The aim of this paper is to analyze the psycho-sociological complexity inherent in exercise ofresilience. concept resilience has become so popular that it usual academic publications,in self-help publications, and everyday conversations. This monographic issue shows thevariety empirical studies different fields. However, my contribution fundamentallytheoretical insofar as tries limits possibili...

In 3 studies, the authors investigated the functional role of psychological resilience and positive emotions in the stress process. Studies 1a and 1b explored naturally occurring daily stressors. Study 2 examined data from a sample of recently bereaved widows. Across studies, multilevel random coefficient modeling analyses revealed that the occurrence of daily positive emotions serves to modera...

Despite rising interest on the concept of societal resilience and its measurement, little has been done to provide operational indicators. Importantly, an evidence-based approach to assess the suitability of indicators remains unexplored. Furthermore few approaches that exist do not investigate indicators of psychological resilience, which is emerging as an important component of societal resil...

(1) Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Research Domain IV, Potsdam, Germany, (2) Department of Physics, Humboldt University Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany, (3) Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Kräftriket 2B, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden, (4) Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Straße 10, 07745 Jena, German...

BACKGROUND Sex work is a criminal offence, virtually throughout Africa. This criminalisation and the intense stigma attached to the profession shapes interactions between sex workers and their clients, family, fellow community members, and societal structures such as the police and social services. METHODS We explore the impact of violence and related human rights abuses on the lives of sex w...

Defining Resilience Resilience has emerged in the last decade as a concept for better understanding the performance of infrastructures, especially their behaviour during and after the occurrence of disturbances, e.g. natural hazards or technical failures. Recently, resilience has grown as a proactive approach to enhance the ability of infrastructures to prevent damage before disturbance events,...

Coral reefs, the most diverse of marine ecosystems, currently experience unprecedented levels of degradation. Diseases are now recognized as a major cause of mortality in reef-forming corals and are complicit in phase shifts of reef ecosystems to algal-dominated states worldwide. Even so, factors contributing to disease occurrence, spread, and impact remain poorly understood. Ecosystem resilien...

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used to control and monitor critical processes. Modern SCADA systems are increasingly built with off-the-shelf components simplifying their integration into existing networks. The benefits of increased flexibility and reduced costs are accompanied by newly introduced challenges regarding SCADA security/dependability. Peer-to-Peer (P2P...