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    Functional complexity in organisms: Parts as proxies. [REVIEW]Daniel W. McShea - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (5):641-668.
    The functional complexity, or the number of functions, of organisms hasfigured prominently in certain theoretical and empirical work inevolutionary biology. Large-scale trends in functional complexity andcorrelations between functional complexity and other variables, such assize, have been proposed. However, the notion of number of functions hasalso been operationally intractable, in that no method has been developedfor counting functions in an organism in a systematic and reliable way.Thus, studies have had to rely on the largely unsupported (...)
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    The Functional Complexity of Scientific Evidence.Matthew J. Brown - 2015 - Metaphilosophy 46 (1):65-83.
    This article sketches the main features of traditional philosophical models of evidence, indicating idealizations in such models that it regards as doing more harm than good. It then proceeds to elaborate on an alternative model of evidence that is functionalist, complex, dynamic, and contextual, a view the author calls dynamic evidential functionalism (DEF). This alternative builds on insights from philosophy of scientific practice, Kuhnian philosophy of science, pragmatist epistemology, philosophy of experimentation, and functionalist philosophy of mind. Along the way, the (...)
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    Genetic and functional complexity of inherited retinal degeneration.Stephen P. Daiger, Lori S. Sullivan & Joseph A. Rodriguez - 1995 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (3):501-521.
    Recent findings emphasize the complexity, both genetic and functional, of the manifold genes and mutations causing inherited retinal degeneration in humans. Knowledge of the genetic bases of these diseases can contribute to design of rational therapy, as well as elucidating the function of each gene product in normal visual processes.
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  4. Getting over Atomism: Functional Decomposition in Complex Neural Systems.Daniel C. Burnston - 2021 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 72 (3):743-772.
    Functional decomposition is an important goal in the life sciences, and is central to mechanistic explanation and explanatory reduction. A growing literature in philosophy of science, however, has challenged decomposition-based notions of explanation. ‘Holists’ posit that complex systems exhibit context-sensitivity, dynamic interaction, and network dependence, and that these properties undermine decomposition. They then infer from the failure of decomposition to the failure of mechanistic explanation and reduction. I argue that complexity, so construed, is only incompatible with one notion (...)
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  5. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature.Peter Godfrey-Smith (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological approach to the investigation of mind and cognition in nature. In particular he explores the idea that the function of cognition is to enable agents to deal with environmental complexity. The history of the idea in the (...)
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  6. Life outside the LINC complex – Do SUN proteins have LINC‐independent functions?Nejma Belaadi & Christophe Guilluy - forthcoming - Bioessays:2400034.
    Sad1 and UNC84 (SUN) and Klarsicht, ANC‐1, and Syne homology (KASH) proteins interact at the nuclear periphery to form the linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex, spanning the nuclear envelope (NE) and connecting the cytoskeleton with the nuclear interior. It is now well‐documented that several cellular functions depend on LINC complex formation, including cell differentiation and migration. Intriguingly, recent studies suggest that SUN proteins participate in cellular processes where their association with KASH proteins may not be required. Building on (...)
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  7. Functions of the thalamic reticular complex: The searchlight hypothesis.Francis Crick - 1984 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Usa 81:4586-93.
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    Complexity changes in functional state dynamics suggest focal connectivity reductions.David Sutherland Blair, Carles Soriano-Mas, Joana Cabral, Pedro Moreira, Pedro Morgado & Gustavo Deco - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:958706.
    The past two decades have seen an explosion in the methods and directions of neuroscience research. Along with many others, complexity research has rapidly gained traction as both an independent research field and a valuable subdiscipline in computational neuroscience. In the past decade alone, several studies have suggested that psychiatric disorders affect the spatiotemporal complexity of both global and region-specific brain activity (Liu et al., 2013; Adhikari et al., 2017; Li et al., 2018). However, many of these studies (...)
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    Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research.William Bechtel & Robert C. Richardson - 2010 - Princeton.
    An analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the life sciences. In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences: decomposition and localization. Drawing on historical cases from disciplines including cell biology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics, they identify a number of "choice points" that life scientists confront in developing mechanistic explanations and show how different choices result in (...)
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    Pointwise complexity of the derivative of a computable function.Ethan McCarthy - 2021 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 60 (7):981-994.
    We explore the relationship between analytic behavior of a computable real valued function and the computability-theoretic complexity of the individual values of its derivative almost-everywhere. Given a computable function f, the values of its derivative \\), where they are defined, are uniformly computable from \, the Turing jump of the input. It is known that when f is \, the values of \\) are actually computable from x. We construct a \ function f so that, almost everywhere, \\ge _T (...)
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  11. Genetic susceptibility to a complex disease: the key role of functional redundancy.Gaëlle Debret, Camille Jung, Jean-Pierre Hugot, Leigh Pascoe, Jean-Marc Victor & Annick Lesne - 2011 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33 (4).
    Complex diseases involve both a genetic component and a response to environmental factors or lifestyle changes. Recently, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have succeeded in identifying hundreds of polymorphisms that are statistically associated with complex diseases. However, the association is usually weak and none of the associated allelic forms is either necessary or sufficient for the disease occurrence. We argue that this promotes a network view, centred on functional redundancy. We adapted reliability theory to the concerned sub-network, modelled as a (...)
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    Complexity, communication between cells, and identifying the functional components of living systems: Some observations.Donald C. Mikulecky - 1996 - Acta Biotheoretica 44 (3-4):179-208.
    The concept of complexity has become very important in theoretical biology. It is a many faceted concept and too new and ill defined to have a universally accepted meaning. This review examines the development of this concept from the point of view of its usefulness as a criteria for the study of living systems to see what it has to offer as a new approach. In particular, one definition of complexity has been put forth which has the necessary (...)
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    Emergence in Complex Physiological Processes: The Case of Vitamin B12 Functions in Erythropoiesis.Francesca Bellazzi & Marta Bertolaso - 2024 - Systems 12.
    In this paper, we will explore the relation between molecular structure and functions displayed by biochemical molecules in complex physiological processes by using tools from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of scientific practice. We will argue that biochemical functions are weakly emergent from molecular structure by using an account of weak. In order to explore this thesis, we will consider the role of vitamin B12 in contributing to the process of erythropoiesis. The structure of the paper is the (...)
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    The complexity of subdifferentiation and its inverse on convex functions in Banach spaces.Pierre Casevitz - 2002 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 118 (3):197-217.
    Let E be a separable Banach space with separable dual. We show that the operation of subdifferentiation and the inverse operation are Borel from the convex functions on E into the monotone operators on E for the Effros–Borel structures.We also prove that the set of derivatives of differentiable convex functions is coanalytic non-Borel, by using the already known fact that the set of differentiable convex functions is itself coanalytic non-Borel, as proved in Bossard et al. 142).At last, we give a (...)
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    Computational complexity of logical theories of one successor and another unary function.Pascal Michel - 2007 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 46 (2):123-148.
    The first-order logical theory Th $({\mathbb{N}},x + 1,F(x))$ is proved to be complete for the class ATIME-ALT $(2^{O(n)},O(n))$ when $F(x) = 2^{x}$ , and the same result holds for $F(x) = c^{x}, x^{c} (c \in {\mathbb{N}}, c \ge 2)$ , and F(x) = tower of x powers of two. The difficult part is the upper bound, which is obtained by using a bounded Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game.
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    Phylogenetic, functional and geological perspectives on complex multicellularity.Andrew H. Knoll & David Hewitt - 2011 - In Brett Calcott & Kim Sterelny (eds.), The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited. MIT Press. pp. 251--270.
    This chapter develops a subtle model that integrates environmental and internal factors. It describes the phylogenetic distribution of multicellular organisms in general and complex multicellular life in particular, clarifying the important distinction between the two. This chapter shows that the long apparent lag between the appearance of simple multicellularity in eukaryotes and the radiation of groups with complex multicellular organization has an environmental component that can be associated back to the consequences of life with interior and exterior cells. It suggests (...)
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    The functional model of sentential complexity.Peter M. Sullivan - 1992 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 21 (1):91 - 108.
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    Review. Complexity and the function of mind in nature. Peter Godfrey-Smith.D. M. Walsh - 1997 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (4):613-617.
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    Functional significance of the religious situation as a complex organized system.Vita Tytarenko - 2016 - Ukrainian Religious Studies 78:107-115.
    Religion as a social and spiritual phenomenon in its functional manifestation responds to various human needs, while satisfying, above all, those spiritual needs that can not satisfy any other social phenomenon. Religion, however, appears as a certain qualitative certainty characterizing the ability and ability to satisfy the vital needs of man, religious communities and society, and helping a believer in comprehending the inner essence of the world in his transcendental co-ordinates, posing a "normative and content quintessence of experience", inherent (...)
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    Complexity of resolution proofs and function introduction.Matthias Baaz & Alexander Leitsch - 1992 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 57 (3):181-215.
    The length of resolution proofs is investigated, relative to the model-theoretic measure of Herband complexity. A concept of resolution deduction is introduced which is somewhat more general than the classical concepts. It is shown that proof complexity is exponential in terms of Herband complexity and that this bound is tight. The concept of R-deduction is extended to FR-deduction, where, besides resolution, a function introduction rule is allowed. As an example, consider the clause P Q: conclude P) Q, (...)
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  21. Complex systems from the perspective of category theory: I. Functioning of the adjunction concept.Elias Zafiris - 2005 - Axiomathes 15 (1):147-158.
    We develop a category theoretical scheme for the comprehension of the information structure associated with a complex system, in terms of families of partial or local information carriers. The scheme is based on the existence of a categorical adjunction, that provides a theoretical platform for the descriptive analysis of the complex system as a process of functorial information communication.
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    Functional holography of complex networks activity—from cultures to the human brain.Itay Baruchi, Vernon L. Towle & Eshel Ben-Jacob - 2005 - Complexity 10 (3):38-51.
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    Comparing expert and novice understanding of a complex system from the perspective of structures, behaviors, and functions.Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver & Merav Green Pfeffer - 2004 - Cognitive Science 28 (1):127-138.
    Complex systems are pervasive in the world around us. Making sense of a complex system should require that a person construct a network of concepts and principles about some domain that represents key (often dynamic) phenomena and their interrelationships. This raises the question of how expert understanding of complex systems differs from novice understanding. In this study we examined individuals' representations of an aquatic system from the perspective of structural (elements of a system), behavioral (mechanisms), and functional aspects of (...)
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    Drosophila Hox complex downstream targets and the function of homeotic genes.Yacine Graba, Denise Aragnol & Jacques Pradel - 1997 - Bioessays 19 (5):379-388.
    Hox complex genes are key developmental regulators highly conserved throughout evolution. The encoded proteins share a 60‐amino‐acid DNA‐binding motif, the homeodomain, and function as transcription factors to control axial patterning. An important question concerns the nature and function of genes acting downstream of Hox proteins. This review focuses on Drosophila, as little is known about this question in other organisms. The noticeable progress gained in the field during the past few years has significantly improved our current understanding of how Hox (...)
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    Pseudoalleles and Gene Complexes: The Search for the Elusive Link Between Genome Structure and Gene Function.Michel Morange - 2015 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 58 (2):196-204.
    The history of research on pseudoalleles, closely linked genes that have similar functions, is rich and complex. Because pseudoalleles’ proximity on the chromosome makes their distinction by the complementation tests traditionally used by geneticists difficult, and because they have similar functions, they were initially often considered as allelic forms of the same gene, hence their name. The Hox cluster is an emblematic example of a pseudoallelic gene complex. The first observations of pseudoalleles were made very early but remained puzzling until (...)
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    Complex incidental learning as a function of anxiety and task difficulty.Charles D. Spielberger, Leonard D. Goodstein & W. Grant Dahlstrom - 1958 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 56 (1):58.
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    Complex learning and conditioning as a function of anxiety.I. E. Farber & Kenneth W. Spence - 1953 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 45 (2):120.
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    Complexes, Nexus, and Functions the Middle and the Late Bergmann.Erwin Tegtmeier - 2008 - In Guido Bonino & Rosaria Egidi (eds.), Fostering the Ontological Turn: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987). Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. pp. 99-108.
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    Complex Dynamics of a Stochastic Two-Patch Predator-Prey Population Model with Ratio-Dependent Functional Responses.Rong Liu & Guirong Liu - 2021 - Complexity 2021:1-31.
    This paper investigates a stochastic two-patch predator-prey model with ratio-dependent functional responses. First, the existence of a unique global positive solution is proved via the stochastic comparison theorem. Then, two different methods are used to discuss the long-time properties of the solutions pathwise. Next, sufficient conditions for extinction and persistence in mean are obtained. Moreover, stochastic persistence of the model is discussed. Furthermore, sufficient conditions for the existence of an ergodic stationary distribution are derived by a suitable Lyapunov function. (...)
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    Function, meaning, complexity: The epistemological premisses of Niklas Luhmann's 'sociological enlightenment'.Danilo Zolo - 1986 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (1):115-127.
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    Evidence of the Physiologic Functions of the Gastrointestinal Tract as a Complex System.Roham Mazloom - 2020 - Foundations of Science 26 (2):257-274.
    The gastrointestinal tract is normally investigated using reductionism methods in human studies, where the focus is on each segment of the gastrointestinal system and the specific links between various parts of it. This helps researchers and clinicians to produce a simple relationship between the elements of the gastrointestinal tract based on clinical diagnosis and treatment. However, there is evidence indicating that the gastrointestinal tract has properties that are beyond function of the simple systems, such as, multiplicity of elements, network communication, (...)
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    Ecological complexity and feedback control in a prey-predator system with Holling type III functional response.Kunal Chakraborty - 2016 - Complexity 21 (5):346-360.
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    Counterfactual thoughts in complex causal domain: content, benefits, and implications for their function.Alessandro Bogani, Katya Tentori, Donatella Ferrante & Stefania Pighin - forthcoming - Thinking and Reasoning.
    The reliability of previous findings on two crucial aspects of counterfactual thinking, namely the content of counterfactual modifications and their impact on future performance, has been questioned for the frequent use of tasks characterised by simple causal domains, that restrict participants’ possibility to consider a broad range of modifications. To overcome this limitation, we utilised a new experimental task featuring a complex causal domain to investigate such key aspects. The results indicated that participants tend to generate counterfactuals about elements outside (...)
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    Reading Accuracy as a Function of Teaching Strategy, Personality and Word Complexity in Seven‐year‐old Children.R. J. Riding & E. M. Rigby Smith - 1984 - Educational Studies 10 (3):263-272.
    (1984). Reading Accuracy as a Function of Teaching Strategy, Personality and Word Complexity in Seven‐year‐old Children. Educational Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 263-272.
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  35. On the Kolmogorov complexity of continuous real functions.Amin Farjudian - 2013 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 164 (5):566-576.
    Kolmogorov complexity was originally defined for finitely-representable objects. Later, the definition was extended to real numbers based on the asymptotic behaviour of the sequence of the Kolmogorov complexities of the finitely-representable objects—such as rational numbers—used to approximate them.This idea will be taken further here by extending the definition to continuous functions over real numbers, based on the fact that every continuous real function can be represented as the limit of a sequence of finitely-representable enclosures, such as polynomials with rational (...)
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    Beyond the known functions of the CCR4‐NOT complex in gene expression regulatory mechanisms.Marta Ukleja, José María Valpuesta, Andrzej Dziembowski & Jorge Cuellar - 2016 - Bioessays 38 (10):1048-1058.
    Large protein assemblies are usually the effectors of major cellular processes. The intricate cell homeostasis network is divided into numerous interconnected pathways, each controlled by a set of protein machines. One of these master regulators is the CCR4‐NOT complex, which ultimately controls protein expression levels. This multisubunit complex assembles around a scaffold platform, which enables a wide variety of well‐studied functions from mRNA synthesis to transcript decay, as well as other tasks still being identified. Solving the structure of the entire (...)
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    Consistency and complexity of response sequences as a function of schedules of noncontingent reward.John C. Wright - 1962 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 63 (6):601.
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    Organization, development and function of complex brain networks.O. Sporns, D. R. Chialvo, M. Kaiser & C. C. Hilgetag - 2004 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (9):418-425.
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    Complex relationships between structural and functional brain connectivity.Lucina Q. Uddin - 2013 - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17 (12):600-602.
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    Concept identification as a function of task complexity and distribution of practice.Frederick G. Brown & E. James Archer - 1956 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 52 (5):316.
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    The Complex Interplay Between Depression/Anxiety and Executive Functioning: Insights From the ECAS in a Large ALS Population.Laura Carelli, Federica Solca, Andrea Faini, Fabiana Madotto, Annalisa Lafronza, Alessia Monti, Stefano Zago, Alberto Doretti, Andrea Ciammola, Nicola Ticozzi, Vincenzo Silani & Barbara Poletti - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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    Robustness and Autonomy in Biological Systems: How Regulatory Mechanisms Enable Functional Integration, Complexity and Minimal Cognition Through the Action of Second-Order Control Constraints.Leonardo Bich - 2018 - In Marta Bertolaso, Silvia Caianiello & Emanuele Serrelli (eds.), Biological Robustness. Emerging Perspectives from within the Life Sciences. Cham: Springer. pp. 123-147.
    Living systems employ several mechanisms and behaviors to achieve robustness and maintain themselves under changing internal and external conditions. Regulation stands out from them as a specific form of higher-order control, exerted over the basic regime responsible for the production and maintenance of the organism, and provides the system with the capacity to act on its own constitutive dynamics. It consists in the capability to selectively shift between different available regimes of self-production and self-maintenance in response to specific signals and (...)
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    Retrieving and Projecting the Transcendent Function with Complexes and the Rosarium Philosophorum.Matthew Gildersleeve - 2016 - Cosmos and History 12 (1):87-106.
    The purpose of this article is to retrieve the work presented in on the transcendent function and complexes as well as an ontological interpretation of Jung’s work on the Rosarium Philosophorum to project a new meaning of the phenomenology and ontology of the transcendent function. This article enables complexes and the Rosarium Philosophorum to be understood in connection to the ontology of the transcendent function that was presented in. This article can hermeneutically retrieve the transcendent function because when complexes and (...)
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  44. Complex causality as the root of the structure/function relation problem: 1/general considerations; 2/the example of the bone tissue. [REVIEW]Armand De Ricqles & Jorge Cubo - 2010 - In Jean Gayon & Armand de Ricqlès (eds.), Les fonctions: des organismes aux artefacts. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
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    The complexities of chromatin. Chromatin structure and function, second edition (1995). Alan Wolffe. Academic Press Ltd. pp. xi+299. Price £80. ISBN 0‐12‐761912‐7. [REVIEW]Alan Wolffe & Dean Jackson - 1996 - Bioessays 18 (4):337-338.
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    The Impact of Coupling Function on Finite-Time Synchronization Dynamics of Multi-Weighted Complex Networks with Switching Topology.Bin Yang, Xin Wang, Jian-an Fang & Yuhua Xu - 2019 - Complexity 2019:1-15.
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  47. Drosophila hox complex dowTI—Btream tm 舭 and the function of homeotie genes.Aragnd D. GrabaY & J. Prangnd - 1997 - Bioessays 19:379-388.
     
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    Lectures on Complex Numbers and their Functions, Part I: Theory of Complex Number Systems.Hermann Hankel & Richard Lawrence - manuscript - Translated by Richard Lawrence.
    A transcription and translation of Hermann Hankel's 1867 Vorlesungen über die complexen Zahlen und ihre Functionen, I. Theil: Theorie der Complexen Zahlensysteme, a textbook on complex analysis that played an important role in the transition to modern mathematics in nineteenth century Germany.
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    Structure and function of the nuclear pore complex: New perspectives.Christopher M. Starr & John A. Hanover - 1990 - Bioessays 12 (7):323-330.
    The double membrane of the nuclear envelope is a formidable barrier separating the nucleus and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. However, movement of specific macromolecules across the nuclear envelope is critical for embryonic development, cell growth and differentiation. Transfer of molecules between the nucleus and cytoplasm occurs through the aqueous channel formed by the nuclear pore complex (NPC)Abbreviations: NPC, nuclear pore complex; GlcNac, N‐acetylglucosamine; WGA, wheat germ agglutinin. Although small molecules may simply diffuse across the NPC, transport of large proteins and (...)
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  50. How functional differentiation originated in prebiotic evolution.Argyris Arnellos & Álvaro Moreno - 2012 - Ludus Vitalis 20 (37):1-23.
    Even the simplest cell exhibits a high degree of functional differentiation (FD) realized through several mechanisms and devices contributing differently to its maintenance. Searching for the origin of FD, we briefly argue that the emergence of the respective organizational complexity cannot be the result of either natural selection (NS) or solely of the dynamics of simple self-maintaining (SM) systems. Accordingly, a highly gradual and cumulative process should have been necessary for the transition from either simple self-assembled or self-maintaining (...)
     
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