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... thermodynamics by Prigogine . The only attempt I know of to fill this gap is a further generali- zation of irreversible thermodynamics by Reik ( 1953 ) , who at- tempted to introduce time explicitly into the equations of thermo ...
... thermodynamics by Prigogine . The only attempt I know of to fill this gap is a further generali- zation of irreversible thermodynamics by Reik ( 1953 ) , who at- tempted to introduce time explicitly into the equations of thermo ...
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... thermodynamics . In other terms , conventional kinetics and thermodynamics are not applicable to many processes in the living organism ; for biophysics the application of physics to the - living organism – an expansion of theory is ...
... thermodynamics . In other terms , conventional kinetics and thermodynamics are not applicable to many processes in the living organism ; for biophysics the application of physics to the - living organism – an expansion of theory is ...
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... thermodynamics ( ther- mostatics ) rather than irreversible thermodynamics of open sys- tems . However , the latter is presupposed if the system ( like the living organism ) is to be ' self - organizing ' ( Foerster and Zopf , 1962 ) ...
... thermodynamics ( ther- mostatics ) rather than irreversible thermodynamics of open sys- tems . However , the latter is presupposed if the system ( like the living organism ) is to be ' self - organizing ' ( Foerster and Zopf , 1962 ) ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 29 |
Limitations | 38 |
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