Introduction to the Special Issue: Fundamental Problems in Biocomplexity.
Stephen J. Guastello & Franco Orsucci, pg. 1
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Sources of Complexity in Human Systems.
Lucio Biggiero, pg. 3
Keywords: artificial, complexity, computation, chaos, evolution, gnosiology, human systems
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Complexity Versus Complex Systems: A New Approach to Scientific Discovery.
F. T. Arecchi, pg. 21
Keywords: nonlinear dynamics, complexity, epistemology, cognitive sciences
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Mathematical Approach to Endo/Exo-Description of Living and Cognitive Systems.
Roumiana Nikolaeva-Hubenova, pg. 37
Keywords: discrete-time theory, mathematical modelling, endo/exo-description, living and cognitive systems
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AIFS—A Tool for Biomorphic Fractal Modeling.
Ljubiša M. Kocic, pg. 45
Keywords: iterated function systems, fractal images
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Happiness and Deep Ecology: On Noise, Harmony, and Beauty in the Mind.
Franco Orsucci, pg. 65
Keywords: ethics, esthetics, chaos, noise, psychology, humanistic
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Generating Replications of Chaotic Time Series.
Simone Giannerini & Rodolfo Rosa, pg. 77
Keywords: chaotic time series, bootstrap, resampling methods, invariants estimation
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Novelty, A Measure of Creative Organization in Natural and Mathematical Time Series.
H. Sabelli, pg. 89
Keywords: bios, chaos, electrocardiography, novelty, process theory, recurrence
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A Cusp Catastrophe Analysis of Changes to Adolescent Smoking Behaviour in Response to Smoking Prevention Programs.
D. G. Byrne, J. Mazanov, & R. A. M. Gregson, pg. 115
Keywords: adolescent, smoking, prevention, nonlinear, catastrophe
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A Framework and Methodology for the Study of Nonlinear, Self-Organizing Family Dynamics.
David Pincus, pg. 139
Keywords: family systems theory, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, complexity, orbital decomposition
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Attractor Reconstruction with Principal Components Analysis: Application to Work Flows in Hierarchical Organizations.
Stephen J. Guastello & Benjamin R. Bock, pg. 175
Keywords: principal components analysis, attractor reconstruction, factor extraction, Lyapunov exponents, scree test, organizational hierarchies, work performance
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BOOK REVIEW: Cybernetics Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-semiotics. Quarterly, Thorverton, UK..
Robin Robertson, pg. 193
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BOOK REVIEW: Self-Stabilization, by Shlomi Dolev.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 195
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Mathematics of Philosophy or Philosophy of Mathematics?.
Jeffrey Goldstein, pg. 197
Keywords: difference equations, escape diagrams, lattice, logical paradox, model, nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS), phase portraits, philosophy of mathematics, self-reference
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Responses to Constrained Stimulus Sequences in Nonlinear Psychophysics.
Robert A. M. Gregson, pg. 205
Keywords: psychophysics, response chaining, near-threshold effects
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Errors as Multistable Response Options.
William T. Farrar IV & Guy C. Van Orden, pg. 223
Keywords: nonlinear dynamics, multistability, acquired dyslexia, aphasic naming errors, double dissociation
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Application of Complexity Theory to an Information Processing Model in Science Education.
Dimitrios Stamovlasis & Georgios Tsaparlis, pg. 267
Keywords: working memory capacity, Z-demand of a problem, Hurst exponent, fractal dimensions, entropy, order
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BOOK REVIEW: Dynamics, Synergetics,Autonomous Agents. Edited by W. Tschacher and J-P. Dauwalder..
pg. 287
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From Double Bind to N-Bind: Toward a New Theory of Schizophrenia and Family Interaction.
Matthijs Koopmans, pg. 287
Keywords: schizophrenia, family, nonlinear dynamics, N-Bind, social processes
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Nonlinear Dynamics Estimation of EEG Signals Accompanying Self-Paced Goal-Directed Movements.
Juliana Dushanova & David Popivanov, pg. 325
Keywords: human EEG, nonlinear dynamics, self-paced complex movements, movement self-organization
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Chaotic Hysteresis and Systemic Economic Transformation: Soviet Investment Patterns.
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., Marina Vcherashnaya Rosser, Stephen J. Guastello, & Robert W. Bond, Jr., pg. 345
Keywords: catastrophe, chaos, hysteresis, socialism, transition
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Ad Hoc Reviewers for 2000.
pg. 369
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