Modelling and Simulation of Complex Adaptive System: The Diffusion of Socio-Environmental Innovation in the RENDRUS Network

AbstractThis paper deals with constellations in which, as consequences of linguistic interculturality, elements of two or more languages encounter each other and result in something partially or completely new, an – occasionally temporary – “third quality”, namely hybridity. The paper contributes to the meta-discourse and theory formation by questioning the concept, term and content of “linguistic hybridity”. It also submits a proposal for a typology of linguistic-communicative hybridity that consists of the following prototypical main groups, each with several subtypes: (1) language-cultural, (2) semiotic, (3) medial, (4) communicative, (5) systematic, (6) paraverbal and (7) nonverbal hybridity. At last, the paper examines hybridity as an explanatory variable for language change. In conclusion, hybridity is generally a place of cultural production, with special regard to communication and language it is potentially considered as an incubator of linguistic innovation. Hybridity can be seen as the engine and as the result of language change, or language development. It represents an essential factor by which language functions and develops as a complex adaptive system. Hybridity operates as a continuous cycle. By generating innovation, it triggers language change, which in turn, leads to further and new hybridizations. The processuality of hybridity creates diversity, while at the same time it can cause the vanishing of diversity.

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Imagining maternity care as a complex adaptive system: understanding health system constraints to the promotion of respectful maternity care

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters ◽

10.1080/26410397.2020.1854153 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. e1854153

Author(s):

Anteneh Asefa ◽

Barbara McPake ◽

Ana Langer ◽

Meghan A. Bohren ◽

Alison Morgan

Keyword(s):

Health System ◽

Maternity Care ◽

Adaptive System ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

Respectful Maternity Care ◽

Complex Adaptive

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Engineering Innovative Clinical Resource Management By Design: A guided Emergent Search Through a Complex Adaptive System of Systems

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ◽

10.1109/tem.2021.3059590 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Richard Tarpey ◽

Matthew Mullarkey

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Adaptive System ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

System Of Systems ◽

Complex Adaptive ◽

Clinical Resource

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Application of Complex Adaptive System Theory to Water Resources Allocation in Dianchi Basin

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.212-213.536 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 212-213 ◽

pp. 536-542

Author(s):

Qiong Su ◽

Shi Hua He

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

Water Resources ◽

Adaptive System ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

Resources Allocation ◽

Water Resources Allocation ◽

Evolutionary Mechanisms ◽

Reservoir Water ◽

Allocation System ◽

Complex Adaptive

Based on complex adaptive system theory, the characteristics of water resources allocation system of river basin are analyzed. Evolutionary mechanisms and process of complex adaptive water resources allocation system in Dianchi basin are researched, and also characteristics of "learning". A complex adaptive system model of water-resource allocation is established during analyzing the influence factors and the reaction rules of water consumer agents and water provider agents. And based on this model, water resources in Dianchi basin is allocated only under Dianchi water provider and Zhangjiu river Yunlong reservoir water provider by using the platform of matlab. Finally, corresponding calculation results and conclusions are concluded.

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