The phenotype was, in turn, defined as a function of the entity (in a given environment) that 'can be seen' directly by selection.
(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).
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.
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.
Either kind of equivalence suggests that the functions shared by the various PE entities are significant for the sustainable functioning of entities within the microbial world, since the functions have evolved, and presumably have been selected for, on more than one occasion.
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.
"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.
While the assignment of a status function and the collective recognition of the entity's existence are necessary for interpreting it as a social entity at all, it also needs to exhibit collective rationality with regard to the formation of its beliefs and desires or, in short, attitudes.
Complexity will be defined mathematically as a function of the number of entities, inter-entity relationships and active event sequences in the graphical architecture.
It acts on various cells and interacts with many different types of ligands, including RAGE and TLR4, to modulate pleiotropic functions of these entities in various physiological and pathological situations.
