AbSTRAcT This article traces past research on the application of the systems approach to information systems development within the disciplines of information systems and software engineering. Their origins historically are related to a number of areas, including general systems theory. While potential improvement of software development practices is linked by some leading experts to the applic...

The paper discusses the representation of expectation formation processes in system dynamics. After a brief overview of current behavioural research on expectation formation, it analyses the implicit assumptions that arise from a representation with exponential smoothing and the TREND function. It addresses the limitations of univariate autoregressive algorithms and illustrates their difficulti...

Based on the careful analysis of the reading process and the thorough comparison of the three approaches to reading (the bottom-up approach, the top-down approach and the interactive approach), this paper focuses on the interactive approach to teaching English reading in college. It suggests that during the reading process, the focus should be put both on decoding the meaning of the text and on...

This article traces past research on the application of the systems approach to information systems development within the disciplines of information systems and software engineering. Their origins historically are related to a number of areas, including general systems theory. While potential improvement of software development practices is linked by some leading experts to the application of ...

Reasoning processes allow the human cognitive system to go beyond the information readily available in the environment. This review focuses on the processes of human thinking, including deductive reasoning, induction, mental simulation, and analogy. We survey recent trends across several areas, including categorization, mental models, cognitive development, and decision making. Our chief organi...

There is wide agreement on the need for systems thinking to address complexity in chronic disease prevention but there insufficient understanding of how such approaches are operationalised research. Ison and Straw propose that complexity, right balance must be struck between ‘systemic’ ‘systematic’ paradigms. We examined nature characteristics this relationship a series six qualitative case stu...

Thinking skills are essential to achieve sustainable social development. Nonetheless, there is no specific instrument that assesses all of these as a whole. The present study aimed design and validate scale assess complex thinking in adult people. A 22 items assessing the following aspects: analysis problem solving, critical analysis, metacognition, systemic creativity, five levels, was created...

Sustainable teaching model innovation is an important way to build a new business discipline in Chinese university school; however, its effective implementation faces various challenges. This paper conducts exploratory study on the current status of practices school L University using personal interviews and questionnaire surveys. compares main performance three stages initiation activities, us...

The biological role of the ductus arteriosus (DA) in neonates varies from an innocent bystander role during normal postnatal transition, to a supportive role when there is compromise to either systemic or pulmonary blood flow, to a pathological state in the presence of hemodynamically significant systemic to pulmonary shunts, as occurs in low birth weight infants. Among a wide array of clinical...