A quantitative understanding of organism-level behavior requires predictive models that can capture the richness of behavioral phenotypes, yet are simple enough to connect with underlying mechanistic processes. Here we investigate the motile behavior of nematodes, which execute random walks driven by undulatory propulsion on surfaces. We broadly sample the nematode behavioral repertoire by meas...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an excellent model organism for a systems-level understanding of neural circuits and behavior. Advances in the quantitative analyses of behavior and neuronal activity, and the development of new technologies to precisely control and monitor the workings of interconnected circuits, now allow investigations into the molecular, cellular, and systems-level str...

background although effective strategies have been presented for preventing the spread of antibiotic resistance in iran, recent reports have revealed increasing antibiotic resistance among children and adults. objectives in the present study, we tried to provide a clear view of the antibiotic resistance status of aerobic organism as the most prevalent organism in patients with rhinosinusitis in...

this paper will discuss some new implications of whitehead’s philosophy for environmental thought.[i] they fall under three headings: 1. the interrelations between three ways of thinking about the environment: bioregionalism, land ethics, and the philosophy of organism.  2.  the implications of whitehead’s philosophy of organism for environmental aesthetics.  3.  the implications of whitehead’s...

Subsystem codes are a generalization of noiseless subsystems, decoherence-free subspaces and stabilizer codes. We generalize the quantum Singleton bound to Fq-linear subsystem codes. It follows that no subsystem code over a prime field can beat the quantum Singleton bound. On the other hand, we show the remarkable fact that there exist impure subsystem codes beating the quantum Hamming bound. A...

Subsystem codes are a generalization of noiseless subsystems, decoherence free subspaces, and quantum error-correcting codes. We prove a Singleton bound for Fqlinear subsystem codes. It follows that no subsystem code over a prime field can beat the Singleton bound. On the other hand, we show the remarkable fact that there exist impure subsystem codes beating the Hamming bound. A number of open ...

A max-plus system with partial synchronization is a persistent discrete event system divided into a main subsystem and a secondary subsystem where some events in the secondary subsystem can only occur when (not after) associated events in the main subsystem occur. A formal model based on max-plus recursive equations is presented for max-plus systems with partial synchronization. Furthermore, th...

While central to robotics, biology and cognitive science, the concept of autonomy remains still difficult to make operative in the realm of Alife simulation models of cognitive agents. Its deep significance as a transition concept between life and cognition (a milestone on the Alife route to AI) remains obscured in the intricate relation between metabolic/constructive processes and behavioral a...

This paper presents a decentralized control strategy for mobile manipulator systems. First, the whole system of mobile manipulator is divided into two interconnected subsystems: nonholonomic mobile platform subsystem and holonomic manipulator subsystem. Second, a kinematic and dynamic controllers are developed for mobile platform subsystem. The kinematic control provides the desired velocity th...