Methodology reconsidered

I overlooked a fact that resilience is only one dimension of the adaptive cycle.  To really use an adaptive cycle to measure resilience I will need to know three values: the position of the system in the cycle, the connectedness of the system, and the system's potential, which is perhaps outside my thesis's scope.

Thus the resilience should be measured by other methods, focusing on slowly changing variables.  The outcome -- measurement of resilience, can be used in the future if I want to find out about the system's adaptive cycle.

To understand the history of the system and determine its position in the cycle will still be useful.  It will help with understanding of current status and relative resilience of the system.