General System Theory: Foundations, Development, ApplicationsAn attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography. |
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Page 43
... homeostasis , or maintenance of balance in the living organism , the prototype of which is thermoregulation in warm- blooded ... homeostatic mechanisms exist in the body for maintaining the constancy of a great number of physicochemical ...
... homeostasis , or maintenance of balance in the living organism , the prototype of which is thermoregulation in warm- blooded ... homeostatic mechanisms exist in the body for maintaining the constancy of a great number of physicochemical ...
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... homeostasis " -as has been done - but at the risk that this physio- logically well - defined concept loses all meaning . Furthermore , if the principle of homeostatic maintenance is taken as a golden rule of behavior , the so - called ...
... homeostasis " -as has been done - but at the risk that this physio- logically well - defined concept loses all meaning . Furthermore , if the principle of homeostatic maintenance is taken as a golden rule of behavior , the so - called ...
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... Homeostatic regulation of the blood sugar level . ( After Mittelstaedt , 1954. ) directional . The basic feedback scheme ( FIG . 7.2 ) is still the classical stimulus - response ( S - R ) scheme , only the feedback loop being added so ...
... Homeostatic regulation of the blood sugar level . ( After Mittelstaedt , 1954. ) directional . The basic feedback scheme ( FIG . 7.2 ) is still the classical stimulus - response ( S - R ) scheme , only the feedback loop being added so ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
On the History of Systems Theory | 10 |
Trends in Systems Theory | 17 |
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