This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that explored the impact of involuntary unemployment at a time of economic recession on people‟s everyday life and mental wellbeing. The study was undertaken in Bradford, West Yorkshire, a city characterised by many years of economic downturn before the official start of the economic recession in January 2009. It focused on unemployed peopl...

Resilience measurement is an emerging topic in the field of disaster risk reduction. However, its application Global South cities has proven to be a challenge due uniqueness southern urbanisms and data challenges. As result, Benchmarking Assessment Impact Toolkit (RABIT) framework recently been developed support resilience assessment informal, marginalized, disaster-prone contexts cities. This ...

background: resilience is a personal trait that can influence the stroke subjects’ attitudes toward future opportunities and facilitate the transitional process and adaptation in them. assessment of this trait in stroke subjects with a standardized tool would promote the rehabilitation protocols and occupational therapy interventions. therefore, the objective of this study was to standardize th...

introduction: today, psychological methods are being applied more often to reduce adverse effects of social life and to enhance positive and satisfying effects of communal life.one of these methods is psychological resilience training. objective:the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of resilience training on aggression and happiness among nursing and midwifery students ...

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...

Computer network infrastructures constitute the critical backbone of every socio-economic ICT system. Consequently, they are becoming increasingly mission-critical in our society since they provide always-on services for many everyday applications (e.g., Cloud Data Centres), safety-critical operations (e.g., Air Tra c Control networks), critical manufacturing services (e.g., Utility networks an...

Research on immigrant communities has often been reductionist, stereotypical, and simplistic, and even the most well-intentioned researchers are susceptible to using cultural deficit models. This chapter critically evaluates some of the dominant tensions and problem areas with respect to researching immigrant communities. Specifically, we analyze three primary challenges that researchers encoun...

The structure of interactions in most of animals and human societies can be best represented by complex hierarchical networks. In order to maintain close to optimal functioning both stability and adaptability are necessary. Here we investigate the stability of hierarchical networks that emerge from the simulations of an organization-type having an efficiency function reminiscent of the Hamilton...