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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Systems Science"”.
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Urban informatics: Systems science and machine learning in spatiotemporal analysis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Developments in Complex Systems Science with Applications to Political Systems and Pandemic Response
… many complex physical, biological, and social systems. Complex systems science clarifies when and why such assumptions fail and provides alternative frameworks for understanding the properties of complex systems. We review some of the basic principles of complex systems science and provide a …
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Innovation of a design method (MoIST) that incorporates non-traditional 'soft' systems science into traditional 'hard' information systems design
… research explores ways of making the information systems development process more effective. The thesis documents an original design method. This is the method of incorporating Systems thinking into Information Systems Design (MoIST). The thesis demonstrates that MoIST improves information systems …
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Young offenders and the Criminal Justice System: a systems science approach to evaluating and improving Metropolitan Police Service policy toward young offenders
The research reported here is concerned with a systems science approach to evaluating and improving Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) policy toward young offenders from 1992 to 1999. The MPS were concerned at the cost effectiveness of their policy and procedures toward young offenders, and the role …
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Unity and pluralism
… of this thesis is methodological pluralism in systems science: that is, how it might be possible to draw upon different systems methods that are traditionally thought to be based in incommensurable paradigms. The thesis is split into three sections. Section One begins by reviewing ideas about …
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Ultrasonic blood flow imaging using correlation processing
… University. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, 1981
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Complexity: Theoretical and methodological applications for sociology
… its own branch of study, developed from the new science of Chaos. Recent paradigmatic disputes occurring in the scientific community have been the force of a growing sense of change in the way many different disciplines view complex systems. Since it is evident that social systems are typically …
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Dimensional Inconsistencies in Orthogonal Transformations of Onsager's Phenomenological Equations
… live in an orderly universe is at the heart of science. This confidence is continually reinforced by the fact that rough, simplified equations can actually predict the general behavior of complex macroscopic systems. Science does not have an exclusive claim on the search for pattern, but it is …
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The development and application of a multi-objective optimization technique for chemical processes and controller design
… literature. Recent innovations in the fields of systems science, artificial intelligence, and operations research have led to the development of rigorous multi-objective optimization techniques to address the problem of optimizing complex processes in the presence of multiple conflicting …
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A systemic approach to competency management
… the employees within the organisations. This systems science research explores the competency approach to employee management. It identifies the environmental changes that have led to such an approach including those within the field of Human Resource Management and discusses the impact of …
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Measures from complexity science provide manufacturing companies with insights previously unavailable to them
… success 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 …
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Planitia : a real-time fuzzy-logic tilt controller
Cybernetics and Systems Science are inter-disciplinary sciences that tend to focus on the complex systems such as organisms, ecologies, minds, societies, and machines. Cybernetic systems are regarded as complex structures which are built over underlying laws and principles that can be used to unify …
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Multipronged Approach to Study Glaucoma-Associated Phenotypes
… address these challenges. First, we used a novel systems genetics approach to identify and validate genetic modifiers of IOP using the enlarged BXD family of strains in combination with human GWAS glaucoma cohorts. This will pave the way for improved drug development tailored to individual …
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Link Game Theory and Machine Learning in Theories and Applications
… It has applications in all fields of social science, as well as in logic, systems science and computer science. Today, game theory applies to a wide range of behavioral relations. On the other hand, machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that provides systems the ability to …
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The potential of antimicrobial resistance diagnostics to inform prudent antimicrobial use in feedlot cattle: dynamic models as tools for optimizing interventions in bovine respiratory disease
… are used in modern livestock production systems to control and treat bacterial diseases in food animals. The misuse and overuse of antimicrobial drugs in agricultural settings as elsewhere accelerates the selection of resistant pathogens; emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens …
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A Control Theoretic Approach to the Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problem With Applications in Hyperparameter Optimization
… the field of Control Theory and dynamical systems. We specifically focus on a SMAB environment where the rewards are the output of a Linear Gaussian Dynamical System (LGDS). The core contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate how Control Theory can enhance our current understanding of …
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Echoes of wisdom - Regenerative practice as professional practice
… at the confluence of fields such as Ecology, Systems Science, Sustainable Development, and Agriculture (Mang & Reed, 2011; du Plessis, 2012; Swanson, 2006). Regenerative Practice is a holistic discipline being applied across many fields (Hes and du Plessis, 2014), where practitioners engage …
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Constructing validated clinical tools to enable the development of a new evidence base for personalised nutrition practice in obesity management
… (cPNI), the interdisciplinary approach of systems science, pathophysiological mechanistic reasoning and translational bioinformatics. The project focused on personalised nutrition practice, which is primarily centred on nutritional therapy but also draws on the practice of dietitians, …
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Starting from the River Again. Community Processes to Regenerate Spoiled Ecosystems
Rivers and their ecosystems are a vital core of human societies: not only do they provide resources, in particular for rural economies, they also generate symbolic meanings in different cultures around the world. The Dissertation focuses on how watershed planning and management can be enhanced with …
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