Introduction: Adaptive response is one of the important concepts in radiobiology. The present report aimed to transfer the radio-adaptation via serum. Material and Methods: In total, 50 male adult Wistar rats were randomly divided into 6 groups, including control, serum control, low-dose (100cGy), low-dose/lethal, serum/lethal, and lethal (8G...

Cell fusion is a fundamental phenomenon observed in all eukaryotes. Cells can exchange resources such as molecules or organelles during fusion. In this paper, we ask whether a cell can also transfer an adaptive response to a fusion partner. We addressed this question in the unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum, in which cell-cell fusion is extremely common. Slime moulds are capable of ...

We propose a theoretical framework of the adaptive control of visual sensitivity performed by the vertebrate retina. Instead of a logarithmic function, the photore-ceptor transfer function is modelled with a Michaelis-Menten law which has a more plausible biophysical correlate. We show that the neural and functional architecture of the retina supports the requirements for an optimal transcoding...

Recent research carried out in CRES has produced a data-based modelling approach to the adaptive forecasting of river flow or levels using rainfall or upstream flow inputs as leading indicators. This approach, which is based on the estimation of a general transfer function model from historical data, has significant advantages over existing flood forecasting methods: for example, on-line adjust...

A knowledge asset-based framework of technology transfer is proposed, illustrated by examples from studies of two international joint ventures. The framework depicts the organization as a collection of embodied knowledge assets. Differences between firms result from the different combinations of embodied knowledge types that are used to accomplish the same ends. Technology transfer is the trans...

Abstract. An a posteriori error estimate for finite volume methods in triangular meshes is developed and successfully implemented for parabolic heat transfer problems. The proposed error estimate belongs to the class of truncation-error estimates. A polynomial function was successfully employed in the estimation of the solution used in the error formulation. A simple and reliable h-type adaptiv...

A Hybrid Partitioned Frequency/Time domain adaptive filtering algorithm for vibration shock control is proposed. Due to the complexity of the electrodynamic shaker transfer function, the FIR based model of this transfer function requires thousands of filter weights. The Hybrid Partitioned Frequency/Time domain approach for computing the shaker model and inverse controller model is proposed, suc...

Random transfer delays in network-based control systems (NCSs) degrade the control performance and can even destabilize the control system. To address this problem, the adaptive dynamic matrix control (DMC) algorithm is proposed. The control algorithm is derived by applying the philosophy behind DMC to a discrete time-delay model. A method to estimate the network-induced delays is also presente...

During an adaptive oblivious transfer (OT), a sender has n private documents, and a receiver can adaptively fetch k documents from them such that the sender learns nothing about the receiver’s selection and the receiver learns nothing more than those k documents. Most recent fully simulatable adaptive OT schemes are based on so-called “assisted decryption” or “blind decryption”. In this paper, ...

During an adaptive k-out-of-N oblivious transfer (OT), a sender has N private documents, and a receiver wants to adaptively fetch k documents from them such that the sender learns nothing about the receiver’s selection and the receiver learns nothing more than those chosen documents. Many fully simulatable and universally composable adaptive OT schemes have been proposed, but those schemes typi...