Physical modeling applies to physiology, too

Physical Modeling Applies to Physiology, Too∗

A physical model was utilized to show that the neural system can memorize a target position and is able to cause motor and sensory events that move the arm to a target with more accuracy. However, this cannot indicate in which coordinates the necessary computations are carried out. Turning off the lights causes the error to increase which is accomplished by cutting off one feedback path. The ge...

Substrate Selectivity APPLies to Akt

The protein kinase Akt occupies a central position in multiple signaling pathways. Although numerous Akt substrates have been identified, less is known about the factors that regulate specific cellular responses to Akt signaling. In this issue, Schenck et al. (2008) demonstrate that the endosomal protein Appl1 modulates Akt's substrate selectivity to promote cell survival during zebrafish devel...

Entertainment Modeling in Physical Play Through Physiology Beyond Heart-Rate

An investigation into capturing the relation of physiology, beyond heart rate recording, to expressed preferences of entertainment in children’s physical gameplay is presented in this paper. An exploratory survey experiment raises the difficulties of isolating elements derived (solely) from heart rate recordings attributed to reported entertainment and a control experiment for surmounting those...

modeling in physiology Physical basis of pressure transfer from periphery to aorta: a model-based study

NIKOS STERGIOPULOS,1 BEREND E. WESTERHOF,2 AND NICO WESTERHOF3 1Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; 2Biomedical Instrumentation Department, Institute of Applied Physics, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, Academic Medical Center, 1105 AZ Amsterdam; and 3Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascula...

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