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Resilient control systems, the engendering of cognitive, cyber-physical threat resilience into control systems; a concept in energy development; Resilience, the micro-rover carried by the Japanese Hakuto-R Mission 2 to land on Earth's moon
A home in Gilchrist, Texas, designed to resist flood waters survived Hurricane Ike in 2008.. In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure, as well as communities.
In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and subsequently recovering. Such perturbations and disturbances can include stochastic events such as fires, flooding, windstorms, insect population explosions, and human activities such as deforestation, fracking of the ground for oil extraction, pesticide sprayed in soil ...
The area under the linear portion of a stress–strain curve is the resilience of the material. In material science, resilience is the ability of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically, and release that energy upon unloading.
A resilient economy and a string of rate cuts by the Federal Reserve have eased concerns around credit quality. "The impact of rate changes to our economics are really, really small, given the ...
When Doves announced their first major tour in 15 years would be without lead singer Jimi Goodwin, fans were left wondered how the rest of the band would adjust. But for guitarist Jez Williams, it ...
Climate-resilient water services (or climate-resilient WASH) are services that provide access to high quality drinking water during all seasons and even during extreme weather events. [27] Climate resilience in general is the ability to recover from, or to mitigate vulnerability to, climate-related shocks such as floods and droughts. [28]
In the days since a U.S. Army veteran drove a truck into dozens of New Year's Day revelers, normalcy has begun to return to a stricken yet defiant New Orleans, where music is again streaming from ...