Earth System Dynamic Intelligence - ESDI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui A. P. Perdigão
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
System Dynamic ◽  
Stochastic Dynamic ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Dynamic Information ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Hybrid Techniques ◽  
Process Understanding ◽  
Shed Light

Earth System Dynamic Intelligence (ESDI) entails developing and making innovative use of emerging concepts and pathways in mathematical geophysics, Earth System Dynamics, and information technologies to sense, monitor, harness, analyze, model and fundamentally unveil dynamic understanding across the natural, social and technical geosciences, including the associated manifold multiscale multidomain processes, interactions and complexity, along with the associated predictability and uncertainty dynamics. The ESDI Flagship initiative ignites the development, discussion and cross-fertilization of novel theoretical insights, methodological developments and geophysical applications across interdisciplinary mathematical, geophysical and information technological approaches towards a cross-cutting, mathematically sound, physically consistent, socially conscious and operationally effective Earth System Dynamic Intelligence. Going beyond the well established stochastic-dynamic, information-theoretic, artificial intelligence, mechanistic and hybrid techniques, ESDI paves the way to exploratory and disruptive developments along emerging information physical intelligence pathways, and bridges fundamental and operational complex problem solving across frontier natural, social and technical geosciences. Overall, the ESDI Flagship breeds a nascent field and community where methodological ingenuity and natural process understanding come together to shed light onto fundamental theoretical aspects to build innovative methodologies, products and services to tackle real-world challenges facing our planet.

Earth System Dynamic Intelligence with Quantum Technologies: Seeing the “Invisible”, Predicting the “Unpredictable” in a Critically Changing World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui A. P. Perdigão
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
System Dynamic ◽  
Stochastic Dynamic ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Dynamic Prediction ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
Changing World

We hereby embark on a frontier journey articulating two of our flagship programs – “Earth System Dynamic Intelligence” and “Quantum Information Technologies in the Earth Sciences” – to take the pulse of our planet and discern its manifold complexity in a critically changing world. Going beyond the traditional stochastic-dynamic, information-theoretic, artificial intelligence, mechanistic and hybrid approaches to information and complexity, the underlying fundamental science ignites disruptive developments empowering complex problem solving across frontier natural, social and technical geosciences. Taking aim at complex multiscale planetary problems, the roles of our flagships are put into evidence in different contexts, ranging from I) Interdisciplinary analytics, model design and dynamic prediction of hydro-climatic and broader geophysical criticalities and extremes across multiple spatiotemporal scales; to II) Sensing the pulse of our planet and detecting early warning signs of geophysical phenomena from Space with our Meteoceanics QITES Constellation, at the interface between our latest developments in non-linear dynamics and emerging quantum technologies.

scholarly journals Networked information technologies and patient safety: a protocol for a realist synthesis

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Keen ◽  
Joanne Greenhalgh ◽  
Rebecca Randell ◽  
Peter Gardner ◽  
Justin Waring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Realist Synthesis ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Range Theory ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Clinical Risks ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract Background There is a widespread belief that information technologies will improve diagnosis, treatment and care. Evidence about their effectiveness in health care is, however, mixed. It is not clear why this is the case, given the remarkable advances in hardware and software over the last 20 years. This review focuses on interoperable information technologies, which governments are currently advocating and funding. These link organisations across a health economy, with a view to enabling health and care professionals to coordinate their work with one another and to access patient data wherever it is stored. Given the mixed evidence about information technologies in general, and current policies and funding, there is a need to establish the value of investments in this class of system. The aim of this review is to establish how, why and in what circumstances interoperable systems affect patient safety. Methods A realist synthesis will be undertaken, to understand how and why inter-organisational systems reduce patients’ clinical risks, or fail to do so. The review will follow the steps in most published realist syntheses, including (1) clarifying the scope of the review and identifying candidate programme and mid-range theories to evaluate, (2) searching for evidence, (3) appraising primary studies in terms of their rigour and relevance and extracting evidence, (4) synthesising evidence, (5) identifying recommendations, based on assessment of the extent to which findings can be generalised to other settings. Discussion The findings of this realist synthesis will shed light on how and why an important class of systems, that span organisations in a health economy, will contribute to changes in patients’ clinical risks. We anticipate that the findings will be generalizable, in two ways. First, a refined mid-range theory will contribute to our understanding of the underlying mechanisms that, for a range of information technologies, lead to changes in clinical practices and hence patients’ risks (or not). Second, many governments are funding and implementing cross-organisational IT networks. The findings can inform policies on their design and implementation. Systematic review registration PROSPERO CRD42017073004

Integrated earth system dynamic modeling for life cycle impact assessment of ecosystem services

2014 ◽  
Vol 472 ◽  
pp. 262-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Arbault ◽  
Mylène Rivière ◽  
Benedetto Rugani ◽  
Enrico Benetto ◽  
Ligia Tiruta-Barna
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Dynamic Modeling ◽  
Life Cycle Impact Assessment ◽  
System Dynamic ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Life Cycle Impact

scholarly journals Attitudes towards Sexual Behaviour among Young People

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
M.A. Konina
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Young People ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
And Behavior

At the center of psychology of sexuality research problematics of the first decades of the twenty first century was the influence of information technologies and virtualization of culture on the weakening of restraint in sexual behavior. Promiscuous sexual behavior is associated with the demise of traditional family structures and marriage institutions, resuling in increasing health risk on the national scale. The risk group that calls for special attention is young people who are most actively using new technologies and at the same time experiencing a lack of skills in the area of emotional and behavior regulation. Researches in this area try to identify factors behind youth promiscuity: a link between such behavior and increased environmental stresses and unsafe parenting styles have been established. Studies in recent years have, for the first time, revealed a link between the unrestricted use of communication technologies and the choice of promiscuous sexual behavior among young people. It was also established that such sexual behavior was linked to distress, increased risks of sexual harassment and harm to physical health in this age group. The data obtained in these recent studies indicate the presence of a complex problem associated with the psychosexual development of young people, set the task of possible ways to regulate as well as foster self- regulation of sexual behavior adolescence.

scholarly journals SIGNBASE: A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH TO ABSTRACT SIGNS IN THE PALEOLITHIC

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Dutkiewicz ◽  
C. Bentz
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Information Encoding ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Mobile Objects ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
The Given ◽  
Shed Light

In the Paleolithic around 100,000 to 10,000 years ago, abstract motives also referred to as signs, patterns, or marks are abundant in parietal art as well as on mobile objects. In the case of parietal art, several studies have been dealing with such abstract signs. However, studies scrutinizing signs on mobile objects, such as figurines, tools, or personal ornaments, are rare and mostly limited to either single objects, or to particular assemblages. Our project SignBase aims to enable large-scale comparisons by collecting abstract motives on mobile objects from all over the European Paleolithic, the African Middle Stone Age, as well as further finds of the Near East and South East Asia. In contrast to the chronological difficulties of dating parietal art, abstract motives on mobile objects are usually well dated, at least with reference to the given techno-complexes. Our project ultimately aims to enable quantitative comparative studies on the development of abstract graphical expressions before the emergence of writing systems. This includes the application of classification algorithms allowing us to study the signs in geographical and chronological dimensions. Furthermore, while any inference about their meaning is inevitably speculative, information-theoretic analyses can shed light on the evolution of their information encoding potential and compare it to later graphical behavior such as early written language.

scholarly journals Micro-Macro Connected Stochastic Dynamic Economic Behavior Systems

Econometrics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
George Judge
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Dynamics ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Stochastic Dynamic ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Interacting Agents ◽  
Income Data ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Power Divergence ◽  
Statistical Systems ◽  
Behavior Systems

In this paper, we borrow some of the key concepts of nonequilibrium statistical systems, to develop a framework for analyzing a self-organizing-optimizing system of independent interacting agents, with nonlinear dynamics at the macro level that is based on stochastic individual behavior at the micro level. We demonstrate the use of entropy-divergence methods and micro income data to evaluate and understand the hidden aspects of stochastic dynamics that drives macroeconomic behavior systems and discuss how to empirically represent and evaluate their nonequilibrium nature. Empirical applications of the information theoretic family of power divergence measures-entropic functions, interpreted in a probability context with Markov dynamics, are presented.

scholarly journals Thermal Quantum Spacetime

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isha Kotecha
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Statistical Field ◽  
The Status ◽  
Gravity System ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Quantum Spacetime

The intersection of thermodynamics, quantum theory and gravity has revealed many profound insights, all the while posing new puzzles. In this article, we discuss an extension of equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics potentially compatible with a key feature of general relativity, background independence; and we subsequently use it in a candidate quantum gravity system, thus providing a preliminary formulation of a thermal quantum spacetime. Specifically, we emphasise an information-theoretic characterisation of generalised Gibbs equilibrium that is shown to be particularly suited to background independent settings, and in which the status of entropy is elevated to being more fundamental than energy. We also shed light on its intimate connections with the thermal time hypothesis. Based on this, we outline a framework for statistical mechanics of quantum gravity degrees of freedom of combinatorial and algebraic type, and apply it in several examples. In particular, we provide a quantum statistical basis for the origin of covariant group field theories, shown to arise as effective statistical field theories of the underlying quanta of space in a certain class of generalised Gibbs states.

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