Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Podbor and Proletkult: An Adaptive Systems Perspective by Dudley Peter

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Covering for uncertainty; family as the complex adaptive system in times of polycrisis by Sunil Kumar Raina

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Conceptualising religion in the 21st century: Examining the proposal of Mark C. Taylor in After God

“…The article closes by pointing out some inconsistencies in Taylor’s own application of religion as complex adaptive system. Due to these inconsistencies, Taylor falls short of offering a constructive role for contemporary religious traditions and communities. …”
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Paradigm shifters: tricksters and cultural science by Hartley John

“…The objective is to understand creative innovation as a general cultural attribute rather than one restricted only to accredited experts such as artists; thus to theorise creativity as a form of emergence for dynamic adaptive systems. In this context, change is led by ‘paradigm shifters’ – tricksters and entrepreneurs who create new meanings out of the clash of difference, including the clash of mutually untranslatable communication systems (language, media, culture).…”
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Immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases by Ye. A. Konovich, I. L. Khalif, M. V. Shapina

“…At genetically sensitive animals inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) develop at various effects on innate and adaptive systems of immune defense (knock-out and transgenic mice), causing changes of expression of significant immunologic factors with distortion of pro- and anti-inflammatory cells and molecules ratio at their contact to microbiota structures. …”
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