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  2. Adaptive capacity - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive capacity confers resilience to perturbation, giving ecological and human social systems the ability to reconfigure themselves with minimum loss of function.In ecological systems, this resilience shows as net primary productivity and maintenance of biomass and biodiversity, and the stability of hydrological cycles.

  3. Interpersonal neurobiology - Wikipedia

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    The attuned communication of the caregiver being empathetic and presenting their emotional availability to the infant shapes their emotional development, both verbally and nonverbally. [27] The caregivers reactions to emotions also become the way the child understands which emotions are acceptable, with the child's future relationships possibly ...

  4. Adaptive behavior - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive behaviors include life skills such as grooming, dressing, safety, food handling, working, money management, cleaning, making friends, social skills, and the personal responsibility expected of their age, social group and wealth group. Specifically relevant are community access skills and peer access and retention skills, and behaviors ...

  5. Ecological stability - Wikipedia

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    Resilience also expresses the need for persistence although from a management approach it is expressed to have a broad range of choices and events are to be looked at as uniformly distributed. [17] Elasticity and amplitude are measures of resilience. Elasticity is the speed with which a system returns to its original/previous state.

  6. Complex system - Wikipedia

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    A complex system is a system composed of many components which may interact with each other. [1] Examples of complex systems are Earth's global climate, organisms, the human brain, infrastructure such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, complex software and electronic systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an ecosystem, a living cell, and, ultimately, for ...

  7. Language development - Wikipedia

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    By the age of 10, the child's cognitive potential has matured and they can participate fully and understand the purpose of their conversations. During this time, the sophistication and effectiveness of communication skills increase and understanding of vocabulary and grammar increases as a result of education.

  8. Communication for Development - Wikipedia

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    Com4Prom: Communication for Promotion promotes development aid in donor countries to justify how and why development aid resources are spent. Com4Imple : Communication for Implementation facilitates the implementation of development aid on developing countries by explaining development programmes to local populations.

  9. Psychological resilience - Wikipedia

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    Psychological resilience, or mental resilience, is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. [1]The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner as she conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.