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Subjects / keywords: Economía y Comercio; Gestión Industrial

Subjects / keywords: systems thinking, system dynamics, systems engineering, simulation, soft operations research; Science: Geology: Dynamic and structural geology; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Mat...

In an era of exponential technological change and deepening urban inequality, cities face an existential question: adapt or decline. Innovation Districts by Miquel Barceló offers a bold blueprint for urban transformatio...

An experience of five years with Mr. Mill's treatise in the class-?room not only convinced me of the great usefulness of what still remains one of the most lucid and systematic books yet published which cover the whole r...

Valuism is a critical and creative thinking essay about the necessary transformations of our global economic system, as well as the values and beliefs that sustain it. The essential idea is that capitalism must be trans...

The liberatory effect of democratic ethics, following the introduction of the institutions of an inclusive democracy, is the necessary condition for paedeia. In turn, Paedeia is the sufficient condition for the developme...

Institute of Medicine National Academy Press, $44.95, pp 364 ISBN 0 309 07280 8 See http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10027.html for ordering details Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] Even with cat...

Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theor...

This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary un...

Abstract An individual has a theory of mind if he imputes mental states to himself and others. A system of inferences of this kind is properly viewed as a theory because such states are not directly observable, and the s...

Bartlett viewed thinking as a high level skill exhibiting ballistic properties that he called its “point of no return”. This paper explores one aspect of cognition through the use of a simple model task in which huma...

Economic theory has suffered in the past from a failure to state clearly its assumptions. Economists in building up a theory have often omitted to examine the foundations on which it was erected. This examination is, how...

"In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in ...

If we are eventually to understand the capability of higher organisms for perceptual recognition, generalization, recall, and thinking, we must first have answers to three fundamental questions: 1. How is information abo...

Subjects / keywords: system engineering, risk management, system thinking, strategic thinking, knowledge management, quality management modeling; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Systems engineering

Subjects / keywords: System theory; Critical thinking; Complexity (Philosophy)

Subjects / keywords: information technology and systems, pattern thinking, knowledge processing methods and tools, mathematical modeling, computer engineering and software; Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering...

Subjects / keywords: mechatronics, mechanical engineering, systems thinking, mechanics, electronics, optics; Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery