Resilience is defined in different ways by different disciplines and different authors but in general resilience may be defined as the ability of a system and its component parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of a hazardous event in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience is applicable at the micro as macro level, and for this reason, is sometimes defined as ...

Risk and Resilience as complementary measures of stress We propose a definition of resilience as an important complement to risk. Both concepts describe stress within a socio-economic system from two different angles, and together allow for a comprehensive approach to governance and management. Stress is an internal response of a system to a perturbation called stressor or stress-factor (Kovale...

ties, orchestras and opera companies, family service agencies and religious congregations, environmental advocacy and civil rights organizations, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and more—have demonstrated enormous resilience in the face of extraordinary challenges over the past 20 years. As a consequence, this set of organizations has entered the new millennium in surprisingly robust conditio...

Journal of Earthquake Engineering Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t741771161 Estimation of Probabilistic Seismic Losses and the Public Economic Resilience—An Approach for a Macroeconomic Impact Evaluation Omar D. Cardona a; Mario G. Ordaz b; Mabel C. Marulanda c; Alex H. Barbat c a Instituto de ...

Code obfuscation is a promising defense technology that secures software in a way that makes the cost of reverse engineering prohibitively high. While there are a number of commercial obfuscation tools on the market, there is no standard measurement to analyze and evaluate their strength. This paper addresses this challenge. An analytical metrics is developed to quantify the performance of obfu...

TRANSMISSION ERRORS Robert Swann and Nick Kingsbury Cambridge University Engineering Department Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ. U.K. e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the performance of MPEGII compressed video[1] when transmitted over noisy channels, such as for digital terrestrial television. We present the results of bit sensitivity...

We describe a fundamentally novel feat of animal genetic engineering: the precise and efficient substitution of an agronomic haplotype into a domesticated species. Zinc finger nuclease in-embryo editing of the RELA locus generated live born domestic pigs with the warthog RELA orthologue, associated with resilience to African Swine Fever. The ability to efficiently achieve interspecies allele in...

Clinical medical devices are designed with the explicit assumption that trained medical team members will operate them in appropriate hospital environments. As technological complexity increases, along with the possibility to create specific ward configurations, the potential for unusual interaction combinations poses challenges for safety and training. Resilience engineering proposes that a sy...

The main objective of this paper is to identify the design criteria for a BIM Education Resilient System STEM program. The curriculum’s development will semantically relate to resilience concepts with Systems Engineering and Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices and standards. The Sustainable Facilities and Infrastructure in Constrained Environments’ (SuFICE) in advancing STEM to Suppor...