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Renasceres®: Embodying health citizenship with a health literacy argument [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
INTRODUÇÃO Neste artigo exploram-se os conceitos de saúde, literacia para a saúde e cidadania em saúde. A partir de uma discussão focando a sustentabilidade social é integrado o paradigma salutogénico e o constructo do sentido de coerência como ...
Cunha, Madalena   +2 more
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Teleonomy: The Feedback Circuit Involving Information and Thermodynamic Processes

open access: yesJournal of Modern Physics, 2011
Informational and entropic - metabolic aspects are strictly intertwined in organisms. An overview of bacterial chemotaxis is presented as a good and simple model to study these issues. In particular, the paper shall focus on the ability of the organism to restore its homeostasis not only from a metabolic point of view but also from an informational ...
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Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis: Maximum Entropy, Kauffman's 'Fourth Law' and physiosemeiosis [PDF]

open access: yes
Recently, Kleidon suggested a restatement of the Gaia hypothesis based on Maximum Entropy approaches to the Earth system. Refuting conceptions of Gaia as a homeostatic system, Gaia is seen as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic system which continuously ...
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten
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Il dinamismo dell’evoluzione e l’evolvibilità del vivente [PDF]

open access: yes
Nel contesto della recente prospettiva di indagine scientifica denominata “biologia dello sviluppo evoluzionistica” (“evo-devo”), è stata introdotta la nozione di evolvibilità in riferimento alla produzione di variazione fenotipica ereditabile e ...
D'Ambrosio, Paolo
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Session 2: Female Orgasms and Evolutionary Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 2: Female Orgasms and Evolutionary ...
Arnold, Karen   +3 more
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Why Is There Life? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
: Ongoing theoretical explorations of and experimental research on the origins of life focus predominately on the details of how life evolved. But there remains an intriguing second-order question one step removed from these focused investigations.  That
Thornton, James Clay
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Austrian Economics, Evolutionary Psychology and Methodological Dualism: Subjectivism Reconsidered [PDF]

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The methodological individualism and subjectivism of the Austrian tradition in economics is often associated with a methodological dualism, i.e. the claim that the nature of its subject matter, namely purposeful and intentional human action, requires ...
Vanberg, Viktor J.
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