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... from widespread dendrites and related nonlinear interactions The membrane acts both as a resistor (that blocks ions of different types to freely pass across the barrier) and as a capacitance to ... input currents If we take into account excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs that are delivered by fast chemical synapses, then the respective synaptic currents need to be incorporated in the ... interaction from higher model areas to modulate the initial activation from the filtering stage This mechanism implements a linking strategy in which the feeding input is required to drive the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... Editor: Maja Jakobovic Cover designed by Dino Smrekar Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics, Edited by Ester Martínez Martín p cm ISBN 978-953-307-075-9 V Preface In nature, it is possible to ... efficient to have the suite of robots looking randomly around the room hoping to “get lucky” and find the target There needs to be some way to coordinate the movements of the many robots There needs to ... battery) so the processor needs to be power efficient Therefore, the processor will be a simple processor  The algorithm needs to be scalable from one robot up to 10’s, 100’s, even 1000’s of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... nbots and waitfactor with no cluster reduction are shown in Figure The first plot shows the found rate as nbots is varied from 10 to 200 with tmax set to 500 and waitfactor set to The second plot ... final position of the 16 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics bots that are stopped (that is, in a collision) when determining clusters We refer to the second approach as “cluster reduction”, ... the histogram peaks have approximately the same amplitude (peak amplitudes range from 0.7 to 1.0) For F4, however, the histogram peaks diminish in amplitude in almost direct proportion to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... w( p, t ) weight of the arc from t to p w( p, t ) tokens from each input tokens to each output place p of t , where w( p, t ) is the 32 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics By considering ... as follow: onto M1 ( ) go to M (2 ) if from M ( ) move it to I/O ( ) drop M (w i 12 ) , unload pi 1 pi at I/O ( ) from M ( ) move it to M ( ) , load Pi 1 onto M ( ) go to M1 (2 ) if ... are brought to and removed from the robotic cell by Automated Storage & Retrieval System (AS/RS) The pallets and feeders of the AS/RS system allow hundreds of parts to be loaded into the cell...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... neighborhood is selected as lBest 36 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics As Liao et al (2007), the velocity values transfers from real numbers to the probability of changes by using the equation ... algorithm 42 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics No of Generation, Swarm Size, Learning factors ( c1 and c2 ), and Vmax for the small-sized problems were set to 50, 50, 2, 2, and 3, respectively; ... set to 50, 50, 2, 2, and 3, respectively; and for the large-sized problems were set to 100, 100, 2, 2, and The inertia weight for all problem inctances was set to 1.4 that linearly decreases to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... Robotics, From Biology to Robotics passband cutoff frequency c , stopband cutoff frequency stopband tolerance a2 and passband maximum ripple  ,etc c , passband tolerancea1, 1 , stopband minimum ... Particle Swarm-Based Olfactory Guided Search Autonomous Robots, Vol 20, No 3, 277-287, ISSN 0929-5593 80 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics Martinoli A & Easton K (2002) Modeling Swarm ... autonomous robotics, how to represent the working space, i.e., how to model the space is one of the important problems Based on the difference of sensing to environment, modeling approaches to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... all three objects are describing a 98 Swarm Robotics, From Biology to Robotics clockwise circular trajectory A different circular trajectory with smaller radius is described during the next 25 ... data-association thanks to the implemented method to split up blobs when several members are in touch Fig 10 Trajectory followed by a single target vs individual trajectory obtained by the implemented ... case, a contour method is used A chain code is calculated by considering that the contact pixel will be visited twice The method takes into account the contour irregularities due to the segmentation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... the cytoskeleton Many of these regulatory actions related to cell morphol‐ ogy are achieved through rapid, non-classical signaling of sex steroid receptors to kinase cascades, independently from ... produce estradiol from androgens Testosterone contributes to the production of estradiol, while the estrogen estrone is made from androstenedione Phytoes‐ trogens have analogous effects to those of ... P4 13 14 Steroids - From Physiology to Clinical Medicine production, in structural regression to forma corpus albicans and into a follicular develop‐ ment and entrance into a new follicular phase...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20

... A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics Pier Andrea Borea Editor A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics Editor Pier Andrea Borea ... enabled my goal as editor to make “A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics” an up to date, scientifically excellent, reference source, attractive to basic and clinical ... least, I wish to thank the members of my Research Group for their scientific work in the field of A3 adenosine receptors The first edition of “A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to Pharmacology...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... directly by toxic substances such as oxygen radicals, cytotoxic drugs (bleomycin), or indirectly by immunologic mechanisms that results in release of mediators from inflammatory cells Subsequent to the ... mycosis (geotrichosis) − cryptococcosis (torulosis) − endemic fungal infections − blastomycosis − histoplasmosis − coccidioidomycosis Pneumonia due to parasites − Toxoplasma gondii Noninfectious ... commonly due to oropharyngeal aspiration Rarely, it may result from hematogeneous spread from an intra-abdominal abscess Elderly persons and patients with impaired upper airway reflexes (due to neurologic...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 10:20

... reserved Usage subject to terms and conditions of license Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine From Symptom to Diagnosis Walter Siegenthaler, MD Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine University ... endeavors to organize the subjective complaints and the objective findings of a patient in order to receive further indications to proceed (διαγιγν σκω: to examine, to carefully consider, to differentiate, ... we proceed from a single dominant symptom, or group of symptoms (syndromes) or main symptoms, and try to classify as much as possible on the basis of the current research, in order to obtain a...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 10:20

... osteoclastic markers Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor Kappa-B (RANK) and Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor Kappa-B Ligand (RANKL) strongly increased and cells showed the ability to resorb bone (Fig ... transition from inflammatory to the remodelling phase in tissue repair Advanced laser systems allow to apply more complex treatment protocols, to try to potentiate or to exploit synergistically ... Review on Electromagnetic effects from cell biology to medicine McLeod & Rubin, 1993 Hartig et al., 2000 Chang et al., 2004 26 Tissue Regeneration – From Basic Biology to Clinical Application Physical...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 22:20

... osteoclastic markers Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor Kappa-B (RANK) and Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor Kappa-B Ligand (RANKL) strongly increased and cells showed the ability to resorb bone (Fig ... transition from inflammatory to the remodelling phase in tissue repair Advanced laser systems allow to apply more complex treatment protocols, to try to potentiate or to exploit synergistically ... Review on Electromagnetic effects from cell biology to medicine McLeod & Rubin, 1993 Hartig et al., 2000 Chang et al., 2004 26 Tissue Regeneration – From Basic Biology to Clinical Application Physical...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... into syndromes with adenomatous polyps, those with hamartomatous polyps and syndromes with polyps of mixed histopathology (Table 1) Syndromes that present with 12 Colorectal Cancer Biology – From ... activity enzyme activity protein function cytokine activity cytokine activity receptor binding cytokine activity null receptor cytokine activity cytokine activity protein function promoter function ... European adenomatous ancestry: Y179C and polyps G396D Inflammatory & metaplastic polyps Macrocephaly, benign & Hamartomatous malignant thryoid, polyps breast & uterine neoplasms Hamartomatous GI polyps,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 13:20

... effect of hormonal factors on gout incidence could find the increases in serum urate induced by menopause and the protection conferred by hormone replacement therapy too modest to be of very much ... progestin replacements [7] One might infer from these results that the increase in serum urate of 0.34 to 0.36 mg/dl seen in Hak and Choi’s study may not be enough to significantly augment the risk for ... The serum urate levels from the Normative Aging Study are significantly higher than those routinely seen in premenopausal women (a mean of approximately 3.2 mg/dl) [5] Factors other than menopause,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... of up to 50 different antibodies Structural biology has greatly expanded in the past decade due to the establishment of several consortia Cheryl Arrowsmith (Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada) ... Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada) discused an ethylnitrosourea-based mutagenesis screen in mice that uncovered genes conferring differential sensitivity to serotonin, a neurotransmitter ... Genome Biology 2009, http://genomebiology.com/2009/10/3/305 Although great insight into many biological processes has come from cell-based screens, complex developmental...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... the stories, touted by these films, were not the only stories to be told Rather than add to the existing large volume of patients’ perceptions about experiences with physicians, I want to add to ... include that of doctors Again, it was my hope to give doctors the opportunity to address the primary claims made about their ability to communicate (or, lack thereof, according to my previous research ... described a study, conducted in Southampton, which split 200 patients with vague symptoms into two equal groups One group was told no story could explain their symptoms while the other group was “given...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 12:06

... research laboratories at University of Southern California and Old Dominion University According to the electrical load applied to, they fall into two categories: 1) pulse generators are used to observe ... solid-state switches include the thyristor, gate-turn-off thyristor (GTO), insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and metal-oxidesemiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) These switches have ... voltages from a few hundreds volts to tens kilovolts, switching speeds from sub-nanosencond to 10 ns Fast switching speeds support fast rise times of output pulses, which are essential to bioelectrophysics...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:37

... means as monotonously monolithic and insensitive to historical change as Eagleton’s work in particular may make it seem By paying close attention to rhetorical matters, and especially to the concrete ... the modernizing imperial family of man I attend to narrative structure, and to the kind of stories that get told and retold about the Irish, so as to reveal both the regularity of English colonial ... that to equate the Euroconquest of Africa with heterosexual rape is to engage rhetorically in a version of the act they liberally claim to condemn Similarly, Heaney’s poem aims to demystify, to...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... 21:7 Michael Ruse linked to the popular ideology of the day – progress, from blob to vertebrate, from ape to human, from primitive to civilized, from savage to Englishman From what Spencer termed ... and mathematics from Bristol University, an M.A in philosophy from McMaster University, and his Ph.D from Bristol University He was full professor of philosophy at Guelph from 1974 to 2000 Dr Ruse ... professors and 1,500 students from 1989 to 1993 He also served as the director of the Texas A&M University Polymer Technology Center from 1986 to 1990 and from 1994 to 2000 He has received more...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:46