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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience among the Boruca Indians of Costa Rica
(2017-03-13)
This paper aims to explore the relationship between entrepreneurship and resilience in an indigenous context. The overarching research questions are: What are the mechanisms that link entrepreneurial thought and action to ...
Tri-level Interdiction Model for Enhancing Interdependent Network Resilience
(2021-07-28)
Network-based systems widely appear in different service, community, industrial, and economic systems such as electric power, water supply, transportation, and telecommunication networks. Due to the significant role of ...
Analysis of Resilience in US Stock Markets during Natural Disasters
(2016)
Different studies relating to resilience have been performed on stock markets for disasters around the world. Researchers have tried to figure out if stock markets were resilient or not during a particular disaster.
In ...
Measuring and Optimizing Influence for Resilient Community Networks
(2018)
Social networks and the use of technology allow communities to be connected, creating opportunities for individuals to spread information and influence others. This communication is critical when disruptions, such as natural ...
Strings of Traitors: Social Networks and the Organizational Trajectory of the Khmer Rouge
(2019-05-10)
How do social networks shape the development and trajectory of militant organizations and revolutionary parties engaged in the process of establishing political order through violence? In this dissertation, I argue that ...
Optimal structure patterns for resilient corporate networks
(2019-12-13)
Corporate networks are sets of companies maintaining formal relations between them in the form of contracts (INSEE, 2016). This type of network is generally affected when unexpected events happen, such as financial crises ...
BAYESIAN KERNEL METHODS FOR THE RISK ANALYSIS AND RESILIENCE MODELING OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
(2015-08-14)
The protection of critical infrastructures has recently garnered attention with an emphasis on analyzing the risk and improving the resilience of such systems. With the abundance of data, risk managers should be able to ...
Coastal vulnerability: Impact of port disruptions and the economic impacts of tropical cyclones
(2020-12)
Coastal counties in the United States account for less than 10% of the nation’s land mass. Yet, approximately 40% of the country’s population, or over 127 million people, live in these areas. The population density of ...
Project Network Implementation of Infrastructure System Restoration
(2020-05)
Infrastructure system restoration at shortest time became a paramount demand to retain system’s functionality to normal performance and avoid services from being ceased for a long time. Enormous studies elucidated the ...
Fairness-Based Transportation Resilience for Communities under Tsunami Hazard
(2021-12)
Abstract: Natural disasters such as tsunamis have catastrophic impacts on the functionality and resilience of transportation networks in impacted areas, and they can damage coastal regions hundreds of kilometers away from ...