Agents, as highly dynamic systems, are concerned with three essential factors: (i) a set of appropriate environmental stimuli, (ii) a set of internal states, and (iii) a set of rules that relates the previous two and determines what the agent state will change to if a particular stimulus arrives while the agent is in a particular state. Although agent-oriented software engineering aims to manag...

Aggregation is widespread in invertebrate societies and can appear in response to environmental heterogeneities or by attraction between individuals. We performed experiments with cockroach, Blattella germanica, larvae in a homogeneous environment to investigate the influence of interactions between individuals on aggregations. Different densities were tested. A first phase led to radial disper...

the aim of the present investigation was to determine the effect of two karate techniques on the reduction in stereotypic behaviours in three 5-year-old boys with autistic disorders. the study included three boys with autistic disorders. a singlesubject method with a-b-a design was used. participants of the present study were required to exercise two karate techniques (zuki and mae-geri) for 12...

The red blood cell (RBC) aggregation plays an important role in many physiological phenomena, in particular the atherosclerosis and thrombotic processes. In this research, we introduce a new modelling technique that couples Navier–Stokes equations with protein molecular dynamics to investigate the behaviours of RBC aggregates and their e ects on the blood rheology. In essence, the Lagrangian so...

the aggregation of protein is the most prevalent and the most disturbing kind of instability and this challenge exists in almost every stage of the development of protein drug. the presence of insoluble aggregations in protein drugs will make the supply of the product a tough job. this study identifies the inhibition of the folded interferon beta 1-b’s aggregation with the assistance of some ex...

epidemiologic studies show that the cardiovascular diseases are associated with multiple factors such as raised serum total cholesterol, increased ldl, increased platelet aggregation, hypertension and smoking. in-vitro studies have confirmed the ability of some plants of allium species to reduce these parameters. therefore, we evaluated anti-platelet aggregation effect of some allium species (a...

background and objective: nitric oxide (no) plays a role in thermoregulation and growth of protozoa. this work aimed to add the molecule no in physiology of protozoa in contact with abused narcotic substances. materials and methods: a sedative drug, morphine, was infused into a cell chamber containing paramecia . the cell response to the drug was recorded promptly after drug infusion using a po...

energy consumption is considered as a critical issue in wireless sensor networks (wsns). batteries of sensor nodes have limited power supply which in turn limits services and applications that can be supported by them. an efcient solution to improve energy consumption and even trafc in wsns is data aggregation (da) that can reduce the number of transmissions. two main challenges for da are: (i)...