The growth and operation of all living beings are directed by the interpretation, in each of their cells, of a chemical program, the DNA string or genome. This process is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, whose final objective is the design of highly robust integrated circuits, endowed with properties usually associated with the living world: self-rep...

This paper presents a method for effectively detecting patterns and clusters in high dimensional time-dependent functional data. It is based on waveletbased similarity measures since wavelets are ideal for identifying highly discriminant local time and scale features. We consider the contribution of each scale to the global energy, in the orthogonal wavelet transform of each input function to g...

W consciously or not, we rely on culture for our sense of self-identity and in almost everything we do. The articles selected for Part I look at the influence of culture on our society, the groups we belong to, and our individual lives. They also reveal how we construct and change culture. Together, they provide clear examples of the influence of norms, beliefs, subcultures, and some of our pri...

In this work, we shall present some novel process to measure the similarity between picture fuzzy sets. Firstly, we adopt the concept of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets and picture fuzzy sets. Secondly, we develop some similarity measures between picture fuzzy sets, such as, cosine similarity measure, weighted cosine similarity measure, set-theoretic similar...

This paper considers a family of one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion equations with absorption. In particular, the solutions that have interfaces that change their direction of propagation are examined. Although this phenomenon of reversing interfaces has been seen numerically, and some special exact solutions have been obtained, there was previously no analytical insight into how this occurs i...

The variation in two Bruguiera species in populations from different climatic and macrogeographic regions along the western to southeastern coastal area in Sri Lanka was studied using RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA). Intraand interspecific variation was observed using 20 primers of the 45 primers screened. Some primers showed diagnostic banding patterns and allowed unambiguous different...

The Shannon information (SI) in distributions of occurrence frequency of short words in whole genomes is shown to exhibit universality. For given word length, the SI in genomes of all lengths is the same as that in random sequences of a universal lengths Lr . For the shorter words Lr is far shorter than the genome. For example, Lr ∼ 1000 bases for three-letter words. We further show that whole ...

the fact that life styles and personal interests, aggregate within families suggests that shared environment in addition to shared bioligical factors could play a role in determining the phenotypic similarity of idividuals living in the same household. it is a major concern of cardiovascular epidemiologists to know how much of the familial aggregation of blood pressure is attributable to shared...