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Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

Anthology and Commentary

Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau’s Essential Readings in Biosemiotics has been designed as a single-source overview of the major works informing this new interdiscipline, and provides scholarly historical and analytical commentary on each of the texts presented. The first of its kind, this book constitutes a valuable resource to both bioscientists and to semioticians interested in this emerging new discipline, and can function as a primary textbook for students in biosemiotics, as well. Moreover, because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature and its focus on the ‘big questions’ of cognition, meaning and evolutionary biology, this volume should be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cognitive science, theoretical biology, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, communication studies or the history and philosophy of science.

Berlinski, D. (1976). On Systems Analysis: An Essay Concerning the Limitations
of Some Mathematical Methods in the Social, Political, and Biological Sciences.
Cambridge, MA, USA, and London: The MIT Press. Bertalanffy, L. von (1973).

The Essential Guide to User Interface Design

An Introduction to GUI Design Principles and Techniques

Requirements must be determined and user activities being performed must be
described through task analysis. From these, a conceptual model of the system
will be formulated. Design standards must also be created (if not already
available) ...

Essential UMLTm fast

Using SELECT Use Case Tool for Rapid Applications Development

Essential UML fast introduces the concepts of object-oriented analysis, design and programming, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). UML is one of the best known modeling languages in the object-oriented software development world, and is fast becoming a standard amongst OO software developers. The book contains plenty of examples and detailed illustrations, making it easy for readers to get up and running with UML fast. In providing these examples the author relies on one of the well known use case tools, Select Enterprise. Advice is given on how to set up Select Enterprise as well as how to use it to speed up the modeling process of practical software.

Essential and real use cases will be discussed again in Chapter 11 when we
move from analysis to design. Requirements gathering and analysis The first step
of software development, especially in clientoriented systems, is requirements ...

Information technology FBI is building management capabilities essential to successful system deployments, but challenges remain : testimony before the Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies, House of Representatives

An effective approach would include (1) performing gap analysis between
requirements ... (Addison-Wesley: 2001); Jeffrey A. Hoffer, Joey F. George, and
Joseph S. Valacich, Modern Systems Analysis and Design (Addison Wesley
Longman, ...

Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent environmental issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of the global environmental governance puzzle. The book is comprised of 101 entries, each defining a central concept in global environmental governance, presenting its historical evolution, introducing related debates and including key bibliographical references and further reading. The entries combine analytical rigour with empirical description. The book: offers cutting edge analysis of the state of global environmental governance, raises an up-to-date debate on global governance for sustainable development, gives an in-depth exploration of current international architecture of global environmental governance, examines the interaction between environmental politics and other fields of governance such as trade, development and security, elaborates a critical review of the recent literature in global environmental governance. This unique work synthesizes writing from an internationally diverse range of well-known experts in the field of global environmental governance. Innovative thinking and high-profile expertise come together to create a volume that is accessible to students, scholars and practitioners alike.

At its origins, the paradigm married the concerns of neo-Malthusians regarding
world population with the methods of systems analysis and scenarios.
NeoMalthusianism arose around the time of World War II; its marriage to systems
analysis ...

Essential Hypertension and Its Causes

Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms

Essential hypertension (EH) is the most common type of high blood pressure and is responsible for much death and serious illness, which has been the reason for the huge research effort to determine its causes. However, countless scientific articles still keep proclaiming that "the causese of essential hypertension remain unknown." In view of the number of publications that descend on the hypertension specialist like a waterfall, such proclamations seem to overlook the considerable amount of knowledge that we already have about the etiology of EH. The problem may be a lack of synthesis rather than a lack of information. This book brings together some of this knowledge into a coherent and clinically relevant account about the pathogenesis of EH. With an extremely broad reach, this book aims to give a balanced view of the causes of EH, its neural, genetic, and environmental causes.

Hence, each type of hypertension merits detailed analysis of its underlying
mechanisms. The neural cardiovascular control system is a nonlinear adaptive
system. Sometimes the neural parameter changes come automatically into play
as a ...

Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research

Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research is an excellent resource for students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, management research and organizational psychology, bringing together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis. The volume includes 30 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique. The chapters cover traditional research methods, analysis techniques, and interventions as well as the latest developments in the field. Each chapter reviews how the method has been used in organizational research, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the method, and presents a case study example of the method in use. A list of further reading is supplied for those requiring additional information about a given method. The comprehensive and accessible nature of this collection will make it an essential and lasting handbook for researchers and students studying organizations.

Soft systems analysis (SSA) is a method developed by Peter Checkland and
colleagues (Checkland, 1981) for investigating complex problems. The method is
used to plan change in existing systems, as well as to design new ways of
working.

Design requirements for the data and systems support essential to an urban blight systems analysis

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