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  2. Resilience (engineering and construction) - Wikipedia

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    The resilience loss is a metric of only positive value. It has the advantage of being easily generalized to different structures, infrastructures, and communities. This definition assumes that the functionality is 100% pre-event and will eventually be recovered to a full functionality of 100%. This may not be true in practice.

  3. Adaptability - Wikipedia

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    Adaptability (Latin: adaptō "fit to, adjust") is a feature of a system or of a process. This word has been put to use as a specialised term in different disciplines and in business operations. Word definitions of adaptability as a specialised term differ little from dictionary definitions.

  4. Resilience - Wikipedia

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    Resilience in art, the property of artwork to remain relevant over changing times; Resilience (organizational), the ability of a system to withstand changes in its environment and still function

  5. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings. New symbols have also arisen: one of the most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war.

  6. Resilience engineering - Wikipedia

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    sustained adaptability: the ability of a system to continue to keep adapting to surprises, over long periods of time; These two concepts are elaborated in Woods's theory of graceful extensibility. Woods contrasts resilience with robustness, which is the ability of a system to deal effectively with potential challenges that were anticipated in ...

  7. 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.

  8. FURPS - Wikipedia

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  9. Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) was developed by Kathryn M. Connor and Jonathan R.T. Davidson as a means of assessing resilience. [1] The CD-RISC is based on Connor and Davidson's operational definition of resilience, which is the ability to "thrive in the face of adversity." Since its development in 2003, the CD-RISC has been ...