This paper proposes the necessity of developing a theory of psychology within non-photorealistic rendering (NPR). Despite the inherent flexibility of NPR within a variety of visual media, the psychological functionality of NPR remains largely unexplored. As such, we consider aspects of NPR in terms of general, biological, social, and environmental psychology paradigms using results from recent ...

Historically, biomedical research has been based on two paradigms. First, measurements of biological behaviors have been based on bulk assays that average over large populations. Second, these behaviors have then been crudely perturbed by systemic administration of therapeutic treatments. Nanotechnology has the potential to transform these paradigms by enabling exquisite structures comparable i...

Ideas evolve. Online idea generation systems accelerate this evolution. These systems range from open source, communal sites to highly structured sites, run for profit. What are we learning from these early examples of online idea generation? Two paradigms are at work in these online systems, both embedded in the metaphor of biological evolution. The first is competition. Inventors, often conte...

Computing and Communications are well understood topics in engineering. However, we are very much at the beginning of the road to understanding those mechanisms in biological systems. I'll argue that progress in Biology will require better understanding of biologically inspired paradigms for computing and communications. In particular, I'll discuss some initial results related to asynchronous c...

Establishing hormesis as an evolution-based biological phenomenon requires a broad discussion of its implications for currently used risk paradigms. The Jayjock et al. papers provide an industrial hygienist's perspective and, as such, represent a valuable contribution to this discussion. Our comments outline a toxicologist's view on the limits and practicability of the Jayjock et al. suggestion...

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically the existence of excitable optical waves in semiconductor microcavities. Although similar to those observed in biological and chemical systems, these excitable optical waves are self-confined. This is due to a new dynamical scenario, where a stationary Turning pattern controls the propagation of waves in an excitable medium, thus bringing together...

This paper proposes the necessity of developing a theory of psychology within non-photorealistic rendering (NPR). Despite the inherent flexibility of NPR within a variety of visual media, the psychological functionality of NPR remains largely unexplored. As such, we consider aspects of NPR in terms of general, biological, social, and environmental psychology paradigms using results from recent ...

Regeneration research is more focused on translational values. However, lying at its very foundation is an understanding of how tissues and organs repair and renew themselves at the cellular level. The past decade has witnessed paradigm changing advances in regenerative biology, many of these stems from novel insights into stemness, pluripotency, cell death and their related intraand inter-cell...

While several paths have emerged recently in microelectronics and computing as follow-on’s to Turing architectures implemented using essentially silicon circuits, very little “Beyond Moore” research has considered, first biological processes instead of sequential instructions, and, next the implementation of these processes exploiting particle physics interactions. This combination allows e.g. ...