Decay or Resilience?

Adaptation, redundancy or resilience.

the study of the natural environment teaches us that ecological systems rich in biodiversity have greater resili ence than less diverse systems, and that resourcepoor ecosystems tend to have greater biodiversity to buffer against environ mental change. the african savannah, a huge ecosystem, contains an abundance of grasses and other plants, herbivores and their predat ors. the loss of one spec...

Running Head: RESILIENCE: DISTINCT CONSTRUCT OR CONGLOMERATE? 1 Resilience: Distinct Construct or Conglomerate of Existing Traits?

Risk or Resilience? What Makes a Difference?

Dropping out of school has been associated with a student’s ethnicity, socioeconomic status, challenging behaviours and low academic achievement. This paper describes research conducted with 1050 students aged 12-15, in three North Queensland urban high schools to investigate issues related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at risk of dropping out of school before gaining adequate quali...

Decay or Interference in Working Memory 1 Time - Related Decay or Interference - Based Forgetting in Working Memory ?

176 words) The Time-Based Resource-Sharing model of working memory assumes that memory traces suffer from a time-related decay when attention is occupied by concurrent activities. Using complex continuous span tasks in which temporal parameters are carefully controlled, Barrouillet et al. (2007) recently provided evidence that any increase in time of the processing component of these tasks resu...

Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

Vulnerability and resilience constitute different but overlapping research themes embraced by sustainability science. As practiced within this science, the two research themes appear to coalesce around one of the foundational pivots of sustainability, the coupled human–environment system. They differ in regard to their attention to two other pivots, environmental services and the tradeoffs of t...