Tools for Thought: How to Understand and Apply the Latest Scientific Techniques of Problem SolvingDrawing on general systems theory, operations research, cybernetics, futures research, and catastrophe theory, a distinguished geneticist provides the general reader with tools for perceiving and solving today's complex economic, social, and ecological pr |
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6 Feed-back in Systems A. Sequences In most of the open systems in which one
is likely to be interested, the entering materials (the inputs) are processed
through a number of stages before they finally emerge again as production or
waste ...
6 Feed-back in Systems A. Sequences In most of the open systems in which one
is likely to be interested, the entering materials (the inputs) are processed
through a number of stages before they finally emerge again as production or
waste ...
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This is a negative feed-back (6a. 5). It is a F1g. 6a. 5 restraining type of action,
and is the basic process that living things rely on to see that no one of their
internal processes runs away and gets out of hand. It is also the kind of process ...
This is a negative feed-back (6a. 5). It is a F1g. 6a. 5 restraining type of action,
and is the basic process that living things rely on to see that no one of their
internal processes runs away and gets out of hand. It is also the kind of process ...
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Biologists make a distinction between two types of negative feedback; and in
social affairs there are analogies to these two kinds of process which originally
described the level of cells and enzymes (6a.6). The first, and in some ways the ...
Biologists make a distinction between two types of negative feedback; and in
social affairs there are analogies to these two kinds of process which originally
described the level of cells and enzymes (6a.6). The first, and in some ways the ...
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| Title | Tools for Thought: How to Understand and Apply the Latest Scientific Techniques of Problem Solving |
| Author | Conrad Hal Waddington |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0465086233, 9780465086238 |
| Length | 250 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / General Science / System Theory |
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