objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate on relationship between spiritual intelligence, resilience, and perceived stress. methods: the study sample consisted of 307 students of sistan and baluchistan university. the connor– davidson resilience scale (cd-risc), the spiritual intelligence self-report inventory (sisri) and the perceived stress scale (pss) are used as a research ins...

1 Roadways, the links of transportation networks, are susceptible to a variety of degradations. 2 Some degradation patterns are severe; they make the network incapable of meeting origin3 destination (OD) demands. Most others are non-severe; they increase the network operational 4 cost while OD demands remain met. In other words, the network structure is resilient to such 5 degradations. It is i...

Stream fishes are increasingly threatened by consequences of climate change that will alter stream habitats. Conservation ecosystems be more effective if management actions retain or restore essential structures and functions promote ecosystem resilience to disturbance. This study developed a method for assessing the fish habitat in Michigan, USA. Three sub-indices comprising different componen...

Decades of academic discussion on social resilience have led to the development indicators, indexes, and different approaches assessing it at national local levels. The need show real-world applications such assessments is evident since became a political disaster risk reduction governance component. This article gives full description methodology used develop SoResilere, new index applied floo...

Efficiency in the use of resources stream-lined for expected conditions could lead to reduced system diversity and consequently endanger resilience. We tested the hypothesis of a trade-off between farm resource-use efficiency and land-use diversity. We applied stochastic frontier production models to assess the dependence of resource-use-efficiency on land-use diversity as illustrated by the Sh...

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of chronic psychosocial stress and resilience, including at a biological level (immune and neuroendocrine function) in Portuguese citizens with psychic anomaly/mental disorder. The sample aggregated 69 participants. It has been used the following psychometric instruments: 21-item depression, anxiety and stress scales (DASS-21), in the Portuguese...