Adapting to survive

Adapting to Survive

Adapting to change has always been one of the basic requirements of life. In the long run, the price of not adapting is failure to survive. Change has, of course, been getting faster in every way since the industrial revolution began. But it now presents a psychological threat to almost everyone. This threat comes from the clash between the increasing need to adapt and those strong forces, both...

Adapting to survive: facilitating recovery after human trafficking

Learning to Survive

The paper discusses possible ways for an autonomous robotic agent to learn to survive. Pitfalls linked with this task and possibilities to overcome them are investigated. This is done in respect to an existing real-world setup and concrete learning approaches as well as on a general level. The connection between the energy-level of a robotic agent and its survivability is examined in some detail.

How to Survive Aneuploidy

Aneuploidy, or an abnormal number of chromosomes, adversely affects cell growth, but it is also linked with cancer and tumorigenesis. Now, Torres et al. (2010) help to resolve this paradox by demonstrating that aneuploid yeast cells can evolve mutations in the proteasome protein degradation pathway that alleviate imbalances in protein production and increase the cell's proliferative capacities.

Adapting to Survive: Lessons Learned from an Investigation into the Effects of Contextual Change on Information Systems

In an effort to create shareholder value in the new frontier opened by a world but volatile economy, organizations have long ago realized that processes, structure and control procedures have to be reconstructed anew. It follows that information systems should be approached not as static artifacts but as dynamic entities able to model the ever-changing organization. In this paper we report of a...