complex systems thinking daring to violate basic taboos of reductionism
MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 6 ppt
... The concept of holarchic complexity has been explored in the field of complex systems theory—under different names—in relation to the possible development of tools useful for the study of the sustainability ... consists of assessments of land area In practical terms, we have to divide a given amount of TAL (the size of the whole system mapped in terms of units of area), which is the equivalent of the total ... million ha) has to be divided according to a given profile of investment of TAL over the five typologies of land use, which provides an arrow of percentages that totals 100 In the example of Figure...
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Integrated Analysis of Data from MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes in the Lower Mekong Basin
... coefficients of the linear dependence of relative abundance of spawning stock size at locations in the LMB 87 Table 17 Regression coefficients of the linear dependence of mean body weight of ... autotrophs, and form the base of the food chain.* The number of fish (recruits) added to the exploitable stock, in the fishing area, each year, through a process of growth (i.e the fish grows to ... in an attempt to reveal the extent of fish migrations and the location of spawning areas in the basin, as well as to improve understanding of the life-cycles and dynamics of fish stocks in the...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "An integrated analysis of 33 Eucalyptus trials linking the onset of competition-induced tree growth suppression with management, physiographic and climatic factors" pptx
... evapotranspiration, for the site Total annual solar radiation (MJ m−2 day−1 ) % clay in top 15 cm of soil % sand in top 15 cm of soil % silt in top 15 cm of soil % organic carbon in top 15 cm of soil Management ... the mid to high altitude range of sites, the frequency of weeding operations will need to be increased The purpose of this study was to highlight factors that are related to the onset of competition-induced ... explanatory variables, stepwise selection was not employed to simplify models because of the well documented limitations of stepwise regression, most important of which is that it often fails to...
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Báo cáo y học: " Therapeutic efficacy of alpha-1 antitrypsin augmentation therapy on the loss of lung tissue: an integrated analysis of 2 randomised clinical trials using computed " potx
... conflicts of interest to disclose Jan Stolk has served on company advisory board meetings of various companies and served as consultant to some of them Fees were directly donated to the bank account of ... reasonable marker of a patient’s health status and exercise capacity [17], and has previously been considered to be the best predictor of respiratory and allcause mortality [18] This has led to the tenet ... Medical Imaging Systems for a research project Asger Dirksen, as the principal investigator of the multicenter, Stockley et al Respiratory Research 2010, 11:136 http://respiratory-research.com/content/11/1/136...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "LEXICON-GRAMMAR AND THE SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF FRENCH" pot
... A TOUTS TOUTE POSS-O L' L' TOUTE L' L' L' L' L' A meaning of t h e whole the two sentences differ by have distributional meaning AZIP~T LA BAGARP~ A LA TOUT PLUS TOUTS LE LE TOUTS LE TOUTE TOUTS ... structures modaltties to the minimal meanings, as in V-ns) has been made in terms of a few to have, to be Prep) technique has certainly contributed to the shaping of the grammars used in automatic parsing ... food which is this pie WH-ia of number of have common N O fill deletion: N with N2 and to specify N t lexJcally by means of For example columns of the matrix end has to The p e r s o n the boy...
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PRINCIPLES FOR THE RISK ANALYSIS OF FOODS DERIVED FROM MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY
... Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Animals (CAC/GL 68-2008) See footnote Reference is made to the Compilation of Codex Texts Relevant to Labelling of Foods ... proportional to the risk, based on the outcome of the risk assessment and, where relevant, taking into account other legitimate factors in accordance with the general decisions of the Codex Alimentarius ... is made to the Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants (CAC/GL 45-2003), the Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "INIGATION OF PROCESSING STRATEGIES FOR THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARGOMF" pdf
... speaker to suggest the structure of the argument One main use of clues is to re-direct the hearer to a particular proposition Phrases like "Let us now return to " followed Dy a specific indication of ... set of evidence when NEW seeks to relate to prior propositions Note then that we not expect to add evidence for a brother or uncle of L - these nodes are closed off, as only the last brother of ... addition, a /[~ I~ This description of connective clues is intended to illustrate some of the aids available to the hearer to restrict the interpretation of propositions, we are still working...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "THE LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL AMBIGUITY" pptx
... extended by a kind of "grammar" of word meaning: a set of operators which take descriptive constants of a meaning representation language onto other descriptive constants or expressions of that language ... attempts to assign descriptive constant values to the expressions The lexicon in this scheme stores for each non-logical word an extendable poiysemic complex (or complexes, in the case of homonymy) of ... of words When it is not, a set of "polysemy operators" is invoked to re-interpret a lexical assignment in such a way as to make sense of the expression Depending on the formal language used to...
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The Ghost In The Browser Analysis of Web-based Malware pptx
... content into a web page This widget used to keep statistics of the number of visitors since 2002 until it was turned into a malware infection vector in 2006 While examining our historical data, ... to present the general state of malware on the Internet which is the topic of the remainder of this paper CONTENT CONTROL To determine how exploits are placed on a web page, it is important to ... ior of the installed software but rather identify the mechanisms used to introduce the software into the system via the browser Our automated analysis harnesses the fact that Google, as part of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The thermodynamic analysis of protein stabilization by sucrose and glycerol against pressure-induced unfolding The typical example of the 33-kDa protein from spinach photosystem II docx
... or in absence of additives A recent report of Twist et al about the effect of sucrose and glycerol on the environment of two tryptophan residues in apomyoglobin provides a clue to explain this ... residue To measure the unfolding–refolding kinetics of the protein, the fluorescence spectrophotometer was further modified to adapt a pressure jump device designed in the INSERM laboratory [22] ... of the protein is unfolded, is a parameter often used to evaluate protein stability The higher is P1/2, the more stable is the protein to pressure- induced denaturation P1/2 is related both to...
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introduction to the design & analysis of algorithms
... the value of m as the answer and stop; otherwise, proceed to Step Step Divide m by n and assign the value of the remainder to r Step Assign the value of n to m and the value of r to n Go to Step ... remaining elements of A to array L of the primes i←0 for p ← to n if A[p] = L[i] ← A[p] i←i+1 return L So now we can incorporate the sieve of Eratosthenes into the middle-school procedure to get a legitimate ... value of min{m, n} to t Step Divide m by t If the remainder of this division is 0, go to Step 3; otherwise, go to Step Step Divide n by t If the remainder of this division is 0, return the value of...
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báo cáo sinh học:" What impact do Global Health Initiatives have on human resources for antiretroviral treatment roll-out? A qualitative policy analysis of implementation processes in Zambia" pptx
... clinicians out of their clinic, imposing a further strain on the day -to- day running of the ART programme Mentoring and the secondment of GHI staff to the public sector In addition to training, ... such training, are part of the reasons that attract health workers to work on the ART programme, adding to the potentially distorting effects of top-ups A further consequence of training, when externally ... technical support through mentoring of health care workers This involves visiting ART sites and attending to patients together with health care staff, to monitor the quality of services and assist...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Monitoring the newly qualified nurses in Sweden: the Longitudinal Analysis of Nursing Education (LANE) study" ppt
... Page of 17 Table 1: Distributions of age and sex among eligible students and students who consented to participate EX2002 1700 2331 2107 6th out of 2nd out of 6th out of end of 2002 end of 2004 ... a total of 9.3% of nurses had in fact left the nursing profession (ranging from 4.5% in Italy to 14.6% in Germany) [14] In Canada, 13% of young, newly qualified nurses (who received their professional ... turn into a shortage if issues regarding working conditions and intention to leave the profession are not addressed [6164] In both 2002 and 2004, 10% of nurses were thinking of leaving the profession...
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báo cáo hóa học:" The biomechanical analysis of three plating fixation systems for periprosthetic femoral fracture near the tip of a total hip arthroplasty" docx
... ethics board Insertion of Total Hip Arthroplasties and Creation of Femoral Osteotomies Each left femur was prepared for the cemented insertion of the femoral component of a total hip implant Identical ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/45 Page of Following the testing of the cable-plate systems, the cables proximal to the osteotomy were removed and replaced with unicortical screws to create screw-plate systems The mechanical ... 30 Bond Street, Toronto, ON, M5B-1W8, Canada, 3Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 350 Victoria St., Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, M5B-2K3, Canada , 4Division of Orthopaedic...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Some new nonlinear integral inequalities and their applications in the qualitative analysis of differential equations" potx
... examples so as to illustrate the validity of the present integral inequalities Main results In the rest of the paper we denote the set of real numbers as R, and R+ = [0, ∞) is a subset of R Dom(f) ... ] ds}, 0 r Ω(r) = 1 ω(s p−q ) ds, r > Ω -1 is the inverse of Ω, and Ω (∞) = ∞ Proof: The proof for the existence of t can be referred to Remark in [10] We notice (3) obviously holds for t = Now ... global existence of the solutions of a delay differential equation, while in the second example, we will obtain the bound of the solutions of an integral equation For the sake of proving the global...
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Project Gutenberg’s The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, by George Boole pdf
... legitimate The history of pure Analysis is, it may be said, too recent to permit us to set limits to the extent of its applications Should we grant to the inference a high degree of probability, ... us to form of the universality of the dominion of law The general formulæ to which we are conducted seem to give to that element a visible presence, and the multitude of particular cases to which ... be found to be capable of exact and rigorous expression, and not only will the laws of conversion and of syllogism be thence deducible, but the resolution of the most complex systems of propositions,...
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Báo cáo vật lý: "The Potentiometric Analysis of Chloride Ion Using Modified Heterogeneous Chitosan Membranes" pdf
... to 0.28 (Log K A, B = –1.3 to –0.55) and 0.01 to 0.28 (Log Pot K A, B = –2.0 to –0.55) for the chitosan–Cl– and chitosan–Fe3+, respectively Pot Table 2: The selectivity coefficients, K A, B of ... –58.1 mV/dec and limit of detection, 2.511 x 10–6 M of Cl– compared to electrode A, –51.9 mV/dec and 3.981 x 10–5 M of Cl– (Table and Fig 1) Table 1: Characteristic of chitosan heterogeneous membranes ... solution | Figure 2: Illustration of ion-exchange mechanism at the surface of membrane The mobility to and exchange of Cl– ion at cationic sites in the chitosan skeletons till equilibrium was achieved...
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