The principle of substance stability – the feedback principle – is applicable to all biological systems. It boils down for different temporal hierarchies to the following: during the formation (self-assembly) of the most thermodynamically stable structures at the highest hierarchical level (j), e.g., the supramolecular level, in accordance with the second law, Nature spontaneously uses predomin...

XSEAD is an online platform supporting networks of creativity and innovation across science, engineering, art and design. Through networked co-curation and community participation, the XSEAD portal collects and distributes a growing repository of integrative art/science exemplars. This collection is designed to help articulate the past successes and future prospects of integrative undertakings ...

S1 Fraction of integrative network edges with and without physical support . . . . . 4 S2 Degree distributions of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 S3 Structural properties of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 S4 Network motifs of integrative networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 S5 Prediction of novel functional...

in order to study the effects of integrative applications of chemical fertilizers and biofertilizers on grain yield and oil of borago officinalis under water deficit stress, a field experiment was conducted at kermanshah, iran, in 2011. experiment was arranged as split plot under a randomized complete block design with 3 replications. water deficit stress with four levels was applied as the mai...

The brains of higher mammals are extraordinary integrative devices. Signals from large numbers of functionally specialized groups of neurons distributed over many brain regions are integrated to generate a coherent, multimodal scene. Signals from the environment are integrated with ongoing, patterned neural activity that provides them with a meaningful context. We review recent advances in neur...

More than 100,000 commercially used chemical compounds are currently registered in the European Union [1]. Under the new EU REACH legislation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisa‐ tion of Chemicals [2]), which came into effect in June 2007, existing chemicals and all new substances, starting materials and intermediates exceeding an annual production volume of 1 tonne have to be tested for to...

Integrative Medicine • Vol. 14, No. 3 • June 2015 24 Denis Wilson, MD—Presenters E. Denis Wilson, MD, will address thyroid function and Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome at the 2015 Restorative Medicine Conference in Blaine, Washington, October 1 through 4. Dr Wilson was the first practitioner to use sustained-release T3 thyroid hormone. For 20 years, he has treated more than 5000 patients with T3 ...

During the past decades, the prevalence of affective disorders has been on the rise globally, with only one out of three patients achieving remission in acute treatment with antidepressants. The identification of physiological markers that predict treatment course proves useful in increasing therapeutic success. On the basis of well-documented, recent findings in depression research, we highlig...