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  2. Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis - Wikipedia

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    Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. Schematic of the HPA axis (CRH, corticotropin-releasing hormone; ACTH, adrenocorticotropic hormone) Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and adrenal cortex. The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis ( HPA axis or HTPA axis) is a complex set of direct influences and feedback interactions among three ...

  3. Systems biology - Wikipedia

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    Systems biology is the computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems. It is a biology -based interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological systems, using a holistic approach ( holism instead of the more traditional reductionism) to biological research. [1 ...

  4. Living systems - Wikipedia

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    Living systems. Living systems are life forms (or, more colloquially known as living things) treated as a system. They are said to be open self-organizing and said to interact with their environment. These systems are maintained by flows of information, energy and matter. Multiple theories of living systems have been proposed.

  5. Access control - Wikipedia

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    A sailor checks an identification card (ID) before allowing a vehicle to enter a military installation. In physical security and information security, access control ( AC) is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, while access management describes the process. The act of accessing may mean consuming, entering, or ...

  6. Biometrics - Wikipedia

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    Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance . Biometric identifiers are the distinctive ...

  7. Biological applications of bifurcation theory - Wikipedia

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    Changes in the control parameter eventually changed the qualitative behavior of the system. Saddle-node bifurcation. For a more rigorous example, consider the dynamical system shown in Figure 2, described by the following equation: ˙ = + where r is once again the control parameter (labeled ε in Figure 2). The system's fixed points are ...

  8. Biological system - Wikipedia

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    A biological system is a complex network which connects several biologically relevant entities. Biological organization spans several scales and are determined based different structures depending on what the system is. [1] Examples of biological systems at the macro scale are populations of organisms. On the organ and tissue scale in mammals ...

  9. Modelling biological systems - Wikipedia

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    Modelling biological systems is a significant task of systems biology and mathematical biology. [a] Computational systems biology [b] [1] aims to develop and use efficient algorithms, data structures, visualization and communication tools with the goal of computer modelling of biological systems. It involves the use of computer simulations of ...