Not exact matches
2 For an excellent survey of the history and basic concepts of systems thought,
see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «
General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems
Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).
«Most people will
see this bill for what it is — a cynical attempt to deflect growing public concern about the
behaviour of rich corporate lobbyists representing hedge funds and private health companies, many of whom donate substantial sums to the Conservative party,»
general secretary Frances O'Grady said.
Speaking about the importance of the Honeycomb Maze, Professor O'Keefe said «we
see the maze as a
general - purpose behavioural testing apparatus, which will enable us to study other spatial
behaviours such as direction - following as well as non-spatial tasks such as approaching a moving object.»
Favourite plays include hyper - focus on one, extremely speculative study (T&S 09); misrepresenting the potential for abrupt cooling in the C21st, dismissing the dominance of the centennial forced trend, misrepresenting deglacial abrupt climate change; grossly over-stating the accuracy and utility of pre-CERES TOA reconstructions (especially the synthetic, non-observational ISCCP - FD reconstruction); hyper - focus on interannual OHC variability; confusion of cause and effect with long - term trends in OHC (CO2 forcing denial) and
general inability to
see that natural variability from now on will be riding up a forced trend which will increasingly dominate climate
behaviour.