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Information and Reflection: On Some Problems of Cybernetics and How Contemporary Dialectical Materialism Copes with Them. By Peter Paul Kirschenmann. Dordrecht: D. Reidel. New York: Humanities Press, 1970. xv, 225 pp. $14.00. [PDF]
Donald V. Schwartz
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Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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Elixir of electoral fraud: The impact of digital technology on the 2015 general elections in Nigeria
The democratisation of politics in most post-colonial formations like Nigeria has not been successful in terms of reducing the incidence of voter intimidation, ballot box snatching/stuffing, multiple voting, falsification of results and other associated ...
Chikodiri Nwangwu+2 more
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Sustainable supply chains – Designing a requisite holistic model
Abstract Our study explored the relationships between supply chain (SC) members and their local and global stakeholders in achieving sustainability goals based on requisite holistic analysis and system dynamics modeling, which goes beyond the previous attempts to improve SC sustainability. In this research, we first developed a model that addresses the
Igor Perko+2 more
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A Generalized Fractional Calculus of Variations
We study incommensurate fractional variational problems in terms of a generalized fractional integral with Lagrangians depending on classical derivatives and generalized fractional integrals and derivatives.
Malinowska, Agnieszka B.+2 more
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(A) PPN‐cholinergic neurons degenerate during PD. We stereologically counted their rostro‐caudal distribution in post‐mortem PPNs in health versus PD. (Bi) Serial PPN‐containing samples were cholinergic antibody‐DAB stained. (Bii) Only DAB‐stained neurons on green lines and inside the box were counted.
Puneet Kumar Sharma+3 more
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Second Order Cybernetics: Why and Where to Steer To
This is a commentary on Michael Lissack’s two-part article “Understanding is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Thinking Perspective.” In response to the two-part article this short commentary argues, among others, that there is no possible ...
Michael Hohl
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Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research. Volume III, edited by R. Trappl, G. J. Klir, and L. Ricciardi [PDF]
Robert Rosén
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ABSTRACT Aim To evaluate the application of a synthetic bi‐layered biphasic calcium‐phosphate (BBCP) bone substitute for its capacity for new bone formation in Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) in an acute‐defect model in Beagle dogs. Material and Methods Standardized bone defects were created following the extraction of the maxillary 1P1, 2P2, 4P4 and ...
Kiri N. Lang+3 more
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