Abstract Despite conceptual similarities among the established non-cognitive constructs of Mental Toughness, Ego Resiliency, Self-efficacy, and Grit, preceding research typically considered these as adversary rather than complementary potentially additive. Subsequently, comparatively few studies have examined together. This paper, via two independent studies, commonality within Grit. identified...

AFFILIATIONS: MEEHL—National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; COVEY—Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, California; MCAVANEY— Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia; LATIF—Leibniz-Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany; STOUFFER—Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Ge...

The work reports validation of numerical weather forecasts (NWF), QuikSCAT-based wind speed and AMSR-E sea surface temperature (SST) for the surface atmospheric boundary layer in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean under the International Polar Year. The database consists of wind speed, air temperature, relative humidity, sea level pressure collected along the ship route from Durban (32.4°S...

In modern warehouses, robots are employed along with humans to perform those jobs that are less productive and unsafe for humans. This paper focuses on the tasks where robots fetch outgoing objects from their respective storage racks and bring them to the packaging dock. This requires a careful task allocation along with route planning such that the total path traveled (cost) by all the robots ...

1 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany 2 Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Manchester, UK 3 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO, USA Received: 20 December 2007 – Accepted: 6 January 2008 – Published: 27 March 2008 Correspondence to: M. Meinshausen ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf o...

The simulated mean January and July climates of four versions of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM) are compared. The models include standard configurations of CCM1 and CCM2, as well as two widely-cited research versions, the Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems (GENESIS) model and the Climate Sensitivity and Carbon...