The regulation and recognition of foreign corporations: responses to the "Delaware syndrome”

Author's draft; published article © 1998 Cambridge University Press

ECOHUMAN IN NEW MATERIALIST HUMANISM: “ENERGY AND CHANGE” BY CLAYTON CROCKETT

This commentary to Clayton Crockett’s Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmology details his use of systems concepts as it extends his energy framework to conceive of the ecohuman, a new concept that broadens anthropocentric and humanist traditions’ forms of thinking the human being. A review of Crockett’s book gives way to speculations about what the ecohuman is, and how it might be thought across discourses in posthumanism, new materialism, systems theory, and philosophy

HRV in an Integrated Hardware/Software System Using Artificial Intelligence to Provide Assessment, Intervention and Performance Optimization

Heart rate variability (HRV) is increasingly recognized as a central variable of interest in health maintenance, disease prevention and performance optimization. It is also a sensitive biomarker of health status, disease presence and functional abilities, acquiring and processing high fidelity inter beat interval data, along with other psychophysiological parameters that can assist in clinical assessment and intervention, population health studies/digital epidemiology and positive performance optimization. We describe a system using high-throughput artificial intelligence based on the KUBIOS platform to combine time, frequency and nonlinear data domains acquired by wearable or implanted biosensors to guide in clinical assessment, decision support and intervention, population health monitoring and individual self-regulation and performance enhancement, including the use of HRV biofeedback. This approach follows the iP4 health model which emphasizes an integral, personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory approach to human health and well-being. It therefore includes psychological, biological, genomic, sociocultural, evolutionary and spiritual variables as mutually interactive elements in embodying complex systems adaptation

The New Creatures of Difference: A Look at the Concept of Repetition Within Dissipative Systems Theory

Repetition is a major theme in contemporary thought, aligned more with difference and monstrosity than similarity and banality. This paper examines the logic of repetition through its deployment as a critique of the Western philosophical tradition’s understanding of time as temporal succession and examines the development of new concepts of repetition in dissipative systems theory and evolutionary thinking

Heart Rate Variability in Dental Science

Dentistry has made progress as a profession by integration with both medicine and other human sciences, especially when it uses empirical metrics to study process and outcome variables. Notably, progress in our understanding of genomic, biomic, and other molecular biological phenomena has been valuable. As has been identified by Drury (1, 2), it is proposed in this commentary that the inclusion of heart rate variability (HRV) as a biomarker of health may further this integrative progress. HRV is derived by various linear and non-linear statistical analyses of the R-R, beat-to-beat ECG interval in microseconds. Over twenty three thousand reports are identified in a recent PubMed search of the term heart rate variability, most of which demonstrate HRV's sensitivity to a wide diversity of physical and psychosocial pathologies. The small literature of dental use of HRV in both assessment and treatment will be selectively reviewed and relevant exemplars for other important health applications of HRV will be discussed. This will lead to a proposed agenda for researching HRV's value to professional dentistry as a human health and wellness profession

School-Aged Children With Higher Reflective Functioning Exhibit Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity

Despite extensive theorizing regarding the regulatory role of reflective functioning (RF), few studies have explored the links between RF and physiological indices of emotion regulation, and none have examined these associations in children. Further, while scholars contend that RF promotes resilience via enhanced ability to process emotional experiences, including those occurring in attachment relationships, this argument has seldom been tested empirically in children. In the current study, we explore the association between RF and physiological measures of emotion reactivity and regulation, as well as the interaction of RF and attachment insecurity. We test these associations by examining children's (N = 76; 8–12 years old) cardiovascular responses [respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)] to a standardized paradigm designed to evoke reactions regarding the experience and expression of attachment-related needs. Children also completed a semi-structured attachment interview, which was later coded for children's attachment insecurity (operationalized as attachment dismissal and preoccupation) and RF. Our findings were largely consistent with theory and our hypotheses, suggesting that higher RF is associated with lesser cardiovascular reactivity (higher levels of RSA) during the stressor task and better recovery following the task. These links were especially strong for children with greater attachment preoccupation but did not vary as a function of children's levels of attachment dismissal. These findings contribute to developmental theory in suggesting that RF is closely linked to physiological emotion regulation in children

The New Creatures of Difference: A Look at the Concept of Repetition Within Dissipative Systems Theory

Repetition is a major theme in contemporary thought, aligned more with difference and monstrosity than similarity and banality. This paper examines the logic of repetition through its deployment as a critique of the Western philosophical tradition’s understanding of time as temporal succession and examines the development of new concepts of repetition in dissipative systems theory and evolutionary thinking

Edge Computing in Digital Epidemiology and Global Health

Edge computation (EC) will be explored from the viewpoint of complex systems. An evolutionary and ecological context will be described in detail, including the subjects of epigenetics, self-domestication, attachment theory, scientific cosmology, deep learning, and other artificial intelligence issues and the role of wireless data acquisition analysis and feedback. A technical exemplar will be described and examples of potential integration with various systems such as public health and epidemiology, clinical medicine, operations, and fitness will be proposed. Also, various system vulnerabilities and failures will be discussed and policy implications in the global and clinical health and wellness domains will be identified

New and Emerging Technologies for Integrative Ambulatory Autonomic Assessment and Intervention as a Catalyst in the Synergy of Remote Geocoded Biosensing, Algorithmic Networked Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, and Regenerative/Biomic Medicine: Further Real

While the important role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) has been historically underappreciated, recently there has been a rapid proliferation of empirical, methodological and theoretical progress in our more detailed understanding of the ANS. Previous more simplistic models of the role of the ANS using the construct of homeostasis have been enhanced by the use of the construct of allostasis and a wide variety of technological innovations including wearable and implantable biosensors have led to improved understanding of both basic and applied knowledge. This chapter will explore in particular heart rate variability (HRV) as a rich variable which has developed an extensive literature, beginning with predicting all-cause mortality, but now encompassing a wide variety of disease and illness states; cognitive, affective and behavioral processes and performance optimization. A critical analysis of HRV from the perspective of complex adaptive systems and non-linear processes will be included and innovative future uses of HRV will be described