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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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Biological Adaptations and Evolutionary Epistemology
Adaptive Behavior, 1996Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge, by Henry Plotkin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. xviii + 269 pages, $27.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-674-19280-X.
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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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Adaptation and Optimization of Biological Transport Networks
Physical Review Letters, 2013It has been hypothesized that topological structures of biological transport networks are consequences of energy optimization. Motivated by experimental observation, we propose that adaptation dynamics may underlie this optimization. In contrast to the global nature of optimization, our adaptation dynamics responds only to local information and can ...
Dan, Hu, David, Cai
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