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Sokolny VII – a New Site of the Early Neolite of the Republic of Mari El

open access: yesПоволжская археология
The article presents the results of a study of the Sokolny XVII camp-site (Republic of Mari El). The physical and geographical characteristics of the location of the site are given and a brief history of the study is given.
Kudashov Alexander S.   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Systemic Reflection On Why Biology Is Best : E(s) ∞$$ \infty $$ mc2 Sentience, Consciousness and Transcendance?

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The short essay makes a case that a post biological world will be a devolution. Sentience is a relational process linked with the awe and wonder we experience in relation to one another and our shared habitat. The voiceless need to be protected by extending solidarity on the basis of sentience—a normative plea, but also on the basis of ...
J. J. McIntyre‐Mills
wiley   +1 more source

Chains of Social Sustainability and the Potential of the DPSIR Framework

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For more than 20 years, the Driver‐Pressure‐State‐Impact‐Response (DPSIR) framework has contributed to clarifying causal chains for environmental sustainability issues. This study aims to answer the question of whether the framework can extend its usefulness to structuring social sustainability issues, to which it has not been applied so far ...
Stefan Mann
wiley   +1 more source

The Biased Interaction Game: A System Theoretic Approach to the Emergence of Inequality, Hierarchy, and the Implications for the Likelihood of Cooperation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emergence of cooperation in natural selection has been successfully studied using game theory and, despite the underlying selfish nature of the evolutionary process, a spectrum of plausible mechanisms have been proposed to determine the conditions under which cooperative behaviour is likely to occur.
Phil Mercy, Martin Neil
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

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