Vertical greening systems (VGSs), i.e., living walls (LWs) and green façades (GFs), are considered a promising technology to diminish the negative effects of urbanisation. Plant selection for these is challenging due narrow spectrum species available, required adaptation specific climate conditions. Considering Chile’s rich plant biodiversity, this study aims analyse potential Chilean native be...

Great efforts have been made to introduce growth factors (GFs) onto 2D/3D constructs in order to control cell behavior. Platelet lysate (PL) presents itself as a cost-effective source of multiple GFs and other proteins. The instruction given by a construct-PL combination will depend on how its instructive cues are presented to the cells. The content, stability and conformation of the GFs affect...

To determine the role played by the giant fiber interneurons (GFs) in coordinating the jumping stages of visually elicited and olfactory-induced fight initiation we have recorded extracellularly from the cervical connective nerve during flight initiation. A spike is recorded from the cervical connective upon brain stimulation that has the same threshold as does activation of the tergotrochanter...

There are real-world dataset where we can found classes with a very different percentage of patterns between them, that is to say we have classes represented by many examples (high percentage of patterns) and classes represented by few examples (low percentage of patterns). These kind of datasets receive the name of “imbalanced datasets”. In the field of classification problems the imbalanced d...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) has been implicated in neural cell loss and consequently functional motor and sensory impairment. In this study, we propose an alginate-based neurobridge enriched with/without trophic growth factors (GFs) that can be utilized as a therapeutic approach for spinal cord repair. The bioavailability of key GFs, such as Epidermal Growth factor (EGF) and basic Fibroblast Growt...

Voltage-gated ion channels are essential for electrical signaling in neurons and other excitable cells. Among them, voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels are four-domain proteins, and ion selectivity is strongly influenced by a ring of amino acids in the pore regions of these channels. Sodium channels contain a DEKA motif (i.e., amino acids D, E, K, and A at the pore positions of domains I,...

Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFS) are based on the use of Genetic Algorithms for designing fuzzy systems, and for providing them with learning and adaptation capabilities. In this context, fuzzy sets represent linguistic granules of information, contained in the antecedents and consequents of the rules, whereas the data used in the genetic learning is assumed to be crisp. GFS seldom deal with fuzzy-v...

The capability to spatially control stem cell orientation and differentiation simultaneously using a combination of geometric cues that mimic structural aspects of native extracellular matrix (ECM) and biochemical cues such as ECM-bound growth factors (GFs) is important for understanding the organization and function of musculoskeletal tissues. Herein, oriented sub-micron fibers, which are morp...