After having outlined the essential differences between non-complex systems and complex systems we briefly recall the conceptual approaches considered by the pre-complexity General Systems Theory introduced by Von Bertalanffy in 1968 and those of the science of complexity and post-Bertalanffy General Systems Theory. In this context, after outlining the concept of completeness, we consider cases...

The age and growth of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758) were studied in the present study. A total 126 specimens collected from commercial fishmongers during period between January 2015 December northern Aegean coasts Turkey. Fork length weight aged ranged 29.5 to 48.0 cm 425.00 2100.00 g, with a mean 38.5 101.23 respectively. length-weight relationship was estimated as W = 0.00...

Since the introduction of the exfoliative cytological technique in clinical practice, particularly in the diagnosis of malignant disease of the female genital tract, many authors (Friedman, 1950; Mellors and Silver, 1951; von Bertalanffy, Masin, and Masin, 1956; Liu, 1961) have endeavoured to reduce the time required for scanning the smears by the use of fluorescent microscopy. In this new tech...

The heterogeneous and homogeneous growth (HmG) assumptions in an intensive tilapia Oreochromis niloticus pre-grow-out production were evaluated under the different stocking scenarios. Four models (von Bertalanffy, Logistic, Pütter, Gompertz) tested modified to include effect of density difference. Models with fitted using a nonlinear regression, while (HtG) parameterized quantile (0.05, 0.15, 0...

Drawing on more than a decade of research on the social implications of systems thinking, as well as practical experience in integrative, community-based approaches to education, this paper is an inquiry into philosophical and ethical considerations growing out of recent developments in systems thinking. In his foundational work on general system theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy distinguishes bet...