Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Biases in the Process of Designing a System
(Helmut Nechansky, Nechansky – Engineering Efficiency, Vienna, Austria)
Chapter 2. Mathematical Theory of Reliability and Biological Robustness: Reliable Systems from Unreliable Elements
(Vitaly K. Koltover, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 3. Quantum Models of Complex Systems
(Miroslav Svítek, Czech Technical University, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
Chapter 4. Model-Order Reduction with H2/H∞ Performance
(Salim Ibrir, Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Chapter 5. Systems Thinking in Health Care: From Theory to Implementation
(Sheuwen Chuang, Graduate Institute of Data Science, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan and Peter Howley, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences / Statistics, The University of Newcastle, Australia)
Chapter 6. Applications of Genome-Scale Metabolic Models and Data Integration in Systems Medicine
(Ali Salehzadeh-Yazdi, Markus Wolfien and Olaf Wolkenhauer, Department of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, and others)
Chapter 7. Reality is Hierarchically Organized: The Recursive Foundations of Living Systems and Beyond
(Patrick Connolly, PhD, Department of Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 8. New Directions in Occupational Roadway Safety Grounded in Complex Systems Theory and Simulation Modeling
(Michael Kenneth Lemke and Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, US, and others)
Chapter 9. The Part-System Continuum in Medicine
(Patrick Finzer, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Chapter 10. Systems Theory and the Cerebral Cortex
(Manuel F. Casanova, MD, Ioan Opris, PhD, Estate M Sokhadze, PhD, and Emily L. Casanova, PhD, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC)
Chapter 11. From Quorum Sensing to Dynome through Mitochondria
(Jean Ciurea and Tatiana Ciurea, Clinical Emergency Hospital “Bagdasar Arseni”
Functional Neurosurgery Department, Bucharest, Romania)
Chapter 12. The Nutrition System and the Brain
(Cosmin Sonea and Ioan Opris, USAMV Bucharest, Romania)
Chapter 13. A Modular Approach to the Organization of Brain Functions
(Ioan Opris, Estate M. Sokhadze, Emily L. Casanova, Cosmin Sonea and Manuel F. Casanova, Department of Neurological Surgery, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, US, and others)
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