World After Pandemic: New Socio-Psychological Complex Rises

World medical schools: The sum also rises

OBJECTIVE There is a worldwide shortage of doctors, which is true in most countries and on most continents. To enumerate the number of medical schools in the world at two different times, showing the trends and relating this to population is a beginning. The number is actually going up and has done so for some time; this has increased the supply of physicians and broadened healthcare delivery. ...

Dealing with the Unexpected in Our Complex Socio-Technical World

This paper presents and discusses the imperative necessity to use complexity science principles and approaches to deal with the open world where we live in. During the 20 century, we have developed theories, methods and tools based on linear approaches to engineering systems that consider unexpected and rare events as exceptions, instead of including them in the flow of everyday events, handled...

Socio-psychological simulation

The dark matter rises: the expanding world of regulatory RNAs.

The ability to sequence genomes and characterize their products has begun to reveal the central role for regulatory RNAs in biology, especially in complex organisms. It is now evident that the human genome contains not only protein-coding genes, but also tens of thousands of non-protein coding genes that express small and long ncRNAs (non-coding RNAs). Rapid progress in characterizing these ncR...

Socio-psychological reconstruction as a qualitative method

1. The communication model Communication is not simply just information processing from a sender to a recipient. It is an interactive process that has its own specific dynamics by which the communicators themselves become entangled in the topic of the communication. The meaning of any message results from the context in which it is placed and can be understood on three different levels. Take a ...