Functional diagrams were first employed when discrete and electric analog control systems were designed. Professional societies such as Scientific Apparatus Makers Association (SAMA), ISA, and ISO ...

Because of their hierarchy, mechanistic structures are vertically oriented. The most mechanistic is the functional organizational structure, with its tall, triangular shape.

Combined with the recordings of brain activity, the result is the largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 cells, four kilometers of axons (the ...