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Entropy theory of aging systems : humans, corporations and the universe /
Entropy is a measure of order and disorder. If left alone, aging systems go spontaneously from youthful, low entropy and order to old, high entropy and disorder. This book presents the commonality of entropy principles which govern the birth, maturation, and senescent history of aging humans, corpor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Two short stories
- Entropy
- Infinity
- God
- Longevity in living systems, theories and speculation
- Energy, entropy, basal metabolism and lifespan
- Entropy and the life process
- On time, longevity and entropy
- Excess entropy (EE) and excess entropy production (EEP)
- Evolving corporate systems: entropy, aging and death
- Entropy and size, structure, stability, senescence
- Informational entropy and Shannon
- The corporate structure
- Understanding the aging corporation
- Hershey Corporate lifecycle assessment and entropy analysis
- The universe and beyond
- Infinity, entropy and the aging universe
- Pressure, volume, temperature, entropy calculations: the beginning, the middle, and the end of the universe.