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Assessment of Flood Disaster Resilience in an Urban Historic District Based on G-IC Model

Systems
Urban historic districts play a vital role in shaping the cultural identity and heritage of cities. However, many of these areas face challenges such as aging buildings and deteriorating infrastructure.
Bo Huang, Tsuyoshi Kinouchi, Gang Zhao
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A framework for conceptualizing and assessing the resilience of essential services produced by socio-technical systems

Ecology and Society, 2018
Essential services such as electricity are critical to human well-being and the functioning of modern society. These services are produced by complex adaptive socio-technical systems and emerge from the interplay of technical infrastructure with people ...
Susara E. van der Merwe, Reinette Biggs, Rika Preiser   +2 more
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Developing transformative schools : a resilience-focused paradigm for education [PDF]

, 2014
For the better part of the past century, the field of education has witnessed repeated calls and initiatives for change, reform and improvement of our schools. Yet today, the problems of improving academic achievement and social adjustment among youth
Nicoll, William G., William G. Nicoll
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Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl, Marika C. Möller, Lindsay Wilson, Anne Vik, Toril Skandsen, Jonas Stenberg, CENTER‐TBI participants and investigators   +6 more
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Community Resilience Assessment: Implementation of a Novel Resilience Framework in Four Different European Case Study Areas

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
Global warming and population density increase in urban areas under natural risks highlight the need for better quantifying and measuring community resilience.
Maria Ismini Galanopoulou, Athanasios Sfetsos, Josué Díaz Jiménez, Joan Estrany, Alexandre Moragues Pascual, João Lutas Craveiro, Manuel Mendes Oliveira, Ana Catarina Zózimo, Evangelia Bakogianni, Evrydiki Pavlidi   +9 more
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Systemic Extracerebral Atherosclerotic Burden and Dementia Risk After Incident Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Stroke survivors are at increased risk of dementia, but clinically accessible markers of risk heterogeneity remain limited. Previous studies have largely examined atherosclerotic disease in individual vascular beds rather than the overall burden of systemic extracerebral atherosclerosis.
Zhexuan Yu, Tianxue Chen, Wei Jin, Weifeng Jin, Haitong Wan   +4 more
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker, Yangyuna Yang, Punyasha Roul, Aaron Baraff, Myra S. Schmaderer, Lani Zimmerman, Kaleb Michaud, Namrata Singh, Grant W. Cannon, Gary Kunkel, Ted R. Mikuls, Ariela R. Orkaby, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
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Assessing and Measuring Resilience

Procedia Economics and Finance, 2014
AbstractConcepts of resilience take two broad forms: (1) hard resilience: the direct strength of structures or institutions when placed under pressure, such as increasing the resilience of a structure through specific strengthening measures to reduce their probability of collapse.
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Don't sweat the small stuff: Understanding teacher resilience at the chalkface [PDF]

, 2012
This study investigates how graduating and early career teachers perceive resilient teachers. Informed by survey data from 200 graduating and early career teachers, the study's results indicate that graduating and early career teachers perceive that ...
Price, A., Caroline F. Mansfield, Mansfield, Caroline, McConney, Andrew, Anne Price, Beltman, Susan, Beltman, S., Andrew McConney, Susan Beltman, McConney, A., Mansfield, C.F., Price, Anne   +11 more
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The Association of Physical Function With Psychosocial Patient‐Reported Outcomes in People With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate how modifiable psychosocial factors and fatigue relate to physical functioning in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods In this cross‐sectional study of two demographically distinct cohorts (Approaches to Positive, Patient‐Centered Experiences of Aging with Lupus [APPEAL] and California Lupus Epidemiology Study
Mrinalini Dey, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Maria Dall'Era, Charmayne Dunlop‐Thomas, Courtney Hoge, S. Sam Lim, Patricia P. Katz, Jinoos Yazdany, Laura C. Plantinga   +8 more
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