resilience

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Successive and overlapping crises can lead to a lack of information, a flood of information that overwhelms essential information, or even distorted information. Society needs to be information-resilient and resistant to crises, including disruptions related to information. According to a new study from the University of Vaasa, Finland, we need a culture that accepts uncertainty and imperfection of…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Smaller class sizes in schools are failing to increase the resilience of children from low-income families, according to a study published in the International Journal of Science Education. Data on more than 2,700 disadvantaged secondary (high) school students shows that minimizing pupil numbers in classrooms does…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Managers can do much to help their workers become more resilient to inevitable time disruptions in today's workplace, says new research from The University of Texas at Austin. With intricate supply chains and operations that sprawl across time zones, workplace time disturbances are only increasing. Such temporal…

NASA and the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) have joined forces to enhance global awareness and response to landslide hazards with the integration of NASA's Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness model (LHASA) into the DisasterAWARE platform. Landslides pose significant risks to communities worldwide, resulting in loss of life and extensive damage annually. By leveraging LHASA's capabilities, DisasterAWARE users gain access to a robust tool for identifying, tracking, and responding to landslide threats…

Telecommunications companies in the Asia-Pacific region have entered 2024 facing cost pressures amid limited returns from their 5G investments to date. S&P Global Ratings forecasts that, while 5G adoption in many APAC markets remains too low to boost revenues, price rises such as labour and electricity are squeezing margins. Cost pressures a prime driver for AI and product innovation Jayanth Nagarajan, Head of Telecom Industry for Asia Pacific & Japan, Amazon Web Services Telecommunications firm Telstra…

Schematic explanation of how seismic events impact forest resilience. A) Precipitation resulting in enhanced run-off and reduced infiltration prior to an earthquake. B) Seismic waves generate cracks in the soil and around roots of trees that improve soil permeability and infiltration of precipitation to deeper layers of the ground. Credit: Gao et al. 2024. Earthquake effects are often thought of in terms of the human impact, be…

Uniswap’s recent price movements have stirred the crypto market, leading to a notable fluctuation in its native token, UNI. Over the past 24 hours, Uniswap has experienced a notable decline of 16.81%, reflecting a considerable sell-off in the market. Despite the price drop, Uniswap maintains its strong fundamentals, with a live market cap of USD 6,313,931,036 and a circulating supply of 598,187,016 UNI coins. However, the significant trading volume of USD 1,000,386,611 underscores ongoing market activity and…

The Sandbox (SAND) is gearing up for a mega token release in mid-February. Some analysts fear that it could dent SAND’s expected pump. NuggetRush is also on an impressive market increase, selling over 170 million tokens and raising $2 million in its presale. NuggetRush could become one of the top DeFi projects of 2024. Yet, can it beat gaming altcoins like SAND? Let’s hear from NUGX’s backers. >> Buy NuggetRush Now << The Sandbox Announces Mega Token Release There is growing excitement around The…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain AidData, the international development research lab based at William & Mary's Global Research Institute, have done an exhaustive study of Russia's attempts to use media, money and partnerships with sympathetic civic groups to advance its interests in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Ukraine was one of 17 countries…

Proposed organizational resilience construct model. The diagram shows a model of organizational resilience with four bubbles showing organizational learning capacity, resiliency management, operational flexibility and business continuity all pointing to a central bubble that shows organizational resilience. The arrows from the bubbles are labeled H1, H2, H3 and H4. The multiplicative effects of RM, OLC, BC and OF are in a box with an arrow pointing to…