Sentences with phrase «as a complex adaptive»

We value research from uncommon sources to help us understand the market as a complex adaptive system.

The Institute's proximity to the ruins of the Anasazi civilization provides an appropriate setting for the program's serious and admiring reflection on the successes of past societies to function as complex adaptive systems within their environments.

The CIRAD research team is continuing to work on the desert locust, in the aim of improving management of the pest by taking account of its many aspects and considering it as a complex adaptive system.

Bill Miller views the stockmarket as a complex adaptive system in which the future of a company can not be solely analyzed based on book value or P / E ratio.

Increasingly, the social sciences frame policy problems from the financial system to the food system as complex adaptive systems (CAS) and urge policy - makers to design legal solutions with CAS properties in mind.

Foreign Investment Law as A Complex Adaptive System, How It Emerged And How It Can Be Reformed

Also, his paper: «The Self as a Complex Adaptive System: Part III: A revised view of development» has been accepted for publication by Psychoanalytic Social Work Journal.

Not exact matches

Between these two reductive positions the social sciences may portray the person as a complex organism equipped with intellectual powers for adaptive adjustment to its environment, both natural and human.

The molecule in question, known as beta - 2 microglobulin, or B2M, is a component of a larger molecule called MHC I (major histocompatibility complex class I), which plays a major role in the adaptive immune system.

Electronic components such as transistors and amplifiers with adaptive functions could be reduced to single, complex molecules.

Robot bodies are becoming more adaptive and flexible, with designers taking inspiration from the extraordinary flexibility and dexterity of complex biological structures, such as the human hand.

The study is commissioned by the U.S. National Geospatial Agency to help U.S. Department of Defense agencies understand and model the interaction of complex adaptive systems such as natural ecosystems, individual organisms, and human communities, organizations and families.

Our results show that trangenerational epigenetic effects play a role in adaptive evolution, and suggest that the relationship between changes in methylation patterns and differences in evolutionary outcomes, at least for quantitative traits such as cell division rates, is complex.

Dr. Locksley's laboratory focuses on tracking cytokine expression in model systems, as a mechanism to investigate complex functional interactions between innate and adaptive cells in the immune system.

The first whole genome analysis of an octopus reveals unique genomic features that likely played a role in the evolution of traits such as large complex nervous systems and adaptive camouflage.

There's no way I could do justice to the complex mixture of phytochemicals in those plants, but various glucosinolates (really, their isothiocyanate products) and quercetin from kale; the anthocyanins from blueberries; mangiferin from mangos; and gallic acid, ellagic acid, quercetin, kaempferol from amla all induce the «adaptive stress response» as described above.

Adaptive Learning, in the domain of computer - delivered instruction, is now used as a fairly generic term and can describe a wide range of functionality from the fairly simple to the highly complex.

What intrigues Munger so much is the often unexpected and spectacular output of a complex adaptive system, which Michael Mauboussin describes as follows:

*** «Perhaps concern over «uncertainty» in complex, adaptive, open systems should be investigated by inductive generalization from observations of the dynamics of a wide range of such systems: ecosystems, social systems, computer systems, immune systems, economic systems... It is curious that the following things are never admitted as «facts about the world,» but here goes: the observer would note of all of these systems that they undergo oscillations within apparent parameters and occasionally flip into new regimes; they often demonstrate novel emergence; and that increased forcing, whether of native elements or exotic ones, increases the rates of oscillation and catastrophic shifts, sometimes after a quieter period of sub-threshold build - up.

These are, of course, important reminders as we tackle reform of the justice system because it is a truly complex adaptive system.

Recent research has led to the conclusion that Down children are capable of expressing complex feelings, of developing richer personalities, and of mastering higher degrees of learning using adaptive strategies (such as computer - aided learning to teach reading and writing).