Life sciences: general issues

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Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at many levels, from the globalInternetdowntomicroandnanodevices.

Twenty-Five Years of Springer Series in Synergetics The year 2002 marks the 25th anniversary of the Springer Series in S- ergetics.

We are proud to introduce the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN VI, held in Paris, Prance, on 18-20 September 2000.

Biomolecular computing has emerged as an interdisciplinary ?

The analysis of neurophysiological brain function is a highly interdisciplinary field of research.

The continuous trend in computer science to lift programming to higher abstraction levels increases scalability and opens programming to a wider public.

Pressure-related chronic wounds are an important health concern that affects millions of patients and accumulates billions in annual costs.

Dealing with uncertainty, moving from ignorance to knowledge, is the focus of cognitive processes.

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The 2nd International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR) was held June 23-24, 2003, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

This volume of Managing Forest Ecosystems addresses the urgent challenge of managing temperate forests under accelerating climate change.

This volume of Managing Forest Ecosystems addresses the urgent challenge of managing temperate forests under accelerating climate change.

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This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Systems Biology is devoted to inter- and multidisciplinary research in the fields of computer science and life sciences and supports a paradigmatic shift in the techniques from computer and information science to cope with the new challenges arising from the systems oriented point of view of biological phenomena.

This book is an introduction to the dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems, with a focus on fronts and stationary spatial patterns.

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments?

Computational Neurosciences is a burgeoning field of research where only the combined effort of neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists, e.

No matter what your perspective is, what your goals are, or how experienced you are, Artificial Life research is always a learning experience.

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Generally, spontaneous pattern formation phenomena are random and repetitive, whereas elaborate devices are the deterministic product of human design.

The oceans cover 70% of the terrestrial surface, and exert a pervasive influence on the Earth's environment but their nature is poorly recognized.

The emerging information technologies have enabled new human patterns ranging from physiological interactions to psychological interactions.

This book presents 5 tutorial lectures given by leading researchers at the 13th edition of the International School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication and Software Systems, SFM 2013, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in June 2013.

The world as it is viewed from modern physics and cosmology has many strange and unexpected features.

Damage to the central nervous system resulting from pathological mechanical loading can occur as a result of trauma or disease.

Sometimes known as "e;Red Tides"e;, some of the wide variety of phytoplankton species in the World's oceans produce toxins which can harm marine life.

This unique book written by Russian and Norwegian scientists is an analysis of studies based on extensive data analysis and numerical modelling simulations of the White Sea and provides a quantitative assessment of vulnerability of the White Sea marine ecosystems of future anthropogenic and, to some extent, climate change forcing.

Underlying most of the IWANN calls for papers is the aim to reassume some of the motivations of the groundwork stages of biocybernetics and the later bionics formulations and to try to reconsider the present value of two basic questions.

"e;Contradictions"e; is a general interest book that exposes the incompatibility between popular religious beliefs and the scientific view of human nature.

This is a readable, informative and up-to-date account of the patterns and controls on biodiversity.

Coordination represents one of the most striking, most taken for granted, but least understood features of living things.

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It is increasingly being recognized that the experimental and theoretical study of the complex system brain requires the cooperation of many disciplines, in- cluding biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and others.

Neuroscience is ripe for a paradigm change as Freeman and Mountcastle describe.