenciada entre os entrevistados, estava relacionada à distância geográfica, que gerou o sentimento de sofrimento por causa da saudade dos familiares e das pessoas que tinham convivência no Brasil, e o sentimento de isolamento pela dificuldade de fazer novos grupos sociais, em um primeiro momento da experiência. No ambiente profissional, o fuso horário foi um elemento que contribuiu para o estresse dos expatriados, devido à longa jornada de trabalho que tinham que fazer para participar das atividades da empresa tanto no horário do Brasil quanto da China. Diante disso, foi possível perceber oscilação entre momentos de estabilidade emocional e momentos de angústia e isolamento, o que pode ser relacionado ao dinamismo do comportamento resiliente dos expatriados, ora positivo, ora negativo. Salienta-se, como fatores resilientes, a busca pelo apoio social nos colegas de trabalho, na internet, por meio de cursos e, pela formação de grupos de brasileiros ou de estrangeiros, a busca por aprender mais sobre a cultura chinesa, o idioma chinês e inglês. Para os expatriados casados, a família nuclear (cônjuge e filhos) ficou mais unida, representando um forte suporte emocional para enfrentar as dificuldades da expatriação juntos. Outro resultado dessa experiência, em decorrência do comportamento resiliente positivo, foi a abertura de consciência para compreensão da cultura chinesa, em que repercutiu em amadurecimento, paciência, desenvolvimento pessoal, além do crescimento e valorização profissional.

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Khalifeh, Rozan. "Women refugees are not only vulnerable, they are resilient too! : Does the resilience of women built the reslience of their families?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-336779.

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Eriksson, Carolina. "Maskrosbarn i Rumänien : En kvalitativ studie om betydelsen av nära relationer för några maskrosbarn uppvuxna på barnhem i Rumänien." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1461.

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Syftet med artikeln var att undersöka huruvida några maskrosbarn uppvuxna på statliga barnhem i Rumänien upplever att nära relationer haft betydelse för deras liv. De frågeställningar som behandlats i artikeln har varit gällande huruvida det förekommit viktiga personer under deras uppväxt och huruvida dessa relationer tillgodosett viktiga grundläggande behov.

I studien användes en kvalitativ metod bestående av intervjuer med fyra olika maskrosbarn. Studien har utgått från ett interaktionistiskt perspektiv gällande tolkning och Turners (2002) transaktionella behov har utgjort tolkningsramen.

Resultatet visade att det förekommit nära relationer under respondenternas uppväxt som i stor utsträckning tillgodosett viktiga behov gällande bekräftelse, tillit, vinst, grupptillhörighet samt verklighets-förankring.

The purpose with the study was to examine whether some resilient youths who grew up in state institutions in Romania, feels that close relationships had a meaning for their lives. The questions asked in the study have been whether there have been important persons during their childhood and whether these relations have fulfilled important basic needs.

In the study a qualitative method were used, based on interviews with four different resilient youths. The study has taken an interactionistic perspective according to the theoretical approach and Turner’s (2002) transactional needs have been used as the theoretical framework.

The results of the study show that all of the respondents have had close relations during their childhood. These relations have to a great extent fulfilled important needs such as verifying self, trust, regards, group inclusion and a sense of facticity.

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Kristiansson, Kajsa, and Wahlqvist Mathilda. "Hur miljöetisk är ekoturismen? : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av vetenskapliga slutsatser kring ekoturismen effekter på miljön." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-59885.

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Bakgrund: Sedan mitten av 1900-talet har antalet internationella turister ökat kontinuerligt över hela världen. Samtidigt har flertalet nischade turismformer vuxit sig starka, en av dem är ekoturismen med dess miljöetiska förhållningssätt. Dock har tidigare forskning visat att turismindustrin är en bidragande faktor till den oacceptabla globala förändring vi står inför idag. Syfte och frågeställning: Syftet med denna studie är att identifiera ekoturismens effekter på miljön i relation till konceptet för jordens nio planetära gränser. Studien riktar sig till aktörer inom turismbranschen för att tillhandahålla kunskap om hur ekoturismen påverkar miljön. Med detta syfte i åtanke formulerades följande frågeställning: - Hur förhåller sig ekoturismens effekter på miljön till jordens nio planetära gränser? Metod: Genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys, som presenteras i form av en kartläggning, ger studien en översiktlig bild av vad för typ av effekter ekoturismen har samt hur de förhåller sig till jordens nio planetära gränser. Uppsatsen har en deduktiv ansats, då den tar avstamp i teori rörande ekoturismens miljöetiska förhållningssätt. Detta testas sedan gentemot ett aktuellt och nyintroducerat koncept inom miljövetenskapen, för att identifiera eventuella effekter på miljön. Resultat och slutsats: Resultatet av vår studie visade att ekoturismens effekter på miljön både bidrog till en ökning och minskning av en eller flera planetära gränsers processer. Den slutsats vi kom fram till var således att ekoturismen har effekter som påverkar miljön. Dessutom upptäckte vi att den större delen av dem kan anses vara hållbara i förhållande till konceptet för jordens nio planetära gränser.

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Park, Kihyun. "Flexible and Redundant Supply Chain Practices to Build Strategic Supply Chain Resilience: Contingent and Resource-based Perspectives." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1321426327.

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Grossman, Matthew R. "The Structure of Resilience: An Empirical Examination of Resilience Factors." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6851.

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Although most researchers agree that resilience is defined as the extent to which an individual bounces back and recovers from stress and adversity, the field has not yet settled on the underlying structure of the resilience construct; its lower-order factors remain in dispute and undefined. In this study, five of the most prominent resilience measures (i.e., Ego Resilience, Block & Kremen, 1996; The Resilience Scale, Wagnild & Young, 1993; The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Connor & Davidson, 2003; The Resilience Scale for Adults, Friborg, Hjemdal, Rosenvinge, & Martinussen, 2003; The Brief Resilience Scale, Smith, Dalen, Wiggins, & Tooley, 2008) were administered to two large samples of U.S. adults (N = 396 and 336, respectively). Through a combination of exploratory and confirmatory techniques, seven lower-order resilience factors were identified. Relationships between general resilience, lower-order resilience factors, and correlates were examined. Results reveal that lower-order resilience factors are moderately correlated with one another and are differentially related to outcomes of interest. Follow-up hierarchical regression and relative weights analyses further reveal that general resilience substantially overlaps with Big Five personality measures, but, in many cases, its lower-order factors do not. Consequently, it is recommended moving forward that researchers continue to study the resilience construct, but do so by focusing on lower-order resilience factors, rather than on global measures of the overall resilience construct.

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MULLER, ZAPPETTINI GUILLERMO HUGO. "Beyond Resilience. Paradigms of Urban Resilience in the 21st Century." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1060099.

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Beyond Resilience is a Thesis in the form of an open essay that address the limits of urban resilience concept not only from its current semantic perrsion, but also from a ne perspectie: the resilience itself as a process or as a system, according to Kuhn's approach, and its possible paradigm shift from positie resilience to negatie resilience, till a hypothetical collapse scenario.

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Glastetter, Abigail R. "Placemaking for socially resilient site design: a study focused on further defining social resilience at the site scale through an ethnographic investigation." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19113.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Mary C. Kingery-Page
Placemaking for Socially Resilient Site Design is a project focused on clarifying and characterizing social resilience. This project used ethnographic methods to answer the question: what qualities of place affect the downtown community’s desires for a temporary landscape in Wichita, Kansas? Through literature review this project further defined what social resilience meant at the site scale. Social resilience was operationalized as social systems ability to maintain function while promoting social trust, reciprocity, collaboration, and character between networks of varying scales (Putnam 1995). Literature review provided the foundational knowledge on creative placemaking, a design strategy used to improve community prosperity through a sense of place and imageability (Artscape 2014). Place is determined by a user’s surroundings, and more importantly the memory of social engagement on site (Fleming 2007). Creative placemaking design strategies are valuable and specific to location. Therefore, it was imperative I incorporated ethnographic research methods to answer my focus question. Ethnographic research investigates cultural patterns and themes expressed or observed by a community (LeCompte et al. 1991). This form of research is unconventional for the typical site design process in landscape architecture. However, it proved to be effective in determining the most successful site use and organization. The ethnographic research allowed me to inventory and document user’s most desirable site needs and programming through the stakeholder design charrette and individual interviews. In November 2014 the Wichita Downtown Development Cooperation requested our team as a partner in developing a temporary landscape for downtown Wichita, Kansas. The site was already selected with the intention of becoming Douglas Avenue Pop-Up Park. Funding for this project was awarded to the WDDC in the form of a $146,025 grant from the Knight Foundation. Using an iterative community feedback process with five ethnographic interviews, I reevaluated the WDDC’s initial Pop-Up Park plan resulting from a community charrette. Recurring themes from interviews were identity crisis of downtown, outdoor preference, lack of residential amenities, negative perception of active and public transit, downtown lifestyle, Wichita as a place for families, and lack of nighttime activation. Using the recurring interview themes, I proposed a plan conducive to social resilience.

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Lean, Kirstin. "Creating family resilience?" Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3395.

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The balance between family support and child protection services is continuously challenged by high-profile cases. These highlight shortcomings both of the UK system and of research on the effectiveness of child maltreatment interventions (Munro, 2011). One such intervention is the Resolutions Approach to ‘denied’ child abuse (Turnell and Essex, 2006) – a systemic approach which creates a support network including extended family, friends, community members and professionals. There is, however, only limited research analysing the supporters’ experience of this intervention. In the present study five semi-structured group interviews were conducted in order to investigate how the family support network members made sense of their participation in Resolutions. Through a thematic analysis three related themes: returning hope; building safety and trusting a professional were identified. Additionally, special attention was paid to processes linked to the creation of family resilience (Walsh, 2003). Based on two contrasting case studies the potential creation of family resilience through Resolutions was discussed and clinical recommendations for creating family resilience within support networks were outlined.

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Johnson, Judith. "Resilience to suicidality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527407.

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Ståhl, Björn. "Exploring Software Resilience." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00493.

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Software has, for better or worse, become a core component in the structured management and manipulation of vast quantitates of information, and is therefore central to many crucial services and infrastructures. However, hidden among the various benefits that the inclusion of software may bring is the potential of unwanted and unforeseen interactions, ranging from mere annoyances all the way up to full-blown catastrophes. Overcoming adversities of this nature is a challenge shared with other engineering ventures, and there are many developed strategies that work towards eliminating various kinds of disturbances, assuming that it is possible to apply such strategies correctly. One approach in this regard, is to accept some anomalous behaviors as mere facts of life and make sure that the situations experienced are dealt with in an expeditious manner, while at the same time trying to discover, implement and improve safe-guards that can lessen adverse consequences in the event of future problems; in short, to embed resilience. The work described in this thesis explores the foundations of software resilience, and thus covers the main resilience-enabling mechanisms, along with supporting tools, techniques and methods used to embed resilience. These instruments are dissected and analyzed from the perspective of stakeholders that have to operate on pre-existing, critical, large and heterogeneous subjects that are to some extent already up and running at the point of instrumentation. Finally, in the course of describing this subject, the thesis describes a demonstrator environment for self-healing activities in a partially damaged power grid, its construction details and the initial results of the study conducted in this environment.

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Bernard, Julia M. "Building Family Resilience." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5812.

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Colon, Célian. "Modeling economic resilience." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLX098/document.

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De grandes transformations écologiques et climatiques sont aujourd'hui à l’œuvre. Elles sont sources d’instabilité environnementale, à l’image d’évènements climatiques extrêmes devenus plus fréquents, plus intenses, et touchant de nouvelles régions du globe. A défaut de pouvoir empêcher ces changements, comment les sociétés humaines pourraient-elles s'y adapter ? Pour beaucoup de chercheurs et de décideurs, c’est par la résilience qu’elles y parviendront. Ce concept semble renfermer des solutions nouvelles, adaptées à un monde turbulent et incertain. Par définition, les systèmes résilients sont capables de rebondir face à des chocs inattendus, d’apprendre rapidement et de s'adapter à des conditions inédites. Malgré l’intérêt suscité par cette notion, les processus qui permettent à une société d’être résiliente restent encore mal connus. Cette thèse développe un cadre conceptuel nouveau permettant, via la modélisation mathématique, d'explorer les liens théoriques entre mécanismes économiques et résilience. Ce cadre repose sur une analyse critique de la résilience en écologie — domaine d’origine du concept — et en économie — notre champ d’application. Nous l’appliquons aux systèmes de production économique, modélisés comme des réseaux de firmes et analysés à travers la théorie des systèmes dynamiques. Cette thèse évalue l’aptitude de tels modèles, dits multi-agents, à générer des profils de bifurcations, étape incontournable de l’analyse mathématique de la résilience. Nous étudions pour cela une dynamique proie–prédateur très générale en écologie et en économie. Ensuite, cette thèse s'attaque à un facteur majeur qui entrave la résilience : les fortes interdépendances entre activités économiques, par lesquelles les retards et interruptions de production se propagent d’une entreprise à l’autre. En utilisant des réseaux de production réalistes, nous montrons comment les délais d'approvisionnement, lorsque intégrés dans des topologies particulières, démultiplient ces phénomènes de propagation. Ensuite, grâce à un modèle évolutionnaire, nous mettons en lumière l’existence d’un risque systémique : les cascades d’incidents ont lieu alors même que tous les agents possèdent des inventaires adaptés au niveau de risque. Ce phénomène s’amplifie lorsque les chaînes d'approvisionnement se spécialisent et se fragmentent. Ces résultats théoriques ont une valeur générale, et pourront servir à orienter de futures recherches empiriques. Cette thèse fait en outre avancer les connaissances sur des méthodes et objets mathématiques très récents, comme les équations booléennes à retard formant un réseau complexe, et les dynamiques évolutionnaires sur les graphes. Les modèles et le cadre conceptuel proposés ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives de recherche sur la résilience, en particulier sur l’impact des rétroactions environnementales sur l'évolution structurelle des réseaux de production
A wide range of climatic and ecological changes are unfolding around us. These changes notably manifest themselves through an increased environmental variability, such as shifts in the frequency, intensity, and spatial distribution of weather-related extreme events. If human societies cannot mitigate these transformations, to which conditions should they adapt? To many researchers and stakeholders, the answer is resilience. This concept seems to subsume a variety of solutions for dealing with a turbulent and uncertain world. Resilient systems bounce back after unexpected events, learn novel conditions and adapt to them. Theoretical models, however, to explore the links between socioeconomic mechanisms and resilience are still in their infancy. To advance such models, the present dissertation proposes a novel conceptual framework. This framework relies on an interdisciplinary and critical review of ecological and economic studies, and it is based on the theory of dynamical systems and on the paradigm of complex adaptive systems. We identify agent-based models as crucial for socioeconomic modeling. To assess their applicability to the study of resilience, we test at first whether such models can reproduce the bifurcation patterns of predator–prey interactions, which are a very important factor in both ecological and economic systems. The dissertation then tackles one of the main challenges for the design of resilient economic system: the large interconnectedness of production processes, whereby disruption may propagate and amplify. We next investigate the role of delays in production and supply on realistic economic networks, and show that the interplay between time delays and topology may greatly affect a network’s resilience. Finally, we investigate a model that encompasses adaptive responses of agents to shocks, and describes how disruptions propagate even though all firms do their best to mitigate risks. In particular, systemic amplification gets more pronounced when supply chains are fragmented. These theoretical findings are fairly general in character and may thus help the design of novel empirical studies. Through the application of several recent ideas and methods, this dissertation advances knowledge on innovative mathematical objects, such as Boolean delay equations on complex networks and evolutionary dynamics on graphs. Finally, the conceptual models herein open wide perspectives for further theoretical research on economic resilience, especially the study of environmental feedbacks and their impacts on the structural evolution of production networks

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King, Katrice G. "Resilience in the humanitarian sphere : stimulating resilience for recovery in Haiti." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17004.

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Severe recovery deficits after post-disaster interventions have become the landscape seen globally. Humanitarian operations have struggled to find coherence between relief and recovery activities, which has resulted in a perceived operational gap between relief, recovery and development. This current dynamic has caused significant deficiencies within humanitarian programming, such as weak strategy, a lack of transition mechanisms, exit plans and effective recovery. A situation that stems from the current paradigm the humanitarian system operates under and the framework that has evolved around it. Supporting the development of adaptive resilience of a disaster-affected population, within the humanitarian sphere, has been theoretically posed to be fundamental for recovery; a programmatic consideration that could ensure former weak resilience would not hinder post-disaster recovery. Therefore, could a resilience building approach offer much needed solutions to the challenge of recovery within post-disaster contexts? This research aimed to understand whether resilience building within post-disaster environments could increase potential recovery of disaster affected populations and whether it is feasible to build individual/household (HH) level resilience through emergency response operations? The research looked specifically at adaptive resilience at the individual/HH level, clarifying the concept and understanding its modality in order to operationalise it within humanitarian programming. The common barriers to recovery experienced by individuals/HH in a crisis event were gauged, and the relationship between adaptive resilience and recovery determined. A unique singular case study was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data required to answer the key objectives of this research. The case study chosen was the 2010 Haiti earthquake response. Primary data was collected over a 7 months period through 37 semi-structured interviews and 31 online questionnaires with donors, government, INGOs, LNGOs and the private sector, that were operating within the Haiti response, and 18 disaster affected community members within a community discussion forum. Bringing a total participation of 86 individuals and organisations. An in-depth case study was developed in order to offer an evidence base for the proposed theory, that supporting adaptive resilience through emergency response programming has the ability to stimulate recovery. A new data collection tool was trialed within the community discussion forum, namely the Sociogram. This tool looked to assess the main components of adaptive resilience. Methodological rigour was introduced through the use of methodological and data triangulation to ensure validity and reliability of the research. The research successfully identified the main barriers to recovery, pinpointed the key components for adaptive resilience and the influence of emergency programming on the development of adaptive resilience, establishing the relationship between them. The role emergency response operations can play in the development of adaptive resilience was then explored. It has been demonstrated that to ensure recovery and allow for a more resilient society to evolve, adaptive resilience needs to be and can be supported and developed within emergency response operations. The research has been able to demonstrate, through the analysis of the Shelter and WASH response undertaken in Haiti, that developing resilience in the post-disaster environment is possible and an approach that is able to improve strategy within emergency response operations. Improvements would be seen in the provision of essential services within the response, a substantial increase in transitional and exit options and an increased capacity to proactively stimulate rapid recovery. This strategic approach to emergency response programming has the ability to offer the coherence needed between relief, recovery and development. Determining that a resilience building approach within emergency response operations could be the missing link or resolution to the perceived operational gap between relief, recovery and development. Pursuing a resilience building approach has the potential to bring much needed cultural change within the humanitarian sector that will shape operations for a more strategic and successful future.

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Martineau, Sheila. "Rewriting resilience, a critical discourse analysis of childhood resilience and the politics of teaching resilience to kids at risk." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0024/NQ38941.pdf.

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Höök, Lovisa, and Kristina Jonsson. "Resiliensanalys av Högdalen Centrum." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-230720.

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Resiliens är en aspekt av hållbarhet som avser att bedöma ett systems förmåga att motstå eller återhämta sig från störningar. Detta kandidatexamensarbete handlar om hur introduktionen av en inomhusodling påverkar resiliensen i Högdalen Centrum. För att bedöma resiliensen av Högdalen Centrum har en resiliensanalys utförts enligt Assessing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Workbook for Practitioners. Handboken är från början anpassad för naturresursförvaltning. På grund av detta undersöks också hur handboken lämpar sig för kommunal förvaltning och planering. Metoden för denna uppsats baseras på handboken. Handboken består av fem kapitel som syftar till att analysera systemets resiliens. För att kunna fylla i handboken har information samlats in. Detta har gjorts genom intervjuer, observationer och litteratur. Resultatet av studien visar att inomhusodlingen förbättrar flera faktorer som är viktiga för Högdalen Centrums resiliens. Dock finns det utmaningar i Högdalen Centrum som inte odlingen erbjuder några lösningar för. Denna uppsats undersöker inte hur andra strategier skulle kunna påverka dessa utmaningar. Även om inomhusodlingen påverkar Högdalen Centrums resiliens, så är det till en begränsad omfattning. Av resultatet framkom också att handboken bör uppdateras. Det krävs hög kompetens inom området för att kunna efterfölja handboken även fast den utges vara riktad mot utövare. Dessutom saknar metoden vissa perspektiv för att passa kommunal förvaltning och planering. En del tabeller och figurer är inte lämpade för kommunal förvaltning och planering. Att fylla i dessa är antingen inte möjligt eller meningslöst för vidare analys. Trots detta har handboken givit inblick i både Högdalen Centrum som system och hur det påverkas av inomhusodlingen.
Resilience is an aspect of sustainability which is used to understand a systems ability to resist or recover from disturbances. This thesis is about the resilience of Högdalen Centrum, and how it is affected by the newly started indoor cultivation. To determine the resilience of Högdalen Centrum, a resilience assessment has been conducted. The assessment is based on the workbook Assessing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Workbook for Practitioners. Originally, the workbook was meant for natural resource management. In light of the purpose of the workbook, this thesis also attends to the applicability of the workbook on municipal management and planning. The method is based on the workbook mentioned above. The workbook is divided into five chapters, which aim to analyze the system. To be able to complete this workbook, information had to be collected. This was done through a literature study, interviews and observations. The results show that the indoor cultivation contributes with some valuable factors of importance for the resilience in Högdalen Centrum. However, there are some identified challenges in Högdalen Centrum that the cultivation does not provide any solutions for. Furthermore, this thesis does not examine whether other strategies could be more effective to enhance the resilience in Högdalen Centrum. Even though the cultivation improves the resilience of Högdalen Centrum, it is to a limited extent. From the results it is also obvious that the workbook needs to be updated. It requires high competence to understand, even though it is said to be designed for practitioners. Furthermore, it lacks some perspectives to be an accomplished method for municipal management. A few tables and figures from the workbook are not suitable for municipal planning, and filling them out is either not possible or does not contribute to the assessment. Although the workbook has its failings, it has provided us with an understanding of Högdalen Centrum as a system and how it is affected by the cultivation.

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Reshef, Yakir. "On Resilient and Exposure-Resilient Functions." Thesis, Harvard University, 2009. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5125328.

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Resilient and exposure-resilient functions are functions whose output appears random even if some portion of their input is either revealed or fixed. We explore an alternative way of characterizing these objects that ties them explicitly to the theory of randomness extractors and simplifies current proofs of basic results. We also describe the inclusions and separations governing the various classes of resilient and exposure-resilient functions. Using this knowledge, we explore the possibility of improving existing constructions of these functions and prove that one specific method of doing so is impossible.

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Sixbey, Meggen Tucker. "Development of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale to identify family resilience constructs." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0012882.

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Cripe, Curtis T. "Family Resilience, Parental Resilience and Stress Mediation in Families with Autistic Children." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3575496.

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Families raising autistic children grapple with stressors created by the child's often-unpredictable course of development that affects resilient family function. To that end, this study used a quantitative, non-experimental study design with 103 married parents (103 fathers, 103 mothers) raising autistic children to identify relationships between stress, father's resilience, mother's resilience, and family resilience employing the Baron and Kenny mediation regression technique. Consistent with family resilience theory, the study results demonstrated that families raising autistic children follow a resilient model. The study results suggest that father's resilience is positively related to family resilience (R² = .753,p < .001) and mother's resilience is positively related to family resilience (R² = .602, p < .001). Likewise, the study results further suggest that as parental stress increases, both father's resilience decreases (R² = .041,p = .040) and mother's resilience decreases (R² = .168, p < .001). Equally, the study results suggest that increased stress is linked to decreased family resilience (R² = .191, p < .001). However, stress does not fully mediate the relationship between father's resilience and family resilience (R = .887, R² = .787, F (2, 100) = 184. 707,p < .001), or between mother's resilience and family resilience (mother R = .777, R² = .604, F (2, 100) = 76.182,p < .001). Further, when investigating stress mediation in the combined father and mother resilience and family resilience relationship, stress still did not fully mediate the relationship (R = .623, R² = 389, F (2, 100) = 31.795,p < .001). This means that stress partly explains the relationship between parent resilience and family resilience, but not entirely. Implications are that parent resilience is correlated with family resilience, even after taking into account how stressed parents feel. Thus, despite being in a stressful situation, the more resilient parents are, the more resilient the entire family unit will be. Therefore, since a parent's resilience and the overall family reliance are strongly positively correlated when accounting for stress levels, the results of the present study suggest that parental resilience be considered when examining family resilience.

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Chelleri, Lorenzo. "Worban Resilience and (un)sustainability. Exploring the nexus between resilience and urban systems." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284025.

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Este trabajo representa una primera exloración de las interpretaciones generales y especificas que se le atributen a la relación ciudad-resiliencia. Como expresa el titulo, WORBAN es un nuevo catchword que quiere llamar la atención sobre la dimensión global de las ciudades fusionando los términos WORld y urBAN. Debido a la existente variedad de enfoques sobre la resiliencia hemos decidido explorar diferentes casos de estudios, desde ciudades en países en desarrollo hasta como este concepto se pueda aplicar en el planeamiento de ciudad en OCSE. No obstante la potencial borrosidad debida a la amplitud de conceptos y casos distintos desarrollados por esta tesis, un hilo conductor muy definido acompaña el lector a lo largo de todo el recorrido de la tesis: la evolución del concepto de resiliencia asociado respetivamente a la vulnerabilidad al cambio climático, al crecimiento incontrolado (en países en vía de desarrollo) y finalmente en los casos de renovación urbana en grande ciudad globales. En una primera parte la tesis hace un exhaustivo estado de la cuestión sobre el concepto de resiliencia y la emergente metáfora de ciudades resilientes. En la segunda parte se desarrolla, como si se tratase de un proceso de aprendizaje desde lo más sencillo a lo más complejo, tres casos de estudios que tratan respetivamente: a) Resiliencia urbana relacionada con la escala temporal: se trata el concepto de resiliencia y vulnerabilidad (a los impactos del cambio climático). El caso de estudio de Holanda expone el link muy fuerte que el enfoque de protección (resiliencia como resistencia del sistema) tiene con el corto plazo, enfatizando la necesidad y utilidad de relacionar la resiliencia no con estrategias de protección, si no de adaptación y transformación del sistema para hacer frente a la sostenibilidad y sobrevivencia en el largo plazo. b) Resiliencia urbana y sostenibilidad: se relaciona la resiliencia de las ciudades en expansión (gracias a la economía global) en países en vía de desarrollo con los efectos de escalas espaciales que suponen estas transiciones urbanas. Desde este punto de vista el caso de estudio de Marruecos enfatiza el problema emergente de ¿“la resiliencia para quien”?, en cuanto los efectos de escala de la resiliencia de este nuevo perfil de ciudad, globalmente conectada a cadenas de productos y ventas, ya no se sustenta desde los recurso locales. De hecho profundas transformaciones insostenibles y socialmente excluyentes son provocadas por este shift del metabolismo urbano, principalmente por indirectos cambios en los sistemas de valores y en la redistribución del acceso de los servicios de los ecosistemas a escala regional. c) La resiliencia tras la renovación urbana en ciudades globales emergentes: se relaciona la resiliencia con asuntos de poder, un poder que influye en los complejos proceso de producción de los nuevos espacios estratégico metropolitano. El caso de Barcelona subraya el gap entre resiliencia general y especifica, en cuanto diferencia entre voluntades de actores urbanos potentes (key stakeholders) y los ciudadanos locales y sus necesidades (peculiares que pueden ir en contra de los intereses de los actores estratégicos de la ciudad). Desde la suma de la primera parte de review teórico y desde los casos de estudios podemos finalmente considerar la resiliencia urbana como “un marco conceptual multidisciplinar para explorar las capacidades de reacción, reconstrucción, adaptación y transformación de (y en) las ciudades”. En hacer esto, la aplicación de este marco teórico ha reconocido la importancia de considerar la autosuficiencia, la redundancia (disminución de la eficiencia y aumento de la diversidad funcional), el proceso de aprendizaje y la innovación como factores claves de cara a transición hacia ambientes urbanos sostenibles y resilientes. Finalmente, la cuestión fundamental de enfocar siempre de manera critica el estudio de la resiliencia urbana atreves de los criterios ¿“resiliencia de quien y de cara a que”? y de ¿”resiliencia para quien”?.
This Doctoral Thesis represents a first explorative research work over the generic and specific possible interpretations and meanings referred to the relationships between resilience and urban systems. As the title’s catchword introduces, WORBAN is about the world and urban systems resilience as a result of the complex cross scales nature and dimensions of cities, nested in global networks, which definitely represent the mayor driver of global environmental change. Due to the existing variety of multidisciplinary resilience theoretical perspectives we decided to navigate different possible applications and examples of urban resiliency, from developing countries urban growth to urban planning processes in OCSE. Notwithstanding the potential fuzziness of such too broad framework, a specific conceptual common thread develops along the three case studies, the evolution of (urban) resilience perspectives relating it to (urban) vulnerability, (urban) growth and (urban) renewal capacities. A strong literature review is proposed in the first part of the thesis in order to explore the state of the art on resilience and urban resilience emerging paradigms. In the second part, as in the case of a learning process from the easier to the more complex urban resilience perspective, the case studies explain respectively: a) The urban resiliency and timeline: relating resilience to vulnerability and Climate Change threats. The Netherland example builds strong evidences over the short term links with recovery and (system) protection resilient strategies, underlining the usefulness and necessity of framing urban long term resilience toward system structural and functional changes (transitions). b) The urban resiliency and sustainability: relating resilience to fast urbanization processes in developing countries due to global economy and its cross scale effects. The Moroccan case study underline the “resilience for whom” emergent critical perspective, because of the cross scale consequences of the new urban resiliency (and transition) based on global commodity chains better than be sustained from local and regional resources. Deep unsustainable and inequitable transformations emerge from such urban metabolism shift, related to social justice because of a cultural and behavioural induced changes and essential ecosystem services access and benefits re-distribution. c) The urban resiliency behind urban renewal in global cities: relating resilience to power issues in shaping new forms and functions in emerging global cities. Barcelona case study wants to put at the forefront of urban resilience discussion the gap between generic urban resilience (maintain the global network strategic position benefitting markets chains tradeoffs) versus local citizen resilience and needs. From both theoretic reviews and case studies insights we can definitely consider urban resilience as “a multidisciplinary framework to explore the reactive, recovery, adaptive and transformability capacities of (and in) urban systems”. In doing so, the application of this framework has underlined the need of recognizing the benefits of self-sufficiency, redundancy (less efficiency), learning capacities and innovations as core principles for sustainable urban resiliency and transitions. Last but not least, the fundamental research question (and urban resilience focus) must always critically arise the issue of ”resilience of what to what”, and “resilience for whom” that we try to address.

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Johansson, Anton. "Man kan inte tvinga någon att sluta : En kvalitativ studie av vad som påverkat före detta missbrukares förmåga att leva drog- och alkoholfritt." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34164.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka faktorer som påverkat före detta missbrukares förmåga att leva drogfritt och vad som gjort att de lyckats. Studien utgår ifrån en kvalitativ ansats och empiri insamlades genom intervjuer med fyra före detta missbrukare. Empirin har analyserats med teorier om motivation, risk- och skyddsfaktorer, resiliens och constraint-teori. Studien visar att den inre motivationen att vara drogfri är central för att människor ska kunna ta sig ur sitt missbruk. Strategier som används är att ta avstånd från det gamla sociala nätverket, söka nya drogfria kontakter och att medvetet associera återfall med negativa konsekvenser. Aktivt deltagande i föreningsliv och behandling gav viktiga strukturer för informanterna att etablera sig i den drogfria världen. För att kunna stödja individen behöver omgivningen vara flexibel och utgå från individens förutsättningar och vilja.
The purpose of this study is to examine what factors have affected former addicts abilities to live drug free and what has made it possible for them to succeed. The study employed a qualitative research method and data was collected through interviews with four former addicts. Data was analysed with theories concerning motivation, risk- and protective factors, resilience and constraint-theory. The results of this study show that the intrinsic motivation to be drug free was found to be important to break the addiction. Strategies that the participants had employed were to avoid their former network, seek new drug free company and to consciously associate relapse with negative consequences. Actively participating in associations and treatment provided important structures that enabled the participants to establish themselves in the drug free world. To be able to provide support the environment needs to take into account the conditions and will of the individuals.

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Tran, Huy T. "A complex networks approach to designing resilient system-of-systems." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54384.

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This thesis develops a methodology for designing resilient system-of-systems (SoS) networks. This methodology includes a capability-based resilience assessment framework, used to quantify SoS resilience. A complex networks approach is used to generate potential SoS network designs, focusing on scale-free and random network topologies, degree-based and random rewiring adaptation, and targeted and random node removal threats. Statistical design methods, specifically response surface methodology, are used to evaluate SoS networks and provide an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of potential designs. Linear regression is used to model a continuous representation of the network design space, and determine optimally resilient networks for particular threat types. The methodology is applied to an information exchange (IE) network model (i.e., a message passing network model) and military command and control (C2) model. Results show that optimally resilient IE network topologies are random for networks with adaptation, regardless of the threat type. However, the optimally resilient adaptation method sharply transitions from being fully random to fully degree-based as threat randomness increases. These findings suggest that intermediately defined networks should not be considered when designing for resilience. Cost-benefit analysis of C2 networks suggests that resilient C2 networks are more cost-effective than robust ones, as long as the cost of rewiring network links is less than three-fourths the cost of creating new links. This result identifies a threshold for which a resilient network design approach is more cost-effective than a robust one.This thesis develops a methodology for designing resilient system-of-systems (SoS) networks. This methodology includes a capability-based resilience assessment framework, used to quantify SoS resilience. A complex networks approach is used to generate potential SoS network designs, focusing on scale-free and random network topologies, degree-based and random rewiring adaptation, and targeted and random node removal threats. Statistical design methods, specifically response surface methodology, are used to evaluate SoS networks and provide an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of potential designs. Linear regression is used to model a continuous representation of the network design space, and determine optimally resilient networks for particular threat types. The methodology is applied to an information exchange (IE) network model (i.e., a message passing network model) and military command and control (C2) model. Results show that optimally resilient IE network topologies are random for networks with adaptation, regardless of the threat type. However, the optimally resilient adaptation method sharply transitions from being fully random to fully degree-based as threat randomness increases. These findings suggest that intermediately defined networks should not be considered when designing for resilience. Cost-benefit analysis of C2 networks suggests that resilient C2 networks are more cost-effective than robust ones, as long as the cost of rewiring network links is less than three-fourths the cost of creating new links. This result identifies a threshold for which a resilient network design approach is more cost-effective than a robust one.

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Ahlert, Ingrid Anita. "A programme to enhance resilience in families in which a child has a hearing loss." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1378.

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Thesis (DPhil (Psychology))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to identify and enhance specific resilience qualities that help protect and support families in overcoming the adversity of having a child with a hearing impairment. The study was divided into two phases, namely (a) the descriptive phase, which aimed to identify and explore the resilience qualities that foster better adaptation in these families and (b) the intervention phase, which aimed to develop, implement and evaluate an intervention programme that enhances the utilisation of social support, one important resilience quality identified in the descriptive phase of the study. The study was essentially exploratory and descriptive in nature and was directed at developing scientific knowledge and theory in the field of family resilience. Using the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation (McCubbin & McCubbin, 1996) as the theoretical framework, the resilience process was mapped in terms of stressors, risk and protective factors, and family adaptation. The 54 participating families in the descriptive phase were identified according to the nature of the crisis (hearing impairment) and the developmental phase of the family. The participants were obtained by means of a non-probability, purposive sampling procedure and were drawn from the black, coloured and white cultural subgroups residing in the Western Cape, South Africa. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were used for data collection. The results were analysed predominantly according to correlation and regression analyses techniques, while the qualitative data was categorised according to themes and frequencies. Results showed that family time and routine, social support, affirming communication, family hardiness, problem-solving skills, religion, a search for meaning and accepting the disability were factors promoting resilience in these families. A randomised pretest-posttest control group design was applied in the intervention phase of the study. The 31 participants were identified in the initial phase of the study and belonged to the coloured cultural subgroup. Data was again collected using quantitative and qualitative measures and was analysed using repeated measures analysis of variance and grounded theory analysis. The results did not indicate a statistically significant change in the utilisation of social support following the implementation of the workshop. The qualitative data, however, highlighted that the participants reported greater support from the immediate and extended family, increased family time and routine, as well as improved communication and problem-solving skills following the workshop. The study generally offers valuable knowledge that can be incorporated in psychological and social training programmes, preventative community interventions and therapeutic settings. The positive and pragmatic approach adopted in the study ensures that families are empowered by bringing them hope, helping them develop new competencies and building mutual support. The study has opened various new avenues for future research in the field of family resilience and hearing impairment.
OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om spesifieke veerkragtigheidskwaliteite te identifiseer en versterk wat gesinne met ’n kind met ‘n gehoorgestremdheid teen teenspoed beskerm en ondersteun. Die studie is in twee verdeel, naamlik (a) die beskrywende fase, met die doel om die veerkragtigheidskwaliteite wat beter aanpassing in hierdie gesinne gekweek het, te identifiseer en ondersoek, en (b) die intervensiefase, met die doel om ’n intervensieprogram te ontwikkel, implementeer en evalueer wat die gebruik van sosiale ondersteuning, een van die belangrike veerkragtigheidskwaliteite wat in die beskrywende fase van die studie geïdentifiseer is, te verhoog. Die studie was in wese ondersoekend en beskrywend van aard en daarop gerig om wetenskaplike kennis en teorie in die veld van gesinsveerkragtigheid te ontwikkel. Met die gebruik van die Veerkragtigheidsmodel van Gesinspanning, Verstelling en Aanpassing (Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation) (McCubbin & McCubbin, 1996) as teoretiese raamwerk, is die veerkragtigheidsproses uitgestippel in terme van die oorsake van die spanning, risiko- en beskermende faktore, en gesinsaanpassing. Die 54 gesinne wat aan die beskrywende fase deelgeneem het, is op grond van die aard van die krisis (gehoorgestremdheid) asook die ontwikkelingsfase van die gesin geïdentifiseer. Die deelnemers is deur middel van ’n doelgerigte nie-waarskynlikheidsteekproefnemingsprosedure verwerf vanuit swart, kleurling en blanke gesinne wat in die Wes-Kaap, Suid- Afrika woon. Beide kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe metings is vir data-insameling gebruik. Die resultate is hoofsaaklik aan die hand van korrelasie- en regressieontledingstegnieke geanaliseer, terwyl die kwalitatiewe data volgens temas en frekwensies gekategoriseer is. Die resultate het getoon dat gesinstyd en -roetine, sosiale ondersteuning, bevestigende kommunikasie, gesinsgehardheid, probleemoplossings-vaardighede, geloof, ’n soeke na betekenis en die aanvaarding van die gestremdheid faktore was wat die veerkragtigheid van hierdie gesinne bevorder het. ’n Ewekansige voor- en natoets kontrolegroep-ontwerp is tydens die intervensiefase van die studie toegepas. Die 31 deelnemers is tydens die aanvanklike fase van die studie geïdentifiseer en behoort tot die kleurling kulturele groep. Data is weereens deur middel van kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe metings ingesamel en is aan die hand van herhaalde metingsvariansieontleding en gegronde teorie-analise geanaliseer. Die resultate het geen statisties beduidende verskil in die gebruik van sosiale ondersteuning ná die implementering van die werkswinkel getoon nie. Die kwalitatiewe data het egter beklemtoon dat deelnemers ná die werkswinkel meer ondersteuning van hulle onmiddellike en uitgebreide familie geniet het, sowel as meer gesinstyd en -roetine, verbeterde kommunikasie en probleemoplossingsvaardighede. Oor die algemeen bied die studie waardevolle kennis wat by sielkundige en sosiale opleidingsprogramme, voorkomende gemeenskapsingryping en in terapeutiese raamwerke ingelyf kan word. Die positiewe en pragmatiese benadering in die studie verseker dat gesinne bemagtig word deur hulle hoop te bied, nuwe bekwaamhede te help ontwikkel en wedersydse ondersteuning op te bou. Die studie het talle nuwe weë vir toekomstige navorsing op die gebied van gesinsveerkragtigheid en gehoorgestremdheid gebaan.

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Parrott, Laquiche Renee. "Academically Resilient Elementary Students in one Virginia school division: Identifying and Exploring Protective Factors." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64183.

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The purpose of the study was to identify the internal and external protective factors found in family, school and community as perceived by rural elementary students who experienced poverty and demonstrated academic resilience in a Virginia school division. By identifying the common protective factors among the academically resilient elementary students, school leaders and educators can implement practices that foster a learning climate that cultivates and supports resilience in students who are at risk of academic failure. A qualitative approach was used to analyze a purposefully selected group of academically resilient elementary school students living in rural poverty. The research questions were: 1. For students purposefully selected as meeting the criteria for academic resilience, what are their self-identified protective factors regarding academic achievement? 2. What are the similarities and differences in protective factors among these purposefully selected students? Ten fifth grade elementary students, a boy and girl from each of the elementary schools in the rural school division meeting the definition of academic resilience and living in poverty were eligible to participate in the study. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with twenty-one questions related to family, community and school environments. The results of the study indicated that the support of extended family, specifically grandparents of the participants was perceived to have had the greatest impact on the academic success of the academically resilient students living in rural poverty. Other protective factors revealed were lack of mobility in the rural community, peer influences and relationships with school staff. The academically resilient elementary school participants, in the study, all possessed close relationships with their family to include extended family members and had at least one desired content area taught in school.
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Garg, Arun. "Quantifying resilient safety culture using complex network theory." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411532.

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Safety is defined as the absence of accidents where accident is an event which lead to unacceptable loss. Previously, most systems employed conventional risk management systems to deal with risks which was based on knowledge of previous experiences, failure reporting and risk assessments by computing historic data. But today, these are traced to organizational factors, functional performance variability and unexpected outcomes or it can be pointed towards systems thinking. Resilience engineering is recognized as other alternative to traditional approaches in safety management. The idea behind resilience engineering is that an organization must continually manage risks and create an anticipating, monitoring, responding and learning culture. This is resilient safety culture. Resilient safety culture is a new concept which has been proposed in order to cover the weaknesses of traditional approaches of safety culture. It is a safety culture with resilience, learning, continuous improvements and cost effectiveness. This resilience takes into consideration the dynamic aspect of the safety culture which makes it resilient to any risks which a safety system faces. The main drawback is the dynamic aspect of the culture is not taken into consideration which is the interaction between people, technology and administration. These interactions are quite complex in nature and difficult to understand and quantify. That is why this study investigates the understanding of these interactions using complex network theory. Once these interactions are understood to some extent, the prediction and prevention of incidents can be done to some extent. There are four different kinds of indicators in the system. Two are system performance indicators, leading and lagging and the other two are the risk indicators that as well leading and lagging. The system performance indicators are indicators which show how the system is performing either in current state which is leading and the system performance indicator which is lagging is gauged by efficiency of the system after a time such as injury rate. Risk indicators leading is found by understanding the various risks which are prevalent in the system and lagging risk indicators are the indicators which led to an accident in previous time frame. Since the system is dynamic, it needs to be understood that these indicators have a time value attached to it. If there is an accident which happened due to some lagging risk indicator, that is in previous time frame, that may have already changed by the time the accidents happened so safety-1 concept which looked at just lagging indicators to dictate the future evaluations of the organization need to be modified and thus resilient safety culture methodology is getting evolved using resilience engineering. Using fault tree analysis, the interactions of various components in a safety system can be understood. Resilient safety culture is treated as a system and it has three sub systems. The sub system further has factors which are important relationships to understand the whole system. These relations between the factors and subsystem are used to measure the resilience of the whole system. This is an innovative quantifying way in which we can improve the resilience in safety culture of an organization. In this study, the qualitative variables defined using the literature are correlated using qualitative as well as quantitative approaches. In the qualitative approach, Leximancer tool is used which model the variables using the literature data. Next, the resilient safety culture model is generated and then fault tree analysis is used to decipher the complex interactions which can help understand which relationships can lead to incident. This study would generate a tool which would help organizations look at the weak links and nodes in their organization to better equip and enhance resources to make the organization more resilient against any safety risks. Multiple case studies are done to validate this model and to show how the whole process is done to understand a way to reduce and mitigate risks. Resilience index is generated which helps in finding which constructs are lagging or weak in giving that index number and the index can be used to compare to companies or organizations irrespective of the number of respondents or the type of indicators which are used. It also helps in reducing the linguistic bias. The findings of this study show that in resilient safety culture model, which components should be focussed first and how the components of resilient safety culture model are related with each other. This helps in optimization of the components or subcomponents to get the maximum resilience in an organization. It is also found that weak areas in an organization can be successfully deciphered using the fault tree analysis approach along with visualization of failure paths. This resilience safety culture model generated along with the methodology adopted in this study can help the industry to making right decisions in enhancing the resilience of the organizations with minimum intervention. It can help the industry find the weak areas where the intervention is needed. It can also give leading indicators which can cause future incidents.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Eng & Built Env
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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