The Satiation of Natural Curiosity

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Schoeller
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Cognitive System ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
Internal Representations ◽  
The Core ◽  
System A

At the core of this essay is the idea that cognition is best described as a highly developed homeostatic device aiming to maintain a dynamic equilibrium between internal representations and changes in environmental conditions. The author emphasizes the fundamental role played by aesthetics in facilitating an accurate description of the human mind and introduce basic elements of a theory accounting for the influence of art on the cognitive system. A general bibliography is provided for the reader unfamiliar with the notions and desirous to pursue the analysis further.

What Is New about ‘Network Governance’ and Why Does It Matter?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. W. Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Accurate Description ◽  
British Government ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Executive ◽  
Court Politics

This chapter replies to key criticisms about policy networks, the core executive, and governance. On networks, the chapter discusses the context of networks, and the ability of the theory to explain change. On the core executive, it discusses a shift away from a focus on the prime minister to court politics. On governance, the chapter returns to redefining the state, steering networks, metagovernance, and storytelling. It restates the case for the idea of the differentiated polity. This is edifying because it provides a vocabulary for a more accurate description of British government. Finally, the chapter provides a link to Volume II by summarizing the decentred approach to the differentiated polity.

The Design of ZigBee Wireless Network for the Detection Platform of the Cylinders

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 2504-2509
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Qiao Xiang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Wireless Network ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Protocol Stack ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Real Time Detection ◽  
Cable Connection

The equipment, called detection platform of the cylinders, is used for detecting cylinders so that cylinders can be at ease use. In order to transmit the real-time detection data to PC for further processing, the platform should be connected with PC. Cable connection, in some production and environmental conditions, is limited. Under the circumstance, building wireless network is the better choice. Through comparative studying, ZigBee is chosen to be the technology for building wireless network. ZigBee chip and ZigBee2006 protocol stack are the core components in the ZigBee nodes.

scholarly journals Crop growth models without hormones.

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. de Wit ◽  
F.W.T.P. de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Co2 Assimilation ◽  
Crop Growth ◽  
State Variables ◽  
System A ◽  
Similar Information ◽  
Hormonal System ◽  
Crop Growth Models

For the simulation of organ formation and assimilate partitioning, information is required on the current level of activities like CO2 assimilation and the growth of various organs, as well as state variables such as leaf and root wt., N content and carbohydrate reserves and exogenous variables like radiation and temp. This information may be retained in auxiliary state variables by considering the dynamic equilibrium between growth of roots and shoots. Auxiliary state variables are not tangible quantities but mathematical artefacts of the simulation program; it is speculated that in real plants similar information may be retained and transferred by the hormonal system. A hormonal system is a communication system and such systems may be analysed either in terms of means (of the hardware used) or in terms of purpose (of the messages transferred). In dynamic models of crop growth, interest should be focused on the latter. Wheat, maize and ryegrass are used as examples. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

scholarly journals Situating allostasis and interoception at the core of human brain function

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Katsumi ◽  
Karen Quigley ◽  
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Brain Function ◽  
Brain Evolution ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Biological Mechanisms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
Mental Events ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
The Brain

It is now well known that brain evolution, development, and structure do not respect Western folk categories of mind – that is, the boundaries of those folk categories have never been identified in nature, despite decades of search. Categories for cognitions, emotions, perceptions, and so on, may be useful for describing the mental phenomena that constitute a human mind, but they make a poor starting point for understanding the interplay of mechanisms that create those mental events in the first place. In this paper, we integrate evolutionary, developmental, anatomical, and functional evidence and propose that predictive regulation of the body’s internal systems (allostasis) and modeling the sensory consequences of this regulation (interoception) may be basic functions of the brain that are embedded in coordinated structural and functional gradients. Our approach offers the basis for a coherent, neurobiologically-inspired research program that attempts to explain how a variety of psychological and physical phenomena may emerge from the same biological mechanisms, thus providing an opportunity to unify them under a common explanatory framework that can be used to develop shared vocabulary for theory building and knowledge accumulation.

scholarly journals METODOLOGI PROGRAM RISET IMRE LAKATOS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Saka Falwa Guna ◽  
Fitria Ramadhani
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Previous Theory ◽  
Imre Lakatos ◽  
The Core ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Hardcore Functions ◽  
Protective Belt

This research was based on the limitations of the human mind itself in providing and obtaining reasonable explanations, because at that time the desire to know something was obstructed from various myths which existedin that society so that myths were embedded in human mind. The focus of this research was on the methodology of the Imre Lakatos research program. The purpose of this study was to determine the process of research program methodology from Imre Lakatos. The method used in this research was library research, where the researchers looked for and read sources that match the title to be studied, such as books, articles, writings and journals that were relevant.The results of this study in the Imre Lakatos research program methodology included: First, the core (hardcore) functions as a negative heuristic. Second, the protective-belt which consisted of auxiliary hypotheses in the initial conditions. Third, a series of theories (a series theory), theory linkages where the next theory was the result of the auxiliary clauses added from the previous theory.

Perceived Level of Benefits and Risk Core Functionalities of an EHR System

2011 ◽  
pp. 297-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane C. Davis ◽  
Minal Thakkar
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
The Core ◽  
System A ◽  
The Status ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Results Management ◽  
Core Functionality ◽  
Benefit And Risk

The need to adopt an electronic health record (EHR) system in United States (U.S.) hospitals seems to be more and more obvious when evaluating the benefits of improved patient safety, quality of care, and efficiency. The purpose of the study was to identify the status of EHR systems in U.S. hospitals in regard to the core functionalities implemented (as identified by the Institute of Medicine) and to determine if there was a significant relationship between perceived level of benefit and risk with the use of each core functionality, as well as if there was a significant relationship between the status of the EHR system and size of hospital. A national survey of U.S. hospitals was conducted to answer the research questions. The results showed that 37% had some components in all.of the core functionalities of an EHR system, while 27% were using at least some functionalities. Health information and data, administrative processes, and results management were the three core functionalities that a majority of hospitals had as a part of their EHR system. A significant positive correlation between perceived benefits and risks was found in all of the eight core functionalities. There was no significant relationship found between status of EHR system and size of hospitals.

Conceptualization of the acidification theory in Swedish environmental research

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Gunilla Ôberg ◽  
Karin Bäckstrand
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Review System ◽  
The Core ◽  
System A ◽  
Chain Of Evidence ◽  
Hidden Patterns ◽  
Empirical Material

The aim of the present study was to describe and analyse the process of formulating the acidification theory in the Swedish research community. The empirical material was limited to articles written by Swedish researchers during the period 1950–1989 and published in international scientific journals utilizing a peer-review system. A model was developed to represent what Swedish researchers have regarded as the core of the acidification theory. Guided by the developed model, a qualitative content analysis of the scientific articles was conducted; i.e., we examined how central components and causal relationships of the theory have been explained and discussed. It should be emphasized that the present article describes an investigation of science itself (i.e., science in action) and is not an up-to-date review of acidification research. Our analysis revealed that some parts of the chain of evidence underlying the acidification theory were accepted before they were scrutinized by the scientific community and that the acidification complex was not conceptualized in accordance with the conceptualization of its various components. Actually, the acidification problem as a whole (i.e., the sum of all of its components) was not treated as a scientific theory that needed to be evaluated. This strongly indicates that the conceptualization was guided by factors that are generally, within the scientific community, considered to be external to the research process. There is no evidence that Swedish acidification research has adhered less stringently to scientific norms than environmental research in general has. Indeed, it is likely that such hidden patterns normally influence the conceptualization of science and we, therefore, conclude that the influence of factors that are not strictly a part of the research process must be further elucidated if the prerequisites and implications of research are to be clarified.Key words: scientific conceptualization, research process, acidification.

A socio-technical analysis of functional properties in a joint cognitive system: a case study in an aircraft cockpit

Ergonomics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1598-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Adriaensen ◽  
Riccardo Patriarca ◽  
Anthony Smoker ◽  
Johan Bergström
Keyword(s):  
Functional Properties ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Cognitive System ◽  
System A ◽  
Joint Cognitive System

The Pulse in the Machine: Automating Tibetan Diagnostic Palpation in Postsocialist Russia

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chudakova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Diagnostic Techniques ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
The Core ◽  
System A ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

AbstractThis article analyzes efforts by Soviet and present-day scientists in Russia to “rationalize” and ultimately automate the diagnostic techniques of Tibetan medicine. It tracks the institutional and conceptual histories of designing a pulse diagnostic system, a project that began in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It has recently been re-enlivened in Buryatia, an ethnic minority region in Southeastern Siberia, in efforts to mobilize indigenous medical practices in response to local and national public health concerns. I focus on the translational ideologies that informed efforts to develop the pulsometer as a medical imaging technology, and analyze obstacles to these efforts found at the core of the device. Scientists working on the pulsometer have systematically tried to discern whether their measurements indicate sustained bodily pathologies, or instead reflect only technological white noise, and they still recruit and rely on the embodied expertise of practitioners of Tibetan medicine to validate their findings. In so doing they reaffirm claims that Tibetan medicine in Buryatia is inextricable from the forms of knowledge and practice that their projects work to standardize. I show how the apparent failures at perfect mechanization have made the pulsometer a surprisingly productive site for creating new kinds of expert communities and forms of knowledge making.

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