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2022-06-01
Thayanne G. M. Ciriaco, Stephen D. Wong
Rapid urban growth and the devastating impacts of disasters and emergencies have challenged infrastructure and social systems in many communities. Recently, the nascent concept of “resilience hubs” has emerged to help communities overcome these challenges and improve well-being during disasters...
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Simulating how animals learn: a new modelling framework applied to the process of optimal foraging
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Peter R. Thompson, Melodie Kunegel-Lion, Mark A. Lewis
Animal learning has interested ecologists and psychologists for over a century. Mathematical models that explain how animals store and recall information have gained attention recently. Central to this work is statistical decision theory (SDT), which relates information uptake in animals to...
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2022-04-01
Bonnett, Nicole, Birchall, S. Jeff
This study examines extent and quality of climate adaptation integration within strategic plans of local governments in British Columbia, Canada. Strategic plans (n=39) were assessed using plan content analysis in order to understand whether regional planning leads to adaptation action by...
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An experimental study on the strain-rate-dependent compressive and tensile response of an alumina ceramic
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Ji, Min, Li, Haoyang, Zheng, Jie, Yang, Shuo, Zaiemyekeh, Zahra, Hogan, James D.
This research article studied the strain-rate-dependent mechanical response of a CeramTec Alotec 98% alumina ceramic under uniaxial compression and indirect tension loadings. Mechanical testing was carried out using a load frame for quasi-static strain rates and a split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar...
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2022-03-10
Xiunan Wang, Hao Wang, Pouria Ramazi, Kyeongah Nah, Mark Lewis
Accurate prediction of the number of daily or weekly confirmed cases of COVID-19 is critical to the control of the pandemic. Existing mechanistic models nicely capture the disease dynamics. However, to forecast the future, they require the transmission rate to be known, limiting their prediction...
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2022-04-12
Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of food processing and accounts for a substantial proportion of human foods, including not only staple foods such as bread, cereal porridges or fermented legumes but also fermented vegetables, meats, fish and dairy, alcoholic beverages as well as coffee,...
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An assessment of systems, agents, and institutions in building community resilience to climate change: A case study of Charlottetown, Canada
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Birchall, S. Jeff, MacDonald, Seghan, Bara, Nicklas N.
While climate change manifests itself as a global phenomenon, impacts are experienced most acutely at the local scale. As a result, the onus of responding to climate change impacts through planning policies and practice falls on local government decision-makers. This qualitative study, based in...
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2022-01-24
Tiruneh, Getaneh Gezahegne, Fayek, Aminah Robinson
The majority of competency and performance modeling methods available in the literature are deterministic conceptual, statistical,and/or regression models that cannot capture the subjective uncertainty, complex, and nonlinear relationships inherent in construction, whichmakes accurate prediction...