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Encyclopedia of Human Development Temperament

Sources of Complexity in Human Systems

‘‘Complex’’ is a special attribute we can give to many kinds of systems. Although it is used often as a synonym of ‘‘difficult,’’ it has a specific epistemological meaning, which is going to be shared by the incoming science of complexity. ‘‘Difficult’’ is an object which, by means of an adequate computational power, can be deterministically or stochastically predictable. On the contrary ‘‘comp...

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading international encyclopedia of systems and cybernetics is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. T...

Novel sources of reactive oxygen species in the human body.

There are several sources of reactive oxygen in the human body. Production of superoxide in mitochondria is a by-product of the function of the respiratory chain [1]. The first known example of regulated generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mammalian cells was through the respiratory burst of phagocytic cells by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase. This enzyme ...

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology

whose composition began at about the time of the Buddha (d. c. 400 BC). Sigalea describes the early medicine recoverable from Vedic and Upanisadic sources, its relationship with the nascent Indian philosophical schools, and the formation of the Sanskrit medical canon. In the following thirty chapters he provides a comprehensive account of Indian classical medicine, including the formation of th...