This article provides an overview of intergenerational service- learning, an experiential pedagogy that involves students in learning outside the traditional classroom while providing a needed service in the community. Examples of intergenerational service-learning projects are presented that have been successfully utilized by the authors. These projects demonstrate the importance of using refl...

Operating conditions are often changing so strongly that the changes in nonlinearities must be taken into account. A practical solution comprises several intelligent systems: intelligent analysers make the adaptation easier by providing informative measurements for the controller, and high-level control supervises the adaptation procedure. Linguistic equation (LE) controllers combine various co...

We introduce the mathematical concept of multifractality and describe various multifractal spectra for dynamical systems, including spectra for dimensions and spectra for entropies. We support the study by providing some physical motivation and describing several nontrivial examples. Among them are subshifts of finite type and one-dimensional Markov maps. An essential part of the article is dev...

The term "epilepsy" describes a heterogeneous group of disorders, most of them caused by interactions between several or even many genes and environmental factors. Much rarer are the genetic epilepsies that are due to single-gene mutations or defined structural chromosomal aberrations, such as microdeletions. The discovery of several of the genes underlying these rare genetic epilepsies has alr...

In this paper, we present an integration framework for heterogeneous motion generators. We summarise our approach for articulated agents modelling and animating them with motion generators. Then we focus on the mixing of various motion generators and propose an agent and action-oriented framework providing real-time character animation. Activity properties such as action simultaneity and motion...

We introduce a new hybrid analysis technique for large scale PEPA models that combines stochastic simulation with ODEs, providing a finer trade-off between accuracy of the solutions and the associated computational costs. We describe a version that employs ODEs for the mean component counts and also a version using ODEs for second order moments. This enables the calculation of covariances of co...

A model and a method providing a 3D reconstruction of a given translucent object from a series of image acquisitions performed with various focus tunings is proposed. The object is imaged by transmission; refraction, reflection and diffusion effects are neglected. It is modeled as a stack of translucent parallel slices and the acquisition process can be described by a set of linear equations. W...

Data integration in molecular biology and clinical science has become imperative for providing the comprehensive information extraction in systems biology. In this review we evaluate the evolution and characteristics of biological databases and examine existing approaches to data integration in bioscience. Strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are identified by surveying several successf...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules are transcribed in the nucleus and then undergo export into the cytoplasm, where they are translated to produce proteins. Some mRNA transcripts do not immediately undergo translation but, instead, are directed to specific areas for local translation or distribution. This produces an asymmetric distribution of cytoplasmic proteins, providing localized activities in...