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David H Peters
This paper explores the question of what systems thinking adds to the field of global health. Observing that elements of systems thinking are already common in public health research, the article discusses which of the large body of theories, methods, and tools associated with systems thinking are more useful. The…
Abby Haynes, Lucie Rychetnik, Diane Finegood, Michelle Irving + 2 more
'Louise Freebairn' 'Penelope Hawe'] Context Knowledge mobilisation (KM) is a vital strategy in efforts to improve public health policy and practice. Linear models describing knowledge transfer and translation have moved towards multi-directional and complexity-attuned approaches where knowledge is produced and becomes…
John A. Parkinson, Ashley Gould, Nicky Knowles, Jonathan West + 2 more
'Andrew M. Goodman' 'Stefan Bogaerts'] Traditional approaches to changing health behaviours have primarily focused on education and raising awareness, assuming that increased knowledge leads to better decisions. However, evidence suggests these methods often fail to result in sustained behavioural change. The…
Touseef Yaqoob, Muhammad Usama, Junaid Qadir, Gareth Tyson
e networking eld has recently started to incorporate articial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), big data analytics combined with advances in networking (such as soware-dened networks, network functions virtualization, and programmable data planes) in a bid to construct highly optimized self-driving and…
Anatoly Levenchuk
Systems thinking is a way of making sense about the world in terms of multilevel, nested, interacting systems, their environment, and the boundaries between the systems and the environment. In this paper we discuss the evolution of systems thinking and discuss what is needed for an ontology of the current generation of…
Scott McLean, Gemma J. M. Read, Adam Hulme, Karl Dodd + 3 more
'Adam D. Gorman' 'Colin Solomon' 'Paul M. Salmon'] Background: Systems thinking, a fundamental approach for understanding complexity, is beginning to gain traction in sports science. Systems archetypes (SAs) describe common recurring patterns of system behaviors and have been used extensively in other domains to…
Felix Tretter, Henriette Löffler-Stastka
Clinical fields of the “sciences of the mind” (psychotherapy, psychiatry, etc.) lack integrative conceptual frameworks that have explanatory power. Mainly descriptive-classificatory taxonomies like DSM dominate the field. New taxonomies such as Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) aim to collect scientific knowledge…
Dingyu Yan
—Solving cybersecurity issues requires a holistic understanding of components, factors, structures and their interactions in cyberspace, but conventional modeling approaches view the field of cybersecurity by their boundaries so that we are still not clear to cybersecurity and its changes. In this paper, we attempt to…
Evripidis P. Kechagias, Dimitrios M. Miloulis, Georgios Chatzistelios, Sotiris P. Gayialis + 1 more
'Sotiris P. Gayialis' 'Georgios A. Papadopoulos'] Abstract: As countries interact more and more, technology gains a decisive role in facilitating today's increased need for interconnection. At the same time, systems, becoming more advanced as technology progresses, feed each other and can produce highly complex and…
Teresa Schmahl, Christoph Strumann, Katja Goetz, Jost Steinhäuser
Background System thinking is recommended as a necessary component in health education. However, it is not yet regularly addressed in medicine and health care professions. Therefore, the simulation game “Friday Night at the Emergency Room®” was used to teach system thinking in an interprofessional setting. The aims of…
Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Shuchen Guo, Yizhu Gao + 23 more
in Education Authors: ['Ehsan Latif' 'Yifan Zhou' 'Shuchen Guo' 'Yizhu Gao' 'Lehong Shi' 'Matthew Nayaaba' 'Gyeonggeon Lee' 'Liang Zhang' 'Arne Bewersdorff' 'Luyang Fang' 'Xiantong Yang' 'Huaqin Zhao' 'Hanqi Jiang' 'Haoran Lu' 'Jiaxi Li' 'Jichao Yu' 'Wenwu You' 'Zhengliang Liu' 'V. Liu' 'Hui Wang' 'Zihao Wu' 'Jin Zhon…
Craig E Kuziemsky, Mustafa Ozkaynak, Kim M Unertl, Saira Haque
Health system pursuits, such as collaborative care delivery, public health and wellness, and patient-centered care, extend beyond individual factors, including technologies, users, policies, or contexts. While taking stock of individual system components in biomedical informatics (BMI) research is necessary and…
John W. Sheppard
This book is focused on the broad issues surrounding "realizing complex integrated systems." What do we mean by this? It might be helpful to break down our title, one word at a time. To do this, we start at the end. What is a "system"? We start this introductory chapter by addressing that question. We pose a number of…
Robert E. Ulanowicz
Dualism has been a viable concept in physics since the 1920s, when Arthur Compton demonstrated the corpuscular nature of photons as distinct from its wave nature. More recently, information theory applied to ecological dynamics has portrayed the behavior of whole ecosystems as being, not only dual, but actually…
Lei Xie, Eli J. Draizen, Philip E. Bourne
Systems pharmacology aims to holistically understand genetic, molecular, cellular, organismal, and environmental mechanisms of drug actions through developing mechanistic or predictive models. Data-driven modeling plays a central role in systems pharmacology, and has already enabled biologists to generate novel…
Matjaž Perc
The fact that relatively simple entities, such as particles or neurons, or even ants or bees or humans, give rise to fascinatingly complex behavior when interacting in large numbers is the hallmark of complex systems science. Agent-based models are frequently employed for modeling and obtaining a predictive…
Serguei Saavedra, Yuguang Yang, Christopher P. Kempes, Chengyi Long + 3 more
Understanding the selecting and generating forces operating across the self-organization of ecological systems is synonymous with understanding principles of life itself. Three prominent hypotheses in ecological research—Lotka’s Maximum Power Principle, Odum and Pinkerton’s Intermediate Efficiency Principle, and…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
John P. Marken, Fangzhou Xiao, Richard M. Murray
Much of the progress in developing our ability to successfully design genetic circuits with predictable dynamics has followed the strategy of molding biological systems to fit into conceptual frameworks used in other disciplines, most notably the engineering sciences. Because biological systems have fundamental…
Eric Smith, Harrison B. Smith, Jakob Lykke Andersen
We consider problems in the functional analysis and evolution of combinatorial chemical reaction networks as rule-based, or three-level systems. The first level consists of rules, realized here as graph-grammar representations of reaction mechanisms. The second level consists of stoichiometric networks of molecules and…
Daniel Huson, Joana C. Xavier, Allen Rodrigo, Mike Steel
The concept of an autocatalytic network of reactions that can form and persist, starting from just an available food source, has been formalised by the notion of a Reflexively-Autocatalytic and Food generated (RAF) set. The theory and algorithmic results concerning RAFs have been applied to a range of settings, from…
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Step-by-step thinking is essential in all domains of chemical sciences and engineering. While machine learning tools are broadly used, algorithms that automate reasoning are far less common. We elaborate on seven categories of human reasoning activities and connect each to applications in chemical science and…
Stephen Goldup, Ivan Aprahamian
All chemists are familiar with the idea that, at equilibrium steady state, the relative concentrations of species present in a system are predicted by the corresponding equilibrium constants, which are in turn related to the relative free energy difference of the system components. There is also no net flux between…
Ronald Mtenga, Mathias Bode, Radwa Khalil
Creative thinking stems from the cognitive process that fosters new ideas and problem-solving solutions. Creative cognition in emerging artificial intelligence systems and neural models may reduce complexity in understanding creative cognition. Hopfield Neural Networks (HNN) is a simple neural model known for its…