In this paper, we describe the knowledge and policy disconnect exposed by Sandy between what we submit are four key elements of adaptive capacity: resources, institutions, knowledge and innovation of technology.
Because co-resistances will vary among institutions, knowledge of the local antibiogram is crucial in selecting appropriate antimicrobial therapy for the target pathogen.
For professionals working within schools, hospitals and mental health care institutions, knowledge about protective and risk factors present before family bereavement may contribute to identifying children who are at risk for developing (more) mental health problems after bereavement.
This has had a salutary effect in the evolution of economic theory including a more serious consideration of how technology is endogenous to the operation of economic systems and recognition of the systemic relationships between different institutions of knowledge creation and distribution.
MICU clinicians, at our institution, reported knowledge of EM in the ICU.
Most effectively, Kubodera's footnotes show the institutions of knowledge as tools of imperial power.
Social institutions, customs, knowledge, techniques, and cultivated plants are deeds or gifts of a culture hero or a pair of them, sometimes twin brothers who may represent the Sun and Moon.
He contributed to our work and we benefited greatly from his global insight, energetic counsel, and his belief that vigorous institutions of knowledge are essential to advancing civility here and abroad.
Then there's the way our schools, universities and research institutions are increasingly being run as profit-driven entities, training the next generation of workers and inventing new goods for sale, rather than as public institutions valuing knowledge for its own sake.
The case is being closely watched, as allegations of sexual abuse and the way powerful institutions manage knowledge of those allegations has exploded within the Roman Catholic Church, in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn and in high-profile schools like Horace Mann in the Bronx and Penn State University.
