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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Complex and adaptive"”.
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Navigating uncertainty as an “Adolescent Organization”: Addressing the needs of LGBTQIAA+ young people in a complex and adaptive service organization
… queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, and agender plus Students have been marginalized in society and, in particular, K-12 schools. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of young adults and recent high school graduates to gather information about their …
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Niching methods for genetic algorithms
… algorithms to domains that require the location and maintenance of multiple solutions. Such domains include classification and machine learning, multimodal function optimization, multiobjective function optimization, and simulation of complex and adaptive systems.
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Urban Relay : circulation morphology [accelerator city]
… cities vertical buildings are conceived and implemented as subdivided volumes that set up highly regularized modes of inhabitation. This condition limits the possibility for more complex and adaptive spatial relationships between program and use. This limitation exists at a time when the …
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Organisation and performance in renal anaemia management
… with particular focus on safety, quality and efficiency. The management of many long-term diseases involves complex patterns of care processes. However, the mechanisms by which this works are poorly understood, with care pathways reflecting pre-determined, linear processes. Renal anaemia …
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Developing A Strategy to Combat Drug Abuse in Philadelphia, 1960-1973
… its first drug control strategy between 1960 and 1973? This study argues that Philadelphia's drug control strategy was part of an array of collaborative responses to the composite challenges of urban decay and was influenced by concerns for development, law enforcement, and fiscal survival. In …
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Toward relevant measures of performance to manage complexity in inclusive development projects
… issue to make progress within South African and globally. When one considers how to improve on the lack of success we have had so far, there are many areas of possible focus. This study looks at the management of innovation for inclusive development projects. These projects are complex. They …
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Modelling sustainable ecotourism development on the Coromandel Peninsula in Aotearoa / New Zealand; a holistic systems approach based on the idea of chaos and complexity in a human-activity system
… research is based on the premise that ecotourism and sustainable development can be expressed as operational theoretical concepts and as fields of empirical inquiry. Positioned in the realm of applied qualitative research in the social sciences, the study’s leitmotiv is that sustainable ecotourism …