For them, traditional biologists and medical scientists committed a gross scientific error by overlooking quantum physics as being too weird, mind bending and unpredictable for biological systems. The basis of quantum physics is that, at the sub-atomic level, matter does not exist with certainty. It only exists as a tendency to exist in particle or wave form as maybe yes or maybe no. This appli...

The first obvious difference between machines and organisms is the fact that machines are constructed, whereas organisms grow. This fundamental difference means that the understanding organisms must be process-oriented. For example, it is impossible to convey an accurate picture of a cell by means of static drawings or by describing the cell in static forms. Cells, like all living systems, have...

The land surface temperature (LST) represents a critical element in efforts to characterize global surface energy and water fluxes, as well as being an essential climate variable in its own right. Current satellite platforms provide a range of spatial and temporal resolution radiance data from which LST can be determined. One of the most complete records of data comes via the Landsat series of ...

The second article of this series included a discussion of Fox's scheme, or thermal model, for overcoming the thermodynamic barrier to the formation of proteins (amino acid polymers), and a discussion of other polymerization schemes. It was pointed out that Fox's thermal model involves a series of conditions and events, most of which would have had such a vanishingly low order of probability on...

In this paper, an overview of the main topics presented in the special session of bioinformatics and biomedical engineering is presented. Bioinformatics consists of two subfields: the development of computational tools and databases, and the application of these tools and databases in generating biological knowledge to better understand living systems, being the main subject genomics and proteo...

Relonics is a new complete exact science of control, regulation and coordination in complex, super – complex, and in systems with infinite complexity. It has its own ontology, epistemology, epistemics, methodology, relonic languages, fully operational generic domain-free platform technology and tools. Relonics offers a new way of knowing which generates a novel type of structural/ relational in...

Biological and Medical Physics in Trento The Biophysics and Biosignals Laboratory of the Department of Physics aims to apply techniques and ideas from physics to study general principles of living systems organization and to develop novel technology platforms targeting disease mechanisms for improved diagnostics and therapy. The Lab was established in 1975. Since then, it developed a number of ...

The UK Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a non-means-tested cash benefit claimable initially only by people under 65, but receipt of which can be continued after that age. The similar Attendance Allowance (AA) can only be claimed after age 65. Recent proposals for benefit reform have suggested more favourable treatment for DLA recipients, on grounds that they have longer histories of disabil...

Allometric scaling is an important universal property of metabolic living systems. It also describes the self-similar branching tree-liked structures in transportation networks. This paper presented a new approach to calculate the allometric scaling power law relations for arbitrary flow networks. This method can not only avoid the shortcoming of losing lots of information in the process of gen...

I t is well known that under certain conditions the reaction of iron wire with nitric acid exhibits an automatic r h y t h m of sometimes remarkable regularity, consisting in an alternation of active and passive periods. 1 In a recent study of this phenomenon ~ I have found the most regular rhythms in soft iron wire of low carbon content. Wire drawn from iron prepared by electrolysis of pure so...