In his classic text on holism [ 35], Smuts describes how the linear concept of cause and effect that is observed within mechanical structures undergoes a radical transformation when observed in the case of a holistic structure, such as an organism: 'When an external cause acts on a whole, the resultant effect is not merely traceable to the cause, but has become transformed in the process.
Basic to Shaftesbury's understanding of the affections is his conception of the systematic and holistic structure of the world.
Since it holds that morality determines how institutional practice affects rights and obligations, it inherits the holistic structure of morality: the whole of morality confronts the whole of institutional practice and determines its effect, which interpretation purports to identify.
Furthermore, this study employs a holistic model structure.
While scholars have studied benefits and drawbacks of prototype development, few have attempted to create a holistic framework to structure prototyping and combine insights from across technical domains.
A messy structure of government.
A number of species associated with harmful algal blooms are detected within the data (Alexandrium, Noctiluca and Gymnodinium) which highlights the potential of this initiative to enhance understanding of bloom dynamics within the context of a holistic record of microbial community structure.
The interviews were conducted exclusively with board members, managing directors, and division managers, who have a holistic view of the distribution structures.
A large fraction of microorganisms in nature have so far not been cultivated in the laboratory [5], and therefore, culture-dependent as well as culture-independent methods should be used together to obtain a holistic view of fungal community structures [6].
Global properties like degree, diameter, girth and density provide us with a holistic view of the ncRNA structures, revealing the overall "compactness" of the different classes.
However, he also believed that free-market capitalism, which he found socially irresponsible, was, as Egan writes, "a clear enemy"; Commoner's leftist background yielded analyses congruent with a "holistic critique of American social structures".
