Structural-Functional Dynamics in the Analysis of Socio-economic Systems: Adaptation of Structural Change Processes to Biological Systems of Human Interaction

1980 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Chase
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Functional Dynamics

scholarly journals ENTROPY METHODS IN ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
O. G. Berestneva ◽  
Ya. S. Pekker ◽  
S. S. Murzina
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
New Production ◽  
Entropy Methods

The adaptation of people to new production environment are often influenced by very unusual, excessive and harsh environmental factors, genetically inadequate to its nature. Human adaptation to the new production conditions can be summarized as a set of social and biological properties and characteristics needed to sustain the existence of the human body in a particular ecological environment.It is necessary under the new conditions to achieve harmony of human interaction with the physical environment of their lives, adequate human nature. In addressing this fundamental problem of the primary role belongs to biomedical science, which should not so much to predict the appearance of the disease, how much help to preserve and improve the health of population. At the same time beco­ming increasingly clear that solving this problem adaptation theory plays a crucial role.Adaptive features appear only in real life. It is in particular natural or artificial habitat capabilities of the body, when the survival and life require maximum mobilization and stress its potential adaptive capacity. Consequently, the property adaptation of living systems is, in fact, a measure of individual health.An approach based on entropy methods for modeling complex systems, seems to be the most promising for integrated assessment of biological systems.

scholarly journals What is empathy: cognitive concepts and models

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
M.Yu. Ermolova
Keyword(s):  
Biological Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Moment

Empathy is a complex and diverse indispensable mechanism in human interaction. It enables co-feel and mentally model what another person feels at the moment. For better understanding, empathy can be thought of as the ability to feel the consequences of some experience, not feeling it in reality, but just watching. The main consequences of this mechanism are our ability to imitate and understand the other person. The first helps in development and learning, and the second is indispensable in communication with other people. Studies of empathy are segmental and not well coordinated. Existing works offer different types and typology of systems of empathy. Yet, bringing new insights into certain areas, they do not create an integral picture. What are the available types& Are they simple analytically different ways of consideration of one system or are they different neuro-biological systems? If they are different systems, what is the extent to which they are linked and whether they form integral super-system? This article tries to answer these questions.

The Geometry of Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Manish Arora ◽  
Paul Curtin ◽  
Austen Curtin ◽  
Christine Austin ◽  
Alessandro Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Application ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Epidemiological Methods ◽  
Biological Structure ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Independent Dimension ◽  
Functional Dynamics ◽  
As If

Chapter 5 examines the dynamic nature of interfaces and starts examining their characteristics. The authors posit that just as we might derive a multitude of dimensions to describe biological structure, so too are there many dimensions that describe the functional dynamics in how biological systems vary over time. Current environmental epidemiological methods used in analyzing data on our environment and our physiology treat each measure as if it were an independent dimension, much like a carpenter measuring the height, width, or length of a piece of furniture. However, because there are processes underlying our physiological development, constraints are applied to the forms that we and our environment can take. Knowledge of these can be harnessed to identify the primary dimensions along which we must characterize the systems under study. By doing this we were able to take an important first step in operationalizing Environmental Biodynamics for clinical application.

Creation of Nanometer-Sized Features in Polysilicon Using Fusing

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Levitan ◽  
Dan Good ◽  
Michael J. Sinclair ◽  
Joseph M. Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Small Perturbation ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Fabrication Process ◽  
Length Scales ◽  
Physical Methods ◽  
Necked Region ◽  
Single Electrons ◽  
Novel Processes

Abstract Current microfabrication systems can achieve resolutions of approximately 0.1μm. We present physical methods for creating structures with length scales and characteristic dimensions significantly below current fabrication resolutions. These structures, themselves fabricated in conventional, gross-resolution (greater than 2μm) semiconductor facilities, undergo structural change to create features below the lithography limits of the fabrication process. These devices — dog-boned microfabricated polysilicon fuses — are heated just below melting, and a small perturbation current heats a narrow, necked region of the beam, resulting in fusing. Infrastructure has already been constructed to create gross-resolution structures in microfabrication. Novel processes and mechanisms are needed to utilize these resolutions and create structures capable of addressing biological systems, functioning quantum mechanically, use single electrons, or require extreme speeds.

Transmission Electron Microscopy of Protein Macromolecules

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 424-425
Author(s):  
Henry S. Slayter
Keyword(s):  
Biological Systems ◽  
Metal Vapor ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Chemical Methods ◽  
Molecular Weights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Transmission Electron

Electron microscopic methods have been applied increasingly during the past fifteen years, to problems in structural molecular biology. Used in conjunction with physical chemical methods and/or Fourier methods of analysis, they constitute powerful tools for determining sizes, shapes and modes of aggregation of biopolymers with molecular weights greater than 50, 000. However, the application of the e.m. to the determination of very fine structure approaching the limit of instrumental resolving power in biological systems has not been productive, due to various difficulties such as the destructive effects of dehydration, damage to the specimen by the electron beam, and lack of adequate and specific contrast. One of the most satisfactory methods for contrasting individual macromolecules involves the deposition of heavy metal vapor upon the specimen. We have investigated this process, and present here what we believe to be the more important considerations for optimizing it. Results of the application of these methods to several biological systems including muscle proteins, fibrinogen, ribosomes and chromatin will be discussed.

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