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Zdravotnicka pracovnice, 1971
In this paper I attempt to show that adaptational sentences (i.e. sentences containing the terms “adaptive”, “adapted”, etc.) in evolutionary biology are best interpreted as equivalent to sentences about Darwinian or genetical selection. Thus, the use of adaptational languages does not introduce final purposes or other nonempirical notions into biology.
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In this paper I attempt to show that adaptational sentences (i.e. sentences containing the terms “adaptive”, “adapted”, etc.) in evolutionary biology are best interpreted as equivalent to sentences about Darwinian or genetical selection. Thus, the use of adaptational languages does not introduce final purposes or other nonempirical notions into biology.
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Adapting Biological Feedback in Radiotherapy
Seminars in Radiation Oncology, 2010Recently, there has been much interest in how to use information on patient-specific tumor biology and normal tissue function to individualize cancer treatment. In radiation therapy, dose may be escalated to radioresistant regions within a tumor, or regions of particular functional importance in normal organs may be preferentially spared.
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Philosophy of Science, 1972
In successive issues of this journal Ronald Munson [2] and I [4] have made, quite independently, conflicting claims about the relationship between biological adaptation and biological function. I state, admittedly without proof, that “a functional statement in biology draws attention to the fact that what is under consideration is an adaptation or ...
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In successive issues of this journal Ronald Munson [2] and I [4] have made, quite independently, conflicting claims about the relationship between biological adaptation and biological function. I state, admittedly without proof, that “a functional statement in biology draws attention to the fact that what is under consideration is an adaptation or ...
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Adaptation in biological networks
2014 IEEE International Conference on Control Science and Systems Engineering, 2014In this paper a mechanism for parameter identification of a biological system is proposed. The local dynamic is considered nonlinear with parameters nonlinearly parameterized. The results are applied to a glycolitic oscillators.
Ileana Grave, Yu Tang
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Biological adaptabilities and quantum entropies
Biosystems, 2002The entropy-based theory of adaptability set forth by Michael Conrad in the early 1970s continued to appear in his work for over two decades, and was the subject of the only book he published in his lifetime. He applied this theory to a host of subjects ranging from enzyme dynamics to sociology.
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Biological Adaptation: A Reply
Philosophy of Science, 1972Michael Ruse [3] has criticized the distinction between biological function and evolutionary adaptation that I argued for in my article “Biological Adaptation” [2]. I shall show below that Ruse's criticisms are not, for the most part, well taken and that the distinction remains as I made it.
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Culture and Biological Adaptation
American Anthropologist, 1965THE results of one phase of a recently completed study which are pertinent to the question of the biological adaptiveness of culture are presented here. For the purpose of interpreting the genetic characteristics of Pacific Island peoples, research was initially directed to the problem of identifying the determinants of size, structure and dynamics of ...
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Science, 1969
Adaptation is an aspect of virtually all questions of human biology. Besides their interest in evolution through adaptive selection of the primates, including man, physical anthropologists are concerned with biological adaptability as a human attribute.
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Adaptation is an aspect of virtually all questions of human biology. Besides their interest in evolution through adaptive selection of the primates, including man, physical anthropologists are concerned with biological adaptability as a human attribute.
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Adaptive process control using biologic paradigms
Proceedings Electronic Technology Directions to the Year 2000, 1996Abstract Researchers at the US Bureau of Mines have combined several biologically oriented techniques into a comprehensive approach to adaptive process control. The three specific techniques from the field of artificial intelligence used to produce the adaptive process control systems are: (1) fuzzy logic, (2) genetic algorithms, and (3) neural ...
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Thermal Adaptations in Biological Membranes: Is Homeoviscous Adaptation the Explanation?
Annual Review of Physiology, 1995The phase behavior and physical properties of lipids in biological membranes are exquisitely sensitive to changes in temperature (50). Because membranes (a) act as physical barriers to solute diffusion, (b) mediate the transmembrane movement of specific solutes, (c) regulate the utilization of energy stored in transmembrane ion gradients, Cd) provide ...
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