Cover Art: 'Lightning'.
B. Van Dusen
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Nonlinear Organizational Dynamics.
Kevin J. Dooley, L. Douglas Kiel, & A. Steven Dietz, pg. 1
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Fluctuations in Work Motivation: Tasks do not Matter!.
Jose Navarro, Fernando Curioso, Duarte Gomes, Carlos Arrieta, & Mauricio Cortes, pg. 3
Keywords: work motivation, task, fluctuation, fractal structure
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Cusp Catastrophe Models for Cognitive Workload and Fatigue: A Comparison of Seven Task Types.
Stephen J. Guastello, Henry Boeh, Hillary Gorin, Samuel Huschen, Natalie E. Peters, Megan Fabisch, & Kirsten Poston, pg. 23
Keywords: cusp catastrophe, cognitive workload, cognitive fatigue, task switching, memory
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The Complexity of Organizational Change: Describing Communication during Organizational Turbulence.
Philip Salem, pg. 49
Keywords: complexity theory, organizational communication, organizational change, mixed methods research, nonlinear models
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The Organizational Neurodynamics of Teams.
Ronald Stevens, Jamie C. Gorman, Polemnia Amazeen, Aaron Likens, & Trysha Galloway, pg. 67
Keywords: teamwork, entropy, neurodynamics, EEG
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Communication as a Mechanism for Cultural Integration.
Tomas Backstrom, Tom Hagstrom, & Susanna Goransson, pg. 87
Keywords: complex systems, integrated autonomy, emergence, organizational culture, social networks, decentralized organization
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The Effects of Legacy Organization Culture on Post-Merger Integration.
Terrill L. Frantz & Kathleen M. Carley, pg. 107
Keywords: post-merger integration, organizational dynamics, culture diffusion, knowledge diffusion, information exchange, computer simulation
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Hyper-Competition, Collusion, Free Riding or Coopetition: Basins of Attraction When Firms Simultaneously Compete and Cooperate.
Surya Pathak, Mohan P. Pokharel, & Sankaran Mahadevan, pg. 133
Keywords: coopetition, competition, cooperation, complex adaptive system, attractor, simulation
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Estimating Population Ecology Models for the WWW Market: Evidence of Competitive Oligopolies.
Ruth Mateos de Cabo & Ricardo Gimeno, pg. 159
Keywords: website, competition dynamics, Lotka-Volterra, particle filtering, Google Trends
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Cover Art: 'Mud'.
B. Van Dusen
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Decision Making with Complex Nonlinear Systems: Inference and Identification in the Context of DS22q11.2.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 173
Keywords: gene deletion, cognition, signal detection, Bayes, prediction
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American Coot Collective On-water Dynamics.
Hugh Trenchard, pg. 183
Keywords: American coot, collective self-organization, two-dimensional flocking behavior, phase-transition, synchronization
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The Metaphor-Gestalt Synergy Underlying the Self-organisation of Perception as a Semiotic Process.
David Rail, pg. 205
Keywords: cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, criticality, metaphor, gestalt, language development, perception, phenomenology, self-organisation, semiosis, synergy
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Is Chaos Good for Learning?.
J. C. Sprott, pg. 223
Keywords: chaos, neural networks, training, learning, logistic map
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The Emergence of Learning-Teaching Trajectories in Education: a Complex Dynamic Systems Approach.
Henderien Steenbeek & Paul van Geert, pg. 233
Keywords: education, learning, complex adaptive system, computational modeling
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The GBN-Dialogue Model of Outgroup-Negative Rumor Transmission: Group Membership, Belief, and Novelty.
Bernard P. Brooks, Nicholas DiFonzo, & David S. Ross, pg. 269
Keywords: rumour, gossip, agent-based modeling, dialogue, communication, belief, interest, groups, social networks
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Nonlinear Dynamics in Work Groups with Bion s Basic Assumptions.
Arianna Dal Forno & Ugo Merlone, pg. 295
Keywords: basic assumption, complex dynamics chaos, group dynamics, Wilfred Bion
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The Art and Science of Hyperbolic Tessellations.
B. Van Dusen & R. P. Taylor, pg. 317
Keywords: fractals, hyperbolic tessellations, M.C Escher
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Cover Art: 'Trees'.
B. Van Dusen
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Symmetry-Breaking, Grouped Images and Multistability with Transient Unconsciousness.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 324
Keywords: networks, multistability, transient states, symmetry, Markov
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Complexity of Everyday Life Heart Rate Dynamics and Attentional Control in Healthy Students.
Xavier Bornas, Jordi Llabres, Alfonso Morillas-Romero, Blanca Aguayo-Siquier, Maria Balle, & Miquel Tortella-Feliu, pg. 345
Keywords: attentional control, heart rate, electrocardiography, complexity
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Recalling Items from a Category for 1 Hour: An Inquiry into Power-Law Behavior and Memory Foraging.
Theo Rhodes, pg. 361
Keywords: memory, search, multiplicative processes, power-law
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Intention to Use Condom, Cusp Modeling, and Evaluation of an HIV Prevention Intervention Trial.
Xinguang Chen, Bonita Stanton, Din Chen, & Xiaoming Li, pg. 385
Keywords: behavioral intention, cusp modeling, HIV/AIDS, Bahamian youth, condom use
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The Minimum Entropy Principle and Task Performance.
Stephen J. Guastello, Hillary Gorin, Samuel Huschen, Natalie E. Peters, Megan Fabisch, Kirsten Poston, & Kelsey Weinberger, pg. 405
Keywords: topological entropy, Shannon entropy, orbital decomposition, task switching, fatigue, performance
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Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Extrapersonal? Qualitatively Investigating Coordinative Couplings between Rowers in Olympic Sculling.
Sarah-Kate Millar, Anthony R. H. Oldham, & Ian Renshaw, pg. 425
Keywords: interpersonal coordination, self-organisation, extrapersonal, experiential knowledge, qualiative analysis, rowing
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Book Review: Complex Worlds: Uncertain, Unequal and Unfair by Bruce J. West.
pg. 445
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Manuscripts accepted for publication.
pg. 448
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Cover Art: 'Leaves'.
B. Van Dusen
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Dynamical Analysis of the Interaction between Effector Immune and Cancer Cells and Optimal Control of Chemotherapy.
G. H. Erjaee, M. H. Ostadzad, S. Amanpour, & K. B. Lankarani, pg. 449
Keywords: mathematical biology, cancer chemotherapy, optimal drug control
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Aperiodic Deterministic Structure of OCD and the Familial Effect on Rituals.
Robert W. Bond, Jr. & Stephen J. Guastello, pg. 465
Keywords: obsessive-compulsive disorder, dynamical disease, aperiodic, deterministic, diary method, Lyapunov, nonlinear regression
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Modeling Workplace Bullying Using Catastrophe Theory.
J. Escartin, L. Ceja, J. Navarro, & D. Zapf, pg. 493
Keywords: cusp catastrophe model, nonlinear changes, workplace aggression, workplace bullying, organizational climate, healthy variability hypothesis
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Phase Transitions between Lower and Higher Level Management Learning in Times of Crisis: An Experimental Study Based On Synergetics.
Andreas Liening, Guido Strunk, & Ewald Mittelstadt, pg. 517
Keywords: crisis, synergetics, permutation entropy, organizational learning, phase transition, higher level learning
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Ad Hoc Reviewers for 2012 / Color Graphics for 2013 / Manuscripts Accepted for Publication.
pg. 543
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