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Title: Does Planning Build Resilience in Hydraulic Fracturing Communities?
Author: Underwood, Catherine
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sustainability, Social sciences--Research, Land use--Planning
Description: Despite its long history in the United States and abroad, the unconventional drilling industry, and specifically hydraulic fracturing technology, remain controversial. While the competing demands of energy from oil and gas are contrasted with envi...

Title: ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF DISTRIBUTION POWER GRIDS WITH PHOTOVOLTAICS (PVs) AND ENERGY STORAGE
Author: McGirt, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Extreme events such as natural disasters can cause power grid failures, leading to catastrophic consequences and losses. With increasing integrations of photovoltaics (PVs) and energy storage in the distribution power grid, this work explores how ...

Title: PATHWAYS TO COPING WITH EXTREME EVENTS: A STUDY OF THE RELATION BETWEEN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND FOUR TYPES OF RUMINATION
Author: Greene, Taryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: This study investigated the degree to which cognitive flexibility (CF) is related to rumination as part of the overall coping process. We sought to test four hypotheses concerning the relationship between global CF and four specific types of rumin...