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Small cities face greater impact from automation
, 2017 The city has proven to be the most successful form of human agglomeration and provides wide employment opportunities for its dwellers. As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question ...
Cebrian, Manuel +4 more
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Ultra-ductile and low friction epoxy matrix composites
, 2015 We present the results of an effective reinforcement of epoxy resin matrix with fullerene carbon soot. The optimal carbon soot addition of 1 wt. % results in a toughness improvement of almost 20 times.
Hadjiev, Viktor G. +6 more
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In the MOOD for Citizen Psych-Science [PDF]
, 2014 People make funny, frustrating and fatal errors on a daily basis. People can also create and apply strategies to avoid and mitigate error – this is called cognitive resilience.
Cox, Anna L. +3 more
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Establishing a Sustainable Development Goal for Oceans and Coasts to Face the Challenges of our Future Ocean [PDF]
, 2013 Oceans regulate our climate, provide us with natural resources such as food, materials, substances, and energy and are essential for international trade, recreational, and cultural activities.
Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike +5 more
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, 2014 We present a large-scale study of commonality in liquidity and resilience across assets in an ultra high-frequency (millisecond-timestamped) Limit Order Book (LOB) dataset from a pan-European electronic equity trading facility.
Kosmidis, Ioannis +2 more
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Early warning: a people-centred approach to early warning systems and the 'last mile' [PDF]
, 2009 The people-centred approach to early warning focuses on how communities can understand threats and avoid them. Disasters are partly caused by external hazards, but they also stem simply from vulnerability: people being in the wrong place without adequate
Collins, Andrew
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Forest Net Primary Production Resistance Across a Gradient of Moderate Disturbance [PDF]
, 2014 The global carbon (C) balance is vulnerable to disturbances that alter terrestrial C uptake and loss. Moderate disturbances that kill or defoliate only a subset of canopy trees such as insect defoliation, drought, and age-related senescence are ...
Goodrich-Stuart, Ellen
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Cosmotic, Aquatic. Exploring the potential of computational design in the preservation of aquatic ecotones [PDF]
, 2018 This paper looks at the possible role of computational design ecologically in the fight against the loss of the aquatic Ecotone. As climate change keeps altering all the natural aspects of our planet, and as our kind continues to sabotage its ecologies ...
Mohanna, Aya
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Digital resilience in higher education [PDF]
, 2013 Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these ...
Anderson, Terry, Weller, Martin
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