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Blood coagulation disorders are leading causes of deathworldwide. The system involves over 20 proteins that interactspecifically with various degrees of affinity on appropriate cellsurfaces....
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Each type of plant organs has their own functions and their own economical values. Therefore, improvement of yield of plant economical valuable organs has been an interesting issue for a long time....
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We propose a new system of quantum cryptography for internet security using Gaussian pulses propagating within a nonlinear ring resonator system, quantum processor and a wavelength router. To increase...
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View ArticleImplementing sampling in the 1930s: The work of Herbert Raabe
Sampling is concerned with the reconstruction of signals (functions of a continuous variable, often identified with time) from measurements or samples, typically made at equidistant time instants....
View ArticleA mathematical model for planning transportation of multiple petroleum...
Pipelines have been a widely used mode of transportation for petroleum products and their derivatives for the last 40 years. The annual transportation cost in the Petroleum Industry usually surpasses...
View ArticleDegeneracy in Biology
The interactions among biological entities are rarely strictly specific. An individual antibody, although highly specific for a particular antigen, may react with other antigens. Numerous enzymes may...
View ArticleAdaptive Agent Model (AAM)
Everything changes. With maintenance accounting for up to 90% of the cost of software, change is an expensive necessity. Adaptive Agent Model (AAM) was developed to support software engineers to build...
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The dawn of the information age has created an abundance of knowledge, but has also caused problem of information overload. Thus, there is a need for identifying novel and relevant information out of a...
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Future wireless networks would be radically different from today's independent radio access technologies (RATs) through the widely accepted notion of convergence in heterogeneity. According to the...
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Recently, there have been tremendous efforts on using meta-heuristic approaches to solve many NP-Hard problems. The meta-heuristic methods are popular since they normally reach to a typical optimal...
View ArticleSignificance: exploring the nature of information, systems and technology
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View ArticlePopulation declining mutated ant colony optimization
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View ArticleAll-optical programmable VLSI chip: an idea
All-optical data processing can be done much easier and less complex than electronics. That very day is not so far, when all-optical programmable VLSI chip will be fabricated. Ultra high speed optical...
View ArticleToward the standardization of Protein structure-function evaluation.
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View ArticleData Fitting by Progressive-iterative Approximation
Just by adjusting the control points iteratively, progressive-iterative approximation (abbr. PIA) presents an intuitive and straightforward way to fit data points. It generates a curve or patch...
View ArticleDirection of Time: Increase of Knowledge
In physics time direction is determined by the increase of Entropy Basic laws of physics governing interactions of few particles (fields, strings) are symmetrical with respect to direction of time. So...
View ArticleScience and Religion: New cognitive findings bridge the fundamental gap
Science and Religion:New cognitive findings bridge the fundamental gap Science strives for a detailed understanding of reality even if this differentiation threatens individual synthesis, or the...
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Beauty and art. Cognitive function and evolution Theories of beauty Many people relate beautiful to sex. Does power belong to ugliness, and is beautiful just nice, soapy, or sexy? If not, can we...
View ArticleDynamic logic, computational complexity, engineering and mathematical...
Dynamic logic, engineering and mathematical breakthroughs Complex problems Dynamic logic (DL) is a breakthrough in mathematical methods of solving complex problems of computational intelligence....
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Dynamic Logic. Cognitive Breakthroughs Dynamic logic (DL) is a mathematical technique that models neural mechanisms of mind. Its mathematical description and breakthroughs in mathematics and...
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A virtual organization is a cost-efficient collaboration of different autonomous entities to extend service offerings in a virtual marketplace. Advances in technology (networking technologies such as...
View ArticleVariable Parameters Lengths Genetic Algorithm for Minimizing...
In recent years, new management concepts based on just-in-time (JIT) philosophyhave been introduced during which a job/product should be completedas close as possible to the job’s due date. A job...
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The concept of Quasi Birth-Death (QBD) processes, as a generalization of the classical birth and death M/M/1 queues was first introduced in the late sixties. The states of a QBD process are described...
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Integrating job scheduling and network flow is a practically relevant problem when combining production planning with logistics and when dealing with telecommunication problems. For instance in the...
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Actual research lines at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Institute of Engineering Chemical Processes, University of Alicante: 1.- Thermodynamic and Algebraic Correlations and Graphical...
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Process planning and scheduling are two of the most important functions in the manufacturing system. A process plan specifies raw materials or components what are needed to produce a product, processes...
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Process planning and scheduling used to link product design and manufacturing are two of the most important functions in a manufacturing system. A process plan specifies what manufacturing resources...
View ArticleEnergy-aware Management of Server Farms Providing IaaS in Cloud Computing
Virtualization technology has initiated a paradigm shift in IT industry providing new powerful services like infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service...
View ArticleConsciousness: a scientific possibility of free will. Cognitive science and...
Consciousness, a Scientific Possibility of Free Will due to Advances in Cognitive Science Leonid PerlovskyHarvard University and AFRL, leonid@seas.harvard.edu Abstract – Free will is fundamental to...
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Introduction: EM, DL, and GM This article briefly reviews several highly popular algorithms used in various areas of statistics, engineering, and cognitive science, and relates them to each other....
View ArticlePhysics of the mind: Concepts, emotions, language, cognition, consciousness,...
Physics of the mind:Concepts, emotions, language, cognition, consciousness, beauty, music, and symbolic culture Leonid I. PerlovskyHarvard University and Air Force Research Lab. Keywords: the mind,...
View ArticleThe Knowledge Instinct: driver of cognition
The Knowledge InstinctInstinctsInstincts are neural mechanisms similar to internal sensors indicating the basic needs of the organism. For example, when a sugar level in blood goes below a certain...
View ArticleThe Social Insights and Analyses of Ciliates
IntroductionInsight and analysis are two key approaches used by problem solvers for obtaining resolutions to difficult physical, logical-mathematical, intrapersonal, social, and additional kinds of...
View ArticleParametric Modeling of Non-Stationary Signals
Parametric Modeling of Non-Stationary Signals AbstractParametric modeling of non-stationary signals is addressed in this article. We present several models based on the characteristic features of the...
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