Infrastructure service disruptions impact households in an affected community disproportionally. To enable integrating social equity considerations infrastructure resilience assessments, this study created a new computational multi-agent simulation model, which enables integrated assessment of hazard, system, and household elements their interactions. With focus on hurricane-induced power outag...

To better understand intrinsic brain connections in major depression, we used a neuroimaging technique that measures resting state functional connectivity using functional MRI (fMRI). Three different brain networks--the cognitive control network, default mode network, and affective network--were investigated. Compared with controls, in depressed subjects each of these three networks had increas...

Concerns about the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus have motivated many discussions regarding new approaches for managing water, energy and food resources. Despite the progress in recent years, there remainmany challenges in scientific research on theWEF nexus, while implementation as a management tool is just beginning. The scientific challenges are primarily related to data, information and know...

BACKGROUND The paper reports on the importance of the interpersonal nexus within qualitative research processes, from a recent research project on patient experiences of shoulder surgery. Our aim is to reveal the importance of qualitative research processes and specifically the role of the interpersonal nexus in generating quality data. Literature related to the importance of human interactions...

In this paper, we present a performance evaluation of a wide-area cluster system based on a rewallenabled Globus metacomputing toolkit. In order to establish communication links beyond the rewall, we have designed and implemented a resource manager called RMF (Resource Manager beyond the Firewall) and the Nexus Proxy, which relays TCP communication links beyond the rewall. In order to extend th...

Spatial and temporal modeling is one of the most core aspects few-shot action recognition. Most previous works mainly focus on long-term relation based high-level spatial representations, without considering crucial low-level features short-term relations. Actually, former feature could bring rich local semantic information, latter represent motion characteristics adjacent frames, respectively....

This paper examines the nexus between political instability and economic growth in 10 CEE countries in transition in the period 1990-2009. Our results support the contention that political instability defined as a propensity for government change had a negative impact on growth. On the other hand, there was no causality in the opposite direction. A sensitivity analysis based on the application ...

Abstract. Social networks have seen enormous growth over the past few years, providing also a powerful new channel for distributing personalized services. Personalization, however, is exacerbated because social content is scattered across different social networks serving specific human needs and social networkers are particularly reluctant to share social content with service providers, if not...

The energy-water nexus has been studied predominantly through discussions of policy options supported by data surveys and technology considerations. As the degree of coupling between the energy and water systems is affected by the design and operation of various engineered system components, our understanding of the nexus and ability to tackle its associated challenges would be enhanced by a sy...

Research on the nexus between energy consumption and economic growth is a fundamental topic for energy policy making and low-carbon economic development. Russia proves the third largest energy consumption country in the world in recent years, while little research has shed light upon its energy consumption issue till now, especially its energy–growth nexus. Therefore, this paper empirically inv...