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Biological systems.

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Living systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living systems to extract energy and materials from the environment and use them to build and repair their parts by regulating their activities based on their internal and external conditions in ways that allow them to keep living. The philosophical and theoretical approach discussed in this Element aims to explain these features of biological systems by appealing to their organization. It addresses classical and more recent issues in philosophy of biology, fromorigins and definitions of life to biological teleology and functions, from an original perspective mainly focused on the living system, its physiology and behavior, rather than evolution. It discusses and revises the conceptual foundations of this approach and presents an updated version of it. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on the Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials (MBSM 2014), April 1-2, 2014, Seoul, South Korea. The 48 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Dynamics and Mechanics in Biological Systems, Chapter 2: Materials Science and Materials Processing Technology, Chapter 3: Applied Mechanics, Chapter 4: Bio-medical Application Research, Chapter 5: Design, Modeling and Simulation, Chapter 6: Computing and Information Technology, Chapter 7: Management and Environmental Application

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Bioenergetics --- Biological systems

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The Göttingen conference Systematics 2008 is the first joint meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) and the German Botanical Society, section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (DBG), being the 10th Annual Meeting of the GfBS and the 18th International Symposium Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the DBG. The conference programme covers biological systematics in the widest sense and provides ample opportunities for oral and poster presentations on new advances in plant, animal and microbial systematics. This volume brings together the abstracts of invited speaches from the plenary sessions on Progress in Deep Phylogeny, Speciation and Phylogeography, and New Trends in Biological Systematics as well as those of submitted talks and poster sessions.

Biodiversity. --- Biological systems.