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By James Alexander (C40 Metropolitan areas) and Darius Nassiry

We all know that metropolitan areas are answer to a eco-friendly and resilient future – however, many metropolitan areas all over the world are presently not able to invest in the bold and ambitious climate action which will stop us on course. Considerably more purchase of metropolitan areas is required, but if existing development banking companies, funds and investors offered more support, metropolitan areas – specifically in low- and middle-earnings countries – would still face a constant fight to invest in the transition to some low-carbon future.

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Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook – Apple

First 8TB Notebook

For pros with massive asset libraries and enormous projects that require much more storage inside a notebook, the brand new MacBook Pro doubles the SSD storage to 512GB and 1TB on standard configurations. And the very first time, MacBook Pro could be configured having a staggering 8TB of storage — the biggest SSD ever inside a notebook. Continue reading “Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook – Apple”

An Analytic Framework to evaluate Business Resilience – PubMed

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Background:

Resilience engineering is really a paradigm for safety management that concentrates on dealing with complexity to be successful, even thinking about several conflicting goals. Modern sociotechnical systems need to be resilient to conform using the variability every day activities, the tight-coupled and underspecified nature of labor, and also the nonlinear interactions among agents. At business level, resilience can be defined as a mix of four cornerstones: monitoring, responding, learning, and anticipating. Continue reading “An Analytic Framework to evaluate Business Resilience – PubMed”

Ambitious physician explores the numerous amounts of human health | Durch News Massachusetts Institute of Technology

It had been her childhood peanut allergy that first sparked senior Ayesha Ng’s passion for the body. “;To check this out severe reaction occur to my body system and never understand what was happening — that helped me much more interested in biology and living systems,” Ng states.

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6 strategies for moving your teaching online – How can you adapt your teaching approaches for the virtual classroom? – Oxford TEFL

Maybe you have considered teaching online? Adding this skill for your teaching repertoire can open a number of possibilities for you personally, from additional try to beginning your personal business. You might vastly improve your odds of finding teaching work online, reaching more potential students and supplying the perfect service if you take our Teaching British Web based course. If you’re considering just as one online teacher read this article and find out what’s involved with adapting your and yourself teaching strategies to online teaching. 

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A conceptual framework for developing sociotechnical transportation system resilience

electricity.contributor.consultant Amekudzi-Kennedy, Adjo
electricity.contributor.author Amoaning-Yankson, Stephanie
electricity.date.accessioned 2019-01-16T17:19:45Z
electricity.date.available 2019-01-16T17:19:45Z
electricity.date.produced 2017-12
electricity.date.issued 2017-08-25
electricity.date.posted December 2017
electricity.identifier.uri http://high-density lipoprotein.handle.internet/1853/60663
electricity.description.abstract Natural disaster statistics worldwide indicate an upward trend in the amount of reported disasters. Around 2000 alone, there have been over 500 reported disasters, which caused a minimum of ten fatalities affected 100 or even more people and needed worldwide assistance or known as for any condition of emergency. Based on the Worldwide Federation of Red Mix and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), between 1991 and 2000, typically 211 million people was either affected or died from the natural disaster. In that same decade, typically 1,300 people was wiped out around the globe each week. Such disasters are not only seen a humanitarian issue, but additionally a fiscal one and also have a significant effect on the united states economy. For instance, between 2011 and 2013, transportation taken into account roughly $14.7 billion in disaster relief spending, ranking 4th greatest among 19 departments. Furthermore, Hurricane Sandy’s recovery appropriation amounted to $60 billion. Resilience, ale a method to keep critical functions and stop catastrophic failure throughout a disruption, after which recover quickly, has become more than ever before the main thing on most important infrastructure systems’ discussions. A consensus has emerged among relevant stakeholders on the requirement for evolving lengthy-standing planning approaches and operational methods into approaches with increased resilient outcomes. The main purpose of these studies would be to therefore create a framework for transportation system resilience planning that expands current transport resilience approaches using a sociotechnical systems approach, one which views human and business factors additionally to technical factors for system performance. To build up the framework, these studies adopts an inductive and multimethod approach. Information is systematically collected and examined in 2 primary phases. The very first phase starts with an in-depth literature review and synthesis of transportation resilience in addition to resilience theory and it is applications towards the built atmosphere, social systems, economic systems and environmental systems. Next, market research of selected transportation agencies is carried out to review resilience capacity building at transport agencies to be able to extract an evolving maturity process to handle hazards and building system resilience using sociotechnical factors. The 2nd phase of the research then combines key concepts obtained from the resilience literature and also the outcomes of laptop computer to build up the sociotechnical transportation resilience conceptual and planning framework. The framework will be verified and shown using specialist reviews. Findings in the research reveal that the concepts of stability at multiple equilibria present in environmental resilience present possibilities for expanding the present paradigm of transportation resilience thinking, evolving it in one according to single-equilibrium stability to multiple equilibria stability. The resultant framework, according to both resilience literature and survey results, characterizes the relative amounts of four kinds of transport agency capital (business, institutional, technical and financial capital) that lead to sociotechnical system resilience and catalogues attribute-based techniques for developing resilience capacity systematically. These studies plays a role in transportation resilience understanding by extending the present paradigm of transportation system resilience planning from what single equilibrium conceptualization to multiple equilibria conceptualization. The study also characterizes different developmental stages of creating transport resilience capacity utilizing a sociotechnical approach. Finally, the resulting framework is really a potentially advantageous tool for transportation decision makers involved with proper or lengthy-term resilience planning.
electricity.format.mimetype application/pdf
electricity.language.iso en_US
electricity.writer Georgia Institute of Technology
electricity.subject Transportation resilience
electricity.subject System resilience
electricity.subject Sociotechnical resilience
electricity.subject Resilience
electricity.title A conceptual framework for developing sociotechnical transportation system resilience
electricity.type Dissertation
electricity.description.degree Ph.D.

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