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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"chaos theory"”.
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Synthesis of chaos theory & design
The design implications of chaos theory are explored. What does this theory mean, if anything, to landscape architecture or architecture? In order to investigate these questions, the research was divided into four components relevant to design. First, philosophical- chaos offers a nonlinear …
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Chaos Theory, Theology, and Curriculum: Striving Towards the Impossibility of the Gift
… huge weather systems. With an understanding of chaos theory, which posits that everything matters, I argue that a life based on the lessons of a theology inspired by postmodernism can provide a lens through which to see and act in this chaotic world. By living by this belief, the ability to give …
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Exploring the implicate order in public organizations: the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory
Chaos theory, a philosophical viewpoint from physics, is being adopted by some public organization theorists as a new standpoint for understanding and managing organizations besieged by instability and turbulence. A basic tenet of chaos theory, known as mutual causality, denies that an entity …
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An Investigation of Determinism and Chaotic Behavior in Flight Performance Data: A Chaos Theory and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Approach
<p>Human flight performance data were investigated using non-linear time series analysis methods to determine deterministic chaotic behavior in the data. Using a sequence of steps of non-linear methods, four flight performance data were used to investigate for the existence of deterministic chaotic …
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Planning For Chaos: Cluster Strategies Of Economic Development
… I will attempt to demonstrate the value of using chaos theory as a framework for understanding the emergence and development of clusters as a strategy for economic development. The application of the principles of chaos theory will be used to judge the relative success of specific clusters through …
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Chaos Criminology: A Critical Inquiry
… this effort has taken the form of integrating Chaos Theory into Criminology into what this thesis calls ‘Chaos Criminology’. However, with the melding of any two fields, terms and concepts need to be translated properly, which has yet to be done. In addition to proving a translation between …
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Describing and forecasting patient census: Comparing linear and nonlinear analysis results
… As such, they are nonlinear phenomena. Chaos theory offers methods for analyzing and modeling nonlinear phenomena. Scientists applying chaos theory to management agree that nonlinear analysis provides new information, they do not agree, however, on what statistical analysis should be …
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The AH1N1 Influenza crisis in Mexico: A critique of contemporary tourism crisis and disaster management models and frameworks
… which could arise from the application of chaos theory are also overlooked, in favour of a traditional, pedantic approach which perhaps stifles innovation. The AH1N1 Influenza crisis, which afflicted Mexico in 2009, provides a useful case study with which to conduct a qualitative …
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Chaos and context : speculations about the prominence of participatory art since the mid 1990s
… the irrationality and lack of order of Quantum Theory is seen as paralleled in artistic expression. Since the mid 1990s, participatory art has gained prominence, both in terms of current art production and retrospectives of Dadaist and 1960s 'open work'. Using Eco's essay as a model, this could …
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The recategorization of "chaos": a case study of language change and theory change
… the relationship between semantic change and theory change in science. The study focuses on thirty years of developments in chaos theory. Because of measurement problems associated with certain nonlinear phenomena, the observability of chaotic systems is severely limited. In such cases, …
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Duomenų šifravimo aplikacijos kūrimas taikant chaotinius atvaizdžius /
… we are going to describe the main concepts of chaos theory and cryptography. In first part of this paper these topics will be described: • The beginning of chaos theory. • Indicators of chaos. • Need of cryptography. • Decryption and encryption. • Classification of encryption. Afterward going …
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Quantification of regularity in RR-interval time series using approximate entropy, sample entropy, and multi-scale entropy
… Recently, nonlinear dynamic methods based on chaos theory and fractal dynamics have been developed to uncover the nonlinear fluctuations in heart rate. Approximate Entropy (ApEn), Sample Entropy (SampEn) and Multi-scale Entropy (MSE) are measures based on chaos theory that quantify the …
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Fast stochastic model predictive control under parametric uncertainties
… input-output formulations of MPC Polynomial Chaos Theory is used to incorporate probability distributions of uncertainties into process models This approach avoids the need for sampling and makes on-line model evaluations possible Fast stochastic MPC algorithms are presented that address …
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Chaos and Dynamical Systems
… to late twentieth century, a new branch formed: chaos. Chaos is the study of dynamical systems that vary greatly with respect to initial conditions. The slightest change in an initial condition, a seemingly unnoticeable change, can yield a drastically different result if the system is chaotic. …
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The Heidegger Collection
… algorithmic elements, portamento effects, chaos theory, and oriental influence.
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, the CRT program is designed to provide information at the community level to promote change throughout the disaster preparedness, response, relief, and recovery process. The CRT project …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
… and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, the CRT program is designed to provide information at the community level to promote change throughout the disaster preparedness, response, relief, and recovery process. The CRT project …
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Topological chaos and chaotic mixing of viscous flows
… of different theories, namely the topological chaos theory, the set-oriented analysis and lobe dynamics in the analysis, design and optimization of different laminar-flow mixing systems. In a recent development, the topological chaos theory has been used to explain the chaos built in the flow …
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Discriminating noise from chaos in heart rate variability : application to prognosis in heart failure
This thesis examines two challenging problems in chaos analysis: distinguishing deterministic chaos and stochastic (noise-induced) chaos, and applying chaotic heart rate variability (HRV) analysis to the prognosis of mortality in congestive heart failure (CHF). Distinguishing noise from chaos poses …
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