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OverviewThe boundaries between simple and complicated, and complicated and complex system designations are fuzzy and debatable, even using quantitative measures of complexity. However, if you are a biomedical engineer, a biologist, physiologist, economist, politician, stock market speculator, or politician, you have encountered complex systems. Furthermore, your success depends on your ability to successfully interact with and manage a variety of complex systems. In order not to be blindsided by unexpected results, we need a systematic, comprehensive way of analyzing, modeling, and simulating complex systems to predict non-anticipated outcomes. In its engaging first chapters, the book introduces complex systems, Campbell's Law, and the Law of Unintended Consequences, and mathematics necessary for conversations in complex systems. Subsequent chapters illustrate concepts via commonly studied biological mechanisms. The final chapters focus on higher-level complexity problems, and introduce complexity in economic systems. Designed as a reference for biologists and biological engineers, Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems lends itself to use in a classroom course to introduce advanced students studying biomedical engineering, biophysics, or physiology to complex systems. Engaging and illustrative, this book aids scientists and decision makers in managing biological complexity and complex systems. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert B. Northrop (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138113336ISBN 10: 1138113336 Pages: 551 Publication Date: 16 June 2017 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems. Introduction to Large Linear Systems. Introduction to Nonlinear Biochemical Systems and Biochemical Oscillators. Modularity, Redundancy, Degeneracy, Pleiotropy and Robustness in Complex Biological Systems. The Evolution of Biological Complexity; Invertebrate Immune Systems. The Complex Adaptive and Innate Human Immune Systems. Complexity in Quasispecies: MicroRNAs. Introduction to Physiological Complexity: Examples of Models of Some Complex Physiological Systems. The Quest for Quantitative Measures of Complexity. ""Irreducible and Specified Complexity"" in Living Systems. Introduction to Complexity in Economic Systems. Dealing with Complexity. Appendix. Bibliography and References. Glossary. Index."ReviewsAuthor InformationRobert B. Northrop is Professor Emeritus and the former Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Connecticut. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |