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Improving the TENOR of Labeling: Re-evaluating Topic Models for Content Analysis

March 23, 2024
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Zongxia Li, Andrew Mao, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Daniel Stephens, Emily Walpole, Alden A. Dima, Juan Fung
Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their evaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as coherence are often used, however, their validity has been questioned for neural topic models

Initial Framework to Design Lifeline Infrastructure for Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Volume 1

March 7, 2024
Author(s)
Craig A. Davis, Laurie A. Johnson, Anne Kiremidjian, Alexis Kwasinski, Thomas Denis O'Rourke, Ellis Stanley, Kent Yu, Farzin Zareian, Katherine Johnson, Ayse Hortacsu
Lifeline infrastructure systems provide services to support communities, including life safety, public health, and social-economic factors. They require both built assets and the human agency necessary to operate them, but there are no known frameworks

Initial Framework to Design Lifeline Infrastructure for Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Volume 2

March 7, 2024
Author(s)
Craig A. Davis, Laurie A. Johnson, Anne Kiremidjian, Alexis Kwasinski, Thomas Denis O'Rourke, Ellis Stanley, Kent Yu, Farzin Zareian, Katherine Johnson, Ayse Hortacsu
This Volume 2 report serves as a companion document to Volume 1 that presents a framework to guide the reader through steps to achieve system level functional recovery of lifeline infrastructure systems exposed to earthquake events. The proposed framework

A Risk-Averse Stochastic Optimization Model for Community Resilience Planning

February 6, 2024
Author(s)
Tasnim Ibn Faiz, Kenneth Harrison
Community resilience planning is challenging as it involves several large-scale systems with interdependency, populations with diverse socio-economic characteristics, and numerous stakeholders. This study introduces a new optimization model to decrease a

Assessing the Feasibility of Achieving Functional Recovery Goals through Seismic Retrofit of Existing Reinforced Concrete Buildings

September 23, 2023
Author(s)
Negar Mohammadgholibeyki, Maria Jose Echeverria, Amir Safiey, Dustin Cook, Maria Koliou, ABBIE LIEL
Damage from past earthquakes has significantly impeded post-earthquake building function, threatening community resilience, and motivating consideration of functional recovery in building design and assessment. This study examines whether it is feasible to

Methods and lessons for business resilience and recovery surveys

May 25, 2023
Author(s)
Maria Watson, Charlotte Brown, John Handmer, Cynthia Kroll, Anne Wein, Jennifer Helgeson, Adam Rose, Noah Dormady, Juri Kim
Surveys are important tools in business resilience and recovery research because of their ability to capture disaggregated economic information; however, they can be difficult and costly due to business operational dynamics and the larger challenges of

A Call for a National Community Resilience Extension Partnership: Building a Sustained Multi-Disciplinary Bridge from Community Resilience Research to Practice and Communities

March 31, 2023
Author(s)
Christopher Clavin, Jennifer Helgeson, Matthew Malecha, Shubha Shrivastava
Establishing a national Community Resilience Extension Partnership, a boundary organization directly linking the scientific community with local planners and policymakers, would provide the research-to-practice infrastructure needed to accelerate the

Deciphering small business community disaster support using machine learning

March 3, 2023
Author(s)
Eleanor Pierel, Jennifer Helgeson, Kirstin Dow
With the increase in severity and frequency of natural hazards due to climate change, developing a holistic understanding of community resilience factors is critically important to disaster response and community support. Our investigation of small

Validating commonly-used indicators for community resilience measurement

January 25, 2023
Author(s)
Donghwan Gu, Maria Dillard, Michael Gerst, Jarrod Loerzel
This paper quantitatively examines indicators frequently used to measure community resilience. Based on existing frameworks and methodologies rooted in multiple disciplines, a set of 18 indicators were identified as being most prevalent. A data-driven

Business Recovery from Disasters: Lessons from Natural Hazards and the COVID-19 Pandemic

August 9, 2022
Author(s)
Stephanie Chang, Charlotte Brown, John Handmer, Jennifer Helgeson, Yoshio Kajitani, Adriana Keating, Ilan Noy, Maria Watson, Sahar Derakhshan, Juri Kim, Alfredo Roa Henriquez
This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the pandemic, studies of business impact and recovery have proliferated; however

Value of information and decision pathways: Concepts and case studies

May 20, 2022
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Pierre Glynn, Charles Rhodes, Scott Chiavacci, Jennifer Helgeson, Carl Shapiro, Crista Straub
Information plays a key role in the policy decision-making process – but the collection and dissemination of information carries costs. Understanding how these costs compare to the benefits of having the information (this is the value of information: "VOI"
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