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This paper describes a model of metabolic networks that uses fuzzy cognitive maps. Nodes of the map represent specific biochemicals such as proteins, RNA, and small molecules, or stimuli, such as light, heat, or nutrients. Edges of the map capture regulatory and metabolic relationships found in biological systems. These relationships are established by a domain expert, the biological literature...

The present work was conducted on Sarcoma 37 ascites tumor cells carried in CFW albino mice, Carworth Farms. The methods of inoculation, harvesting of cells, and prepa ration of homogenates were described previously (5). Glucose was determined by a specific Glucostat method (Worthington Biochemicals). Fructose was measured by the Anthrone method. Samples of hexose heated at 60°C permitted the ...

Artificial life attempts to understand the essential general properties of living systems by synthesizing life-like behavior in software, hardware and biochemicals. As many of the essential abstract properties of living systems (e.g. autonomous adaptive and intelligent behavior) are also studied by cognitive science, artificial life and cognitive science have an essential overlap. This review h...

The present study was undertaken to study the chemical, biochemical profiles of the cystic fluid of Cysticercus tenuicollis and to assess the pathological changes in the affected organ. Cysts were collected aseptically from the goat carcasses and were subjected to different chemical and biochemical test. Twenty four cyst among them were analyzed for different chemical and biochemical constituen...

The Chemstrip LN (Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, Indianapolis, Ind.), designed to detect pyuria and bacteriuria, was compared with culture of 1,020 unselected, consecutive midstream urine specimens and evaluated on its ability to predict colony counts at three levels. At the level of greater than or equal to 10(5) CFU/ml, the combined test (detection of leukocyte esterase and nitrite) had se...

Reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopies have shown great promise for early detection of epithelial dysplasia. We have developed a clinical reflectance spectrofluorimeter for multimodal spectroscopic diagnosis of epithelial dysplasia. This clinical instrument, the FastEEM, collects white light reflectance and fluorescence excitation-emission matrices (EEM's) within a fraction of a second. In...

Most of the data used in this inquiry were collected or abstracted from existing records by Mrs. Eileen Armstrong, Miss Ann Cooper, Miss Ida Giles, Mrs. Betty Mann, and the health visitors of the City of Birmingham, with the help of Miss Milner, Miss Greening, and Miss Cook. Hospital and necropsy records were made available to us by Mr. 0. T. Mansfield, Dr. K. W. Cross, the pathologists and rec...

A simple algorithm is proposed for the identification of Enterobacteriaceae which routinely necessitates numerous biochemical tests and a prolonged time span [may extend upto 96 hours].This simple scheme is economical and time saving, reducing the turnaround time for identification of the pathogenic organisms to 24 hours, so that the final reports can be given to the clinician within the 3 day ...

Muriel Wheldale Onslow studied flowers in England with genetic and biochemical techniques in the early twentieth century. Working with geneticist William Bateson [4], Onslow used Mendelian principles and biochemical analysis together to understand the inheritance of flower colors at the beginning of the twentieth century. Onslow's study of snapdragons, or Antirrhinum majus [5], resulted in her ...