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Kleiber's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kleiber's law , [ 1 ] named after Max Kleiber 's biological work in the early 1930s, is the observation that, for the vast majority of animals, an animal's metabolic rate scales to the ¾ power of the animal's mass. Symbolically: if q 0 is the animal's metabolic rate, and M the animal's mass, then Kleiber's law states that q 0 ~ M ¾ . Thus a cat, having a mass 100 times that of a mouse, will have a metabolism roughly 31 times greater than that of a mouse. In plants, the exponent is close to 1. Max Kleiber [ 3 ] was born and educated in Zurich , Switzerland . He graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology as an Agricultural Chemist in 1920, earned the ScD degree in 1924, and became a private dozent after publishing his thesis The Energy Concept in the Science of Nutrition .PLoS ONE: Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities
With urban population increasing dramatically worldwide, cities are playing an increasingly critical role in human societies and the sustainability of the planet. An obstacle to effective policy is the lack of meaningful urban metrics based on a quantitative understanding of cities. Typically, linear per capita indicators are used to characterize and rank cities. However, these implicitly ignore the fundamental role of nonlinear agglomeration integral to the life history of cities. As such, per capita indicators conflate general nonlinear effects, common to all cities, with local dynamics, specific to each city, failing to provide direct measures of the impact of local events and policy. Agglomeration nonlinearities are explicitly manifested by the superlinear power law scaling of most urban socioeconomic indicators with population size, all with similar exponents (1.15).
Bio Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications. West served as SFI President from July 2005 through July 2009.
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Complex Systems Society : Strategic Areas and Applications
On this page, ONCE-CS coordinators propose a synthesis of the discussions in the CS community concerning Theories and Methodologies in Complex Systems. For the first synthesis, ONCE-CS coordinators asked Mark Buchanan to do a summary of the discussions of the first brainstorming meeting after the reports of the several working groups. These reports will soon be available in the corresponding working group of the brainstorming meeting. 1. What are the key methods of complex systems science? 2.
CiteSeerX — Category Theory for the Configuration of Complex Systems
The abstract framework of category theory is shown to provide a precise semantics for the configuration of complex systems from their component parts. Diagrams express configuration by representing the results of applying combinators to recursively defined system components. Although modularity has been described as an essential property of complex systems, no clear and simple definition of a module has emerged at this general level. In this paper a new module concept is defined to represent reusable system components, at any level of development. 1 Introduction A category theoretic semantics was given in [1] for putting theories together to make specifications.
Basic Ideas: Kauffman defines living creatures as autonomous agents. His categorizing technique is, perhaps, more "open" than traditional biological definitions and may be more tolerant of borderline entities such as cyborgs or of alien creatures, should they be discovered. Though he may gasp in horror upon reading this, Kauffman's open definition may also allow for spiritual entities as long as they are forms of energy adhering to the known laws.
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About New Frontier New Frontier is written by Nathan Laurell . Nate is the founder and Managing Partner of New Frontier Holdings , an investment firm focused on sustainable energy and agriculture. He is a cofounder of Energy.me and the founder and CEO of AMP Americas , a company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to create and supply renewable energy. Nate currently sits on the boards of AMP Americas , Carbon Solutions Group , and Energy.me .Although the outcome is far from certain, it is clear that this moment in history represents a paradigm shift in the human experience: Mass movements can almost instantaneously change even the most rigid power structures. Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power after only 18 days of peaceful demonstrations. His military, vast legions of civil servants and overwhelming support within the Arab oligarchy failed to keep him power. Viewed from another perspective, the Egyptian revolution is just another failure of a large corporation: The vendor (Mubarak) failed to understand the market (Egyptian citizens) and collapsed because they could not adapt quickly enough to the demands of the market (representative governance). Protestors opposing the status quo remained peaceful throughout the entire revolution as the military was steadfastly neutral. Only Mubarak’s supporters engaged in violence .
Egypt: The Mathematics of Social Media & Peaceful Revolution
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The AI Singularity is Dead. Long Live the Cybernetic Singularity!
Technological singularity refers to the hypothetical future emergence of greater-than-human intelligence through technological means. [ 1 ] Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon , beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood. Proponents of the singularity typically state that an "intelligence explosion" [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a key factor of the Singularity where superintelligences design successive generations of increasingly powerful minds. This hypothesized process of intelligent self-modification might occur very quickly, and might not stop until the agent's cognitive abilities greatly surpass that of any human.