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61Murray Bowen — Murray Bowen, M.D., (31 January 1913, Waverly, Tennessee 9 October 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a professor in Psychiatry at the Georgetown University. Bowen was among the pioneers of family therapy and founders of systemic therapy.… …
62Evolvable hardware — (EH) is a new field about the use of evolutionary algorithms (EA) to create electronics. It brings together reconfigurable hardware, artificial intelligence, fault tolerance and autonomous systems. Evolvable hardwarerefers to hardware that can… …
63Memetics — This article is related to the study of self replicating units of culture, not to be confused with mimetics. Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins 1976 book The… …
64Knowledge management — (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in… …
65Complexity — For other uses, see Complexity (disambiguation). In general usage, complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement. The study of these complex linkages is the main goal of complex systems theory. In… …
66Niklas Luhmann — Born December 8, 1927(1927 12 08) Lüneburg, Germany Died November 6, 1998(1998 11 06) …
67C. Robert Cloninger — Born April 4, 1944(1944 04 04) Beaumont, TX …
68automation — /aw teuh may sheuhn/, n. 1. the technique, method, or system of operating or controlling a process by highly automatic means, as by electronic devices, reducing human intervention to a minimum. 2. a mechanical device, operated electronically,… …
69Roy's model of nursing — Sister Callista Roy developed the Adaptation Model in 1976. This model comprises the four domain concepts of person, health, environment, and nursing and involves a six step nursing process. Andrews Roy (1991) state that the person can be a… …
70Holism in science — Holism in science, or Holistic science, is an approach to research that emphasizes the study of complex systems. This practice is in contrast to a purely analytic tradition (sometimes called reductionism) which aims to gain understanding of… …
