Therefore the following definitions are given: 1.1 Selection is a process, acting on a particular population of entities in a particular environment that sorts entities according to a function of the entities.
In the most general way, social structure is identified by those features of a social entity (a society or a group within a society) that persist over time, are interrelated, and influence both the functioning of the entity as a whole and the activities of its individual members.
"If Dynegy and Enron were to get together, obviously the thing that would appeal to Dynegy would be to combine the trading function of the two entities, and that in itself would provide greater market power, not less market power," said Raymond Plank, chairman of the Apache Corporation, one of the largest independent natural gas producers, based in Houston.
Complexity will be defined mathematically as a function of the number of entities, inter-entity relationships and active event sequences in the graphical architecture.
(3) Care and help organizations are structured in many 'silos', such as health care versus support care, private organizations versus public-funded organizations, primary care versus institutional care, silos per discipline, etc. and each of these entities does not know about the functioning of the other entity (4).
For further discussion of why duplication of function leads to loss of function in one of the entities duplicating the function, see Reviewer 1 comment 11.
Monism is not a necessary concomitant of the standard ontology, but we think that it fits easily with the linear focus on vertical inheritance: the function of an entity is its role in driving the evolving lineage along its branch of the tree.
A mathematically accurate treatment of the experimental measurement of Young's modulus is also presented, yielding a final expression for E (I ω) as a function of the two measured entities, namely the acceleration of the base and the vertical displacement of an adequate point of the specimen.
In making sense of these ideas, the usual way to proceed has been to make use of a rich concept of biological function, in which the function of an entity derives from a history of natural selection.
By capturing the functioning of the different entities and their relationships to one another, insight into what might happen using simple rules can be gained.
