COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course is designed for graduate students in biology wanting to aquire a more detailed working knowledge and appreciation of mammalian diversity in structure, function, ethology, and ecology. Knowledge and skills aquired in this course will be useful to field and laboratory studies in ecology, evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, wildlife management, and related disc...

Probabilistic programming. Probabilistic programs [6] are sequential programs, written in languages like C, Java, Scala, or ML, with two added constructs: (1) the ability to draw values at random from probability distributions, and (2) the ability to condition values of variables in a program through observations. For a comprehensive treatment, see [3]. They have a wide range of applications. P...

As the historical trend of speed and energy efficiency improvements diminishes [2], radical departures from conventional approaches are becoming critical to improving the performance and energy efficiency of general-purpose processors. Inspired by biological nervous systems, neuromorphic computing delivers high performance within a very low power envelope. In fact, human brains can use only 20 ...

Unit of Otolaryngology University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy Unit of Cardiovascular Science, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy Unit of Cardiovascular Science, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy Unit of Otolaryngology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy Unit of Otolaryngology, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy Unit of Otolaryngology, University Campus Bio-Medico...

background: several grafting materials have been used for alveolar ridge augmentation. the literature lacks researches to compare cenobone to other grafting materials. the aim of this study was to compare cenobone/cenomembrane complex to bio-oss/bio-gide complex in lateral alveolar bone augmentation in terms of radiographic, histologic, and histomorphometric parameters. materials and methods: i...

One of the challenges in bio-computing is to enable the efficient use of a wide variety of rapidly evolving computational methods to simulate, analyze and understand complex interactions of molecular systems. Our laboratory is interested in the development of novel computational technologies and in the application of these technologies to the analysis and understanding of complex biological sys...

In vitro expansion of mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) into large number is necessary for their application in cell-based treatment of articular cartilage defects. On the other hand, some studies have indicated that BIO (6-Bromoindirubin-3-Oxime) possesses mitogenic effects on cell culture. The objective of the present study was to examine the effect of BIO on in vitro expansion and chondrogenic di...