The boundary of “life” for a self-organized critical evolution: the role of the interaction range

If the social phenomenon is a reflection of nature's thought, our culture and value system, then the multidimensional crisis afflicting our society today requires us to re-examine our educational philosophy and practice at least the past 40 years. We suffer all the bad influences of industrialization as part of the colonial process, precisely because we adopt the most advanced instrument, namely, mass schooling system with an obsession for quality-based standard as the magic spell. In this digital era, the effort of liberating society from the colonial, pioneer of independence as a condition of the proclamation of independence was a reform of the national education system. We should be scheduled deschooling society. This agenda includes the following: the paradigmatic shift from the school system to learning webs based Self Organized Learning Environment (SOLE); mass schooling to individualized, customized learning; of relevance to quality; of technical competence to the independence of the soul or creativity. This reform was way back on the three pillars of education philosophy of Ki Hajar Dewantara: family, community, and College. New demands upon the role of the teacher in the 21st century is changing.

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Role of sheared E × B flow in self-organized, improved confinement states in magnetized plasmas

Physics of Plasmas ◽

10.1063/1.5142734 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (6) ◽

pp. 060501 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

K. H. Burrell

Keyword(s):

Magnetized Plasmas ◽

Self Organized

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Ma Kahana ka ‘Ike: Lessons for Community-Based Fisheries Management

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10103799 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 3799 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Monica Montgomery ◽

Mehana Vaughan

Keyword(s):

Fisheries Management ◽

Local Governance ◽

Local Level ◽

Hawaiian Island ◽

Institutional Fit ◽

Human Environment ◽

Self Organized ◽

Governance Systems ◽

Changing Role

Indigenous and place-based communities worldwide have self-organized to develop effective local-level institutions to conserve biocultural diversity. How communities maintain and adapt these institutions over time offers lessons for fostering more balanced human–environment relationships—an increasingly critical need as centralized governance systems struggle to manage declining fisheries. In this study, we focus on one long-enduring case of local level fisheries management, in Kahana, on the most populated Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. We used a mixed-methods approach including in-depth interviews, archival research, and participation in community gatherings to understand how relationships with place and local governance have endured despite changes in land and sea tenure, and what lessons this case offers for other communities engaged in restoring local-level governance. We detail the changing role of konohiki (head fishermen) in modern times (1850–1965) when they were managing local fisheries, not just for local subsistence but for larger commercial harvests. We also highlight ways in which families are reclaiming their role as caretakers following decades of state mismanagement. Considerations for fisheries co-management emerging from this research include the importance of (1) understanding historical contexts for enhancing institutional fit, (2) enduring community leadership, (3) balancing rights and responsibilities, and (4) fostering community ability to manage coastal resources through both formal and informal processes.

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Joining forces: crosstalk between biochemical signalling and physical forces orchestrates cellular polarity and dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2017.0145 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 373 (1747) ◽

pp. 20170145 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Suvrajit Saha ◽

Tamas L. Nagy ◽

Orion D. Weiner

Keyword(s):

Cell Biology ◽

Cell Movement ◽

Special Focus ◽

Cellular Motility ◽

Cellular Polarity ◽

Self Organized ◽

Cytoskeletal Dynamics ◽

Physical Forces ◽

Cytoskeletal Rearrangements

Dynamic processes like cell migration and morphogenesis emerge from the self-organized interaction between signalling and cytoskeletal rearrangements. How are these molecular to sub-cellular scale processes integrated to enable cell-wide responses? A growing body of recent studies suggest that forces generated by cytoskeletal dynamics and motor activity at the cellular or tissue scale can organize processes ranging from cell movement, polarity and division to the coordination of responses across fields of cells. To do so, forces not only act mechanically but also engage with biochemical signalling. Here, we review recent advances in our understanding of this dynamic crosstalk between biochemical signalling, self-organized cortical actomyosin dynamics and physical forces with a special focus on the role of membrane tension in integrating cellular motility. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Self-organization in cell biology’.

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Investigation into the role of the hydrogen bonding network in cyclodextrin-based self-assembling mesophases

Journal of Materials Chemistry C ◽

10.1039/c4tc00448e ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (25) ◽

pp. 4928-4936 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Sandra Ward ◽

Oliver Calderon ◽

Ping Zhang ◽

Matthew Sobchuk ◽

Samantha N. Keller ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hydrogen Bonding ◽

Self Organized ◽

Self Assembling ◽

Bond Network ◽

Hydrogen Bonding Network

The ability to form self-organized thermotropic mesophases of amphiphilic cyclodextrins correlates well with their ability to establish an intermolecular H-bond network.

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A minimalist model of characteristic earthquakes

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics ◽

10.5194/npg-9-513-2002 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 9 (5/6) ◽

pp. 513-519 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

M. Vázquez-Prada ◽

Á. González ◽

J. B. Gómez ◽

A. F. Pacheco

Keyword(s):

Recurrence Time ◽

Characteristic Earthquake ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Self Organized ◽

Algebraic Description ◽

Earthquake Size ◽

Self Organized Criticality ◽

Characteristic Earthquakes ◽

Frequency Relation

Abstract. In a spirit akin to the sandpile model of self-organized criticality, we present a simple statistical model of the cellular-automaton type which simulates the role of an asperity in the dynamics of a one-dimensional fault. This model produces an earthquake spectrum similar to the characteristic-earthquake behaviour of some seismic faults. This model, that has no parameter, is amenable to an algebraic description as a Markov Chain. This possibility illuminates some important results, obtained by Monte Carlo simulations, such as the earthquake size-frequency relation and the recurrence time of the characteristic earthquake.

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