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The aim of this article is to objectify several variables involved in the growth of the social resilience. To do this, it has been made a conceptual approximation of the term that includes the capacity of a community for, overcoming difficulties, adapting, and transforming itself. After analysing the most relevant studies and explaining the difficulties for modelling, we have grouped the relationships that potentially improve the social resilience. We conclude that, through a process of social intelligence, it is possible to guide the development of our economies into spaces of innovation and transformability that will improve the social resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to objectify several variables involved in the growth of the social resilience. To do this, it has been made a conceptual approximation of the term that includes the capacity of a community for, overcoming difficulties, adapting, and transforming itself. After analysing the most relevant studies and explaining the difficulties for modelling, we have grouped the relationships that potentially improve the social resilience. We conclude that, through a process of social intelligence, it is possible to guide the development of our economies into spaces of innovation and transformability that will improve the social resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to determine the level of the adaptive capacity and degree of academic stress, as well as the stressors that are mostly present in graduate students of the National Pedagogical University of the State of Chihuahua, it aims to identify the relationship between both variables. The questionnaire was used for the collection of information, the adaptation instrument obtained an alpha of 0.915 and the academic stress instrument an alpha of 0.829. The results indicate that graduate students have a high level of adaptive capacity and a severe level of academic stress, the most present stressor was task overload, while the main symptoms were permanent tiredness, anxiety and concentration problems. Necessary elements were available to determine that there is an association with a poor concordance strength between both variables, inverse proportional, that is: the higher the adaptive capacity, the lower the academic stress, with a predictive value of 1.6% of the population and a significance value of 0.04. Among the most important implications are that students are able to adapt, accept changes and show resilience towards them, however, they cannot master academic stress and its effects, which indicates the existence of negative consequences for their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper provides evidence for the racialization of urban neighborhoods in Kansas City Missouri, USA and the ways in which voluntary associations of citizens work to resist and reduce conditions of urban vulnerability. The paper presents data from historical patterns of raciallybiased real estate practices, including redlining, and demonstrates how these patterns continue to shape the politics of vulnerability in the region today. Three neighborhood profiles provide evidence of the ways in which local neighborhood associations are organized to respond to both social and spatial conditions of vulnerability. In contrast to the estimates of low community resilience in these neighborhoods, the author demonstrates that neighborhood empowerment is an important counterpoint to concentrated vulnerabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article studies the contributions to the theory of dynamic capabilities with emphasis on the adaptation capacity, contemplates the forms of learning and continuous adjustments to manage the complexity of the processes. Searching in scientific articles, the investigator carried out literature review through electronic databases, using the following descriptors: "dynamic capabilities", "adaptability", "international markets", and "competitiveness"; then, the systematization of the reading was made, and finally, the structuring of the sections. Main findings were the coincidence of the authors, stating that the ability of companies to adapt and improve knowledge acquired to be maintained over time and It is an inimitable feature of each organization. It was concluded that the capability of adaptation provides tools to the organization, in order to achieve changes in its business strategy, in agreement with changing market needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The tropical Andes have been declared one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Processes of glacial decline, including their altogether disappearance, as well as notable changes in rainfall patterns presently affect the region. This research took place in two distinct ecological zones of the northern highlands of Ecuador: premontaine dry forest and montaine wet forest. The authors collected and analyzed data on perceptions of men and women small-scale farmers with regard to the experiences with changes in climate variables. Subsequently, findings were contrasted with available official weather change data. In addition, the authors studied perceptions with regard to perceived causes of climate change and the level of risk, and the research explored different individual and collective coping and adaptation measures. The research identified that perceptions of climate change variables concurred with available meteorological data. Nevertheless, farmers from both zones had great difficulty predicting climate change and thought that they must not only be prepared to react to adverse events. The research also underlines local organizational capacity, necessary for the construction of adaptive strategies. In this work we manifest the importance of understanding local context with the end of designing intervention programs of small-scale agriculture in the Ecuadorian Andes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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