Human Beings Are Natural, Not Artificial Products

Collaborative Decision Making Amongst Human and Artificial Beings

This chapter provides an overview of collaborative decision making between human and artificial beings. The chapter presents concepts, examples and scenarios that can assist in designing collaborative systems mixing humans and artificial beings as fully equal partners (FEPs). Human and artificial beings are demonstrated performing tasks cooperatively with each other, while being fully replaceab...

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

Nonamenable Products are not Treeable

Let X and Y be infinite graphs, such that the automorphism group of X is nonamenable, and the automorphism group of Y has an infinite orbit. We prove that there is no automorphism-invariant measure on the set of spanning trees in the direct product X × Y . This implies that the minimal spanning forest corresponding to i.i.d. edge-weights in such a product, has infinitely many connected componen...

Intelligent Products: Intelligent Beings or Agents?

This paper introduces a novel concept, the intelligent being, as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The paper argues for a role of the intelligent being that is analogous to what maps contribute in navigation systems (and may become as important). The concept is applied to intelligent product instances, intelligent product types and intelligent resources alike.

Amorfrutins are potent antidiabetic dietary natural products.

Given worldwide increases in the incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes, new strategies for preventing and treating metabolic diseases are needed. The nuclear receptor PPARγ (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma) plays a central role in lipid and glucose metabolism; however, current PPARγ-targeting drugs are characterized by undesirable side effects. Natural products from edible b...