The severe cold reduced the resiliency of two rubber O-rings that sealed the joint between the two lower segments of the right-hand solid rocket booster.
As Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development USAIDD) explained to the Huffington Post in July, "There's no question that hotter and drier growing conditions in sub-Saharan Africa have reduced the resiliency of these communities.
Recent alewife and blueback herring declines may have been triggered by overharvest in marine fisheries, but earlier human actions including in-river harvest, dam construction, pollution, and landscape change undoubtedly reduced the resiliency of populations (Limburg and Waldman 2009; Hall et al. 2012).
By destroying soil nutrients through the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, conventional agriculture jeopardizes food security and nutrition, and reduces ecosystems' resiliency to flood and drought by removing the protective buffer provided by soil's organic carbon.
Joe Burton is the founder and CEO of Whil Concepts, Inc. ("Whil"), a digital training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resiliency and improve their sleep and performance.
The simulation results showed that the consideration of resiliency in design reduced the EDC of supply chain by up to 38% by optimizing the RBPD locations.
We demonstrated that a small amount of wildfire on the landscape resulted in significant changes in the C pool, and that strategically placed fuel treatments substantially reduced wildfire risk, increased fire resiliency of the forest, and is beneficial for long-term C management.
Given these scenarios, it is no surprise that the authors vote for resiliency: green buildings, reduced energy demand, reliance on renewable fuel sources, walkable neighborhoods, more localized production of goods, and other hallmarks of sustainability.
This results in increased durability, higher peak power, and reduced cost due to improved membrane resiliency and lifetime.
This combination of kernels was tested in a randomized control design over several years, and showed reductions in actual violent injuries (Krug et al. 1997), increased social competence and resiliency measures, as well as reduced aggression and inattention (Flannery et al. 2003).
