...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...

... exceptional personal/professional growth. Design Education Culture Pedagogy Systems Holism Brian Robert Sinclair can be contacted at: brian.sinclair@ucalgary.ca © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose...

...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...

... 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know About Sport John. D. BarrowBodley Head2012320 pp.£10.00ISBN: 978-184-7921642US version © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Cybernetics Security Systems Critical infrastructures Article Type: Book reports From...

... © 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 be organized...

...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...

...Alex M. Andrew Cybernetics is defended as a science of the unknowable, allowing the devising of systems with sufficient flexibility to operate and survive in an incompletely known environment. It also includes a philosophical viewpoint that accepts there are things that are somehow “in principle...

...W.R. Howard This book provides some recent examples of “glitches” and their consequences for the systems users. It is based on a programme of research carried out by the author and involved discussions with not only those who were users of the software but also analysts, software developers...

...(n^{2) (Reeder and Giegerich, 2004). The dynamic programming algorithm can be used in hydrothermal system (Zhang and Zhang, 2003). The fast algorithm for predicting RNA secondary structure was published by Nussinov and Jacobson (1980) , but the algorithm predicts only the RNA sequences}...

... based on hazard entropy. The paper is aimed at water resources managers and relative researchers, especially those who deal with risk assessment of water security of drought periods. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cybernetics Water supply Risk assessment Systems Coming...

... is proposed: the longer the length of the NLCFBG, the smaller its numerical value of the NLCFBG parameters c₁, c₂ and modulation intensity. This paper is aimed at guiding the correct production of the gratings. Cybernetics Systems Modulation methods Dispersions Reflections...

...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 Susan K. Land and John W. Walz,Wiley – IEEE Computer Society Press,October 2006,418 pp.,ISBN 978-0-471-76867-8,Price...

...C.J.H. Mann © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> Cybernetics Philosophy Systems Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 37, Issue 8 Harold I. Brown,Routledge/Taylor and Francis,London/New York, NY,2007,514 pp.,ISBN 13: 978-0415-70182-2...