Developmental biology requires three principles of organization characteristic of living organisms: multicellular architecture, cellular division, and cellular differentiation. Implemented in silicon according to these principles, new computing machines become able to grow, to self-replicate, and to self-repair. The introduction of a new algorithm for cellular division, the so-called Tom Thumb ...

We present preliminary results of an ongoing survey to probe the physical nature of a sample of open clusters ( POCRs, Bica et al. 2001) believed to be in an advanced stage of dynamical evolution. This kind of object is very important to constrain dynamical N -body models of clusters evolution and dissolution, and to understand the formation of the Galactic field stars population. Moreover they...

The concept of sustainability inspired most urban development plans after Rio 1992, although many such plans have not been too successful. An important reason for this is the disjuncture of science from culture and traditional knowledge and planners’ inability to conceptualize the environmental values of societies.This research aims to explore storytelling’s ability to aid in identifying of env...

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS) use among bodybuilders in different cities of Pakistan. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 380 bodybuilders utilizing convenience sampling from different cities of Pakistan, including Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Quetta, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad. The study was conducted over a period of ...

In his seminal work The Principles of a New Science of the Common Nature of Nations (Principii di una scienza nuova d’intorno alla natura delle nazioni, published in 1725 then again in 1730 and posthumously in 1744), Giambattista Vico (Born in 1668) wrote to qualify the scientific to include the humanities and their complexity beyond the popular Cartesian circumscription within the laws of phys...

Scalable semantic data processing has become a crucial issue for practical applications of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose an approach of scalable semantic data processing by knowledge summarization. The main idea is to express scalable semantic data on different abstraction and summarization levels to reduce their cardinalities, so that they can be processed efficiently. The notion...

Recent discourse in the Design Science Research community addresses the necessity to accumulate and reuse design knowledge. However, design methods are complex and so are the traditional ways to document design knowledge. Inspired by the high business and academic impact of Business Model Canvas, we argue that a single-page portrayal of nine design elements can help designers to capture design ...

The role of knowledge creation within organizations increases in importance within a knowledge economy. Unlike the industrial economy, which inspired basic economic theory, the knowledge economy collapses the time frame for economic agents to obtain relevant knowledge with which to make competitive resource allocation decisions. Further, much knowledge creation still occurs today in an ineffici...

Compared to other knowledge-oriented information systems, the distinctive features of knowledge graphs lie in their special combination of knowledge representation structures, information management processes and search algorithms. The term ‘Knowledge Graph’ became well known in 2012 when Google started to use knowledge graph in their search engine, allowing users to search for things, people o...