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Farrell, John L. "Community Engagement for Collective Resilience : The Rising System." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/17363.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedSince the inception of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the American public has been told that it has a prominent role to play in the War on Terror. However, this role has not been clearly defined. This thesis explores the viability of community engagement as a tool to promote public safety and homeland security. Research was primarily conducted through a literature review (to understand how engagement impacts safety), and a comparison of four case studies of safety-centric engagement programs in the U.S. and United Kingdom. While several of the programs in the case studies have proven to be effective at developing trust and improving security, the U.S. federal government has not effectively worked with these resources to improve its understanding of the domestic security landscape. This thesis contends that a new system is necessary to connect the federal government to local engagement programs. This may be accomplished with a domestic coordination and engagement system, referred to as the Rising System for the purposes of this thesis. The goal of the Rising System would be threefold To link federal, state, and local governments; to build on existing community policing and outreach efforts to help at-risk communities identify their greatest challenges; and to provide a forum where community members can safely work with their government to develop solutions.
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Sonnet, Marie Therese. "Employee behaviors, beliefs, and collective resilience| An exploratory study in organizational resilience cap a city." Thesis, Fielding Graduate University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10063554.
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Assessing and developing organizational or collective resilience capacity is a strengths-based approach to managing continuous and unexpected change as a strategic capability. In this study, organizational resilience capacity is defined as a vital readiness that is built up by employee beliefs and behaviors. Human resource and management interventions have been recommended to strengthen this capacity. These are described as antecedents, enablers, and inducements designed to foster vital conditions that support relevant employee beliefs, feelings, and actions. Yet, there is little empirical evidence about which specific beliefs and behaviors to foster and no tool for assessing their strength. Interventions, then, cannot reliably be said to strengthen organizational resilience capacity. To address this gap, an exploratory, quantitative study was designed with two objectives: (a) identify specific employee beliefs and behaviors associated with this capacity from the organizational resilience literature and (b) design a scale using these items to explore how collective resilience capacity is constructed. After testing the Organizational Resilience Capacity Scale with employees in a manufacturing company (n=223), results suggested that there are specific beliefs and behaviors associated empirically with organizational resilience capacity. These can be assessed to support organizational understanding, direct evidence-based interventions, and provide a measure of accountability for impacting a latent, yet strategic, capability. The relationship between individual resilience capacity and organizational resilience capacity was also assessed, showing a small, but significant effect. That is, resilient individuals may contribute to vital conditions, but they do not create a resilient organization.
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Ismayilov, Orkhan M. "Economic Resilience, Disasters, and Green Jobs: An Institutional Collective Action Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062807/.
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This dissertation is about economic resilience of local governments to natural disasters. Specifically, the dissertation investigates resilience on regional level. Moreover, the dissertation also investigates growth in the green job sector in local governments. The findings indicate that local governments working with each other helps green job creation. In addition, the dissertation finds that green jobs, following disasters, experience three percent growth. This dissertation is important because it investigates the relationship between climate- related disasters and green jobs, which is an area that is under-investigated.
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Senturk, Melike. "Investigation of organizational resilience through team operations in challenging conditions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33067.
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In this study, I investigated the precursors and the outcomes of team resilience. In contrast to many resilience studies, which focus on low-probability, high-impact challenges, I investigated resilience in the face of high-frequency, low-impact challenges that teams can face in their operational environments. I conducted an extensive literature analysis of the field of resilience and on the basis of this constructed a model of team resilience by integrating insights from high reliability organizing, positive organizational scholarship, sensemaking and disaster resilience studies. I then tested and improved this model through an exploratory study of team behaviour in two 'Escape Game' settings in which teams of 5 people worked through a series of puzzles under time-constrained and somewhat stressful conditions. Following the exploratory study, I developed the resilience model into an operationalizable format and tested it using seven runs of a simulation study involving 547 individuals in 68 teams. In the simulation, teams had to work both quickly and accurately whilst adapting to the changing conditions of a turbulent, competitive environment. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected on various team attributes, team resilience and team performance. I have used quantitative data as the main source of analysis and qualitative data as a supporting tool. Self-completion questionnaires, objective performance indicators, direct observation and post-simulation team and individual reflections were among the data collection tools that were used to obtain data. Team resilience shows highly significant associations with a range of objective measures of team performance. In turn, resilience is supported by several team attributes, including collective mental models, effective channels of communication and systems of information gathering and team cohesion. When teams faced challenges outside of their existing action repertoires their ability to improvise also contributed to resilience. Finally, when teams overcame (novel) challenges, this fed back into their accumulated knowledge through collective learning, enriching action repertoires. Together, these features bestow teams with resilience, which, in turn, enables them to overcome disturbances that might otherwise impede operational performance. In its final form, my resilience model serves as an explanation of the mechanisms of resilience and identifies its antecedents and outcomes. It can inform teams operating in uncertain, ambiguous and volatile work conditions about the capacities and capabilities they need in order to create and sustain resilience in daily operations.
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Zraly, Maggie. "BEARING: RESILIENCE AMONG GENOCIDE-RAPE SURVIVORS IN RWANDA." online version, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=case1189191843.
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Jung, Kyujin. "Sources of Organizational Resilience During the 2012 Korean Typhoons: an Institutional Collective Action Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801952/.
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The objective of this proposed research is to test whether interorganizational collaboration contributes to the ability of an organization to bounce back swiftly from disasters. The research questions are examined from the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) perspective. The general argument of this dissertation is that organizational resilience can be explained by interorganizational collaboration. The ICA framework, specifically, identifies two general network structures to explain strategies that can be adopted to minimize collaboration risks: bonding and bridging structures. This dissertation focuses on how governmental and nongovernmental organizations in South Korea collaborated. The data was collected from the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula in August of 2012, and January of 2013. The 2012 Typhoons devastated the area after the first data set was collected in August 2012, causing the loss of estimated US$ 730 million and 29 fatalities. Afterward, the second survey was administrated in January of 2013 to gauge respondents’ views on how organizations responded to the disasters. This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay presents a brief overview and assessment of the current research on resilience. The second essay empirically tests the sources of organization resilience. The third essay examines the dynamic nature of interorganizational ties by employing stochastic actor-based models. The findings show how organizations prefer to not coordinate with other organizations even though this could reduce their strains during a disaster. The findings also suggest that organizations that operate in higher risk areas or participate in joint full-scale exercises before a disaster form interorganizational ties afterward.
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Bornancin, Tomasella Saverio. "Désubjectivation, resubjectivation et résilience collective en situation de catastrophes : l'exil des européens d'Afrique du Nord." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC171/document.
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L’actualité est occupée par la question des catastrophes. Qu’il s’agisse de cataclysmes naturels, de massacres humains ou d’attentats terroristes, ces désastres interrogent directement notre capacité à y faire face et à y répondre, aussi bien individuellement que collectivement. Dans ce contexte, la notion de trauma et plus encore l’idée de « résilience » demandent à être complétées et élargies, voire dépassées. La catastrophe correspond à une rupture de la continuité existentielle de personnes, de familles et de communautés. Plus qu’une somme de deuils et de traumatismes, elle engendre un véritable bouleversement entraînant la désubjectivation de celles et de ceux qui y sont confrontés ou qui en sont les témoins. A la suite d’une telle expérience du ravage et du chaos, quelles sont les possibilités de resubjectivation pour l’individu ? Quelles pourraient être les formes de « résilience collective », entendue comme un ensemble de processus à inventer ensemble, notamment grâce à la mémoire et à la solidarité ?Our present time is engrossed with the question of disasters. Whether natural disasters, human slaughters or terrorist attacks, such disasters challenge our ability both to confront, and respond to, them, both individually and collectively. In this context, the notion of trauma and, still more, the idea of "resilience" need to be supplemented and expanded, or even superseded. The disaster corresponds to a rupture of existential continuity for individuals, families, and communities. More than an amount of grief and trauma, it brings about a real overthrow leading to the desubjectivation of those facing it or those who were witnesses. After such an experience of the chaos, what are the possibilities of resubjectivation for the individual? What could be the forms of "collective resilience", considered as a set of processes to invent together, particularly through memory and solidarity?
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Glennon, Megan. "Resilience and street level prostitution : a collective case study : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5888.
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Guillier, Flora. "Evaluation de la vulnérabilité aux inondations : Méthode expérimentale appliquée aux Programmes d'Action de Prévention des Inondations." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC1092/document.
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L’évaluation de la vulnérabilité est indispensable pour permettre aux gestionnaires du risque d’inondation, publics ou privés, d’avoir une meilleure connaissance et de prendre des décisions concernant les moyens d’action à mettre en place. Notamment, la connaissance de l’efficacité des actions menées sur les territoires et de la capacité existante des territoires à faire face au risque peut influencer leurs choix et les politiques publiques de gestion. Toutefois, l’évaluation de l’efficacité d’une action à réduire les dommages liés aux inondations est complexe et difficile à mener. Par ailleurs, peu de travaux incluent la capacité d’actions dans l’évaluation de la vulnérabilité.L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une appréciation de la vulnérabilité tenant compte de la capacité d’action des territoires. Il s’agit d’une approche expérimentale de l’efficacité des actions, appliquée aux Programmes d’Action de Prévention des Inondations (PAPI) qui sont le dispositif phare de la politique de prévention du risque inondation en France. Elle repose sur une méthode à dire d’experts, associant les différents acteurs de la gestion du risque inondation en FranceAssessing vulnerability to flooding is necessary in order to allow public or private stakeholders, involved in flood risk management, improving their knowledge and taking decisions with regards to flood risk management. In particular, knowing the effectiveness of implemented actions as well as the existing risk coping capacities on territories may impact their decisions and public policies. However, the assessment of an action’s impact on flood-related damages is characterized by high complexity. Few research works include the society’s capacity to take action in their models of vulnerability assessment.The objective of this research is to provide an assessment of vulnerability to flooding that takes in account this capacity of action. It relies on an experimental design that aims at assessing the effectiveness of actions through expert judgments. The panel of experts gathers varied actors involved in flood risk management. The method is implemented on Actions Programs for Flood Prevention, as they are a key component of the french flood risk management public policy
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Vidler, Hailey, Tobias Wilbrink, Filippis Caroline de, and Ilja Maiber. "Taking Care to Change Trajectory: Exploring an integrated process of Collective Narrative Practices and Strategic Sustainable Development." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18412.
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Our research paper looks at the sustainability challenge as an example of complexity in interrelated nested systems (or meta-problem) and we further explore the consequences of disruptive events induced by climate change (ie. Extreme Climate Events). Due to their potential effects on adaptive capacities of systems at all levels (macro, meso and micro) and the need for Strategic Sustainable Development (SSD) to develop meta-solutions (non-isolated, non-reinforcing) we focus on community-based interventions and participatory facilitation processes. Therefore, we enquire what might a process look like that supports a community’s psychological resilience and strategic sustainable development following a disruptive event. A way to reinforce a community’s adaptive capacities is through making meaning collaboratively and such a process can be supported by the use of stories and narrative. To this intent, we focus on the use of Collective Narrative Practices (CNP) within the implementation process (ABCD process) of the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD). CNP promote desired narratives and strengthen communities’ psychological resilience while the FSSD ensures the development of meta-solutions and their practical application (through the ABCD). Throughout a five-step exploration, we test their theoretical compatibility, interview FSSD and CNP practitioners, design an initial Process Prototype, test its validity by interviewing practitioners with expertise in both fields, and develop a final Process Prototype which embeds recommendations, guidelines and tools. Finally, our paper initiates the academic study of the linkage between FSSD and CNP and is aimed to guide practitioners of both fields to discern an effective way to facilitate the emergence of appropriate responses in a community, while maintaining or rebuilding its resilience and complying with SSD core principles.
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Cuvelier, Lucie. "De la gestion des risques à la gestion des ressources de l’activité : étude de la résilience en anesthésie pédiatrique." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011CNAM0773/document.
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Cette recherche s’inscrit dans le domaine de la fiabilité des soins en médecine et vise à développer une nouvelle approche de la sécurité : l’ingénierie de la résilience. La thèse défendue est que la résilience d’un système, c'est-à-dire son aptitude à fonctionner dans des conditions variables prévues ou non, réside dans la capacité des opérateurs de ce système à articuler la gestion des risques avec la gestion de leurs propres ressources. Les analyses, menées en collaboration avec des anesthésistes en pédiatrie, cherchent à comprendre comment ceux-ci agissent pour permettre aux patients de bénéficier de soins dans des conditions optimales de confort et de sécurité, en dépit des aléas liés à la complexité et à l’incertitude du fonctionnement du corps humain. Trois études empiriques ont été conduites pour défendre cette thèse. Outre les méthodes d’observation de l’activité réelle, elles s’appuient sur des techniques d’entretien (technique des incidents critiques et techniques des protocoles verbaux) et sur des analyses d’activité sur simulateur. La première étude permet de caractériser les aléas et les perturbations que doivent gérer les anesthésistes dans leur pratique quotidienne. Elle met en évidence deux types de situations imprévues (les situations possibles et les situations impensées) et montrent que la façon dont ces situations sont prises en charge n’est pas seulement liée à la nature des perturbations en elles-mêmes mais dépend surtout de leur anticipation par les opérateurs en situation réelle. La seconde étude s’intéresse alors aux mécanismes d’anticipation des « situations possibles » par les anesthésistes. Elle montre que la définition d’une enveloppe de situations possibles repose non seulement sur l’évaluation des risques pour le patient, à partir des règles et des connaissances générales du domaine, mais aussi sur l’évaluation et la gestion des ressources de l’équipe. L’objectif des anesthésistes est en fait plutôt de concevoir des situations ajustées aux ressources des différents opérateurs qui interviennent et interviendront. L’anticipation prend donc en compte les ressources du collectif. De plus, iI semble que cette gestion ne vise pas uniquement à maîtriser la situation à court terme, mais aussi le développement des ressources à plus long terme. La troisième étude concerne l’occurrence, pendant l’intervention, d’une « situation impensée » qui sort de l’enveloppe des situations possibles conçue a priori. Trois modalités de prise en charge de ces situations impensées ont été identifiées : la gestion « prudente », la gestion « déterminée » et la gestion « débordée ». L’analyse comparative de l’activité des équipes sur simulateur montre que ces trois types de prise en charge relèvent de modalités de gestion différentes des ressources cognitives. Les actions menées par les équipes face aux perturbations impensées ne visent pas seulement à gérer dans l’immédiat les risques encourus par le patient, mais aussi à conserver une « maîtrise durable » de la situation, en évitant d’accumuler des incompréhensions au sein du groupe et en adaptant la prise en charge aux ressources cognitives des coéquipiers. Ainsi, la gestion de leurs propres ressources (compétences, savoirs, savoir-faire, règles de métiers, etc...) par les opérateurs est un élément clef de la résilience. Ces résultats permettent d’une part, d’identifier des conditions organisationnelles favorables à la mise en oeuvre de ces processus de gestion des ressources développés par les opérateurs et, d’autre part, de proposer des méthodes de prévention innovantes des risques liés aux soins, tels des systèmes de formation sur simulateur. Alors que la gestion des risques est généralement abordée sous l’angle des compromis de but entre « objectifs de performance » et « objectifs de sécurité », la discussion de ces résultats invite à dépasser cette opposition classique et à questionner les modèles de performance dans lesquels s’inscrivent les démarches de préventionThis research, which addresses patient safety, aims to develop a new approach to safety: resilience engineering. The thesis assumes that the resilience of a system, that is to say its ability to function under varying conditions expected or not, lies in the operators’ ability to articulate the management of risk with the management of their own resources. The analysis,conducted in the context of pediatric anesthesia and in collaboration with anesthetists, seeks to understand how professionals act in order to provide care in optimal conditions of comfort and safety, despite the uncertainties related to the complexity and the uncertainty of the human body. Three empirical studies were conducted to investigate this thesis. In addition to the observation of real work activity, interview techniques (critical incident technique and verbal protocols technique) and analyses of simulations were used. The first study allows the uncertainties and disruptions to be managed by anesthetists in their daily practice to be described. Two types of unexpected situations (possible situations and unthought situations) can be met. The way in which these situations are handled is not only related to the nature of the disturbances themselves, but mainly depends on their anticipation by operators in real conditions. The second study concerned the anticipation mechanisms of "possible situations" by the anesthetists. Results indicate that the definition of an envelope of possible situations is not only based on an assessment of patient’s risks, supported by rules and general knowledge in the field, but also on the evaluation and management of the team’s resources: the goal of anesthetists is to design situations adjusted to the resources of the various operators involved (themselves included) and/or that will be involved. Therefore, the anticipation takes into account the resources of the collective. Furthermore, this management aims not only at mastering the situation in the short term, but also at developing resources in the longer term. The third study concerns the management of an “unthought situation” which trespasses the envelope of a priori possible situations. Three ways to handle these unthought situations were identified: “cautious” management, “determined” management and “overwhelmed” management. The comparative analysis of the teams’ activities shows that the management of cognitive resources varies according to the way in which situations are handled. When facing unthought situations, teams not only attempt to manage the immediate risks to the patient but also to maintain a “sustainable control” of the situation, by avoiding misunderstandings within the group and by adapting care to teammates’ cognitive resources. Thus, the management of their own resources (skills, knowledge, know-how, rules of the trade, etc...) by operators is a key element for resilience. These results allow, on one hand, to identify organizational conditions favorable to the implementation of these processes of resource management developed by the operators and, on the other hand, to propose innovative methods for risk management in healthcare such as simulator training. While risk management is generally discussed in terms of “goals trade-off” between performance objectives and safety objectives, these results challenge this traditional opposition and question the models of performance underlying prevention methodologies
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Casse, Christelle. "Concevoir un dispositif de retour d'expérience intégrant l'activité réflexive collective : un enjeu de sécurité dans les tunnels routiers." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAH024/document.
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Le retour d'expérience (REX), sous la forme d'analyses d'accident le plus souvent, constitue un instrument privilégié de management de la sécurité dans les organisations industrielles à hauts risques. Cette recherche s'inscrit dans le domaine de la sécurité dans les tunnels routiers et vise à proposer une approche intégrée du REX, qui repose sur le travail quotidien de gestion de la sécurité par les opérateurs en s'appuyant sur les espaces collectifs de construction de l'expérience. La thèse défendue est que la sécurité dans les environnements dynamiques tels que les tunnels routiers repose sur la capacité des collectifs de travail transverses à faire face aux imprévus, les perturbations quotidiennes comme les évènements. Cette capacité se construit notamment à travers les discussions entre opérateurs et avec leurs managers sur les difficultés de leur travail. Les dispositifs de REX doivent favoriser l'existence de débats sur l'activité pour améliorer la gestion de la sécurité et favoriser ainsi le développement de l'individu et de l'organisation. Cependant cela implique des conditions d'organisation pour que le débat soit possible et pérenne.Une intervention-recherche visant la conception d'un dispositif de REX fondé sur l'activité individuelle et collective a été réalisée chez un exploitant de tunnels routiers pour éclairer cette problématique. Les analyses menées en collaboration avec les opérateurs de l'exploitation avaient pour objectifs d'aider les opérateurs à mettre en relation la manière dont ils gèrent la sécurité sur le terrain avec la manière dont le REX traite les évènements. L'analyse du REX existant montre dans un premier temps qu'il est centré sur les évènements de trafic majeurs, faisant l'objet de procédures et de règles formelles, alors que les incidents critiques pour les opérateurs sont majoritairement des incidents d'exploitation, peu cadrés. Dans un second temps, l'analyse de l'activité montre que les opérateurs développent de façon informelle des instances d'échange collectif pour anticiper les aléas, s'organiser et analyser les évènements. Une démarche de simulation organisationnelle avec les opérateurs, les managers et les partenaires de la recherche a été engagée pour transformer le dispositif de REX. Elle débouche sur un REX élargi en termes de définition des évènements et d'acteurs impliqués. Le nouveau dispositif s'appuie sur les processus-métiers existants, tout en développant les instances collectives d'analyse inter-métiers et inter-organisations. Il structure les pratiques informelles d'organisation et de partage d'expérience des opérateurs. Des espaces de discussion inter-métiers sur les pratiques réelles ont pu s'élaborer à partir de simulations d'évènement, animés par des managers de proximité. L'expérimentation de cette méthodologie montre que ces espaces favorisent la confrontation des représentations, des pratiques et la transmission des connaissances. Ils permettent aussi l'élaboration de règles opérationnelles transverses et font émerger les besoins de règles formelles à relayer aux managers. Ils sont constructifs car ils participent au développement de l'organisation formelle autant que de l'activité des opérateurs. Cette méthodologie a favorisé la construction de l'expérience à partir de l'analyse des évènements.L'intervention-recherche a permis de revenir sur les classifications officielles des évènements dans les tunnels routiers. Les conditions et modalités de mise en place d'un REX intégré sont définies et discutées, ainsi que celles des espaces de discussion par simulation. L'ingénierie de l'intervention ergonomique de conception organisationnelle et la place de l'intervenant sont aussi revisitées à l'aune de nos résultatsOperating experience feedback, mainly through accident analysis is a method of choice for safety management in high risk organizations. The present research takes place in the field of road tunnel safety, proposing an integrated approach of experience feedback from the daily management of safety by tunnel monitoring staff through collective spaces for discussion and experience building.Our hypothesis is that safety in such dynamic environments as road tunnels depends on the capacity of operating teams to face the unexpected events, disturbances and accidents. This capacity is built through discussions between operating staff and with the management about the difficulties encountered during work. The return on operating experience should allow the debate on work activity in order to reach a better safety management, foster individual development and a better organization. However, there are organizational conditions for the debate to be possible and sustainable.A research and intervention protocol was set up with a road tunnel operator to test and improve a scheme for the return on operating experience based on individual and collective activity. Analyses were conducted to help operational staff link the way events are treated in day to day security management with the processing in the operational experience feedback scheme. An analysis of the current scheme showed that it is focussed on major traffic events, comprising of a set of procedures and formal rules, while the operational events, felt as critical by operators do not have a framework for discussion. Further, work activity analysis shows that operational staff develops informal spaces of collective exchanges to organize work, anticipate hazards and analyse events.Organizational simulations including operating staff, managers and the research partners were set up to transform the feedback scheme. The simulation led to an enlarged framework for feedback, defining the events to be analysed and participants to be included. The new scheme roots in the existing professional processes, develops inter-professional as well as inter-organization discussion spaces. The new scheme facilitates the sharing of experience among operating staff and structures the informal organizational practices we observed.Inter-professional discussion spaces, conducted by the team managers, were set up based on the analysis of simulated events. These structured discussion spaces proved to be effective in the confrontation of work practices, events and roles representations as well as conducive for knowledge transmission. The discussion space allows setting transverse operational rules and highlights the need for formal rules to be set by the management. The inter-professional discussion spaces are operant in improving the formal organisation as well as developing the activity of operational staff. This methodology favoured the building of experience from event analysis.This research-intervention was an opportunity to review the official classification of road tunnel events. The conditions for an integrated operating experience feedback scheme are set and discussed, as well as the implementation of simulation-based discussion spaces.From our results, we re-consider the design of interventions in organizational design, as well as the role of the intervening ergonomist
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Wickramanayaka, Sachini H. K. "Collective Potential: A Network of Acupuncture Interventions for Flood Resiliency." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1523635632493475.
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Cadichon, Jeff Matherson. "Vulnérabilité psychologique, résilience scolaire et processus identitaires chez les adolescents et les jeunes adultes dans l’Haïti post-séisme." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCH034.
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IntroductionCette recherche porte sur les risques de vulnérabilité psychologique et la résilience scolaire dans le processus de construction identitaire des adolescents (14-17 ans) et jeunes adultes (18-24 ans) plus de six ans après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010 en Haïti. Elle vise à déceler chez les survivants les conséquences à long terme de cet événement traumatique, analyser les stratégies mises en place pour les surmonter et comprendre l’évolution des processus identitaires.Méthodologie723 adolescents et jeunes adultes (dont 364 filles et jeunes femmes) âgés de 14 à 24 ans ont été évalués à l’aide de questionnaires concernant les symptômes du trouble de stress post-traumatique, la résilience et les processus identitaires. De plus, une phase qualitative (N=8) a permis d’analyser les processus narratifs et cerner à partir des tests projectifs (Rorschach et TAT) la dynamique psychique (conflits/défenses) des participants.RésultatsDans notre échantillon 35,82% des sujets présentent des symptômes sévères du trouble de stress post-traumatique, avec une prévalence plus élevée chez les filles et les jeunes femmes. Il en ressort aussi un score moyen de résilience moyen-élevé, soit 136,72 (ÉT=23,65). Une analyse en cluster a montré que 40,22% des sujets présentent un statut d’identité d’accomplissement. Les résultats qualitatifs mettent en avant quatre catégories d’analyse transversales aux cliniques singulières : perturbations psychiques; Dieu comme support de mise en sens de l’événement ; remaniements identitaires ; et résilience multifactorielle avec une prédominance de l’école.DiscussionSur le plan clinique, les résultats laissent penser que d’autres facteurs sociaux, comme les troubles politiques, l’épidémie de choléra et des conditions de vie précaires, peuvent expliquer cette vulnérabilité élevée. L’instabilité sociale semble expliquer aussi l’angoisse et l’anxiété observées chez les survivants ayant un statut identitaire d’accomplissement. Par ailleurs, le niveau de résilience moyennement élevé traduirait leur capacité à trouver des ressources pour se reconstruire malgré la présence de perturbations psychiques. Les résultats peuvent être utiles pour la mise en place de programmes de santé mentale et l'élaboration d'outils adaptés à la population juvénile en HaïtiIntroductionThis research focuses on the risks of psychological vulnerability and school resilience in the construction of identity of adolescents (14-17 years) and young adults (18-24 years) more than six years after the earthquake of January 12, 2010 in Haiti. It aims to explore long-term consequences of this traumatic event among survivors, to analyze their strategies to overcome them, and to understand the evolution of the identity processes.Methods723 adolescents and young adults (including 364 girls and young women) aged 14-24 were assessed using questionnaires on PTSD symptoms, resilience and identity processes. In addition, a qualitative phase (N = 8) allowed to analyze the narrative processes and to identify the psychological dynamics (conflicts / defenses) based on the projective tests (Rorschach and TAT).ResultsIn our sample, 35.82% reported clinically significant symptoms of PTSD with a higher prevalence for girls and young women. There was also an average resilience score, moderately high of 136.72 (SD = 23.65). A cluster analysis showed that 40.22% of the subjects presented an achievement identity status. The qualitative results highlight four transversal analysis categories to the clinical cases: psychic disturbances; God, as a way of giving sense to the event; Identity restructuration; multifactorial resilience with a predominance of school.DiscussionClinically, the results suggest that other social factors, such as political unrest, cholera epidemic and precarious living conditions, seem to explain this high vulnerability. Social instability also seems to explain anxiety and anguish of survivors with an achievement identity status. Otherwise, the moderately high level of resilience would reflect the survivors' ability to find psychological, social and cultural resources sufficient to recover despite psychic disturbances. The results may prove useful for setting up mental health programmes and devising tools appropriate for the youth population in Haiti
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Hollinger, Keith H. "Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37820.
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The concept of peacebuilding holds enormous importance for international relations, particularly in regions facing impending violent conflict and those recovering from such conflict. However, in order for peacebuilding to be a viable alternative to traditional peace operations, scholars and practitioners need to have a shared understanding of what peacebuilding is and what goals it hopes to achieve, in addition to fluid strategies for implementation. This dissertation seeks to identify strategies for building sustainable peace through sustainable community development and democratization. Using a qualitative metasynthesis of five ethnographies conducted in Chiapas Mexico, this dissertation develops mid-range theories, or strategies, for building peace in Chiapas and in regions experiencing low-intensity conflict more generally. These strategies are based upon the development of Pluriethnic collective governance at the local level in regions that are experiencing low-intensity conflict related to indigenous communities.Ph. D.
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Espinosa, Diego Francisco. "Resilience of Bridges Following Aftershocks." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5199.
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The ability to predict the reduction in capacity of a structure after an earthquake is vital in the process of assessing a structure after a main-shock or an after-shock. Main-shocks are normally followed by a few aftershocks in a short period of time. Researchers in the past have focused for the most part on the effects of main-shocks on buildings. Very little research has been performed on the ability to predict the reduction in capacity of bridges in aftershocks. This thesis focuses on providing a way of assessing the reduction in capacity for main-shocks as compared to aftershocks and the effects and importance of both in a bridge. The reduction in capacity was defined using three different ratios: ultimate force, stiffness, and strain energy ratio. The ratios were computed relative to an undamaged state following both the main-shock scenario and the main-shock combined with aftershock scenario. The force, stiffness, and strain energy quantities were obtained from lateral pushover analyses along the two lateral bridge axes. Probabilistic demand models describing the loss in capacity were formulated by pairing intensity measures, based on real ground motions obtained from previous earthquakes, for the main-shock and aftershock with the capacity ratios, obtained from nonlinear dynamic time history analysis. Additionally, the reduction in capacity was conditioned on residual displacement and intensity measure in an attempt to discover the reduction in capacity ratio due to the contribution of residual displacement and therefore separate contributions from geometrical and material nonlinearities. This thesis demonstrates that the usage of strain energy ratio provides a definition of capacity that ultimately provides the best correlation between capacity and intensity measure.ID: 031001512; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Kevin R. Mackie.; Title from PDF title page (viewed August 8, 2013).; Thesis (M.S.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).
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Ahern, Nancy. "RESILIENCY IN ADOLESCENT COLLEGE STUDENTS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4330.
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The construct of resilience has gained considerable attention over the last four decades since researchers observed that children and youth could cope and adapt in spite of adversity. Resilience involves a dynamic process involving an interaction between both risk and protective processes, internal and external to the individual, that can modify the effects of an adverse life event. Adolescence is considered to be a period of vulnerability for most individuals as they often partake in high risk behaviors. Further, those individuals who are in their early college years are faced with the developmental challenges of this life phase which can be complicated by a variety of stresses. Investigating resilience in college students is of great importance as these adolescents may incur additional stress as they make the transition to adulthood. Empirical evidence indicates that resilience is dynamic, developmental in nature, and interactive with one's environment. A variety of variables have been studied to clarify the concept of resilience in adolescents, yet there continues to be inconsistent findings. Although there is an abundance of literature regarding adolescent resilience, little is known about this process in the healthy well-adjusted adolescent college student. Additionally there are inconsistencies in reported findings about whether resilience is a healthy state. There is also evidence in the literature that contradictions exist regarding the effect of social support on this process. After review of the psychometric properties of existing instruments, the Resilience Scale was determined to have the best reliability and validity use for the study of resilience in the adolescent population. An exploratory model testing design was used to explore the relationships among a set of variables, including personal characteristics, levels of stress, high risk behaviors, and levels of resilience in adolescents ages 18 to 20 years. Institutional Review Board approval was obtained prior to data collection. The study participants attended a community college and met the sample selection criteria. A convenience sampling plan was used. Recruitment of participants followed the college protocol for contacting professors teaching general education classes during the planned data collection time. The study measures included a demographic questionnaire, two perceived stress visual analog scales, the Health Behaviors Questionnaire, and the Resilience Scale. Descriptive statistics were computed for all variables for the total sample (n=166) and recoding performed as needed by the instruments. Model testing was performed using correlations, hierarchical multiple regression, and path analysis to identify the strongest predictive variables. The strongest predictive model was personal characteristics and Health Behaviors Questionnaire Emotional Risk to the visual analog scale Stress in General (R2 = .519, F = 3.13, p = .000). This model was used for path analysis and the significant variables were ethnicity (standardized beta coefficients of .165, p = .036) and Health Behaviors Questionnaire Emotional Risk (standardized beta coefficients of .567, p = .000). These findings are important for health care providers to use as a basis for driving interventions to optimize resilience and reduce stress in adolescents. Further research should focus on ways to enhance coping and adaptation in an effort to reduce emotional risks which potentially increase stress in similar populations. Research regarding resilience and stress can further be expanded to the study of additional populations at risk, including adults and others such as nursing students, war veterans, and disaster victims.Ph.D.
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El-Shekeil, Ibrahim. "OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE IN LARGE-SCALE DATA CENTERS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/519799.
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Nowadays the dependency on high availability data center services is crucial. Unfortunately, downtimes are frequently encountered. They may occur through inadequate or flawed operational procedures; ad-hoc operational procedures are followed or ad-hoc fixes. However, data centers’ complexity and size make such approaches ineffective and require systematic analysis to minimize the downtimes and performance impacts. The main research objective is to examine a core set of operational issues arise in data centers and study the mechanisms to improve high availability and resilience. Specifically, the following critical issues were examined: Fast data center services’ restoration in the event of large-scale failures or downtimes through progressive restoration planning optimization framework to increase services’ uptime and maximize users requests’ satisfaction during recovery process; Minimizing the impact on data center services and security in when organizations split or merge through identifying different misconfiguration scenarios and considering ways of resolving those conflicts to minimize manual changes, routing table sizes, and eliminate routing anomalies, and; Efficient detection and localization of failures in enterprise networks through a systematic failure diagnosis framework consisting of developing intelligent probing station selection, failure detection, and diagnosis across the network components. The research significance resides in solving real-world issues arise in enterprise networks and data centers. After extensive evaluations, results revealed: progressive recovery improves the uptime during large-scale failures; systematic and efficient solving configuration issues minimizes the manual changes which are error-prone; and, a systematic approach tackling failure diagnosis helps reducing troubleshooting times and all that improve availability and resiliency. The limitations are: the research did not include data center services operation planning under limited resources during partial failures, and diagnosis framework is limited to pass/fail cases. The study contributes to the knowledge, literature, and practice. This research opens up the space for further studies in various aspects of misconfigurations in large-scale cyber and cyber-physical infrastructures.
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Alazzawe, Anis. "Power-Aware Resilience for Extreme Scale Computing." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/579151.
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The increase in processing power provided by successive generations of high performance computing platforms has made it possible, to tackle a diverse range of large problems in many different fields, that would not have been feasible otherwise. Exascale computing is on the horizon and it brings with it unique opportunities and challenges. Applications running on exascale systems will run into many errors due to the vast number of components in these systems. Traditional recovery methods such as checkpointing alone will not be sufficient to allow these applications to finish execution in a reasonable amount of time, and in some instances they will not be able to finish execution at all. This is because the number of errors will occur so often that they are expected to occur during the recovery process itself. Two primary issues that need research to make running applications on exascale systems viable is methods to provide scalable resilience and managing energy consumption. Managing the energy usage of a resilience method is vital because these systems will be a huge energy draw and energy usage is expected to the largest cost of running these systems. The research path we have taken, to introduce an energy efficient resilience method for exascale systems, is as follows: First, we introduced slicing as an energy efficient resilience method. In this phase of the research we presented a model of program structure and error propagation of data corruption and showed how slicing can be used to detect these errors. Slicing is a technique that can be used generate all the parts of a program, as an executable, that influence the computation of a given a variable. It is traditionally used for analysis in debugging, maintenance, testing, of software. Using this model we derive properties that show how slicing can be used to provide high confidence that a program has run without corruption errors. The results show that a high error detection can be obtained using only a small increase in power usage. Second, we introduced Slice Swarms for high performance computing (HPC) application resilience. In this phase of the research we scaled slicing to HPC environments. We developed a model that would allow us to reason about the use of multiple slices in an HPC environment. We showed that using multiple slices would provide the ability to to detect more errors in applications that don’t have extreme inter-dependencies among it’s variables while requiring only a nominal amount of extra energy to run. We also showed the best way to distribute these slices across the variables of the application, given specific energy constraints. Finally, we tackled the challenge of providing energy efficient resilience to HPC applications with regular structure. The largest computing systems routinely run into silent data corruption (SDC) as part of its normal operation. The number of SDCs will increase drastically as computing systems approach the exascale mark, forcing a need to reconsider the resilience approach taken to counteract the effects of unmitigated data corruption errors. Yet any resilience method must be sensitive to both resource and energy requirements. HPC applications often have a regular structure that can be exploited for providing resilience more efficiently. We explore the propagation of data corruption errors caused in stencil computation, an iterative kernel with structured communication pattern that is found in a wide variety of scientific and engineering problems. The key insight, is that SDCs and corruption of data that they cause have localized impact in these types of applications and recovery does not require the use of every process to recompute the application state. We present a resilience mechanism, mimic replication, for resilience against SDC errors through dynamic reexecution of select processes. We then provide an analytical model that allows tradeoff between resource and energy consumption and resilience.
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Zhou, Yana. "Représentations des désidentifications et réélaborations identitaires dans la trilogie africaine de Léonora Miano." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30009.
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Léonora Miano est une écrivaine franco-camerounaise qui est « jeune » mais féconde et déjà appréciée et reconnue par un large public ; elle peut être considérée comme une figure représentative parmi les écrivains de la génération postcoloniale sur le continent africain. Elle a publié une dizaine de romans, y compris deux trilogies, l’une dite africaine et l’autre « afropéenne » , de nombreux d’essais et des pièces de théâtres. La trilogie africaine regroupe L’Intérieur de la nuit, Plon, 2005 ; Contours du jour qui vient, Plon, 2006 ; Les Aubes écarlates, Plon, 2009 et constitue le corpus principal de cette thèse. La problématique identitaire est un sujet central et incontournable parmi les axes de recherches sur la littérature francophone africaine à cause de l’histoire coloniale et post-coloniale qui a perturbé les cultures traditionnelles et mis en contact des peuples et sociétés fort différents. En tant qu’écrivaine née dans les années 70, époque à la fois stimulante et troublante, Léonora Miano a vécu ses expériences d’adolescente sur le continent africain puis d’adulte en France à partir de ses études universitaires. Cette mobilité entre les continents et les cultures l’a amenée à connaître une vraie vie postcoloniale, à prendre du recul par rapport à l’histoire africaine ancienne et récente, à réfléchir sur les crises identitaires des Africains en Afrique et les causes de leurs crises dans la société postcoloniale complexe. Nous verrons donc que la trilogie africaine de Léonora Miano est révélatrice de ces questions socioculturelles car elle décrit un panorama des questions identitaires concentré spécifiquement sur une Afrique fictive mais évocatrice de bien des pays africains réels. Or ces bouleversements sont trop souvent éludés par les Européens et par les Africains eux-mêmes (c’est à la fois cette distanciation et ce retour africain qui fait la particularité de l’œuvre de cette Franco-Camerounaise). Cette thèse essaye en premier lieu de contextualiser notre approche de la trilogie, en donnant un aperçu général, surtout indispensable pour le lecteur chinois, sur la problématique de l’identité, le parcours de Miano (peu connue en Chine), et les contenus thématiques de la trilogie africaine. Dans la deuxième partie, nous travaillons sur toutes sortes de représentations de la désidentification africaine, autour du mal principal provoquant la crise identitaire : la violence (que ce soit la violence physique ou la violence psychologique) ; ses systèmes de fonctionnement sont analysés en détail et thématiquement fondés sur le corpus. Dans la troisième partie, nous traitons des résistances des personnages africains, protagonistes ou personnages secondaires, face à leurs crises identitaires pour élaborer une nouvelle identité africaine à l’époque postcoloniale. Dans toutes les parties, nous prenons en compte la particularité de l’écriture mianesque qui n’a rien de réaliste mais qui laisse entrevoir un sens parabolique, un monde noir mystérieux et tourmenté, des personnages divers mais typés, des histoires frappantes et cruciales rendant compte d’une vision affranchie et sans concession de l’Afrique contemporaine. Cette modalité narrative fait prendre conscience des évolutions identitaires des populations africaines dans le continent africain lui-même, l’ambition de l’auteure, à travers cette trilogie africaine, étant d’attirer notre attention sur ce qui est souvent ignoré volontairement ou non tant du côté africain qu’en dehors du continentLéonora Miano is a "young" but fertile Franco-Cameroonian writer who is already appreciated and recognized by a large-scale public ; she can be considered as a representative among the writers of the postcolonial generation on the African continent. She has published a dozen novels, including two trilogies, one named as african and the other as "afropéenne", many essays and theatres. The African trilogy includes L’Intérieur de la nuit, Plon, 2005 ; Contours du jour qui vient, Plon, 2006 ; Les Aubes écarlates, Plon, 2009 and they are the main corpus of our thesis. The African trilogy is revealing of the socio-cultural questions related to colonization and entry into the postcolonial era, because it describes a panorama of identity questions focused specifically on a fictional Africa but evocative of many real African countries. But these upheavals are too often ignored by the Europeans and by the Africans themselves (at the same time, this distancing and this return to Africa make the work of the Franco-Cameroonian particular). The thesis attempts firstly to contextualize our approach to the trilogy, giving a general overview, especially essential for the Chinese public, on the question of identity, Miano’s course of life (who is still noteless in China), and thematic content of the African trilogy. In the second part, we work on all kinds of representations of African de-identification, around the main causing the crisis of identity: violence (physical violence or psychological violence); their operating systems are analyzed in detail and thematically based on the corpus. In the third part, we deal with the resistance of African protagonists or secondary characters, in front of their identity crises as well as the consequences and perspectives of their attempts to establish a new African identity in the postcolonial era. In all the parts, we take into account the peculiarity of the "mianesque" writing which is not realistic but suggests a parabolic sense, a black world mysterious and tormented, various et typified characters, striking and crucial stories, and making account of a frank and uncompromising vision of contemporary Africa
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D'Agostino, Lisa. "The association between maternal resiliency, perceptions of touch, and reports of infant touch." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/838.
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Hall, Ashleigh J. "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience: Health Outcomes in Adolescents." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/595952.
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Urban BioethicsM.A.
Adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, have been shown to negatively impact an individual’s health as an adult. While efforts to decrease children’s exposure to these traumatic experiences are beneficial, they are not able to fully eliminate these experiences and do not address how to help children who have already been exposed. Resilience, which has been defined as managing and adapting to significant sources of trauma, has been thought to be a protective factor against the toxic stress of ACEs. While the relationship between ACEs and poor health outcomes has been established, the relationship between resilience and health outcomes is largely unknown. This study seeks to determine the association between resilience scores on a validated resilience questionnaire and health outcomes in adolescents. Looking specifically at body mass index, blood pressure, and depression scores on a validated depression screen we hypothesize that higher resilience scores will be associated with better health outcomes. In addition, we examine the relationship between ACE scores and resilience scores. If this validated resilience instrument is able to help predict health outcomes, this can direct development of intervention programs to build resilience in those living in ACE-heavy environments.
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Griffin, Patricia Griffin. "Resilience in Police: Opioid Use and the Double-Edged Sword." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/431414.
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Criminal JusticePh.D.
Public health officials have declared the widespread use and misuse of prescription opioid medications an epidemic in the United States. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Tom Frieden, has stated, “We know of no other medication routinely used for a nonfatal condition that kills patients so frequently” (Frieden & Houry, 2016, p. 1503). The present study was prompted by the concern that there is no empirical data on how law enforcement officers have been affected by the use of opioids. It is the first empirical examination of how the epidemic has impacted police officers' resilience and fitness for duty. The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing identified officer health, wellness, and fitness for duty as one of the six pillars to support policing in the 21st century. The Task Force also affirmed the long-standing belief that the same character strengths that impel officers to confront danger may also be barriers to their resilience. Recognizing this "double-edged" sword, this mixed-methods study analyzed medical and prescription claims over a four year period (2011 to 2014) to examine the prevalence of opioid use by officers in a large urban police department. Using the qualitative, interview-based methodology of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), it examined individual, organizational and systems-level factors explaining officers’ help-seeking for use of prescription medications, as well as help-seeking for substance abuse in general. The interviews also revealed what is needed to replace the existing cultural and organizational arrangements—which can lead to isolation, depression, pathology, and stigma—with a culture that has the necessary processes and commitment to promote physical, behavioral and mental resiliency. The quantitative analyses revealed that law enforcement officers are not immune from the opioid epidemic. Moreover, there is evidence of specific prescription drug use behaviors that indicate sub-groups of officers at heightened risk for developing an opioid use disorder. Approximately 40% of the officers in the sample filled an opioid prescription. Within this group, 27% of the officers filled a prescription for 90 days or longer and 34% filled prescriptions for benzodiazepines. The data also indicates that approximately 1 out of 7 officers in the sample received medical treatment for a mental illness each year. The qualitative data revealed that officers’ help-seeking behaviors for opioid dependence and abuse were shaped by the psychological process of surrendering and acknowledging their vulnerability. Seeking help, therefore, can run contrary to officers’ training and character traits. Additionally, the social supports of the police subculture and effective supervisory leadership contributed to officers’ recovery and resilience from opioid use disorder. Having access to trustworthy and culturally competent treatment services further enhanced officers’ recovery. The research also illuminates broader health care policies and commitments to wellness that can enhance the capacity of police agencies to hire, develop, and maintain resiliency in their officers. This dissertation extends Bronfenbrenner’s theory of resilience to the field of law enforcement. This theory adopts a social ecological perspective, capturing pathways and protective factors at micro, meso and macro levels that bolster officers’ personal growth and development. From a policy perspective, the findings support an asset-based approach to wellness, which stresses the need to access and enlist resources across the micro-, meso- and macro-level spheres. Future research in this area should extend knowledge into the unique cultural context of police work and its implications for the promotion of wellness and resiliency.
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Feller, Ray. "Collecting Away Their Suffering: Meaningful Hobbies and the Processing of Traumatic Experience." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317735299.
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Rhoden, Stuart. "Boys to Men: Reflections on Building Resilience in Young Black Male Students." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/274095.
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Urban EducationPh.D.
Boys to Men: Building Resilience in Young Black Male Students Stuart Rhoden Doctor of Philosophy Temple University, 2013 Will J. Jordan, Ph.D. Chair The main purpose of this research was to help identify persistence as reported by Black male college students who were the inaugural graduates of the Class of 2011 from a predominantly Black, all-male Charter High School in the Mid-Atlantic region. Examining this population of students was significant because too often Black male educational choices have been examined through the lens of deficit models. This study adds to the growing body of data which has begun to identify positive attributes of Black male role models at the secondary and postsecondary level. Identifying relevant factors which helped Black male students successfully navigate through high school despite these traditional challenges and achieve academically, has the potential to give educators strategies to help increase the likelihood of more Black males attaining higher educational achievement. One of the ways young Black males countered the toxicity of negative influences and expectations was through persistence. Thus, despite the fact that these young Black males often had to navigate through a history of racial discrimination in this country, challenges in family structure, low income, and in many cases, extremely violent neighborhoods, communities and schools, they had still experienced positive supports and maintained positive attitudes that carried them through to positive academic achievement. Central to this persistence and positive attitude was trust. In order to create more positive educational outcomes, it is critical to examine why some young Black males succeed in the face of adversity while many of their peers do not. This study was conducted qualitatively through interviewing ten graduates of a predominantly Black, all-male charter high school in the mid-Atlantic region of the country. Interviews focused on subjects background experiences growing up, their high school experiences while at DuBois Charter High School (pseudonym) and their experiences either currently attending or formerly attending college. A group interview with two key administrators, the CEO and the College Counselor at DuBois Charter high school also took place. These interviews provided contextual background information on the participants' high school experience. The significant actors who helped these young Black males achieve and attain positive academic outcomes are threefold; parent(s), peers who attended their high school, teachers and administrators of their high school. Some of the actions these mentors took to help them achieve college attendance included; teaching them how to seek academic assistance when needed, helping them become self-advocates, showing them how to learn from setbacks and move forward, helping them to present themselves in a manner that was both authentic to their culture, as well as to their academic abilities, teaching them to rise above perceived expectations of what it meant to be Black and male, and guiding them through the navigation process in a new, unfamiliar environment and being successful. Conclusions drawn from this study included; 1. Trust was essential to overcoming perceived and real structural inequalities. Educational resilience can only be demonstrated when institutions are willing to provide a safe, nurturing environment which allows for failure to contribute to positive growth. 2. Seeking academic and social assistance from peers and adults was constructive in contributing to increased positive academic achievement. 3. Cultural capital and exposure to an expansive array of experiences can help minimize the negative effects of poverty if done purposefully and reflectively. 4. Family, peers, and individual agency were critical in sustaining persistence throughout the identity development which resulted in the demonstration of resilience. 5. Understanding and nurturing the social-emotional, racial and gender identity of young Black men was an essential component to positive academic and social achievement.
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Domeck, Craig. "AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE THE PERCEPTIONS OF RESILIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP PERSONNEL IN CENTRAL FLORIDA." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2564.
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Leadership is a challenging task. Vibrant enduring leadership over time is a greater challenge. Cultivating "leaders that lasts" is the desire of this study. The purpose of this research was to determine the resiliency of leaders in Central Florida. Additionally, this study examined the resilience of educational leaders in Central Florida along with leaders from the business community. The analysis and comparison of the results revealed beneficial information regarding the factors that are substantial in resilient leaders and how these factors might be further cultivated. Educational leaders were randomly selected from school administrators in the Central Florida region, as well as department leaders at two primary local universities. Participants from business were selected from a list of business leaders from the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business MBA Alumni, as well as participants in the Palm Beach Atlantic University Executive Leadership series. The study utilized the Resilience Factor Inventory (RFI) from Adaptive Learning Systems. The RFI is a valid 60-question on-line questionnaire that evaluates the four resilience factors identified in the Review of Literature: (a) realistic optimism, (b) emotional intelligence, (c) relational abilities, and (d) problem-solving abilities. Participants were invited to complete the RFI through a series of four emails explaining the study and the Resilience Factor Inventory with a sufficient response rate (83 leaders). Analysis of the data revealed the following findings: (a) all three of the sampled leader populations were significantly above the national norm in resilience, with those in education the highest; (b) educational leaders, both Pre K – 12 and university leaders, were statistically higher in several resilience components, with emotional intelligence being a strong component in both educational groups; (c) leaders from the business realm were significantly higher in several resilience factors with their distinguish component being problem-solving; (d) while education leaders were strong in emotional intelligence, this population could develop their problem-solving capabilities; (e) in direct contrast, the business were strong in problem-solving, but could enhance their emotional competence; and (f) an examination of leaders who have served the longest have a statistically significantly higher relational abilities and realistic optimism suggesting that these two resilience factors would be important for longevity.Ed.D.
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Wildermuth, Diana L. "Exploring Resilience and Academic Achievement: A Comparison Between Mexican American Students and Mexican Students." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/308634.
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Educational PsychologyEd.D.
The demography of the United States is changing rapidly creating challenges in the classrooms and ultimately changing the educational system in the United States due to this increase in diversity. With this change there is a need for educators and educational researchers to know more about the most rapidly growing ethnic group: Latinos. The purpose of the present study was to investigate why some Latino students struggle to achieve in school while other Latino students excel in their educational pursuit. This study differs from other studies since it compares academic performance differences between Mexican (n=56) and Mexican American students (n=30) in a small suburban school district in an agricultural area in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The present study investigated barriers to academic achievement such as discrimination, acculturation, language acquisition and socioeconomic status, and looked at variables related to academic success. The study focused on two psychological constructs as possible predictors of academic achievement for this group of students: resilience and acculturation. In addition, a variety of variables were used in the study as demographic predictor variables. These included: birthplace (whether the student was born in the United States or Mexico), the student's level of acculturation, the length of time in the United States, the student's level of family socio-economic status, the student's level of resilience, gender, home language, and educational placements (ESL, Special Education, technical education enrollment). The outcome variables included a variety of measures of academic achievement including grade point average and SAT scores. All of the predictor variables were analyzed against all of the outcome variables using Pearson correlations and multiple regression. The findings of this study have addressed multiple issues surrounding resilience, acculturation and academic achievement within the new demography of the United States. While there were statistically significant findings, they are not necessarily meaningful due to the small effect size. Nonetheless, it is imperative that researchers continue to explore what factors may contribute to the success of some Latinos while others do not succeed. For example, one somewhat unexpected finding was the strength of the relationship between acculturation and academic achievement, since a student's cultural competence was a strong predictor of academic success. In addition to these findings and a subsequent discussion, this study highlights the need for more culturally sensitive resilience measures or acculturation measures and ways to support Latino students in order to bridge the academic achievement gap that exists. This study did bring attention to what may be societal struggles that impede the success of Latinos in the United States education system.
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Horvath, Tamas. "Organizational Resilience in a Quasi-Total Institution: The U.S. Army Engages the Millennial Generation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/549568.
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Business Administration/InterdisciplinaryD.B.A.
This research examines the United States Army’s adaptation and organizational resilience as it faces the phenomenon of what is commonly assumed to be the drastically different millennial generation of potential recruits, soldiers, and future leaders. Millennials are arguably the most unique generation to date when compared to their predecessors, mainly due to the significant technological advances of the past few decades and their ubiquitous use of technology. This study is distinctive because it addresses organizational resilience and generational gap issues from a cultural maintenance versus an adaptation and resilience viewpoint within what the author argues is presently a quasi-total, rather than total, institution. The study results refute important claims in the existing literature, which label the U.S. Army a total institution. That designation is no longer accurate because the modern U.S. Army has changed drastically. The ‘total institution’ label for the modern U.S. Army is only true during certain periods of the soldier’s experience, such as during onboarding or deployment. Thus, the label quasi-total is a better descriptor of the modern U.S. Army. Still, the U.S. Army’s need to change, so that it can recruit, train, accommodate, and retain this younger generation as an employer, must be balanced with preserving the organizational ability, culture and identity essential for the U.S. Army to function. That constant need for balance between accommodation and maintenance of core values and processes has mitigated the ‘total institution’ mindset of old. That is a major finding of this study. This study is an exploratory investigation using formal theme statements in an interview format given to the top 1% of the 1% of the U.S. Army’s leadership, as well as to lower ranking millennial soldiers. In this it is rare, if not unique. It is a problem-solving exploratory effort. In addition to a review of existing literature on related interdisciplinary topics, the study collected and analyzed empirical data in the forms of semi-structured interviews of senior grade non-millennial officers in Part 2, and, in Part 3, interviews of junior grade millennial generation soldiers who are currently serving. The study took a holistic approach to understand relevant views of different generations presently in the service and harvested the experiences and perspectives of senior leaders who have witnessed the U.S. Army’s transition firsthand. The findings indicate that several junior millennial respondents had contrary views and values to the assumptions society makes about them. Nor did they identify with the stereotypes of common views and biases about their generation. Amid signifying that not all millennials are alike, this discovery more importantly implies that assimilation to a strong organizational culture can transcend and/or alter presumed generational characteristics and norms, thereby demonstrating the U.S. Army’s resilience at the organizational level. The study showcases the uniqueness of the U.S. Army: as a ‘quasi-total institution’ it differs from others so labeled because it becomes much less total as the member spends more time in it. As an organization, the U.S. Army is different from most others because it must retain its talent since it has to grow leadership internally. Finally, its strong culture is essential to daily operations. Despite those facts that make the subject organization unique, parts of the study are relevant to many businesses globally which face similar issues of organizational adaptation versus resilience enfolding their multi-generational millennial versus non-millennial workforce.
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Moseley, Lovern R. "Resilience in the lives of African-American men and women reared in substitute care." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/29123.
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Counseling PsychologyPh.D.
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the lived experience of nine African-American men and women who spent a significant amount of their childhood and adolescent years in the foster care system and the effects on their adult development. Participants were recruited for semi-structured interviews using purposeful and snowball sampling. Participants included nine African-American men and women ages 25 to 55 (mean = 43.3) identified as being raised for a minimum of five years in foster care with no less than three changes in foster care placement, they were legally and gainfully employed in a chosen field with evidence of progressive responsibility for a minimum of three years. They graduated from the foster care system at age 18 or 21 without being adopted and were reported to be in good physical and mental health. Participant interviews were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim. The resultant data corpus included transcriptions of the audio taped interviews, demographic and supplemental question forms and documents authorized for use by participants such as interviews and autobiographies. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyze the data corpus. The analysis resulted in eleven sub-ordinate themes that were organized under four super-ordinate themes that served to explain the lived experience of being raised in long-term foster care. The four super-ordinate themes were: Feeling thrown away while needing to belong; Participant's perceptions of memorable relationships while in care; Navigating the pathways to resilience; and Finding meaning through reconciling the past and creating a future. Study results were discussed in terms of a life-span exploration of the participants' lived experiences that included their time before placement, during placement and at emancipation/after placement. The substantive findings of this study showed that the overarching themes centered on how the participants navigated the multiple and complex relationships they were exposed to and what they learned about themselves and internalized based on the messages they received in those relationships. Of additional significance was the development of coping strategies to manage those feelings and beliefs that ultimately contributed to their resilience and survival.
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Abdou, alou Adam. "La ville de Niamey face aux inondations fluviales. Vulnérabilité et résilience des modes d'adaptation individuels et collectifs." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAU028/document.
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Face à la menace récurrente de crues que subit régulièrement la ville de Niamey, cette étude s’intéresse à la manière dont les autorités de la ville et les populations font face aux phénomènes d’inondation. En s’appuyant sur le cas de l’inondation de 2012, elle vise à comprendre les logiques de chacun de ces acteurs dans les stratégies mises en œuvre au moment et à la suite de l’événement. Combinant les approches qualitative et quantitative, l’étude a ainsi permis de mettre en évidence les antagonismes entre les stratégies collectives mises en œuvre par les autorités locales et les logiques individuelles pour faire face aux événements.A l’échelle collective, face à la violence de la crue de 2012 et aux dysfonctionnements observés en terme d’alerte et d’évacuation des populations, les mesures de protection active par le renforcement des digues ont été complétées par une proposition de déplacement des populations les plus exposées. Cette dernière a eu des résultats mitigés puisque beaucoup de ces populations sont revenues s’installer en zones inondables.A l’échelle individuelle, on relève certains facteurs pouvant retarder l’évacuation préventive au moment de l’événement : une difficulté à évaluer la gravité de la situation et l’attente d’une amélioration, la crainte de perdre ses biens matériels et, chez certains, la mise en place de protections de fortune pour ralentir l’entrée d’eau dans leur maison. L’étude relate également que les populations déplacées après l’événement de 2012 se sont retrouvées quelques temps après leur relocalisation dans des conditions de vie difficiles suite à une perte d’emploi et à un accès difficile à l’eau, au transport et au logement. Ces conditions ont révélé de nouvelles vulnérabilités et influencé le retour d’une majorité d’entre elles en zone inondable. Revenues vivre en zone à risque, on constate que certaines personnes ont mis en place des stratégies pour accroître leur capacité à faire face aux phénomènes d’inondation. Cependant cette forme de résilience individuelle reste limitée à un petit nombre d’individus relevant de catégories sociales particulièresThe recurring threat of risings which the town of Niamey undergoes regularly, this study is interested in the way in which the authorities and the populations cope with the phenomena of flood. Based on the case of the 2012 flood, it aims to understand the logic of each of these actors in the strategies implemented at the time and following the event. Combining the qualitative and quantitative approaches, the study has made it possible to highlight the antagonisms between the collective strategies implemented by the local authorities and the individual logics to cope with the events.At the collective level, in the violence of the flood of 2012 and the malfunctions observed in terms of warning and evacuation of populations, the active protection have been supplemented by a proposal to relocate most exposed populations. The latter has had mixed results since many of these populations have returned to settle in the flood zones.At the individual level, there are some factors that may delay preventive evacuation at the time of the event: a difficulty in assessing the seriousness of the situation and the expectation of improvement, the fear of losing one’s material assets and, for some, the setting up of fortune protections to slow down the entry of water into their homes. She pointed out that the affected populations found themselves some time after their relocation, in difficult living conditions as a result of job loss and difficult access to water, transport and housing. These conditions have revealed new vulnerabilities and influenced the return of some of them to flooded zone. Having returned to live in flood areas, some people have put in place strategies to increase their ability to cope with flooding. However, this form of individual resilience remains limited to a small number of individuals belonging to particular social categories
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Spinnenweber, Karl Eric. "PREPARE AND PERFORM IN A DANGEROUS WORLD - TWO STUDIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN HAZARDOUS CONTEXTS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/496288.
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Business Administration/Strategic ManagementD.B.A.
The world is an extraordinarily dangerous place with an array of escalating threats. Reports of terrorism, natural disasters, and political unrest are stark reminders of the dangerous context in which businesses must perform. To learn more about what firms can do to perform despite these dangers, we conduct two studies about the relationship between organizational preparedness and performance. The research question addressed by our first study is whether international businesses somehow convert previous terrorism exposures and/or experience operating in high-risk locations into an ability to bounce back quickly from future terrorist attacks. Our second study looks within the firm to see whether efforts to ensure workplace safety translate into performance. Our research addresses gaps in the literature concerning how firms maintain performance in a dangerous, uncertain world, and specifically into what organizational preparedness efforts help firms maintain performance despite unexpected disruptions. Our research contributes to a theory of organizational resilience and suggests to managers that business continuity planning and safety preparedness enhance resilience and performance in a dangerous world.
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Asberg, Kia. "RESILIENCY FACTORS AND PATHWAYS TO INCARCERATION IN FEMALE SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4328.
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Studies find consistently that survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are likely to suffer from depression, post-traumatic stress, and problematic substance use, and may experience also a variety of adjustment difficulties in several emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal domains. Involvement with the legal system is one such outcome to consider, especially given the increasing number of women serving time in correctional facilities with nearly two-thirds of these women being survivors of CSA (e.g., Browne, Miller, & Maguin, 1999). The current literature lacks comparisons between female survivors of CSA who have legal involvement and those who do not; hence, the current study addresses the need for a comprehensive investigation of early victimizations and later adjustment. Data were obtained from 169 female inmates and 420 female college students, a number of whom were survivors of CSA (66% and 35.5%, respectively), so that group differences could be examined and relationships among family environment, abuse disclosure history, coping, perceived social support, adjustment (i.e., trauma symptoms, substance abuse, depressive symptomatology, revictimization), and criminal history could be explored. Results suggested that inmate survivors experience poorer functioning overall relative to student survivors of CSA, including more depressive symptoms, trauma symptoms, and substance abuse. Further, avoidance coping by using substances mediated fully the relationship between trauma symptoms and substance abuse for both groups. Finally, severity of CSA, problematic substance use, and social support emerged as significant predictors of incarceration among survivors of CSA. Findings may aid in the refinement of interventions, prevention efforts, and educational programs regarding CSA, and shed light on pathways to incarceration.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Sciences
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Burgers, Darcy Elizabeth. "Childhood Risk and Resilience Profiles and Their Longitudinal Associations with Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Symptom Profiles." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/524337.
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PsychologyPh.D.
Within the field of developmental psychopathology, research has repeatedly demonstrated that there are multiple complex and dynamic pathways originating in childhood that may lead to the development of internalizing and externalizing problems among adolescents. However, additional research is needed that examines the unique and concurrent contributions among child-, parent-, and family-level risk and resilience factors during childhood that may be associated with internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence. To address this gap, the current study utilized a person-centered approach to identify profiles of risk and resilience factors among youth in middle childhood (ages 10-12) characterized by the quality and quantity of (a) child-level factors (i.e., temperamental features, executive functioning abilities); (b) parent-level factors (i.e., parental acceptance, control, disciplinary style); and (c) family-level factors (i.e., family cohesion, conflict, organization) among a sample of 775 participants (Aim 1). The study also examined internalizing and externalizing symptom profiles in adolescence (age 16) by identifying subgroups of youth characterized by the quality and quantity of internalizing and externalizing problems within each of the identified childhood risk profiles (Aim 2). Lastly, the study investigated transitions from childhood risk profiles to adolescent symptom profiles (Aim 3). Results demonstrated that a four-class model best fit the data in regard to childhood risk profiles, with classes of youth most saliently characterized by (a) accepting parents, (b) controlling parents, (c) disengaged parents, and (d) chaotic homes. With regard to adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptom profiles, results indicated a three-class model best fit the data and included classes distinguished by the presence of (a) low symptoms, (b) moderate symptoms, and (c) high internalizing and moderate externalizing symptoms. Most youth from the four childhood risk profiles transitioned to the low symptom profile at age 16; however, youth from the chaotic home profile were more likely to transition into one of the two higher-level symptom profiles. Findings enhance our understanding of risk and resilience by identifying distinct childhood risk profiles and corresponding adolescent symptom profiles. These findings will have implications for both prevention and treatment efforts that target specific risk factors within each risk profile.
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Kumazawa, Masako. "Vulnerability and resilience: Working lives and motivation of four novice EFL secondary school teachers in Japan." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/156316.
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CITE/Language ArtsEd.D.
This study is a longitudinal, qualitative, interpretive inquiry into the work motivation of four novice EFL teachers at public secondary schools in Japan. I employed constructivism as my philosophical framework and narrative inquiry as my primary methodological tool, and attempted to capture the four young teachers’ changing motivation as embedded in their life histories and teaching trajectories over their first two years of teaching. The narratives of the four participants, constructed mainly from the multiple interviews, revealed various kinds of tensions in their transitions from student to teacher. Such tensions included a chasm between classroom realities and their beliefs, conflicts between collegiality and individuality, and also tensions that derived from the inherent nature of teaching such as uncertainty, extensive range of duties, and reflection on the self. In varying degrees and frequencies, all these tensions damaged the participants’ occupational motivation, demonstrating the vulnerable side of novice teachers’ motivation. The same narratives, however, also displayed a completely opposite feature of young teachers’ motivation: resilience. In the midst of the adverse circumstances, the participants continued to engage in the profession, sometimes restoring their motivation through interactions with students and colleagues, and other times returning to their original goals and ambitions. Among various sources of the sturdiness of their motivation, what was unique to novice teachers was a sense of discovery (Huberman, 1993). The four teachers’ discoveries included not only learning about teaching techniques or social norms but also new understandings of themselves as a teacher, and as a person. Although the process of negotiating and reshaping their self-concepts (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009; Markus & Nurius, 1986) disturbed their emotions and damaged their motivation temporarily, all four participants exhibited robustness of their self-concepts and motivation when they rediscovered their motivational goals at a higher level of self-awareness. The four young teachers’ narratives invite authorities such as policy makers, teacher educators, school administrators, and researchers to seek ways to support the growth of young teachers more effectively. In my conclusion, I suggest several measures to reduce the amount of tension and pressure to ease novice teachers’ entry into secondary school teaching.
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Dayanim, Suzanne Lashner. "Examining the Influence of Community Institutions on Inner Ring Suburban Resilience: A Study in Southeastern Pennsylvania." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/240613.
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GeographyPh.D.
Inner ring suburbs are vulnerable as they face continual downward pressure amidst increasingly complex post-industrial regional dynamics. Many suburban policymakers focus on housing and commercial development when considering ways to improve their localities through the built environment; they often overlook the potential benefits of community-oriented infrastructure -- namely public libraries, neighborhood recreation facilities, and community festivals/events -- as a catalyst for encouraging economic development and neighborhood social capital. This study asks whether inner ring suburbs that offer vibrant community institutions exhibit greater levels of resilience capacity than those with less vibrant community facilities. Across the country government officials target community institutions for service reduction and/or closure in high-profile proposals to balance budgets in a tight economy. In a number of high-profile urban library budget fights, community protestors cite their library's functions as a safe environment for children after school to socialize and study, a place for public internet access and engaging programming, and as the hub of the community. Such accounts offer a glimpse into the value of community institutions in the making of place. Suburbs are competing to gain and maintain their base of residents in a highly mobile and competitive environment. Tiebout (1956) theorizes that this ease of mobility allows people to act as consumers who choose the community package of services/amenities that best meets their budget and preferences. The group of community institutions at the center of this study - public libraries, parks and recreation facilities, and community festivals/events -- are part of a wider architecture of local community infrastructure that composes a community's package of services and amenities. Public schools are an important element of that community infrastructure and the one that is most often considered to add value to suburban localities. Although public schools are unquestionably a vital community institution, this dissertation challenges the narrative that school quality is the prime suburban value-generator by measuring the value to local resilience of school quality against the vibrancy of these other kinds of community institutions that may nurture community life in different ways. This work addresses three main gaps in the literature. Work measuring the value of, and understanding the effects of, community institutions in local places is scant. Studies linking resilience capacity to a place's institutional fabric often overlook public-oriented, taxpayer-funded, place-based facilities in favor of an emphasis on non-profit organizations. A regional approach with a focus on effects in inner ring suburbs is rare. Through a mixed methods approach utilizing exploratory data analysis and qualitative content analysis on the inner ring Pennsylvania suburbs surrounding Philadelphia, this research considers the effects of community institutions on each of three previously identified resilience components: economic strength, socio-demographic appeal, and community connectivity. Results suggest that townships with middling or low school quality may be supporting forms of community institutions other than public schools as a way to increase appeal when the schools alone are not a sufficient draw. Furthermore, townships possibly gain resilience value from promoting community institutions in an active way. Other findings shed new light on people-oriented approaches to inner ring suburban resilience and sustainable regional development that may be gaining relevance in the context of 21st century place dynamics.
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Fullick, Julia. "Does Teacher Support Directly Change Academic Resiliency and Ability to Sustain Competence under Pressure?" Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1221.
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Psychology
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Demiroz, Fatih. "Cross-Sector And Inter-Organizational Collaborative Capacity In Community Disaster Resilience And Sustainability: Evidence From Central Florida Counties." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5184.
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This study examines the relationships between interorganizational network development and sustainability, organizational capacity for emergency management, technology utilization, and community disaster resiliency. It is proposed that cross sector and interorganizational collaboration (i.e., network development and sustainability), information communication technology (ICT) utilization, and organizational capacity have a positive impact on disaster resiliency. Disaster resiliency is measured with a three dimensional metric which includes effectiveness of disaster response, effectiveness of disaster recovery, and adaptive capacities.
A questionnaire was sent to organizations that are part of the emergency management system in 11 counties in Central Florida. These organizations were identified by each county's comprehensive emergency management plans. County emergency managers served as the liaison people to reach organizations. They distributed the questionnaire and sent reminders to participants. The study aimed to reach an entire population of 855 emergency management affiliated organizations. The survey had a 25.28% response rate. Structural equation modeling was used to determine the impact of interorganizational network development, interorganizational network sustainability, information
communication technology utilization, and organizational capacity on community disaster resiliency.
The results of the study show that one third of the total variation in disaster resiliency was explained with the exogenous variables in the structural equation model (R2=.31). There was no statistically significant relationship between network development and disaster resiliency. Also, a correlation was hypothesized between organizational capacity and ICT utilization, according to the study findings no correlation was found between these two variables. Network development, organizational capacity, and ICT utilization were found to be positively associated with disaster resiliency. Among all the variables, organizational capacity had the highest impact on disaster resiliency (β=.36). ICT utilization and network development had almost equal regression weights (β=.25, β=.26 respectively). A correlation was also found between network development and ICT utilization with β=.23.
The results suggest that organizations that are part of emergency management systems in Central Florida counties could enhance disaster resiliency of their communities by focusing on interorganizational and cross-sector network development, information communication technology utilization, and organizational capacity. Managerial craft has a critical role in developing relationship as most of the interorganizational ties are established with informal connections and mutual trust. Building relationship, installing technological systems, and carrying out joint trainings often exceeds financial capacities of organizations. Enabling more funding for these initiatives is another key point to which policy makers may pay attention.Ph.D.
Doctorate
Health and Public Affairs
Public Affairs
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Judd, Karen. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESILIENCY IN RURAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE YOUTH AND THEIR AWARENESS OF CITIZENSHIP PRACTICES." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4475.
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Effective citizenship practice in the United States has several important characteristics, which can provide the foundation for young people to access opportunity in employment and education. A continuum of policies, programs, and strategies meant to alleviate poverty have central themes of providing education and vocational opportunities, and yet large numbers of young minority people remain disenfranchised with no chance to succeed. There is even greater loss in the population of African American males who otherwise could achieve stable and strong economic life styles. Large unemployment and under-employment of African American males is documented through U.S. data sources where declining rates of labor force participation of black males is starkly evident (U.S. Census 2000). Geographic influences for minority youth also increase limited access to educational and employment opportunities (Slack & Jenson, 2002). What is clear is that minority youth are faced with a disproportionately difficult access to educational and employment opportunities as a result of diminished community social support, which should be the encouraging force in directing their goal achievements. Resiliency, as a strengths-based perspective, gained convincing prominence through the 1970s and 1980s. Initiative, self-control, self-esteem, and attachment are four protective factors of resiliency. Risk and protective factors are vital for intervention practices with individuals, families and communities. This study utilized protective factors that promote the skills and abilities necessary for encouraging resiliency and creating effective citizenship. Resiliency and the awareness of citizenship practices may bolster African American male youth successes in educational and employment opportunities. Youth who consistently and routinely engage in employment can increase the well-being of themselves, their families, and their communities. This study utilized a self-administered survey design to obtain responses from rural African Americans male youth, between the ages of 12 and 19 inclusive, to determine their resiliency skills and their awareness of citizenship practices (p=.005, one-tailed). In a pre-post test for significance, participants were asked to take a citizenship practices survey after the viewing of the video. This paired t-test displayed statistically significant results (p= .0015, t= 2.998, df =98). It is important to examine resiliency in rural African American male youth and how that resiliency interacts with the awareness of citizenship practices. There is little known about how rural African American, male youth perceive effective citizenship based on their level of resiliency. African American youth are better served toward successful employment and education through programs that are designed to increase citizenship practices awareness. There is reason to believe that citizenship practices, by way of training and community affirmation, with an infusion of resiliency skill techniques modeling, could open the doors wider for African American male youth who, for some, suffer from poverty, but for most suffer from the lack of free and open educational access which inhibits viable entry level employment opportunities.Ph.D.
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Health and Public Affairs
Public Affairs
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Myers, Christopher Aaron. "Life Event Perception: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to the Antecedents of the Life Stress Response." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3361.
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It has been often argued that life events have an impact on our physical and psychological well-being. In general, research supports this connection between life events and general health, though some argue that simply experiencing life events has a measurable and predictable impact our health, while others contend that this effect is mediated by the appraisal process. Further, research has identified a number of different factors (hypothetically stratified into pre-existing beliefs, external resources and demands, and behavioral activation and coping strategies) that may influence appraisal and general health. The current study attempts to integrate these findings by testing structural models of the relationship between life events, life stress, and general health while considering the appraisal process and other potential moderators of appraisal and general health. University students (N=204) were tested using 17 assessment measures representing 7 latent constructs of Life Events, Life Stress, Appraisal, General Health, Beliefs, External, and Activation. Results of the measurement models required model respecification to combine Appraisal and Beliefs into one construct and External and Activation into another construct, resulting in a five-factor hypothetical structural model. The resulting empirical structural model is a partially-mediated model that suggests that appraisal and pre-existing beliefs influence the relationship between life events and life stress, and that life events significantly impact measured life stress. The empirical model also indicates that general health is significantly impacted by life stress, as well as behavioral activation and external resources and demands. Practical implications of the findings and recommendations for further research were discussed.Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Arts and Sciences
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Blair, Lynne Erica. "Implementation of Rachel's Challenge: A Qualitative Study Analyzing the Impact of the Character Education Program on Resiliency, Culture, and Community in a Suburban High School." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/256455.
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Educational LeadershipEd.D.
This qualitative case study examines the impact of a character education program, Rachel's Challenge, in a high school to determine if the implementation of the program promotes resiliency, improves school culture, and supports an increased sense of community within the school. I examine, in rich detail, a suburban high school which implemented Rachel's Challenge and the research thoroughly formulates a description of the school prior to the implementation of the program and following the implementation of the program to determine the impact of the character education initiative on the school's culture, the resilience development of the school community members, and the sense of community within the institution. I collected the data in a suburban high school located in a Mid-Atlantic state. Limiting my study to one school provided me the necessary and advantageous opportunity to gain a rich description of the possible impacts of the program while also allowing me to deeply immerse myself into the realities of the participants. In-depth interviews were carried out with students, parents, counselors, administrators, and teachers to gain a rich understanding of any need for and value of the program and of any impacts of the program on the school's culture, the development of resilience, and a sense of connection and community. Constructs of Turbulence Theory are used to dissect the value of the character education program; I examined what need induced the implementation of the program in the school community and any positive impacts of the program on the school culture, resilience development, and sense of connection and community. Constructs of Resilience Theory are used, as it has been applied to individuals and organizations, to analyze the possible impact of the character education program on the resilience levels within the school community. Interviews were carried out with the various key-players within the high school who offered a wide interpretation of the effects of the character education program on the overall school culture and the level of resilience within the school community. A thorough document review was also carried out to further explore any impacts of the program on school culture, resilience development, and sense of community to clarify and further add to the interviews. The data provide educational leaders with a practical understanding of the impact of character education, namely the Rachel's Challenge program, on school culture and the development of resilience within a school community to help leaders formulate a value of its implementation in their schools. The research provides evidence that the Rachel's Challenge program did improve school culture in this particular school by encouraging a community built on acceptance, inclusion, kindness, respect, and compassion. The program encouraged pro-social behavioral changes within the school as well as promoted an anti-bullying message to the members of the school community. The research also provides evidence that the Rachel's Challenge program did promote the development of individual and community resilience at this particular school as demonstrated by an enhanced ability to stand up against peer pressure as well as the promotion of strength in the face of adversity and a sense of connection and unity within the school community.
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Jurgensen, Erin. "Examining Social Support as a Factor Promoting Resiliency Against Negative Outcomes Among Sexual Minority Youth." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216525.
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School PsychologyPh.D.
While most researchers agree that there is nothing inherently pathological about a sexual minority orientation (Savin-Willimas, 2005), sexual minority youth often face additional mental health challenges. Among the specific challenges experienced by sexual minority youth are increased rates of depression (D'Augelli, 2002; Galiher, Rostosky, & Hughes, 2004; Russell & Joyner, 2001), suicidal ideation (Balsam, Beauchaine, Mickey, & Rothblum, 2005; Russell & Joyner, 2001), substance abuse (Garofalo, Wolf, Kessel, Palfrey, & DuRant, 1998), and victimization (D'Augelli, Pilkington, & Hershberger, 2002; Elze, 2003; Russell, Franz, & Driscoll, 2001). Although research is beginning to address protective factors, we do not yet have a complete understanding of specific protective factors, particularly within the school, that promote resiliency within this group. The current study utilized a correlational design to evaluate the experiences of 377 sexual minority youth and examine the link between social support and specific mental health indicators (depression, suicidal ideation, substance use, and victimization). The youth in this study were drawn from community drop-in centers for sexual minority youth. Participants completed questionnaires and participated in a face-to-face interview to provide information regarding depression, suicidal ideation, substance use, victimization. Additionally, participants provided information regarding their feelings of being supported by their friends, whether or not their school had a support/discussion group for sexual minority youth, and if so, whether they attended the group. No significant relationships were found between the social support factors (social support from friends, presence of support group in school) and decreased substance use or suicidal ideation. Contrary to research indicating positive outcomes for students who attend schools with a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA; GLSEN, 2011), youth in the current study whose school had a support group reported increased depression when compared to youth whose school did not have a support group. However, a significant relationship was found between increased perceived social support from friends and decreased depression scores. These findings suggest the need for advocacy within schools to create supportive environments that are accessible to all sexual minority youth and that provide the opportunity to increase social networks and access to supportive peers.
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Pennington, Alicia. "A Thumping From Within Unanswered By Any Beckoning From Without: Resilience Among African American Women, Farmville, Virginia 1951-1963." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/343070.
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Urban EducationEd.D.
In 1959, as a reaction to the 1954 Supreme Court's Brown vs Board of Education desegregation decision all public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia were closed. This dissertation explores one group's response to the schools closings by examining the patterns of resilience that emerged among a group of African American women in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. Using a multi-disciplinary synthesis of research in education, history, geography, sociology, social movements, personal interviews and questionnaires this dissertation investigated the development of resilience at the grassroots level. African American women are taught early in their socialization process the value of independence, mutual aid, religiosity, community stability, and respect for elders. The school closings didn't just affect the children of Farmville, it changed families and communities, but most particularly it changed the lives of Farmville's women. Much of the research demonstrates that resilience and activism in oppressed communities has a dual nature that surfaces when those communities are under stress. Resilience among this group of African American women emerged both organically and as a result of their religious and community involvements. ii African American women experienced the cultural, educational, contextual, social, behavioral, and political worlds in Farmville, Virginia, from an "outsider within" perspective. When they stepped outside their socially and psychologically constricted lives they developed resilience fortified with both historic and personal commitment. In examining broadly the history of education in Virginia, the historic allegiances of African American women to community, religion, identity, education, and place a fuller understanding of the processes of the development of resilience emerges. This examination moved Black women from the margins to the center of the debate on resilience. The development of personal agency in Farmville was courageous and could have been physically dangerous. However, as the civil rights movement captured the American consciousness, the women of Farmville engaged in a unique social movement that would sustain a campaign for education parity.
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Liu, Yidong. "CMOS RF cituits sic] variability and reliability resilient design, modeling, and simulation." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4969.
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Simulation of different aging rate also shows that the sensitivity of LNA is further reduced with the accelerated aging of the biasing circuit. Thus, for majority RF transceiver circuits, the adaptive body biasing scheme provides overall performance resilience to the device reliability induced degradation. Also the tuning ability designed in RF PA and LNA provides the circuit post-process calibration capability.; The work presents a novel voltage biasing design that helps the CMOS RF circuits resilient to variability and reliability. The biasing scheme provides resilience through the threshold voltage (Vsubscript T) adjustment, and at the mean time it does not degrade the PA performance. Analytical equations are established for sensitivity of the resilient biasing under various scenarios. Power Amplifier (PA) and Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) are investigated case by case through modeling and experiment. PTM 65nm technology is adopted in modeling the transistors within these RF blocks. A traditional class-AB PA with resilient design is compared the same PA without such design in PTM 65nm technology. Analytical equations are established for sensitivity of the resilient biasing under various scenarios. A traditional class-AB PA with resilient design is compared the same PA without such design in PTM 65nm technology. The results show that the biasing design helps improve the robustness of the PA in terms of linear gain, P1dB, Psat, and power added efficiency (PAE). Except for post-fabrication calibration capability, the design reduces the majority performance sensitivity of PA by 50% when subjected to threshold voltage (Vsubscript T]) shift and 25% to electron mobility (mu subscript n]) degradation. The impact of degradation mismatches is also investigated. It is observed that the accelerated aging of MOS transistor in the biasing circuit will further reduce the sensitivity of PA. In the study of LNA, a 24 GHz narrow band cascade LNA with adaptive biasing scheme under various aging rate is compared to LNA without such biasing scheme. The modeling and simulation results show that the adaptive substrate biasing reduces the sensitivity of noise figure and minimum noise figure subject to process variation and device aging such as threshold voltage shift and electron mobility degradation.ID: 029809399; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-105).
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Doctorate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Engineering and Computer Science
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Ulubay, Murat. "Resilient Features Of Re-emerging Dyadic Communication Systems In An Interactive Virtual Environment." Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615502/index.pdf.
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This study mainly focuses on the emergence and utilization of communication systems in the context of joint action where collective cognitive activity is required. Dyads are given an instant messaging medium of communication where only a limited number of characters and symbols can be used for information exchange in order to collaborate on common tasks of finding objects, in a network-based interactive virtual environment (ActiveWorlds), a 3D, multi-agent, virtual reality platform. The restrictions on communication and the requirement of collaboration facilitated the creation of a lexical inventory and a minimalistic communication system, a compressed version of dyads&rsquoshared Natural Languages (NLs). Across eight experimental sessions, two manipulations are made in order to study their effects on parameters on 4 levels of analysis: (1) Quantitative, (2) Syntactic Complexity, (3) Lexical Category and (4) Speech Act Category. The two interventions are (1) increasing the number of targets from one to two after the first three experiments, and (2) administering a two months break between the 6th and 7th-8th experiments. Increased number of target objects influenced the quantitative parameters that are related to the amount of communication as well as the use scores of lexical, syntactic, and speech act categories
however, the use ratios of several parameters were resilient under this manipulation and rather showed different trends of change characterizing the development of the system towards a more mature state in accordance with the demands of the task structure. The opposing trends of increasing use ratio of Assertive and decreasing use ratio of Directive Speech Acts and decreasing use ratios of the Type/Token Number of Lexical Items in a session, the Number of New Lexical Items in a session and increasing ratio of Turn Success are also characteristics of this maturation. The break administered between the 6th and 7th experimental session did not cause any decay in the acquired skills of using the emerged communication system. The previously negotiated strategies and acquired skills of communication as well as the trends of the use ratios of parameters were resilient. The qualitative analysis of the developing communication system revealed several strategies, including compression of NL words into new lexical items, exploiting the redundancy of characters of written words, and iconicity and indexicality of given symbols. The main drivers of the development of the new communication system appeared to be the processes of integration of communicative with behavioral action. The cognitive capacities enabling this integration and the comprehension of the utterances in the new system is explained by the Cognitive and Communicative Principles of Relevance that are attributed to a comprehension sub-module of a mind-reading module of the human cognitive system.
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Atwater, Craig A. "SURVIVING SURPRISE: HOW FIRMS WERE AFFECTED BY - AND RESPONDED TO - UNEXPECTED, DISRUPTIVE, DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE IN THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/98176.
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Business Administration/MarketingPh.D.
Changes to the marketing environment occur in numerous ways and with a wide range of characteristics. This research examines the effects of - and responses to - surprise, which is defined as disruptive, discontinuous events that result in unexpected changes to the environment. Some authors have suggested that organizations have tended to overestimate their ability both to predict and to control calamitous environmental events, resulting in relatively little attention being paid to environmental surprise in the marketing literature (Cunha et al, 2006). Indeed, much of the research in this domain has focused on improving organizations' ability to recognize - or even anticipate - such events, thus rendering them not surprises (Ansoff, 1975; Lampel & Shapira, 2001). But, as Cunha and associates respond, "... researchers should investigate how organizations might deal with unanticipated events," not just how to avoid them (2006, p. 320, emphasis added). This research addresses a portion of the identified gap. Just as there is a range of possible changes and change types, organizations' responses also vary. Depending on the nature of the environmental event(s), the appropriate form of strategic response can be quite different. Therefore, how organizations respond to environmental change is a critical element of their marketing strategies. Remaining properly aligned with their external surroundings has repeatedly been shown to produce significant benefits in terms of marketing performance and financial success (Venkatraman & Prescott, 1990). Barney and associates state that "... to the extent some firms in a rapidly changing environment are more nimble, more able to change quickly, and more alert to changes in their competitive environment, they will be able to adapt to changing market conditions more rapidly than competitors, and thus gain competitive advantage" (2001, p. 631). Study 1 What happens when firms are confronted by a strategic surprise - defined as "sudden, urgent, unfamiliar change" (Ansoff 1975, p. 22) - such as the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001? Numerous studies have examined how strategic change, in the aftermath of a significant environmental event, contributes to organizational survival and success. But, is strategic change the appropriate response to unexpected and disruptive environmental change? And is there a preferred trajectory for change, such that certain strategies are better suited than others to the post-surprise environment? This exploratory research examines whether or not strategic change is an appropriate response to strategic surprise by considering the actions of motor carriers in the aftermath of 9/11. The data evidences significant disruption to the trucking industry following the event; for example, among the sample, mean operating ratios declined by more than 50%. But while nearly 40% of the carriers studied changed their strategies in the post-9/11 environment, this did not guarantee better performance. In fact, all carriers fared worse following the attacks, but those carriers that changed strategies actually performed significantly worse than those that persisted with their pre-9/11 strategies. Study 2 In Study 2, a scoring model of strategic resilience is developed that enables motor carriers to assess their likelihood of withstanding disruptive environmental change. Supply chain resilience is an emergent research stream that considers the ability of a supply chain network to anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to significant environmental risks in the form of disruptions and unanticipated events (Ponomarov & Holcomb, 2009). This study examines the ability of motor carriers - a critical and essential component of most supply chains - to survive such events. Using variables identified in Study 1, together with those from numerous previous studies in the prediction-model research domain, the second study considers which factors are significant and contribute the most utility to an overall resilience score. In addition, this study approaches the model-building process using a proven methodology (conjoint analysis) which previously has not been applied to this type of research, while examining an especially broad range of possible alternatives. The resultant model provides firms in the motor-carrier industry with a "resilience score" that suggests their likelihood of survival in the post-event marketing environment. The resilience model enables motor carriers to self-assess their ability to withstand disruptive events in the marketing environment, including strategic surprises such as 9/11. Motor carriers with weaker scores (i.e., less than 600, on a scale from 300 to 900) are more likely to exit - though clearly are not guaranteed to do so. This model correctly identified nearly 70% of carriers that ultimately exited from the industry. In addition, the model provided evidence of where motor carriers should focus their attention in a post-disruption marketing environment. Six factors emerged as most significant to carriers' resilience as evidenced by the model. These elements are recommended as the metrics to which carriers themselves - and dependent supply chain network members - pay most attention following an environmental disruption.
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Gong, Ning. "Resilient Control Strategy and Analysis for Power Systems using (n, k)-Star Topology." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/410406.
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Electrical EngineeringPh.D.
This research focuses on developing novel approaches in load balancing and restoration problems in electrical power distribution systems. The first approach introduces an inter-connected network topology, referred to as (n, k)-star topology. While power distribution systems can be constructed in different communication network topologies, the performance and fault assessment of the networked systems can be challenging to analyze. The (n, k)-star topologies have well defined performance and stability analysis metrics. Typically, these metrics are defined based on: i) degree, ii) diameter, and iii) conditional diagnosability of a faulty node. These parameters could be evaluated and assessed before a physical (n, k)-star topology power distribution system is constructed. Moreover, in the second approach, we evaluate load balancing problems by using a decentralized algorithm, i.e., the Multi-Agent System (MAS) based consensus algorithm on an (n, k)-star power topology. With aforementioned research approaches, an (n, k)-star power distribution system can be assessed with proposed metrics and assessed with encouraging results compared to other topology networked systems. Other encouraging results are found in efficiency and performance enhancement during information exchange using the decentralized algorithm. It has been proven that a load balance solution is convergent and asymptotically stable with a simple gain controller. The analysis can be achieved without constructing a physical network to help evaluate the design. Using the (n, k)-star topology and MAS, the load balancing/restoration problems can be solved much more quickly and accurately compared to other approaches shown in the literature.
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Mejia, Ximena Elizabeth. "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF SANDPLAY THERAPY ON MENTAL HEALTH STATUS AND RESILIENCY ATTITUDES IN MEXICAN FARMWORKER WOMEN." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4380.
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This study investigated the impact that sandplay therapy sessions had on Mexican farmworker women's mental health status and resilience attitudes. The participants of this study were 40 women who were born in various states in Mexico and presently reside in rural Central Florida. Twenty women participated in the control group and twenty women participated in the treatment group. The impact sandplay therapy has on participants' mental health status was measured by Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45), which assesses progress in therapy; and Resiliency Attitudes Scale (R.A.S.), which determines resiliency attitudes. The study also includes twenty participants' transcriptions of their individual sessions to illustrate the experiences of Mexican farmworker women with sandplay therapy. Pre and post-tests revealed a significant impact on mental health status and resiliency attitudes on the treatment group. In addition, participants also reported their own conceptualization of resilience that points to the integration of social networks, community resilience, solidarity, and hope.Ph.D.
Department of Child, Family and Community Sciences
Education
Child, Family, and Community Sciences
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Constant, Julie. ""Souviens-toi de ton futur ". Les artistes rescapés des camps nazis et la réception de leurs oeuvres de témoignage et de mémoire en France après 1945." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30065.
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La thèse propose d’éclairer les trajectoires et les œuvres d’artistes survivants des camps nazis, français ou installés en France après la guerre, leur tentative de transmettre l’expérience de la déportation et du génocide ou au contraire leur volonté de fuir ces thématiques, les langages plastiques et l’iconographie empruntés, les déclencheurs mémoriels et les éventuelles mutations des choix de chacun pour témoigner, représenter, remémorer durant cinquante ans. Quelques rares artistes ont eu l’opportunité de créer in situ : nous étudions également les motivations, les conditions de création et les spécificités de ces dessins des camps. Après 1945, entre mémoire, révolte et résilience, les artistes de ce corpus, déportés pour faits de résistance ou au titre des persécutions et de la mise en œuvre de la solution finale, ont dû mener une lutte intérieure contre les douloureuses réminiscences des camps et parfois un combat militant pour diffuser leur message face aux offensives antisémites et négationnistes. La complexité de la transfiguration en termes plastiques du traumatisme a suscité doutes et réflexions : transmettre sans trahir, témoigner sans renoncer à l’art. Les peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs de ce corpus n’ont en en effet jamais cessé de se définir prioritairement comme des artistes : l’essence et la portée universelle de la création, ainsi que les références tutélaires de l’histoire de l’art ont épaulé les artistes dans ce processus cathartique. Si les cadavres, corps anonymes et suppliciés, peuplent l’univers visuel de l’après-guerre, les artistes rescapés convoquent les disparus et réinsufflent chair et individualité aux êtres aimés, figurés souffrants, combattants ou tendres, mais dignes et debout. Notre objet d’étude se concentre également sur les modalités et les formes évolutives de la rencontre entre ces œuvres liées à la mémoire de la déportation et la France, de l’après-guerre aux commémorations du cinquantième anniversaire de la libération des camps : la diffusion auprès du public français à l’occasion d’expositions individuelles, collectives ou de salons ; la communication autour de ces problématiques dans les catalogues, les cartons d’expositions et les publications ; la réception des œuvres à travers la presse, les acquisitions publiques et les décorations honorifiques, ainsi que l’accueil spécifique des associations de déportés et de la communauté juive avec notamment la création du premier Musée d’art juif françaisThe thesis attempts to shed light on French artists and artists who lived in France after the war after surviving the Nazi camps, and the life they lead after the camps and their work. It also looks at their efforts to pass on their experience of the deportation and the genocide, or on the other hand their desire to flee the themes, esthetic language and the iconography used. The triggers to the memory and the eventual mutation of choices by each person to be witness, to represent, to recollect during fifty years will also be addressed. A few rare artists had the opportunity to create in situ: we will also study the motivation, the conditions of creation and the particularities of the drawings in the camps. After 1945, between memory, revolt and resilience, the artists of this group, deported for their activities in the resistance or due to persecution and the installation of the final solution, had to lead an interior struggle against the painful reminiscences of the camps and sometimes an activist’s fight to spread their message in opposition to anti-Semite attacks and Holocaust deniers. The complexity of the transfiguration in terms of visual representations of trauma brought up doubts and reflections: transmitting without betraying, witnessing without giving up art. The painters, sculptors and engravers of this group have never really stopped defining themselves mainly as artists: the essence and the universal scope of creation, as well as the custodians of art history having placed this cathartic process on the shoulders of the artists. If the corpses, the anonymous and tortured bodies, inhabit the visual universe after the war, the artists that escaped, summoned those that disappeared and gave flesh and individuality to loved ones, represented as suffering, fighting or tender, but dignified and standing. The study also concentrates on the terms and changing forms of the reception in France of the works linked to the memory of the deportation, post-war to the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the camps: the distribution to the French public via individual or group exhibitions and art fairs ; the promotion concerning these issues in the literature about the exhibitions and the artists ; the press reactions, the public acquisitions and the public decorations, including the specific reception by the associations of those deported and the Jewish community especially with the creation of the French Jewish art museum
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Velezmoro, Rodrigo. "Hispanic Immigrant Parental Messages of Resiliency and Emotional Regulation to their Children: An Examination of Important Variables and an Intervention." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6376.
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This two-part study examined the adjustment of Hispanic immigrants. Part one examined the communication that occurs between Hispanic immigrant parents and their adolescents/young adults about life in the United States (U.S.). It also examined how attitudes toward the U.S. and various protective factors influence psychological adjustment. Hispanic immigrants (n = 123) with an average of 11 years living in the United States and their adolescents/young adults between the ages of 14-22 served as participants. For both parents and their adolescents/young adults, favorable attitudes toward the U.S. were associated with improved psychological adjustment. Contrary to prediction, attitudes toward the U.S. did not correlate with quality of life or life satisfaction for either family member. Further, results indicated that among adolescents/young adults, resiliency predicted positive U.S. attitudes, whereas among parents, openness to new experiences predicted favorable attitudes toward the U.S. Finally, parental views of the U.S. correlated positively with their adolescents'/young adults' views of the U.S. In an extension of the study, 37 Hispanic college students who were either immigrants or children of immigrants were randomly assigned to either a control condition or a psychoeducation condition. The psychoeducation condition focused on improving their emotional regulation and views of the United States. No significant differences were found among the groups.Ph.D.
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Psychology
Sciences
Psychology; Clinical Psychology
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McCarthy, Catherine M. "Latent Vulnerability Among Low-Risk Adolescents." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/95153.
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Educational PsychologyPh.D.
This longitudinal study assessed education achievement outcomes among a cohort of eighth graders for whom future college-level academic success would be predicted. The sample was drawn from the NELS:88 database and was comprised of students who scored in the top quintile on a mathematics achievement test and who were identified as representing the top two quartiles of a measurement of socio-economic status. This group, identified as low-risk for academic failure, was predicted to attain a bachelor's degree by the age of twenty-six. A subgroup from among this sample did not attain a bachelor's degree by age twenty-six. In the interest of illuminating features of latent vulnerability, differences between the two groups were explored. Data from the nationally representative sample of 2,355 students was analyzed using several approaches. Results suggest that certain vulnerabilities which may be considered to be dormant (e.g., negative self-concept), eventually have negative effects on academic outcomes for the non-graduating group despite predictions to the contrary. These adolescents exhibit features of latent vulnerability.
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