scholarly journals Complex systems model of dietary choice with implications for improving diets and promoting vegetarianism

1999 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 608s-614s ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl V Phillips
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Gettings ◽  
Mark W. Bultman ◽  
Frederick S. Fisher

Author(s):  
Romeu Carillo Jr ◽  
Maria Filomena Xavier Mendes ◽  
Maria Solange Gosik ◽  
Domingos José Vaz Do Cabo ◽  
Raquel Bruno Kalile ◽  
...  

Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects motor neurons and has two forms, one familial and the other sporadic. Wilson´s disease is a genetic disorder, autosomal recessive, which causes changes in copper metabolism. Methodology: In this paper, the author presents two clinical cases of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Wilson's disease (WD), showing the evolution of each one from the beginning of the homeopathic treatment, whose prescription was based on the theory of Complex Systems of Carillo. Results and Discussion: Understanding the pathophysiology of each chronic disease, and recognizing the syndromic nature of the absolute majority of natural chronic diseases, allows us to use the most indicated drugs for every case and shows the best way to prescribe these medications. Treating chronic diseases based on clear and well-defined principles. Based in this principle, the concepts of Prioritization of Systems, related organic injury,emunctorial block and equalization are applied in both clinical cases.The identification of the latter avoids homeopathic aggravations, essential for patients in severe states. Conclusion: The theoretical bases for the understanding of clinical cases, in the Complex Systems Model of Carillo, with its 8 elements, namely: Structure (material body); Self-regulation (immaterial); Organization Pattern; Dissipation; Autopoiesis; Adaptation; Cognition and Consciousness, allow an expanded understanding of the health disease process.


2014 ◽  
Vol 631-632 ◽  
pp. 265-270
Author(s):  
Qiang Sun ◽  
Jian Jiao ◽  
Shan Shan Zhou

To identify the component failure propagation path in complex systems, a component failure logical model based on DEVS was established by combining the failure logic principle and DEVS formal specification at the next granularity level of component hierarchy. A series of components failure states define a potential hazard. DEVS has modeling advantages of standardized, hierarchical and modular. Basing on its own characteristics,it can be used to study failure logic modeling techniques of complex systems, model and analyse the scene of the accident process. Therefore, the paper describes syntax and semantics of component failure logic and atomic DEVS, focusing on the implementation mechanism of failure logic using DEVS, the establishment of component state space, the trigger mechanism and the corresponding output in order to establish a component failure logical model based on DEVS. At last, a Wheel Brake System is used to verify the applicability and validity of the model.


Author(s):  
Timothy Sprock ◽  
Conrad Bock

System models and model-based engineering methods have the promise of transforming the way that industrial engineers interact with production and logistics systems. Model-based methods play a role in improving communication between stakeholders, interoperability between systems, automated access to consistent analysis models, and multi-disciplinary design methods for complex systems. However, there remains a need for a foundation for modeling these kinds of systems – a foundation that tailors methods and tools developed in other engineering domains to the unique concepts and semantics of production and logistics. This foundation is the topic of these models.


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