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Fragility (other) , a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of ...
Fragility may refer to: * A property of a solid, related to brittleness * Fragility (glass physics), a concept to characterize viscous slow down during glass formation * ''Fragility'' (film), a 2016 Swedish documentary * Fragility Tour, a 1999 concert tour by Nine Inch Nails * Financial fragility, the vulnerability of a financial system to a financial crisis * White fragility, defensive responses by white people to racial stress See also * Fragility Index, in medical literature, a statistical metric used to assess test results * Fragile States Index, an annual report assessing states' vulnerability to conflict or collapse * Antifragility Antifragility is a property of systems in which they increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. The concept was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittleness
A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it fractures with little elastic deformation and without significant plastic deformation. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Breaking is often accompanied by a sharp snapping sound. When used in materials science, it is generally applied to materials that fail when there is little or no plastic deformation before failure. One proof is to match the broken halves, which should fit exactly since no plastic deformation has occurred. Brittleness in different materials Polymers Mechanical characteristics of polymers can be sensitive to temperature changes near room temperatures. For example, poly(methyl methacrylate) is extremely brittle at temperature 4˚C, but experiences increased ductility with increased temperature. Amorphous polymers are polymers that can behave differently at different temperatures. They may behave like a glass at low temperatures (the gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragility (glass Physics)
In glass physics, fragility characterizes how rapidly the dynamics of a material slows down as it is cooled toward the glass transition: materials with a higher fragility have a relatively narrow glass transition temperature range, while those with low fragility have a relatively broad glass transition temperature range. Physically, fragility may be related to the presence of dynamical heterogeneity in glasses, as well as to the breakdown of the usual Stokes–Einstein relationship between viscosity and diffusion. Definition Formally, fragility reflects the degree to which the temperature dependence of the viscosity (or relaxation time) deviates from Arrhenius behavior. This classification was originally proposed by Austen Angell. The most common definition of fragility is the "kinetic fragility index" ''m'', which characterizes the slope of the viscosity (or relaxation time) of a material with temperature as it approaches the glass transition temperature from above: : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragility (film)
''Fragility'' is a 2016 Swedish documentary film directed by Ahang Bashi. Synopsis Just when her career is at its peak, the filmmaker Ahang Bashi falls into a deep hole of panic disorder and depression. With the camera as her companion, Ahang explores anxiety's vertiginous world of both darkness and hope. The film depicts her worst moments as well as the most loving gestures from the surroundings. It also takes us back in time, to her escape to Sweden and to the little girl who didn't understand. In 2016 the film was a nominee for ''Tempo Documentary Award'' on Tempo Film Festival and won the ''Stockholm Prize'' through Nöjesguiden. One year later it was awarded ''Newcomer of the year'' at Swedish Guldbaggegalan, and it won ''Best Swedish Feature – The City Of Gothenburg Award'', at the Gothenburg Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragility Tour
The Fragility Tour was a concert tour in support of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' ''The Fragile'' album, which took place in late 1999, running until mid-2000, and was broken into two major legs, Fragility v1.0 and Fragility v2.0 respectively. Destinations included Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and North America. The tour featured increasingly large production values, including a triptych video display created by contemporary video artist Bill Viola. The images displayed on the triptych focused on storm and water imagery. "I don't want to do the standard 'rock band in a hockey arena' show", said Trent Reznor. "I want to up the par a little bit. I think our stage show has had a lot of thought put into it. It's not like a Korn or Rob Zombie show where they just go into the prop cupboard and pull out as much shit as they can. I hope, when people see our shows, they go, 'Fuck, that was smarter than that Korn tour I saw, but not in a pretentious way – it kicked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Fragility
Financial fragility is the vulnerability of a financial system to a financial crisis. Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale define financial fragility as the degree to which "...small shocks have disproportionately large effects." Roger Lagunoff and Stacey Schreft write, "In macroeconomics, the term "financial fragility" is used...to refer to a financial system's susceptibility to large-scale financial crises caused by small, routine economic shocks." Sources of financial fragility Why does the financial system exhibit fragility in the first place? Why do banks choose to take on a capital structure that makes them vulnerable to financial crises? There are two views of financial fragility which correspond to two views on the origins of financial crises. According to the fundamental equilibrium or business cycle view, financial crises arise from the poor fundamentals of the economy, which make it vulnerable during a time of duress such as a recession. According to the self-fulfilling or sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Fragility
White defensiveness is a term to describe defensive responses by white people to discussions of societal discrimination, structural racism, and white privilege. The term has been applied to characterize the responses of white people to portrayals of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization, or scholarship on the legacy of those systems in modern society. Academics and historians have identified multiple forms of white defensiveness, including white denial, white diversion and white fragility, the last of which was popularized by scholar Robin DiAngelo. White defensiveness refers to the occurrence in which white people display highly defensive responses when confronted with the truth regarding race. In particular, white people display substantially uneasy responses when questioned about racial dynamics (i.e. instances of possible racism). It acts as a self-protective strategy to conceal grief, trauma, and intergenerational trauma. Definition White defensiveness descri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragility Index
The fragility index is a statistical metric used primarily in the medical literature to assess study results. It denotes the minimum number of subjects whose status would have to change from a non-event to an event in order to convert a statistically significant result of the study into a non-significant result. The smaller the fragility index, the more fragile the result of the study. __TOC__ Derivation The result of scientific studies is said to be statistically significant if the calculated probability of a type I error (assumption of a correlation that does not really exist) is below the arbitrarily chosen but generally accepted limit of 5%. Study results that meet these significance criteria can be published more easily and in more highly ranked journals (publication bias). The sole consideration of the significance level for the assessment of study results is increasingly considered questionable (see also Problems with the Interpretation of Statistical Significance). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragile States Index
The Fragile States Index (FSI; formerly the Failed States Index) is an annual report published by the United States think tank the Fund for Peace and the American magazine ''Foreign Policy'' from 2005 to 2018, then by The New Humanitarian since 2019. The list aims to assess states' vulnerability to conflict or collapse, ranking all sovereign states with membership in the United Nations where there is enough data available for analysis. Taiwan, the Palestinian Territories, Northern Cyprus, Kosovo and Western Sahara are not ranked, despite being recognized as sovereign by one or more other nations. Ranking is based on the sum of scores for 12 indicators (see below). Each indicator is scored on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being the lowest intensity (most stable) and 10 being the highest intensity (least stable), creating a scale spanning 0−120. Methodology The index's ranks are based on twelve indicators of state vulnerability, grouped by category: Cohesion, Economic, Political, Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
