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Critical perspectives on resilience
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
This chapter aims to contribute to the critical discussion of the concept of resilience and its pertinence and usefulness to contexts of socioeconomic hardship. Starting from an approach that contrasts the poverty studies ...
Socio-economic practices of households coping with hardship
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-12-08)
Top-down responses to major shocks have been of major interest to social scientists and they contributed to our understanding of restructuring, transformation and development. Research into socio-economic practices of ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...
Goal-directed Empowerment: combining Intrinsic Motivation and Task-oriented Behaviour
(2020-12-07)
Empowerment is an information-theoretic measure representing the capacity of an agent to affect its environment. It quantifies its ability to inject information in the environment via its actions and to recapture this ...
A qualitative study of the views of patients with medically unexplained symptoms on The BodyMind Approach®: Employing embodied methods and arts practices for self-management
(2020-12-07)
The arts provide openings for symbolic expression by engaging the sensory experience in the body they become a source of insight through embodied cognition and emotion, enabling meaning-making, and acting as a catalyst for ...
Design and field campaign validation of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and optical particle counter
(2020-12-07)
Small unmanned aircraft (SUA) have the potential to be used as platforms for the measurement of atmospheric particulates. The use of an SUA platform for these measurements provides benefits such as high manoeuvrability, ...
Development of a novel risk score to predict mortality in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19
(2020-12-07)
Patients hospitalised with COVID-19 have a high mortality. Identification of patients at increased risk of adverse outcome would be important, to allow closer observation and earlier medical intervention for those at risk, ...
Animal fiber characterization and fiber loading effect on mechanical behaviors of sheep wool fiber reinforced polyester composites
(2020-12-06)
This study presents animal fiber characterization and the influence of various fiber loadings on mechanical properties of sheep hair fiber-reinforced polymer (SHFRP) composites. The sheep hair fibers (SHF) characterization ...
Blunting EU Regulation 1107/2009 : Following a regulation into a system of agricultural innovation
(2020-12-06)
This paper explores the role of regulation and legislation on influencing the development and diffusion of technologies and methods of crop production. To do this, the change in pesticide registration under European ...
Information Decomposition Based on Cooperative Game Theory
(2020-12-05)
We offer a new approach to the information decomposition problem in information theory: given a ‘target’ random variable co-distributed with multiple ‘source’ variables, how can we decompose the mutual information into a ...