A Gauge model for analysis of biological systems
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Mathematical Biology, Coupled Natural and Human Systems
- Keywords
- Biological systems, Systemic failure, Properties, systemic state
- Copyright
- © 2015 Jeff-Eke
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2015. A Gauge model for analysis of biological systems. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1148v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1148v1
Abstract
For this initial work, we shall focus on introducing a biological model for utilization mainly as a descriptive framework on which future analyses will be based. The model includes a definition of biological systems and introduces a concept of failure; in addition to a hypothetical mechanism by which failure occurs. We then define a functional response as a means of preventing attainment of failure state. We also define such functional responses as properties of the system, in addition to interactions between these systemic properties. We discuss determinants of the rate of- and measures of systemic failure. We conclude with two assumptions on the principal significance of systemic phenomena.
Author Comment
This submission is intended for preprint only.