...Wanfeng Zhu; Petia Venkova Sice; Wenchun Zhang; Krystyna Krajewska; Zhangyang Zhao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring into the public domain converging ways of thinking about reality and human systems, exploring parallels between the theory of Physical Vacuum and the concept of Qi...

... their assumptions, test their capabilities and permit exceptional personal/professional growth. Design Education Culture Pedagogy Systems Holism I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy, Myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands...

...Hamish Simmonds Purpose This paper aims to critically reflect on the growing systems orientation in marketing research and the approaches used to understand marketing systems. In response, the paper offers an integrative metatheory built on the ontic necessity and subsequently constitutive...

... of the site. Findings – Students are taught different therapy paradigms in terms of models; the psychodynamic model, the medical model, the person-centred model; the systems model and so forth. Their position to the model is external and they can critically evaluate the different models and apply each...

...S.M.B. Malaek; Hadi Farhangi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a behavioral mode (as opposed to a numerical one), which considers any parasitic behavior as an indication of a potentially contributing element in the overall system deficiency. Design/methodology/approach...

...Štefan Bojnec Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce cybernetic systems in defence management applications, to meet new challenges of the information society and use of system modelling for decision making. Design/methodology/approach The paper defines basic terms for understanding...

... in cybernetics, systems and management science. Originality/value This is only the second time that there has been a change of editor in the more than 40 years that Kybernetes has been published. The journal (and the whole field of cybernetics and systems) owes the past editors a great debt...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Cybernetics Security Systems Critical infrastructures Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 41, Issue 9 Francesco FlamminiWIT PressLondon2012326 pp.(hardback)ISBN: 978-1-84564-562-5 Keywords...

... at: andrew.adamatzky@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Biological techniques Computer cybernetics Systems Transport Brazil The term “slime mold” refers to a wide variety of microorganisms that have a gelatinous slimy appearance at some stages of their life cycle. Slime molds can...

...D.M. Hutton © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Cybernetics education Journalism Systems Article Type: Book review From: Kybernetes, Volume 40, Issue 7/8 Bernhard Pöerksen,Imprint Academic,Exeter,2011,Price: contact imprint-academic.com,257 pp...

... of Perception”. Design/methodology/approach All of The Entropy Theory, 35 years of publications, was scrutinized for its characterization of what underlies Shannon Information Theory: Shannon's “general communication system”. There, “events” are passed by a “source” to a “transmitter”, thence through...

... ingrained in his schooling. I can mention that my background is similar, but with reference to the not‐dissimilar standard viewpoints of the Church of Scotland.) Cybernetics is defended as a science of the unknowable, allowing the devising of systems with sufficient flexibility to operate and survive...

... software Systems Management It is amazing how tolerant we are to errors in our software systems. Most of the systems we use in business are usually costly to maintain. We seem to forget that although such software systems are tested in a variety of ways they are not proven in the way mathematicians...

... is very narrow. Feng Xianjie can be contacted at: fengxianjie@126.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Systems Modulation methods Dispersions Reflections Spectra Time measurement In this paper, we study the parameter choice of the linear chirp...

...) and its space complexity is O(n). Zhendong Liu can be contacted at: liuzd2000@tom.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Programming and algorithm theory Biology Biophysics Systems The prediction of RNA secondary structure is used in the functional...

... of this region is very critical and essential. The Haihe River basin includes water systems of the Haihe River, Luanhe River, and Tuhaimajia River. The indices of reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability are as follows in Table I (Xiang et al., 2005b). Cybernetics Water supply Risk...

...C.J.H. Mann © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Cluster policies Governance Management Systems Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 1 Susana Borrás and Dimitrios Tsagdis,Edward Elgar Publishing,Cheltenham,2008,304 pp...

...John Mingers Realising System Thinking: Knowledge and Action in Management Science . New York, NY : Springer   2007 . i‐xiii pp. and 312 pp.   Price: current price from Springer www.springer.com , ISBN: 0‐387‐28188‐6 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Cybernetics Software Systems Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 37, Issue 8 Keywords: Cybernetics, Software, Systems Readers engaged in software development will get sound and helpful support from...

...C.J.H. Mann Harold I. Brown,Routledge/Taylor and Francis,London/New York, NY,2007,514 pp.,ISBN 13: 978-0415-70182-2 (hard cover), Keywords: Cybernetics, Philosophy, Systems New concepts are introduced and discussed by the author. It is claimed to be an extensive overview...