introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

What does a socialist at heart do when he has become disillusioned with the experience of socialism in the East and flabbergasted with the extraordinary resilience and spreading out of capitalism everywhere? When he knows, deep down, that capitalism has become ‘part of the natural order of things’ and that a wholesome transformation of the social bases of production is unlikely, if not impossib...

historical records of cheatgrass Bromus tectorum invasion in North American sagebrush-steppe Sumanta Bagchi*, David D. Briske, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer and X. Ben Wu Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, 2138 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA; USDA-ARS, Jornada Experimental Range and Jornada Basin LTER, New Mexico State University, MSC 3JER, Box 30003, Las Cruce...

Infrastructure resilience is a priority for homeland security in many nations around the globe. This paper describes a new approach for quantitatively assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The mathematics of optimal control design provides the theoretical foundation for this methodology. This foundation enables the inclusion of recovery costs within the resilience assessm...

The study used a daily process design to examine the role of psychological resilience and positive emotions in the day-to-day experience of pain catastrophizing. A sample of 95 men and women with chronic pain completed initial assessments of neuroticism, psychological resilience, and demographic data, and then completed short diaries regarding pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and positive ...

Overview: The static nature of computer systems makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks. Consider a situation where an attacker wants to compromise a remote system running a specific application. The attacker need only find one vulnerability in a local copy of that application. Since all copies of that application are identical and static, the attacker can leverage that vulnerability to exploit ...

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in processes and characteristics that may underlie resilient adaptation to chronic pain. With this recent increase in empirical inquiry, there has emerged a degree of ambiguity in terms between pain resilience and other constructs previously connected to effective pain adaptation, such as pain acceptance, psychological flexibility, and pain se...

Here, I consider how social-ecological resilience can be facilitated by the use of property rights. Taking a legal perspective on the use of different forms of property, I consider how property rules can manifest the attributes of flexibility, responsiveness, optionality, and scalability associated with resilient systems. I note how different regulatory regimes such as domestic law and internat...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese medical students and its related factors is rather limited. Understanding the correlates of depressive symptoms and the roles that positive psychological variables play in depressive symptoms is of vital importance for future interventions. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the prevalence of depre...

This paper discusses seven propositions: • climate change and poverty are linked by the issue of vulnerability, • the hardest equity issues arise because of qualitative differences in the nature of climate change and policy impacts on the poor and those who are better off, • poverty cannot be understood in terms of lack of goods or income, or even basic needs, but must rather be understood in t...