Antibiotics?All-purpose agents

Antibiotics--all-purpose agents.

One of the greatest discoveries in medicine was the observation by Dr. Alexander Fleming that the fungus, Penicillium notatum, excreted a substance, subsequently named penicillin, that inhibited growth of bacteria. This discovery was particularly fortuitous because of penicillin's low toxicity to human cells. Penicillin is an exemplary antibiotic because its primary mechanism of action is to in...

Realization of Reactive Control for Multi Purpose Mobile Agents

Mobile robots are built for different purposes, have different physical size, shape, mechanics and electronics. They are required to work in real-time, realize more than one goal simultaneously, hence to communicate and cooperate with other agents. The approach proposed in this paper for mobile robot control is reactive and has layered structure that supports multi sensor perception. Potential ...

General-Purpose Computation without General-Purpose Processors

Applying Multi Agents to General Purpose Situational Simulations in Construction Management

Situational simulation environments are temporally dynamic clinical exercises that expose participants to rapidly unfolding events and the pressures of decision-making, both characteristic of the implementation phase of construction projects. The need for contextually rich education environments in construction suggests the development of a general-purpose situational simulation framework, whic...

Teachers as agents of curriculum change: closing the gap between purpose and practice

Curriculum policy in many countries has been subject to a distinct shift in emphasis in recent years (Priestley & Biesta, 2013). Following two decades of centralised direction of the content (and even the methods) of the curriculum, there has been a shift to curricular models which emphasis local flexibility in curriculum-making, positioning teachers as autonomous developers of the curriculum. ...