This study examines the response of women to disruptions caused by COVID-19 in small-scale fisheries (SSF) Gulf Guinea (GOG). It interrogates concept resilience and its potential for mitigating women’s vulnerability times adversity. We define as ability thrive amidst shocks, stresses, unforeseen disruptions. Drawing on a focus group discussion, in-depth interviews with key informants from Cote ...

Like German programs around the country, faculty and students at Elon University (North Carolina) have faced powerful disruptions to their academic personal lives. Some, for us, been positive, such as Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, curricular pedagogical reform influenced by literacy movement democratic classroom, student engagement with social problems, collaboration community...

Electric power transmission systems are a key infrastructure and blackouts of these systems have major direct and indirect consequences on the economy and national security. Analysis of North American Electrical Reliability Council blackout data suggests the existence of blackout size distributions with power tails. This is an indication that blackout dynamics behave as a complex dynamical syst...

This paper addresses a reliable facility location problem with considering facility capacity constraints. In reliable facility location problem some facilities may become unavailable from time to time. If a facility fails, its clients should refer to other facilities by paying the cost of retransfer to these facilities. Hence, the fail of facilities leads to disruptions in facility location dec...

Continuous real-time monitoring of shipment cost and delivery time is increasingly used by companies to reduce transportation costs while avoiding costly delays or disruptions. Recourse refers to the ability of the shipper to update his/her routing strategy depending on information obtained about the state of the network disruptions. This research proposes an adaptive routing policy that will h...

This report presents investigations made into how neural networks can be used for prediction of disruptions occurring in the high temperature plasma in a tokamak fusion experiment. Disruptions present a problem for the operation of tokamaks, imposing limits on operational parameters and the threat of causing severe damage to the tokamak. Networks are trained on synthetic data to implement a map...

This paper emphasises that most surgical errors can be prevented or intercepted by reducing preventable disruptions inside the operating rooms. It uses information quality concepts and identifies information elements cause disruptions. The paper report initial results from 27 observed surgeries conducted in operating rooms of two Australian hospitals. This research employs an ‘object-centred’ s...

This paper studies the effect of cascading failures in the risk and reliability assessment of complex infrastructure systems. Conventional reliability assessment is limited to connectivity analysis and does not include the effect of increased flow demand or flow capacity of existing network components. Network flows are associated with congestion-based disruptions which can worsen connectivity-...

Critical infrastructures like our power generation facilities and water supply form highly interconnected networks that are mutually dependent and any failure can cascade through the network, resulting in devastating impact on health, safety and the economy. These catastrophic events/disruptions can be triggered by environmental accidents, geological/weather phenomena, disease pandemics, etc. T...