Resilience and Systems—A Building Structure Case Example

Building physician resilience.

OBJECTIVE To explore the dimensions of family physician resilience. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews with family physician peers. SETTING Hamilton, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Purposive sample of 17 family physicians. METHOD An iterative process of face-to-face, in-depth interviews that were audiotaped and transcribed. The research team independently reviewed each interview for ...

Building a Preliminary Safety Case: An Example from Aerospace

The phased production of safety cases, in step with an evolving design, is an increasingly common approach to managing the potential risk associated with certification. The Preliminary Safety Case, the first safety case to be issued, is prepared during the initial stages of project development. An important part of the Preliminary Safety Case involves defining the safety argument approach that ...

Building Long-term Reef Resilience

Complementarity modeling of hybrid systemsA

A complementarity framework is described for the modeling of certain classes of mixed continuous/discrete dynamical systems. The use of such a framework is well-known for mechanical systems with inequality constraints, but we give a more general formulation which applies for instance also to switching control systems. The main theoretical results in the paper are concerned with uniqueness of sm...

Improving Operational Effectiveness and Building Warrior Resilience

T oday’s complex, fluid, and unpredictable operational environment both demands more from the military in terms of mission requirements and exposes troops to more stressors and potential trauma than ever before. On the one hand, situational awareness, mental agility, and adaptability are characteristics that the military wants to cultivate to succeed in such complex environments. In part, this ...