The unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses in our emergency food distribution programs and also highlighted importance adaptive capacity that is actively fostered within such programs. Community-based faced an increased reliance on their services due to record-breaking insecurity since March 2020. Concurrently, these had deal with logistical chal­lenges op...

Space-time codes were designed for fading environments in order to improve system capacity and/or to achieve a diversity gain. In this paper, a novel possible application of the Alamouti space-time block code (STBC) for two transmit antennas is investigated, to provide a switchless alternative in current resilient microwave radio links. Resilient means that transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) ar...

Media production networks require an e cient collaboration between geographically distributed actors and o er predictable workloads, making it possible to exploit this predictability and use advance bandwidth reservation services to achieve greater bandwidth utilization and service guarantees. To o er reliable reservations, the incorporation of fault-tolerance related features in bandwidth rese...

Why do some people bounce back from life's hardships while others despair? HBR senior editor Diane Coutu looks at the nature of individual and organizational resilience, issues that have gained special urgency in light of the recent terrorist attacks, war, and recession. In the business arena, resilience has found its way onto the list of qualities sought in employees. As one of Coutu's intervi...

Community resilience is central to reshaping the role and functions of rural areas; and development has increasingly come about via the capacity of communities to be resilient in the face of challenges. When policies designed and adopted in rural areas are place-based; these policies should rely on resilient actors; belonging to resilient communities. The aim of this article is to focus on fact...

BACKGROUND Resilience, i.e., the ability to cope with stress and adversity, relies heavily on judging adaptively complex situations. Judging facial emotions is a complex process of daily living that is important for evaluating the affective context of uncertain situations, which could be related to the individual's level of resilience. We used a novel experimental paradigm to test the hypothesi...

This essay challenges the widely held view of the CCP’s purported “resilient authoritarianism,” which asserts that China’s one-party political system is able to enhance the state capacity to govern effectively through institutional adaptations and policy adjustments. An analysis of the recent and still unfolding Bo Xilai crisis reveals the flaws in China’s political system, including nepotism a...

The present danger in the Haitian rebuilding efforts, outside of the extreme level of need that often encourages temporary solutions at the expense of long-term capacity building, centers on the assumption that sustainability and resilience are mutually exclusive. They cannot be if this rare opportunity to achieve meaningful long-term change within a country that has suffered for far too long i...