Cybernetics offers what I believe to be several new theoretical perspectives for communication by a unified perspective that allows an observer to understand whole systems from their component parts and parts in the context of whole systems. Fundamental differences are encountered depending on whether a system is observed from the outside, whether the observer is part of the system he attempts ...

The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is explained in the language of engineering cybernetics (EC), an engineering science with the tradition of rigor and long history of practice. The inherent connection is articulated between EC, as a science of interrelations, and the Chinese conception of Wuxing. The combined cybernetic model of Wuxing seems to have significant explaining power for the TCM...

Microorganisms growing in a multi-substrate medium have different and varying preferences for the various components of the medium. The preferences depend on the operating conditions and the substrates may be utilized sequentially or simultaneously. Sometimes an organism may change its preferences among substrates and/or switch between sequential and simultaneous utilization. These aspects are ...

Reports on an ongoing cybernetic study of theory, on how theory-centered psychotherapy turns practices of everyday life into the psychopathologies proposed by psychotherapy. Makes a case for psychotherapy using the ideas of each patient, employing hypnosis as a condition for the practice of psychotherapy. Discusses three of the problems arising out of this cybernetic study of theory: (1) the wo...

This paper focuses on agility in information systems, and how the IT function can enable this capability. IS theory and a best practice framework on agility are compared, and gaps are identified. A goal of the research is to reconcile the IS theoretical and practice perspectives. We illustrate that the cybernetic framework of Beer’s Viable System Model can be used to reconcile gaps between theo...

The main purpose of this study investigated the relationship between the components(control and leadership) and it was practical and unity study and included 300 staffs in the department of physical education department of Isfahan in 2011,150 persons using at stratified random sampling method was selected proportional to size. Collection data’s tools, cybernetic model questionnaires which its p...

Growth of microorganisms on substitutable substrate mixtures display diverse growth dynamics characterized by simultaneous or preferential uptake of carbon sources. This article shows that cybernetic modeling concepts which were successful in predicting diauxic growth patterns can be extended to describe simultaneous consumption of substrates. Thus the growth of Escherichia coli on mixtures of ...

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StartleCam is a wearable video camera, computer, and sensing system, which enables the camera to be controlled via both conscious and preconscious events involving the wearer. Traditionally, a wearer consciously hits record on the video camera, or runs a computer script to trigger the camera according to some pre-specified frequency. The system described here offers an additional option: images...

In the past thirty years, treatment in correctional facilities has been severely criticized. Many studies, including meta-analyses, have emphasized the low efficacy of correctional treatment. The efficacy of correctional treatment (and every kind of treatment) is related to the three main questions. The first is a clear definition of the features that have to be the object of treatment the seco...