scholarly journals Organization Science—Special Issue on Information Technology and Organizational Form and Function

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-99
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Organization Science ◽  
And Function

scholarly journals Islet Biology and Metabolism

Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 786
Author(s):  
Belinda Yau ◽  
Melkam A. Kebede
Keyword(s):  
Pancreatic Islet ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Metabolic Physiology ◽  
And Function

This Special Issue, Islet Biology and Metabolism, was intended as a collection of studies highlighting the importance of the pancreatic islet—in both form and function—to our growing understanding of metabolic physiology and disease [...]

scholarly journals Open-Ended Evolution and Open-Endedness: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution I Special Issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Packard ◽  
Mark A. Bedau ◽  
Alastair Channon ◽  
Takashi Ikegami ◽  
Steen Rasmussen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Life ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Third ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Creative Productivity ◽  
And Function

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the first of two special issues on current research on OEE and on the more general concept of open-endedness. Most of the papers presented in these special issues are elaborations of work presented at the Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution, held in Tokyo as part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life.

scholarly journals An Overview of Open-Ended Evolution: Editorial Introduction to the Open-Ended Evolution II Special Issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Packard ◽  
Mark A. Bedau ◽  
Alastair Channon ◽  
Takashi Ikegami ◽  
Steen Rasmussen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Life ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Creative Productivity ◽  
And Function

Nature's spectacular inventiveness, reflected in the enormous diversity of form and function displayed by the biosphere, is a feature of life that distinguishes living most strongly from nonliving. It is, therefore, not surprising that this aspect of life should become a central focus of artificial life. We have known since Darwin that the diversity is produced dynamically, through the process of evolution; this has led life's creative productivity to be called Open-Ended Evolution (OEE) in the field. This article introduces the second of two special issues on current research in OEE and provides an overview of the contents of both special issues. Most of the work was presented at a workshop on open-ended evolution that was held as a part of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life in Tokyo, and much of it had antecedents in two previous workshops on open-ended evolution at artificial life conferences in Cancun and York. We present a simplified categorization of OEE and summarize progress in the field as represented by the articles in this special issue.

scholarly journals Platform NHS: Reconfiguring a Public Service in the Age of Digital Capitalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 016224392110556
Author(s):  
Rachel Faulkner-Gurstein ◽  
David Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
The State ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Function ◽  
Operational Logic

The platform is emerging as a key organizational form and operational logic of contemporary capitalism, intimately tied to financialization and assetization. However, discussions to date have focused on platforms and platformization in the context of the private, corporate, and technology sectors. In this paper, we develop an analysis of how platformization operates in the context of public policy. Using the UK’s National Health Service as a case study, we explore how platformization is altering the form and function of the state. The platformization of the NHS has its roots in the UK government’s strategic interest in the development of the bioeconomy. This led to the creation of a research infrastructure within the health service. Subsequently, the NHS has leveraged various assets into a range of data- and technology-focused initiatives. We argue that platformization has been a major form of neoliberalization within the NHS. The paper concludes with a discussion of what an analysis of public platformization can teach us about ongoing transformations of the state.

Organizational Form and Function

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 1143-1147
Author(s):  
Richard B. Gunderman
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Form ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Arscott ◽  
Gil Lee ◽  
Victor A. Bloomfield ◽  
D. Fennell Evans
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Inorganic Materials ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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