To provide high-level graphical support for developing message passing programs, an integrated programming environment (GRADE) is being developed. GRADE currently provides tools to construct, execute, debug, monitor and visualise message-passing based parallel programs. GRADE offers the programmer an integrated graphical user interface during the whole life-cycle of program development and prov...

Cells can adopt a wide range of morphologies, from round lymphocytes to highly branched Purkinjee neurons. Major challenges of modern cell biology are to identify the proteins that are involved in cell shape determination and understand how these proteins are regulated by external and internal signals. Many of the best-studied proteins involved in cell shape determination are components or dire...

Cells can adopt a wide range of morphologies, from round lymphocytes to highly branched Purkinjee neurons. Major challenges of modern cell biology are to identify the proteins that are involved in cell shape determination and understand how these proteins are regulated by external and internal signals. Many of the best-studied proteins involved in cell shape determination are components or dire...

There is an increasing need of effective monitoring systems for habitat quality assessment. Methods based on remote sensing (RS) features, such as vegetation indices, have been proposed as promising approaches, complementing methods based on categorical data to support decision making. Here, we evaluate the ability of Earth observation (EO) data, based on a new automated, knowledgedriven system...

Biorobotics is a methodology where models of animal behavior and of the underlying neural mechanisms are implemented and tested on robots in the real world. This eliminates erroneous assumptions about the physical interaction between an agent — an animal or a robot — and its environment, and therefore provides a stronger proof for the validity of the model than computer simulations do. Moreover...

Deep Learning has attracted significant attention in recent years. Here I present a brief overview of my first Deep Learner of 1991, and its historic context, with a timeline of Deep Learning highlights. Note: As a machine learning researcher I am obsessed with proper credit assignment. This draft is the result of an experiment in rapid massive open online peer review. Since 20 September 2013, ...

Production and transfer of metabolites like ATP and phosphocreatine within cardiomyocytes is crucial for the robust availability of mechanical work. In mammalian cardiomyocytes,mitochondria, themain suppliers of usable chemical energy in the form of ATP, are situated adjacent to both the ATPases near the mechanical apparatus, and the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) calcium pump...

CCAAT/Enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) are DNA-binding proteins that regulate cell-specific growth and differentiation. Here, we have generated ras-transformed NIH 3T3 cells stably expressing C/EBPα or C/EBPβ. In cells overexpressing C/EBPα and C/EBPβ, growth arrest, changes in morphology and differentiation were induced. cDNA microarray analysis followed by RNA blot analysis identified genes...

Lobaria pulmonaria is a widely used as an indicator species of undisturbed old-growth forests ecosystems, but the knowledge about its habitat ecology is still highly fragmented. To quantify the distribution, habitat preference and host tree specificity of Lobaria pulmonaria we utilised data from databases and field surveys in Estonia. The number of L. pulmonaria localities is the highest in the...

Spectral and Cubature Methods in Finance and Econometrics An interdisciplinary international research workshop University of Leicester, UK, June 1820, 2009 Supported by AMAMEF, EPSRC, LMS, Oxford-Man Institute and University of Leicester Organizers Sergei Levendorskiĭ, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Leicester Terry Lyons, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford Martijn Pistorius, Dept. ...