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The Problem: While many robots in industry and research have proven capable of operating in complex environments, most robots still fall well short of living creatures in their ability to deal with extreme variations in their environment. Living creatures, by contrast, will typically cope in any environment to the extent that their physical bodies allow. Living creatures never give up trying to...

to how more could be done, before old age, and indeed before retirement, to develop interests and skills which may stand their possessor in good stead later. Most important for many is the feeling of being wanted and loved by someone: and naturally by one's children, if one has them. But one of today's tragedies is the difficulty middle-aged or younger people have in feeling, or at least in dis...

introduction although renal transplantation from cadaver is common, living donors continue to be an important source of transplanted kidneys. recipients of living-donor kidneys demonstrate improved graft survival. in this study, we evaluated the outcomes of renal transplantation from cadaver, related donors and unrelated donors in isfahan. methods we evaluated all of the patients who underwent ...

The increasing number of people aged over 75 in Britain makes heavy demands on health and social services. To obtain accurate information for rational allocation of resources to domiciliary and residential services a group of 98 housebound women over 75 were compared with a group of 99 women of the same age in residential care. They had a similar range of physical disorders with the exception t...

AIM To assess changes over time in parents' expectations of adult milestone achievement (college attendance, full-time job attainment, independent living, marriage, parenthood) for young people with spina bifida, to examine how expectancies relate to actual milestone achievement, and to compare milestone achievement in emerging adults with spina bifida with that of peers with typical developmen...

Living systems are typically characterized by irreversible processes. A condition equivalent to the reversibility is the detailed balance, whose absence is an obstacle for analytically solving ecological models. We revisit a promising model with an elegant field-theoretic analytic solution and show that the theoretical analysis is invalid because of an implicit assumption of detailed balance. A...

Shiladitya Banerjee,1, 2, 3 Klevin Lo,1, 4 Matthew K. Daddysman,4 Alan Selewa,4, 5 Thomas Kuntz,6 Aaron R. Dinner,1, 4, 6, ∗ and Norbert F. Scherer1, 4, 6, ∗ 1James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK 3Institute for the Physics of Living Systems, University College London, London ...