Modelling the crop: from system dynamics to systems biology

Reviewing emergency care systems I: insights from system dynamics modelling.

OBJECTIVES To describe the components of an emergency and urgent care system within one health authority and to investigate ways in which patient flows and system capacity could be improved. METHODS Using a qualitative system dynamics (SD) approach, data from interviews were used to build a conceptual map of the system illustrating patient pathways from entry to discharge. The map was used to...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Systems Biology - Dynamic Pathway Modelling

Systems dynamics of biology

As more information accumulates on the detailed dynamics of life processes, emphasis on steady state behaviour gives way to the recognition that the organism is a multi-oscillator. Systems biology takes account of the controls and balances on inputs and outputs between the environment and the open system of the functioning organism. The matching of the system to its periodic environment perform...

From systems biology to synthetic biology

If each of us conveys our idiosyncratic view of the elephant, then we, in communion, can imagine its wholeness (Ireland, 1997). An analogous process elucidates Molecular Systems Biology (MSB) and this journal is dedicated to it. The work of a scientist/engineer (seer for short) consists of discovery, modeling, perturbation, and invention. Cycling through these is a key practice of biology. Addi...