Introduction to complexity and complex systems. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Robert B. Northrop.
• Other Names: Northrop, Robert B
• Contents: Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems; Introduction to Complexity; Why Study Complex Systems?; Human Responses to Complexity; Complex Systems Engineering; Chapter Summary; Introduction to Large Linear Systems; Introduction; Linearity, Causality & Stationarity; L TI System Tools Impulse Response, Frequency Response and Real Convolution; Systems Described by Large Sets of Linear ODEs; Stability of Linear Systems; Signal Flow Graphs and Mason's Rule; Chapter Summary; Introduction to Nonlinear Biochemical Systems and Biochemical Oscillators ; Introduction Some General Properties of NonIinear Systems; All Living Systems Are Nonlinear; Parametric Regulation in Complex Biological Systems; Chaos, Stability and Limit Cycle Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems; Chapter Summary; Modularity, Redundancy, Degeneracy, Pleiotropy and Robustness in; Complex Biological Systems; Introduction; Measures of Modularity; Modularity in Physiological Organ Systems; Modularity in Gene Regulation and Development; Network Motifs and Modularity; Redundancy, Degeneracy, Pleiotropy and Robustness; Chapter Summary; The Evolution of Biological Complexity; Invertebrate Immune Systems; Introduction; Darwinian Evolution; a Brief Summary; Why Does a Rise in Complexity Accompany Biological Evolution?; Examples of Biological Complexity; Invertebrate Immune Systems; Chapter Summary; The Complex Adaptive and Innate Human Immune Systems; Introduction; An Overview of the CAIS; A Summary of the Cells of the hIS; Innate Immune Systems; Antigen presentation; Autacoids Immunocytokines, Proteins and Glycoproteins Secreted by hIS Cells; Discussion How the hIS is Adaptive; Chapter Summary; Complexity in Quasispecies MicroRNAs; Quasispecies; Viral and Bacterial Evolutionary Models [see Kamp papers in NB3]; The Role of Micro-RNAs in the Regulation of Gene Expression and Disease; Chapter Summary; Introduction to Physiological Complexity Examples of Models of Some Complex Physiological Systems; Introduction; Physiology Defined; Homeostasis; Structure & Function Some Examples of Complex Physiological Regulatory Systems and their Models; Examples of When Complex Physiological Systems Fail; Chapter Summary; The Quest for Quantitative Measures of Complexity; Introduction; Intuitive Measures of Complexity; Sensitivities; Structural Complexity Measures; Informatic Complexity Measures; Chapter Summary; "Irreducible and Specified Complexity" in Living Systems; Introduction; Irreducible Complexity; Specified Complexity; Chapter Summary; Introduction to Complexity in Economic Systems; Introduction; Economic Systems; Chapter Summary; Dealing with Complexity; Introduction; Dorner's Approaches to Tackling Complex Problems; Frederic Vester's "Paper Computer"; The Sensitivity Model of Vester; Learning From Our Mistakes; Chapter Summary; Appendix; Bibliography and References; Glossary; Index; ;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (551 pages), (7 illustrations)
• Subjects: 570.11; Complexity (Philosophy); Biocomplexity; Chaotic behavior in systems
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439894989; 1439894981
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