A novel developmental system designed to facilitate the study of generative encoding-based evolutionary design is presented. An aim of this work is to explore the simplest system and genetic encoding capable of exhibiting phenomena akin to size regulation and self-repair in developmental biology. Here we show that in the absence of complicated developmental mechanisms such as ligand-receptor me...

We recently reported a previously unidentified strategy of self-repair in the moon jellyfish Aurelia aurita. Rather than regenerating lost parts, juvenile Aurelia reorganize remaining parts to regain essential body symmetry. This process that we called symmetrization is rapid and frequent, and is not driven by cell proliferation or cell death. Instead, the swimming machinery generates mechanica...

case presentation an elderly woman in a manic phase of bipolar disorder without a previous history of psychiatric disorders was concomitant with problematic sexual over stimulation in the context of hyper sexuality. she had traumatized her genitals and underwent surgery for their repair. following her admission and psychopharmacologic therapy, she recovered. introduction late onset bipolar diso...

Creativity serves not only an aesthetic function but also psychological self-repair for the creative artist. The authors examine the failure of Sylvia Plath's efforts to control her suicidal violence and to bridge her isolation from others via the shared affective experience of poetry. At first, she used traditional forms and mediated images, but when she abandoned them for a more personal expr...

We present a novel approach to multiagent planning for selfinterested agents. The main idea behind our approach is that multiagent planning systems should be built upon (singleagent) plan repair systems. In our system agents can exchange goals and subgoals through an auction, using their own heuristics or utility functions to determine when to auction and what to bid. Some experimental results ...

This paper describes a statistical corpus study of self-repairs in the disfluencyannotated Switchboard corpus which examines the time-linear nature of self-repair processing for annotators and listeners in dialogue. The study suggests a strictly local detection and processing mechanism for self-repairs is sufficient, an advantage currently not used effectively under the bonnet of state-of-the-a...

The ureolytic bacteria and nutrients were immobilized in the artificial functional carrier (AFC) self-healing cement mortar, based on AFC-encapsulated bacteria, was prepared for this paper. crack effect of mortars with without under different exposure environments (standard curing, dry–wet cycle water curing) investigated by visual observation surface internal cracks, permeability tests, mechan...

Adopting the term from work of French-Algerian artist, Kader Attia, this essay reflects on what ‘repair’ offers for a reading decolonising practices knowledge, addressing cosmological besides historical. In contrast to ‘modern Western’ expectation repair, in which break or wound is rendered invisible, Attia advocates Japanese aesthetic philosophy kintsugi, repair even highlighted with gold dust...