Central Organizing Principles and Patent Strategies

The modem American ethos is a brand of Lockean individualism gone wrong that now embraces rapacious self-interest as its prime meridian. A new ethicalmodel is necessary to combat this radical, soulless, and excessively particularistic form of individualism. The author proposes a journeyman philosophy of organization and governance for citizen and administrative practitioner alike based upon concepts from quantum theory. This normative model of administration, called authentic individualism, has certain ramifications for a more reflexive, creative and unorthodox approach to public administration. All institutions and organizations are systems guided by general organizing principles that should discard the humans as a resource model, make employee well-being an organizational purpose, encourage humans toward a sense of moral meaning in life and work, recognize legitimate leadership as emerging from the people who make up the organization, and fulfill obligations to the community that supports them and makes them successful.

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Self-organization

10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0005 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Stuart P. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Large Deviation ◽

Natural World ◽

Self Organization ◽

Global Order ◽

Deterministic Systems ◽

Working Definition ◽

Complex Forms ◽

Robust To Noise ◽

Organizing Principles ◽

Self Organizing

Self-organization describes a dynamic in a system whereby local interactions between individuals collectively yield global order, i.e. spatial patterns unobservable in their entirety to the individuals. By this working definition, self-organization is intimately related to chaos, i.e. global order in the dynamics of deterministic systems that are locally unpredictable. A useful distinction is that a small perturbation to a chaotic system causes a large deviation in its trajectory, i.e. the butterfly effect, whereas self-organizing patterns are robust to noise and perturbation. For many, self-organization is as important to the understanding of biological processes as natural selection. For some, self-organization explains where the complex forms that compete for survival in the natural world originate from. This chapter outlines some fundamental ideas from the study of simulated self-organizing systems, before suggesting how self-organizing principles could be applied through biohybrid societies to establish new theories of living systems.

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A framework infrageneric classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) and its organizing principles

Journal of Systematics and Evolution ◽

10.1111/jse.12722 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eric H. Roalson ◽

Pedro Jiménez‐Mejías ◽

Andrew L. Hipp ◽

Carmen Benítez‐Benítez ◽

Leo P. Bruederle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Infrageneric Classification ◽

Organizing Principles

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Revisiting Security Council action on terrorism: New threats; (a lot of) new law; same old problems?

Leiden Journal of International Law ◽

10.1017/s0922156521000066 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-30

Author(s):

David McKeever

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Security Council ◽

Counter Terrorism ◽

Un Security Council ◽

New Type ◽

Recent Activity ◽

Legislative Activity ◽

Recent Action ◽

Organizing Principles ◽

Law Making

Abstract The devastating events of 9/11 triggered the adoption of Resolution 1373 (2001) by the UN Security Council, a contentious development which was much debated and was widely seen as presaging a new type of activity by the Security Council – legislating for all UN member states. And yet, in the counter-terrorism sphere at least, the Council’s legislative activity in the years following 9/11 was relatively modest. Both quantitatively and qualitatively, that activity has been far exceeded by the Council’s response to the emergence of ISIL in 2014. This more recent activity is of interest beyond the confines of counter-terrorism, but has received far less scrutiny to date. This article will remedy this gap, revisiting, in light of the recent activity, the relative merits and disadvantages of making counter-terrorism law through Security Council resolutions. It makes two main contentions. The first is that – due to some factors which were anticipated in the early 2000s and many which were not – Security Council resolutions on terrorism constitute a distinctive category of international law-making and pose serious challenges for the application of organizing principles and processes of general international law. The second is that, for these reasons as well as doubts as to the necessity and efficacy of recent action, making counter-terrorism law through Security Council resolutions should be the exception rather than the norm.

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Scarcity of scale-free topology is universal across biochemical networks

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-85903-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Harrison B. Smith ◽

Hyunju Kim ◽

Sara I. Walker

Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Biochemical Networks ◽

Biological Organization ◽

Scale Free ◽

Levels Of Organization ◽

Common Structure ◽

Domains Of Life ◽

Ecosystem Level ◽

Different Levels ◽

Organizing Principles

AbstractBiochemical reactions underlie the functioning of all life. Like many examples of biology or technology, the complex set of interactions among molecules within cells and ecosystems poses a challenge for quantification within simple mathematical objects. A large body of research has indicated many real-world biological and technological systems, including biochemistry, can be described by power-law relationships between the numbers of nodes and edges, often described as “scale-free”. Recently, new statistical analyses have revealed true scale-free networks are rare. We provide a first application of these methods to data sampled from across two distinct levels of biological organization: individuals and ecosystems. We analyze a large ensemble of biochemical networks including networks generated from data of 785 metagenomes and 1082 genomes (sampled from the three domains of life). The results confirm no more than a few biochemical networks are any more than super-weakly scale-free. Additionally, we test the distinguishability of individual and ecosystem-level biochemical networks and show there is no sharp transition in the structure of biochemical networks across these levels of organization moving from individuals to ecosystems. This result holds across different network projections. Our results indicate that while biochemical networks are not scale-free, they nonetheless exhibit common structure across different levels of organization, independent of the projection chosen, suggestive of shared organizing principles across all biochemical networks.

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