Engineering Innovation for a More Resilient World
Join Engr. Dr. Queeneth Kingsley-Omoyibo as she presents the achievements of engineering, steps to build a resilient future, and the positive impact of modern technology. Discover ways to redefine engineering culture and create a more sustainable world. Don't miss out on this opportunity to innovate
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Borders Climate Action Network Overview
Borders Climate Action Network aims to achieve a net-zero and climate-resilient Scottish Borders through a self-organising, inclusive network supporting communities. The network provides capacity building, gap identification, and interconnections to foster community actions. The approach focuses on
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Progress and Preparatory Steps for Regional Water Projects in CAREC Water Pillar
Progress and preparatory steps for regional water projects in the CAREC Water Pillar were discussed during the CAREC Senior Officials Meeting on 13-14 June 2023 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The initiative aims to promote sustainable, climate-resilient, and productive water systems in the region, focusing on
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Building a Resilient Workforce Key Strategies from HR Consulting Firms in 2024
Building a Resilient Workforce: Key Strategies\nfrom HR Consulting Firms in 2024\nBuilding a resilient workforce has become a priority for organizations aiming to\nthrive in an unpredictable and rapidly changing business environment. HR\nconsulting firms in 2024 are focusing on several key strategie
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Enhancing Synergies for a Resilient Tomorrow: Recommendations for Sustainable Development
Recommendations have been made since 2018 to enhance synergies for a resilient future, including exploring waste-to-energy technology, centralizing spatial data, creating a national medical response team, and improving disaster preparedness. Ongoing suggestions involve extending climate change manag
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Enhancing Synergies for Resilient Tomorrow: Progress and Challenges
Progress has been made since 2018 in enhancing synergies for a resilient tomorrow, including the handover of new houses, public infrastructure projects, and community engagement initiatives. Ongoing projects involve construction, training programs, and disaster risk reduction interventions. Challeng
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Stakeholders Networking for Multi-Risk and Climate Resilient Disaster Management in Slovakia
This project, funded by the European Union, aims to enhance emergency preparedness and response in Slovakia by addressing institutional capacity, coordination, and technology gaps. The goal is to strengthen risk assessment methodologies, involve various stakeholders, and develop disaster-resilient m
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AASHTO Method for Determining Effective Roadbed Soil Resilient Modulus
The AASHTO method provides a systematic approach for evaluating the effective roadbed soil resilient modulus in flexible pavements. It involves calculating the relative damage to pavements based on predicted traffic load and allowable load repetitions. The method considers the seasonal moduli values
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Enhancing Network Performance with RoCE Technology
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) benefits, RoCEv2 packet format, resilient RoCE feature progression, optimizing network performance with QoS, and RoCE congestion control convergence analysis are discussed in this proposal. RoCE technology offers low latency, high throughput, and efficient CPU usag
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Enhancing Synergies for Resilient Tomorrow: Chemical Waste Management Project Overview
Enhancing Synergies for a Resilient Tomorrow outlines a project aimed at strengthening the Federated States of Micronesia's capacity in chemical management. The project focuses on monitoring and evaluating chemical use, enhancing legislative frameworks, and establishing a central database for chemic
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Understanding Particle Motion in Fluids: Dynamics and Phenomena
Exploring the intricate dynamics of particle motion within fluids, this content delves into mechanical micro-processes, particle velocity, terminal velocity, flow regimes, and the calculation of drag coefficients. It covers the Stokes region, laminar flow conditions, and considerations for transient
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The Rise of Totalitarian Regimes in World War II
In the aftermath of World War I, several European countries fell into economic depression and embraced totalitarian regimes led by leaders like Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in the Soviet Union, Hirohito in Japan, and Hitler in Germany. These leaders wielded total control over their citizens, militariz
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Enhancing Agricultural Resilience and Livelihoods in Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan Commercial Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods Enhancement Programme (CARLEP) aims to increase smallholder farmers' incomes and reduce poverty through climate-resilient agricultural production. CARLEP builds on IFAD's longstanding partnership with the Royal Government of Bhut
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Insights on Resilient Leadership: Qualities and Inspiration
Resilient leadership involves influencing, inspiring, and guiding others towards shared goals. Key qualities include confidence, charisma, commitment, and character. Leaders with inner strength can inspire and motivate their teams effectively. Quotes from renowned leaders like John C. Maxwell and Ma
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Leakage-Resilient Key Exchange and Seed Extractors in Cryptography
This content discusses the concepts of leakage-resilient key exchange and seed extractors in cryptography, focusing on scenarios involving Alice, Bob, and Eve. It covers non-interactive key exchanges, passive adversaries, perfect randomness challenges, and leakage-resilient settings in symmetric-key
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Montserrat: A Rich History and Resilient Spirit
Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory, boasts a rich history dating back to 1632. Known for its sugar and cotton plantations, the island faced challenges including slavery and natural disasters like Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Despite adversities, Montserrat remains resilient, with notable landmarks
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Interaction Between Succession and Matrimonial Property Regimes - Practical Issues
Understanding the interaction between succession and matrimonial property regimes is crucial for distributing a deceased person's estate. The Succession Regulation and the Matrimonial Property Regime Regulation both come into play in the absence of a marriage contract, determining the applicable law
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Divine Handicap: Spiritual Battles and Resilient Faith in 2024
In this Jan 2024 prayer session, the focus is on understanding that spiritual battles cannot be won with physical weapons. Through adoration, confession, and thanksgiving, the message emphasizes God's mercy, grace, and blessings. The theme for 2024 is "Unshakeable," encouraging resilient faith, dedi
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Climate Models and Moisture Equilibrium in Flexible Pavement Design
Climate inputs like temperature and moisture play key roles in flexible pavement design. The heat transfer model evaluates frost action and temperature regimes, while moisture equilibrium models consider the interaction between soil suction and moisture content. Understanding these factors is crucia
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Insights into George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Totalitarian Regimes
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four explores themes of oppression, totalitarianism, and political satire inspired by the oppressive regimes of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. The story delves into a dystopian society controlled by the Party, led by figures like Big Brother, reflecting Orwell'
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Global Initiatives for Disaster Risk Reduction in Gandhinagar
The Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRWG) in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, is focusing on priorities such as early warning systems, resilient infrastructure, financing, disaster response, and recovery. There is a strong emphasis on the connection between disaster risk reduction and sustainable devel
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Sustainable Development Goals and Resilient Leadership in Action
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 as an intergovernmental set of goals with 169 targets to address various global challenges such as poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, clean energy, and more. This module emphasizes the importance of resilient leadership
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Environmental Liability and Compensation Regimes: A Comprehensive Overview
Numerous environmental damages have occurred globally, leading to the need for liability and compensation regimes. This includes incidents like the Bhopal gas leak and Chernobyl nuclear accident. Concepts of tort law guide responsibility and compensation in cases of environmental harm, addressing is
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Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program for Building Supply Chain Resilience
The Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program aims to enhance the middle stages of the food supply chain in South Carolina by supporting processing, aggregation, and distribution of agricultural products. Funding opportunities are available for agricultural producers, processors, nonprofit organ
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Adaptive Resilient Routing via Preorders in SDN
This research paper discusses the challenges of path-based routing in modern networks and introduces a novel approach called Adaptive Resilient Routing via Preorders in Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The authors emphasize the limitations of traditional routing schemes, the importance of resilien
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Understanding Corruption, Governance, and Societal Norms
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi delves into the complexities of corruption, governance regimes, and societal norms, emphasizing the need to transform governance systems rather than just combat illegal corruption. She explores the concepts of corruption at the individual and societal levels, governance regimes,
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Understanding Private International Law: Key Principles and Treaty Regimes
This lesson delves into the sources, key principles, and treaty regimes of private international law. It covers jurisdictional competence, conflicts of law, recognition of foreign judgments, Canadian common law vs. Quebec civil law, Hague Conventions, and the United Nations Convention on Contracts f
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Creating a Resilient Coast in New Jersey: The Role of Transfer of Development Rights and Rolling Easements
Exploring how Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) coupled with a Rolling Easement can contribute to building a resilient coast in New Jersey amidst coastal climate change impacts like sea-level rise. The article discusses the challenges of hard structures, the existing legal frameworks, and the imp
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The Resilient Fisheries RI Project: Insights on Ocean Acidification by Sarah Schumann
The Resilient Fisheries RI Project, led by project coordinator Sarah Schumann, aims to understand ocean acidification's impact on Rhode Island's fishing industry. Through participatory action research and social learning, the project explores climate change and adaptive capacity within the commercia
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Laws of Leadership: Resilient Leadership Module
Explore the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Module on Resilient Leadership, covering essential principles such as the Law of the Lid, Law of Influence, Law of Process, Law of Navigation, Law of Addition, and Law of Solid Ground. Navigate through phases of leadership growth, learn to add value, bui
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Patterns of Electoral Malpractices in Democratizing Regimes
This research project examines electoral malpractices in democratizing regimes, focusing on the competitiveness and fairness of elections. The study aims to identify patterns of malpractice and irregularities in selected European countries and their impact on political regimes and EU membership. The
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Restoring Ecosystems and Communities for a Connected World
Siolta.chroi envisions a world where ecosystems thrive, humans cooperate with nature, and communities explore their full potential. Their mission in Ireland focuses on regenerative cultures, resilient food systems, and ecosystem restoration. Embracing regenerative culture is key to healing the land,
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Understanding Political Regimes: From Oligarchy to Mafia State in Hungary
Exploring the evolution of political systems in Hungary post-1989, this examination delves into a spectrum of regimes including liberal democracies, dictatorships, and hybrid structures. It analyzes the intricacies of patronage politics and the sociological dimensions that shape the landscape of pow
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Sustainability Nexus: Multidisciplinary Connections for a Resilient Future
The 8th International Research Conference of Uva Wellassa University, themed "Sustainability Nexus: Multidisciplinary Connections for a Resilient Future," will be held on July 24th and 25th, 2024 as an online event. The conference aims to explore the intersection of sustainability across various dis
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Understanding Aerodynamics Fundamentals and Principles
Delve into the world of aerodynamics with an exploration of fundamental principles, equations, flow types, Mach number regimes, and vector relations. Discover the distinctions between inviscid and viscous flows, incompressible and compressible flows, as well as the various Mach number regimes from s
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Understanding Societal Resilience in Hybrid Warfare Context
Societal resilience in hybrid warfare involves the ability of individuals, groups, and societies to resist and recover from shocks by combining civilian, economic, commercial, and military factors. It encompasses preparedness, continuity of critical services, resilient resources, and effective commu
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Quantum Public-Key Encryption with Tamper-Resilient Public Keys
Explore the concept of Quantum Public-Key Encryption with Tamper-Resilient Public Keys from One-Way Functions. Learn about the essentials of Public-key Encryption (PKE), computational assumptions, and the implications of realizing PKE from OWFs in the quantum world. Delve into topics like statistica
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Understanding the Strong and Resilient Communities Program for Unemployed Individuals
Explore the Strong and Resilient Communities program aimed at unemployed individuals, focusing on building cohesive communities, reducing social isolation, and developing soft skills to empower vulnerable cohorts. Learn about program objectives, outcomes, and the importance of outcome-focused approa
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Optimally Resilient Asynchronous Multi-Valued Byzantine Agreement
Exploring the challenges and solutions in achieving optimally resilient asynchronous multi-valued Byzantine agreement protocols. This work presents a novel construction meeting key requirements and delves into round-preserving parallel composition of agreements, shedding light on probabilistic termi
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MTD-Based Self-Adaptive Resilience in Cloud Systems
Cloud systems face increasing attack surfaces, requiring resilient and self-healing mechanisms. This study explores a Moving Target Defense (MTD) approach for cloud systems, aiming to construct an attack-resilient framework through dynamic network configuration and continuous replacement of virtual
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