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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Complexity Science"”.
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Robust Normativity in Complexity Science
… explanatory roles that normativity plays in the complexity sciences. Future work will modify this template for the other explanatory roles that I attribute to norms in Chapters 2–4.
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Measures from complexity science provide manufacturing companies with insights previously unavailable to them
… in application of these tools. Complex systems SCience, with its origins in communications, control theory and non-linear dynamical systems, has provided previously unavailable insight into real-world systems. The applications to date in manufacturing have been in soft systems appearing either …
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Design and validation of a leadership model for South African higher education
… in the dissertation. The model is based on complexity science and Ken Wilber’s theory of holism, and employs such key concepts as values, personal development, and mechanistic and holistic performance. The rationale for this study was the researcher’s desire to explore the qualities required …
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Macroscopic insights from mechanistic ecological network models in a data void
Complexity science has come into the limelight in recent years as the scientific community begins to grapple with higher-order natural phenomena that cannot be fully explained via the behaviour of components at lower levels of organization. Network modeling and analysis, being a powerful tool that …
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Adaptive capacity & resilience to natural disasters in Latin America : a case study on the 2007 Ica, Peru earthquake
… that is constantly far from equilibrium. Complexity science theory supports the study and the self-organization of communities in the process of coping with a disaster. Reports generated from informal interviews and participatory techniques further support all evidential findings. The …
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Re-examining the implications of systems thinking for evaluation
… theories, and methods from the systems and complexity fields with little research on the implications of this trend for the evaluation field. This thesis examines this borrowing to identify over-arching implications for evaluation theory and practice. The first paper reviews …
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A General Evolutionary Methodology for Sustainable Development
… theory from the field of general evolutionary sciences (including chaos theory, complexity science, and nonlinear thermodynamics). I translate this emerging theoretical worldview to a general evolutionary methodology for the analysis of sustainable development strategies. Application of the …
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Leadership in work environment complexity
… the topic of Leadership in Work Environment Complexity (WEC). In recent years, organisations have been rapidly evolving into ever more complex workplaces that single actors are hardly able to oversee or control (Osborn & Hunt, 2007). This thesis therefore introduces and works with the …
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Level of Agreement in the Mental Models of Human Factors Practitioners and Systems Engineers Working in Collaborative Teams
<p>Emerging research in complexity science recognizes traditional techniques for engineering systems do not always work for complex systems. Designing complex systems requires individuals to have knowledge of engineering as well as human performance. To this end, design efforts rely often on …
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Environmental policy implementation networks : who are the movers and shakers?
… relationships through the application of a complexity science approach incorporating social network analysis. UK DEFRA guidance encourages the adoption of an ecosystem framework to direct goal prioritisation, consequently, positioning environmental goals against ecosystem services and …
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Policy Systems and Their Complexity Dynamics: Academic Medical Centers and Managed Care Markets
This dissertation examined how complexity theory might offer insight into the behavior of a population of large-scale networked organizational groups. Academic medical centers (AMCs), a large-scale social and policy system that plays a key role in the education of physicians, the conduct of …
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Measuring Performance in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Agent-Based Approach to Managerial and Technological Change
… of CAPEM. CAPEM 2.0 integrates new insights from complexity science and behavioral theory in simulating how diverse parts of an organization interact, learn, and make decisions, especially in decentralized environments. A guiding metaphor in this research is "flocking," which has inspired me …
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A Multi-level Model for a Vector-Borne Organ to Tissue life Cycle Dynamics
… dynamics of malaria are well-known for their complexity, stemming not only from the parasite’s lifecycle, which involves two hosts (humans and mosquitoes)but also from the intricate replication and transmission cycles across different levels of the infectious disease system organization. Like …
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Guts, brains, complexity and creativity: immersive living and learning through the critical lens of first-person inquiry
… clinical, applied, affective, and cognitive neurosciences, applied microbiology, health informatics, food science and technology, and human nutrition. When I started my professional doctorate I was deep-rooted in a positivist worldview that was preventing me from flourishing as the professional I …
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Examining the Dynamics of Urban Form, Flow, and Accessibility Using Geo-Computational Methods: A Case Study of Delhi
… significant advancements in the field of urban science have emerged in the last three decades. Complexity science and geo-computational models have enabled the study of cities as dynamic entities using a bottom-up approach. This thesis constructs a conceptual framework encompassing urban form, …
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The development of creativity: a study of creative adolescents and young adults
… The pattern models are based on the concepts of complexity science, Dabrowski’s theory of positive disintegration, and various emotion theories. Based on the life stories of the participants, it is proposed that creativity in young people could be defined as “self-organizing dissipative …
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Computational Morphogenesis of City Tissues
… impact not only on the study of the natural sciences but disciplines worldwide. The studies were rooted in understanding the complex process of organisation, development and evolution in natural systems before attempting to emulate the behaviours in artificial systems, leading to the …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
… framework. Theory development draws on complexity science, especially complex adaptive systems theory, and the disciplines of social epidemiology and health ecology. Results show that a series of discourses have strongly shaped thinking about CPV, converging around a normative 'bad …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
… framework. Theory development draws on complexity science, especially complex adaptive systems theory, and the disciplines of social epidemiology and health ecology. Results show that a series of discourses have strongly shaped thinking about CPV, converging around a normative 'bad …
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Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models of Functional and Structural Human Brain Networks in Aging
The human brain is a complex and dynamical system that changes throughout the lifetime. Non-invasive imaging techniques, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), allow for the measurement of large-scale functional and structural connectivity networks in the brain. Beyond trends, the dynamics …
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