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200 10$aIntroduction to complexity and complex systems /$fby Robert B. Northrop
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cCRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,$d2010.
215   $a1 online resource (542 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-138-11333-6 
311   $a1-4398-3901-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aFront Cover; Contents; Preface; Author; 1. Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems; 2. Introduction to Large Linear Systems; 3. Introduction to Biochemical Oscillators and Complex, Nonlinear Biochemical Systems; 4. Modularity, Redundancy, Degeneracy, Pleiotropy, and Robustness in Complex Biological Systems; 5. Evolution of Biological Complexity: Invertebrate Immune Systems; 6. Complex Adaptive and Innate Human Immune Systems; 7. Complexity in Quasispecies and MicroRNAs; 8. Introduction to Physiological Complexity: Examples of Models of Some Complex Physiological Systems
327   $a9. Quest for Quantitative Measures of Complexity10. "Irreducible" and "Specified Complexity "in Living Systems; 11. Introduction to Complexity in Economic Systems; 12. Dealing with Complexity; Appendix A: SimnonTM Programs Used in Chapters 3 and 8; Appendix B: How to Use Root Locus to Determine the Stability of SISO Linear Control Systems; Appendix C: Bode Plots; Appendix D: Nyquist Plots; Glossary; Bibliography and Related Readings; Back Cover
330 3 $aThe boundaries between simple and complicated, and complicated and complex system designations are fuzzy and debatable, even using quantitative measures of complexity. However, if you are a biomedical engineer, a biologist, physiologist, economist, politician, stock market speculator, or politician, you have encountered complex systems. Furthermore, your success depends on your ability to successfully interact with and manage a variety of complex systems. In order not to be blindsided by unexpected results, we need a systematic, comprehensive way of analyzing, modeling, and simulating complex systems to predict non-anticipated outcomes. In its engaging first chapters, the book introduces complex systems, Campbell's Law, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, and mathematics necessary for conversations in complex systems. Subsequent chapters illustrate concepts via commonly studied biological mechanisms. The final chapters focus on higher-level complexity problems, and introduce complexity in economic systems. Designed as a reference for biologists and biological engineers, Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems lends itself to use in a classroom course to introduce advanced students studying biomedical engineering, biophysics, or physiology to complex systems. Engaging and illustrative, this book aids scientists and decision makers in managing biological complexity and complex systems.
606   $aComplexity (Philosophy)
606   $aChaotic behavior in systems
606   $aBiocomplexity
615  0$aComplexity (Philosophy)
615  0$aChaotic behavior in systems.
615  0$aBiocomplexity.
676   $a570.11
700   $aNorthrop$b Robert B.$0721240
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906   $aBOOK
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