African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Cambria Press
• Release : 07 June 2023

• Author : Martin E. Ford,Donald H. Ford
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 March 2019

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford’s (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions. Although not exactly a "how to" manual, it does provide many concrete examples of how and when the

• Author : Louis Sander
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 22 May 2012

This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a life’s work. The idea concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in terms of basic principles that govern the living system as an ongoing creative process – a process in which there is a continuing impetus, both energizing and motivational, that moves the living system toward

• Author : Sladjana Spasić,Srdjan Kesić
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 28 June 2019

The biological basis of physiological signals is incredibly complex. While many types of research certainly appreciate molecular, cellular and systems approach to unravel overall biological complexity, in the recent decades the interest for mathematical and computational characterization of structural and functional basis underlying biological phenomena gain wide popularity among scientists. Nowadays, we witnessed wide range applications of nonlinear quantitative analysis that produced measures such as fractal dimension, power-law scaling, Hurst exponent, Lyapunov exponent, approximate entropy, sample entropy, Lempel–Ziv complexity,

• Author : Fred W. Vondracek,Donald H. Ford,Erik J. Porfeli
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 03 July 2014

The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes of interaction with affordances they recognize within their contexts, and how counseling can facilitate those processes. The LSVD was created by combining the scientifically based systems theory that explicates the dynamics of all aspects of human functioning and development, called Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems, with important ideas about vocational behavior

• Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 11 February 2001

This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel investments in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disciplines are also required. This report summarizes a major conference that reviewed our nation's R&D support for biotechnology and information technologies. The volume includes newly commissioned research and makes recommendations and findings concerning the important relationship between information technologies and biotechnology. It emphasizes the fall off in R&

• Author : Fred Boogerd,Frank J. Bruggeman,Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr,H.V. Westerhoff
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 20 March 2007

Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecedented in its combination of biology with a great many other sciences, from physics to ecology, from mathematics to medicine, and from philosophy to chemistry. Studying the philosophical foundations of systems biology may resolve a longer standing issue, i.e., the extent to which Biology is entitled to its own scientific foundations rather than being dominated by existing philosophies. * Answers the question of

• Author : Insana Michael F,Ghaboussi Jamshid
• Publisher : #N/A
• Release : 19 July 2017

Our book presents a unique and original viewpoint on natural and engineered systems. The authors' goal is to propose and explain core principles that govern the formation and function of simple and complex systems. Examples are drawn from a broad range of topics from common materials and manufactured structures to the behavior of cells, organisms and socio-economic organizations. We provide a technical discussion of key engineering principles without the use of mathematics so that we may describe for a general

• Author : LTL (Leader to Leader)
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 03 April 2013

Innovation is necessary for creating a bright, competitive future.In this collection, you’ll find important insights oninnovation drawn from the pages of the award-winning publicationLeader to Leader. Written by some of the country’s topthought leaders, including Clayton M. Christensen, Margaret J.Wheatley, and Gary Hamel, this collection makes innovation comealive in new and surprising ways. Focusing on different aspects and approaches of innovation, itdelivers practical knowledge and advice that can mean thedifference in your innovation efforts. Each article

• Author : David A. Rosenblueth
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 07 June 2023

The complexity of living organisms surpasses our unaided habilities of analysis. Hence, computational and mathematical methods are necessary for increasing our understanding of biological systems. At the same time, there has been a phenomenal recent progress allowing the application of novel formal methods to new domains. This progress has spurred a conspicuous optimism in computational biology. This optimism, in turn, has promoted a rapid increase in collaboration between specialists of biology with specialists of computer science. Through sheer complexity, however,

• Author : Alvaro Moreno,Matteo Mossio
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 04 May 2015

Since Darwin, Biology has been framed on the idea of evolution by natural selection, which has profoundly influenced the scientific and philosophical comprehension of biological phenomena and of our place in Nature. This book argues that contemporary biology should progress towards and revolve around an even more fundamental idea, that of autonomy. Biological autonomy describes living organisms as organised systems, which are able to self-produce and self-maintain as integrated entities, to establish their own goals and norms, and to promote

• Author : Michael Ruse
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 01 June 2023

Explores the relationship between Christianity and evolution, drawing on ideas from the history and philosophy of science.

• Author : Fritjof Capra
• Publisher : HarperPerennial
• Release : 07 June 1997

Capra argues that at the end of the 20th century we are shifting away from the mechanistic world of Descartes and Newton to a holistic, ecological view. He establishes patterns between ideas from such diverse fields as Buddhism and quantum physics.

• Author : Larissa S. Brizhik,Francesco Musumeci,Mae-Wan Ho
• Publisher : World Scientific
• Release : 07 June 2023

This volume contains papers based on the workshop OC Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological UnderstandingOCO, held in Italy in 2002. The meeting was a forum aimed at evaluating the potential and outlooks of a modern physics approach to understanding and describing biological processes, especially regarding the transition from the microscopic chemical scenario to the macroscopic functional configurations of living matter. In this frame some leading researchers presented and discussed several basic topics, such as

• Author : Giles Hutchins
• Publisher : eBook Partnership
• Release : 16 July 2019

This book by leadership and sustainability experts Giles Hutchins and Laura Storm provides an exciting and comprehensive framework for building regenerative life-affirming businesses. It offers a multitude of business cases, fascinating examples from nature's living systems, insights from the front-line pioneers and tools and techniques for leaders to succeed and thrive in the 21st century. Regenerative Leadership draws inspiration from pioneering thinking within biomimicry, circular economy, adult developmental psychology, anthropology, biophilia, sociology, complexity theory and next-stage leadership development. It connects