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A Knowledge‐Based Approach for Understanding and Managing Additive Manufacturing Data

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Additive manufacturing processes generate a large amount of data. Effectively managing, understanding, and retrieving information from this data remains a major challenge. Therefore, we propose an ontology‐based approach to integrate heterogeneous data, enable semantic queries, and support decision‐making.
Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Prithwish Tarafder, Anton Wiberg, Huanyu Li, Johan Moverare, Patrick Lambrix   +5 more
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Global Environmental Change : Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability

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Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability

Global Environmental Change, 2006
This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes, especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on scholarship that contributes to practical implementation of adaptations at the community scale. In numerous social science fields, adaptations are considered as responses to
Barry Smit, Johanna Wandel
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Organizational Adaptive Capacity

Journal of Management Inquiry, 2002
Conventional approaches to organizational effectiveness and survival in highly volatile and complex environments focus on adaptation strategies of cost cutting and rationalization. The authors propose that building adaptive capacity is a more appropriate organizational strategy in such environments.
Udo Staber, Jörg Sydow
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Knowledge and adaptive capacity

Nature Climate Change, 2015
Climate change adaptation has, over the last decade, become an increasingly important topic in international policy discussions. In the research community, considerable work has been devoted to adaptation, and especially to understanding the factors that determine an individual, community, organization or nation’s ability to adapt to the effects of ...
Casey Williams, Adrian Fenton, Saleemul Huq   +2 more
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Education and Adaptive Capacity

Sociology of Education, 1972
Drawing on evolutionary theory, adaptive capacity is defined in terms of those characteristics which maximize variation and selective retention in individuals and social systems. Utilizing a wide range of concepts which have appeared in the psychological and sociological literature, this paper seeks to identify the major components of variation and ...
Michael Fullan, Jan J. Loubser
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Assessing Adaptive Capacity

2012
In the final chapter of Part III the case evidence is reviewed according to the adaptive capacity indicators and analysed for positive fulfilment of the operationalised criteria. Furthermore, a synthesised review of the correlation between adaptive responses and indicators of adaptive capacity is presented.
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