Contributions to a thermodynamic model of Earth systems on rivers

A model for the chemical (ground water) erosion and physical (bed load, including sedimentation) erosion of the land was developed. The rudiments of the relation between a regulated sea level (for the past 2500 million years) and the episodic rise and erosion of continents was examined to obtain some notion of the process scalings. Major process scales of about 200 years, 100,000 years, 3 My, 40 My, 300 My were estimated. It was suggested that a program targeted at ecological management would have to become familiar with processes at the first four scales (i.e., from glaciation to the horizontal movement of continents). The study returns to the initial premise. In order to understand and manage Earth biology (life, and modern man), it is necessary minimally to pursue systems' biogeology at a considerable number of process space and time scales via their irreversible thermodynamic couplings

A study of the general dynamics of the physical-chemical systems in mammals Final report

Dynamic aspects of temperature regulating system, cardiovascular system, hormonal system, central nervous system, and behavior in mammal

<general dynamics of physical-chemical systems in mammals< fourth quarterly progress report, may 21 - aug. 20, 1965

Mathematical modeling of hydrodynamics of arterial system and observations of mammalian microcirculatio

Development of a spectral analyzer Progress report, 8 Mar. - 7 Jun. 1969

Study of mammalian blood to determine glucose levels and the effects of polycythemia and hyperoxi

A STUDY ON DYNAMIC SYSTEMS RESPONSE OF THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME MAJOR BIOPHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Dynamic responses of biophysical systems - performance characteristic

General dynamics of the physical-chemical systems in mammals

Biodynamic regulator chain models for physical chemical systems in mammal

Active primate simulator Final report

Systems engineering data and design specifications for Biosatellite active primate simulato

Introduction to a Biological Systems Science

Biological systems analysis and biodynamic modelling of physiological and biological interrelationships in human body and mammal

Distributed autonomy and trade-offs in online multiobject k-coverage

In this article, we explore the online multiobject k-coverage problem in visual sensor networks. This problem combines k-coverage and the cooperative multirobot observation of multiple moving targets problem, and thereby captures key features of rapidly deployed camera networks, including redundancy and team-based tracking of evasive or unpredictable targets. The benefits of using mobile cameras are demonstrated and we explore the balance of autonomy between cameras generating new subgoals, and those responders able to fulfill them. We show that higher performance against global goals is achieved when decisions are delegated to potential responders who treat subgoals as optional, rather than as obligations that override existing goals without question. This is because responders have up-to-date knowledge of their own state and progress toward goals where they are situated, which is typically old or incomplete at locations remote from them. Examining the extent to which approaches overprovision or underprovision coverage, we find that being well suited for achieving 1-coverage does not imply good performance at k-coverage. Depending on the structure of the environment, the problems of 1-coverage and k-coverage are not necessarily aligned and that there is often a trade-off to be made between standard coverage maximization and achieving k-coverage