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Betrothal and Betrayal: The Soviet Translation of Norbert Weiner's Early Cybernetics
International Journal of Communication, 2008 The early Cold War history (1948-1955) of cybernetics, or the study of information control and communication, offers an instructive footnote to 20th century history of media and communication.
Benjamin J. P. Peters
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Footprint, 2019 In the late 1950s the Quickborner Team developed a cybernetics-inspired design methodology for organisations, focusing on information flow, with the aim to fully automate administrative labour and to make the organisation constantly adaptable to ...
Andreas Rumpfhuber
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Electric utilities are expected to implement measures to improve their performance in all three dimensions of sustainable development—environmental, social, and economic. While several studies have investigated the environmental dimension, measures related to the social pillar have hardly been researched to date.
Shekerta Aliu +2 more
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Dynamic analysis of a class of neutral delay model based on the Runge-Kutta algorithm
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2018 In this paper, we study the dynamics of a class of second-order neutral delay nonlinear models. This study is applicable to many fields, such as engineering, cybernetics, and physics.
Hongying Luo
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Creating Digital Sustainable Business Models in Cluster‐Based Energy Ecosystems
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Overlapping economic, social, sustainable, health, and military crises create new spaces for scientific research to be applied to practice. The paper focuses on constructing and configuring digital sustainable business models for energy ecosystems that can effectively respond to and mitigate the impacts of dynamic climate change. This topic is
Christian Schachtner +5 more
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Nested Selves: Self‐Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The immune system is a central component of organismic function in humans. This paper addresses self‐organization of biological systems in relation to—and nested within—other biological systems in pregnancy. Pregnancy constitutes a fundamental state for human embodiment and a key step in the evolution and conservation of our species. While not
Anna Ciaunica +3 more
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, 2008 This informal essay, written on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Wienerian cybernetics, presents a series of themes and ideas that has emerged during last several decades and which have direct or indirect relationships to the principal concepts of ...
Havel, Ivan M.
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Modelling Suicide‐Related Communication Dynamics: A Socio‐Cybernetic Framework for Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Suicide‐related phenomena (SPS) are often approached through individual‐level risk factors or moral framings, yet their population‐level dynamics depend critically on how ‘suicide’ becomes observable, circulates and is governed across functionally differentiated systems.
Enrique Fernández Vilas, Juan R. Coca
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Which methodological position is best for orientating higher education? This question is crucial for the design of pedagogical programmes. The issue is not always raised; hence, many offers in higher education are unsatisfactory: ill‐defined, concept‐less, inefficient.
Markus Schwaninger
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
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