Howard and Bartram (2010) defined the resilience of a piped water supply as a function of the resilience of individual components of the system, namely, the source, treatment, and distribution through primary, secondary, and tertiary pipes and in system storage infrastructure.
They should be a function of the network size, the degree of resilience required against attacks and number of operations that DCA supports.
The findings from this study suggest that clarity regarding the type and function of resilience needs to improve in USFS documents, and that the agency should evaluate the existing question in the SES literature of resilience of what to what?
Adjusting to a New Normal People's responses to life's challenges are largely a function of their innate characteristics, traits like resilience, irritability, optimism that define them and are consistent throughout life.
The only real difference is the duration of the no-grazing period which may be a function of seasonality (Voisin 1988) and the resilience or brittleness of the environment (Savory 1999).
And that ability (also called adaptability or resilience) is a function of how many historical alternatives you maintain in your collective genome (only successful adaptations get carried forward, so every bit of your history that you retain is a history of past success).
The resilience of the Conservative vote in England cannot purely be a function of short-term campaign tactics.
These relationships functioned as a mode of resilience for many.
It would be more appropriate to relinquish these notions in favour of a concept of responsabilization, in which a social collective takes charge of a process of resilience, healing, and improved functioning.
Among the four studies which investigated resilience, only one controlled study employed a "resilience scale", showing a significant increase of resilience.
