the appearance of new sciences and conflicts arising from reductionism in domain of science and knowledge, explains the necessity of interdisciplinary studies. some scientists believe the history of interdisciplinary studies is rooted in ancient greece, but in fact interdisciplinary studies started in industrial laboratories, the first center for interdisciplinary studies, about 150 years ago. ...

Animal genomes contain a code for construction of the body plan from a fertilized egg. Understanding how genome information is deciphered to create the complex multilayered regulatory systems that drive organismal development, and which become altered in disease, is one of the greatest challenges in the biological sciences. The development of methods that effectively represent and communicate t...

E-learning tools design is intended to mediate communication between the student (user) and the software involving teacher intervention. The design process could be taken as a dialogue between teacher and student. Thus, the main actors in the teaching/learning process are involved during the software-design process in this semiotic perspective. We aim to introduce a model for designing e-learni...

Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) display unique structures and remarkable physical properties, a variety of applications have emerged in both materials and life sciences. In terms of applications, the functionalisation of nanotubes is extremely important, as it increases their solubility and processability, and combines the unique properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with those of...

The methodology of AI as the general study of natural and artiicial intelligence is outlined, including exploration of designs for a variety of behaving systems, for both scientiic and engineering purposes. Thèdesign-stance' treats minds as sophisticated self-monitoring, self-modifying control systems. Diierent architectures can satisfy that description. Exploration of possible requirements and...

Scheduling has been extensively studied in various disciplines in operations research and wireline networking. However, the unique characteristics of wireless communication systems – namely, timing-varying channel conditions and multiuser diversity – means that new scheduling solutions need to be developed that are specifically tailored for this environment. In this paper, we summarize various ...

Anastasios Ioannidis, Maria Magana, Cristian G. Bologa, Tudor I. Oprea, Ian T. Paulsen and George P. Tegos* 1 Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Athens Medical School, Aeginition Hospital, Athens, Greece 3 Translational Informatics Division, Department of Internal Medicin...

"Big Data" has surpassed "systems biology" and "omics" as the hottest buzzword in the biological sciences, but is there any substance behind the hype? Certainly, we have learned about various aspects of cell and molecular biology from the many individual high-throughput data sets that have been published in the past 15-20 years. These data, although useful as individual data sets, can provide m...