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Past, Present, and Future of Complex Systems Theory in Archaeology
Throughout the history of archaeology, researchers have evaluated human societies in terms of systems and systems interactions. Complex systems...
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Public Opinion as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS)
The chapter opens with a case study on ‘A Scandi Icon and the Greta Effect’. That is to say the role of a stubborn lone schoolgirl, as one of the...
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Convergence Research as a ‘System-of-Systems’: A Framework and Research Agenda
Over the past decade, Convergence Research has increasingly gained prominence as a research, development, and innovation (RDI) strategy to address...
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The Immune System Is a Complex System: Inflammatory Morbidity and Systemic Racism
This article examines the relationship between social inequity and the immune system, emphasizing some of the many ways that systemic racism and...
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Disaster adaptive housing upgrading: insights from informal settlements in Bangladesh and Nepal
The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of disaster adaptive housing upgrading in informal settlements from social vulnerability...
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Adaptive Management and Blue-Green Infrastructure
The concept of resilience is gaining prominence in the literature on cities and climate change. In particular, there is an emphasis that cities need...
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Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings: An Ecological Indicator
Urban metabolism (UM) is the sum of processes for which cities mobilize, consume, and transform their resources for built environments to function...
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All Models Are Wrong, and Some Are Religious: Supernatural Explanations as Abstract and Useful Falsehoods about Complex Realities
Many cognitive and evolutionary theories of religion argue that supernatural explanations are byproducts of our cognitive adaptations. An influential...
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Rural vulnerability to water scarcity in Iran: an integrative methodology for evaluating exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity
The water crisis is the main stress in arid and semi-arid areas, especially in rural areas where agriculture is the main livelihood. This study...
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Systems Map** How to build and use causal models of systems
This open access book explores a range of new and older systems map** methods focused on representing causal relationships in systems. In a...
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Adaptive Calibration in Early Development: Brief Measures of Perceived Childhood Harshness and Unpredictability
ObjectiveA burgeoning literature inspired by life history theory suggests that psychological and behavioral processes become adaptively calibrated to...
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The Key to Work–Life Balance is (Enriched) Job Design? Three-Way Interaction Effects with Formalization and Adaptive Personality Characteristics
The COVID-19 outbreak has blurred the boundaries between work and personal life, making the concept of work–life balance (WLB) even more important....
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That Complex Whole and its Evolutionary Dynamics
Each of the two organic and two metaorganic hierarchies is governed by a distinct mode of selection, and the sort from any one of them continuously...
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Subsidiarity and Adaptive Sustainability in Complex, Entangled, and Unpredictable Societies
This chapter gives an account of some recent debates on subsidiarity and social sustainability, maintaining that in complex and entangled societies,...
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Simulation of the Implementation of Domestic Solar Systems Using Multi-agent Systems from Web Scra**
Currently, the world experiences the Information Age, where people and institutions are highly connected and leave digital footprints. This huge...
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An adaptive-neuro-fuzzy-inference-system based grading model to estimate the value of the residential real estate considering the quality of property location within the neighborhood
In residential real estate, location quality within the neighborhood has considered a very important characteristic. On account of a limited number...
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Reindeer Herders’ Food Knowledge Systems
Reindeer husbandry is part of an Arctic civilization strongly tied to nature and dependent on it in multiple aspects, including the diets of its...