Abstract Most engineering domains abound with models derived from first principles that have beenproven to be effective for decades. These are not only a valuable source of knowledge, but they also form the basis simulations. The recent trend digitization has complemented these data in all forms and variants, such as process monitoring time series, measured material characteristics, stored prod...

Healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health care fields. As it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue the facts. Nature has always inspired researchers to develop models of ...

Many today’s scientists think that religion can never come to terms with science. In sharp contrast the widespread opinion, authors of this paper consider historically scientific reasoning and religious belief joined hands in their effort investigate understand reality. fact, current divorce between science is nothing else than final outcome a gradual long-term, deliberately assumed process sec...

Ever since the dawn of human life on this planet, Man has always tried to understand Nature, his own place in the scheme of Creation and the purpose of Life itself. In this quest for Truth, spanning many centuries and diverse civilizations, organized religion has shaped human life and, to a large extent, has determined the course of history. While some religions have been based on written text,...

The growing movement of biologically inspired design is driven in part by the need for sustainable development and in part by the recognition that nature could be a source of innovation. Biologically inspired design by definition entails cross-domain analogies from biological systems to problems in engineering and other design domains. However, the practice of biologically inspired design at pr...

Part 1 of this two-part series highlighted tensions between the anatomical quest for scientific knowledge about the human interior and artistic representations of the anatomized body, contrasting the roles of Goethe’s scientific Prosektor and humanistic Proplastiker—roles disturbingly fused in Gunther von Hagens. Part 2 first examines religious interpretations of the human body that fuel the te...