DNA computing holds out the promise of important and signi cant connections between computers and living systems, as well as promising massively parallel computations. Before these promises are ful lled, however, important challenges related to errors and practicality have to be addressed. On the other hand, new directions toward a synthesis of molecular evolution and DNA computing might circum...

Wage differential studies rare& account for interarea differences in cost of living, owing both to data limitations and theoretical ambiguity. This study develops a price index for 185 metropolitan areas comprising about 70% of the US. labor force. Current Population Survey data for 1985-95 and data on site-speci’c amenities are used to estimate earnings differentials based on nominal wages, wa...

1. Unpacking the Patriarchy and Moving Into Partnership 2. The Partnership Alternative 2.1 The Shadow Side of Partnership 2.2 Fear of Change 2.3 Strategies for Organizational Change 3. Organizational Partnerships: The Living Proof 4. The Patterns and Paradox of Power 5. Leadership in a Partnership Context 5.1 Moving Beyond the Hero-Leader 5.2 Partnering Behaviors and Design Principles 6. Buildi...

The relationship between the topology and collective function of a nonlinear oscillator network was investigated using nonlinear electrochemical oscillators. The constitutive experiments showed that the physiological robustness in the living system is due to their topological redundancy and asymmetry in the nonlinear network. key words: nonlinear oscillator, complex network, physiological funct...

This paper concerns the detection, feature extraction and classification of behaviours of Dreissena polymorpha. A new algorithm based on wavelets and kernel methods that detects relevant events in the collected data is presented. This algorithm allows us to extract elementary events from the behaviour of a living organism. Moreover, we propose an efficient framework for automatic classification...

The idea that autocatalytic sets played an important role in the origin of life is not new. Neither is the idea that autocatalytic sets can tell us something about the evolution and functional organization of living systems. However, most of these ideas have, until recently, remained at a conceptual level, and very few concrete, mathematically sound, and practically applicable results had been ...

The unreduced description of any real system with interaction reveals natural emergence of multiple, incompatible system versions, or realisations, formed by dynamic entanglement of the interacting system components and forced to permanently replace each other in a causally random order, which permits one to define and calculate the a priori probabilities of their emergence, their internal stru...

Soil is a living system and has to be managed as such in agriculture to improve sustainability. Soil health refers to the biological, chemical and physical features of soil that are essential to long-term sustainable agricultural productivity with minimal environmental impact. Thus, soil health provides a overall picture of soil functionality. Soil provides the habitats for a wide range of livi...

Biochemistry can be defined as the science of the chemical basis of life (Gk bios “life”). The cell is the structural unit of living systems. Thus, biochemistry can also be described as the science of the chemical constituents of living cells and of the reactions and processes they undergo. By this definition, biochemistry encompasses large areas of cell biology, molecular biology, and molecula...