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Preliminary Concepts for Economic Systems Analysis [PDF]
In preparing theoretical tools to analyze economic systems we need several fundamental concepts that are often applied in various scientific investigations outside economic studies.
Kamitake, Yoshiro
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Observing the Environment of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 423-433, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT This paper explores the conceptualisation of technology as an autopoietic system, addressing the limitations of instrumentalist, deterministic and human‐centred perspectives in understanding the relationship between technology and society. By framing technology as a self‐referential, operationally closed system, the analysis highlights its ...
Steven Watson
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, 2012 > Context • Society is faced with “wicked” problems of environmental sustainability, which are inherently multiperspectival, and there is a need for explicitly constructivist and perspectivist theories to address them.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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ComputersBiological systems have a unique ability inherited through their genome. It allows them to build, operate, and manage a society of cells with complex organizational structures, where autonomous components execute specific tasks and collaborate in groups ...
Rao Mikkilineni +2 more
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The problems of offenders with mental disorders: A plurality of perspectives within a single mental health care organisation [PDF]
, 2006 Managers, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, unqualified staff and service users were interviewed for a qualitative study of risk management and rehabilitation in an inner city medium secure forensic mental health ...
Davies, Jacqueline +4 more
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Within, without: dialogical perspectives on feminism and Islam. [PDF]
, 2011 This paper offers an ontological and literary review of Muslim women’s religious practices across the Muslim ummah, in considering the development of an epistemology of faith and feminism within the Islamic schema. Global examples of faith-based practice
Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara, Husain, Fatima
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WHAT IS INFORMATION SUCH THAT THERE CAN BE INFORMATION SYSTEMS? [PDF]
, 2014 Information systems, as a discipline, is concerned with the generation, storage and transmission of information, generally by technological means. As such, it would seem to be fundamental that it has a clear and agreed conceptualization of its core ...
Mingers, John
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Ideas y Valores, 2011 Sarmiento, José A. "Autopoiesis, bucles, emergencia, variedades topológicas y una conjetura sobre la consciencia humana", Revista Arbor CLXXXV/ 738 (2009): 871-878.
Juan Diego Morales
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Entropy, 2010 In an early paper on logic, C.S. Peirce defined a concept of ‘information’ very different from the later conceptions which gave rise to ‘information science’, and indirectly to current problems such as an overload of ‘useless information’.
Gary Fuhrman
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COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AS A METHODOLOGICAL PARADIGM [PDF]
, 2002 A general direction in which cognitive linguistics is heading at the turn of the century is outlined and a revised understanding of cognitive linguistics as a methodological paradigm is suggest.
Kravchenko, Prof. A.V.
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