The function and eventual fate of immune cells is largely determined by factors controlling their movement through distinct parts of our body. And the molecular basis for this control is provided for by chemoattractants and cell adhesion molecules. This importance of immune cell traffic in immunity has not always been fully appreciated. In fact, cellular immunology has traditionally concentrate...

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This submission presents our understanding of the Grand Challenge and propose an agenda on how we will position our research to contribute to this world-wide collaborative research project.

This paper tries to sum up the discussions held during the sessions of GREC’09, as well as at the final panel session. As it is always good to know where you are coming from, the paper briefly takes a look back at the discussions held two years earlier, before looking ahead at the future challenges for our research community. A number of points raised two years ago remain very much valid, but w...

This article lists fourteen open problems in artificial life, each of which is a grand challenge requiring a major advance on a fundamental issue for its solution. Each problem is briefly explained, and, where deemed helpful, some promising paths to its solution are indicated.

corporate governance (cg) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. this study focused on the state of corporate governance (cg) in two categories of the banking industries: conventional banks and islamic banks. as conventional banks and islamic banks differ a great deal in the...

Peter M. DeJong, BS,a Nicholas S. Adams, MD,a,b Robert J. Mann, MD,a,b,c John W. Polley, MD,a,b,c and John A. Girotto, MD, MMAa,b,c aMichigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, Mich; bPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency, Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners, Grand Rapids, Mich; and cPediatric Plastic and Craniofacial Surgery, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, G...

1) Simplifying the development of complex systems. Today it remains extremely difficult to build robust systems that interact with the environment in any significant way. This includes embedded systems, networked systems and large-scale Internet services. I believe the way out if through the combination of compiler technology, less expressive languages (perhaps domain specific), and some forms ...

This paper presents a vision-based color segmentation algorithm suitable for urban environments that separates an image into areas of drivable and non-drivable terrain. Assuming that a part of the image is known to be drivable terrain, other parts of the image are classified by comparing the Euclidean distance of each pixel’s color to the mean colors of the drivable area in real-time. Moving th...