Rationale and aims The study of health professions education in the context of complexity science and complex adaptive systems involves different concepts and terminology that are likely to be unfamiliar to many health professions educators. A list of selected key terms and definitions from the literature of complexity science is provided to assist readers to navigate familiar territory from a ...

This paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the TESOL. Postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the TESOL theoretically in some ways. The elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...

The catastrophe theory and deterministic chaos constitute the basic elements of economic complexity. Elementary catastrophes were the rst remarkable form of nonlinear, topological complexity that were thoroughly studied in economics. Another type of catastrophe is the complexity catastrophe, namely an increase in the complexity of a system beyond a certain threshold which marks the beginning of...

Recent advancements in complexity of mechanical systems have led to the application of chaos theory. In this paper, some recent developments on chaos in mechanical systems are explored. The aim is to bring together researchers from various interests of mechanical systems, exposing them to chaos theory. This exposure gives researchers from the discipline of mechanical systems to find opportunity...