The Nexus Data Exchange Format (NDEF) is an Open Sound Control (OSC) namespace specification designed to make connection and message management tasks easier for OSC-based networked performance systems. New extensions to the NDEF namespace improve both connection and message management between OSC client and server nodes. Connection management between nodes now features human-readable labels for...

Search methods provide short and human readable proofs, i.e. with few algebra, of most of the theorems of the Euclidean plane. They are less succesful and convincing for incidence theorems of projective geometry, which has received less attention up to now. This is due to the fact that basic notions, like angles and distances, which are relevant for Euclidean geometry, are no more relevant for ...

Intracellular signalling often employs excitable stores of calcium coupled by di usion. We describe here the ability of such a mechanism to generate a complete set of logic gates required for computation, as well as how they can act as coincidence detectors for biological signals. c © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Profitability of different grouping criteria was simulated in a dairy farm with 153 lactating cows that were divided into three groups of high (79), medium (40) and low (34) cows based on the milk records. Animals were reassigned to the new groups based on the following criteria using a decision support tool and the same three groups scenario: fat corrected milk 4%, days in milk (DIM), dairy me...

low glucose condition induces neuronal cell-death via intracellular mechanisms including mitogen-activated protein kinases (mapk) signaling pathways. it has been shown that low glucose medium decreases neuronal survival in cerebellar granule neurons (cgns). in this study, we have examined the activation of jnk, p38kinase and erk1/2 pathways in low glucose medium in cgns. the cgns were prepared ...

cellular and tissue activities highly depend on environmental ph. murine lung tissue, when cultured properly in-vitro, is a potent producer of hematopoietic growth factors. we have studied the effect of ph on the production of hematopoietic growth factors and protein synthesis by the murine lung in-vitro. various concentrations of nahc03 were used to adjust the ph of the culture medium under co...

This study presents a detailed morphological analysis of a new species belonging to the blind trilobite Trimerocephalus McCoy, 1849, T. chopini n. sp., based on exceptionally well preserved articulated specimens from the Late Devonian (Early Famennian) of the Holy Cross Mountains in central Poland. The occurrence of this taxon in Kowala Quarry near Kielce has been reported previously, with spec...

The expression of contracts in computer readable form, and the development of automated tests for completeness and well-formedness of contracts, has opened the door to significant advances in automating contract negotiations. To meet the needs of automation, such negotiations must follow explicitly specified message-exchange protocols. But to meet the needs of the negotiating parties, these pro...

We present IREP++, a rule learning algorithm similar to RIPPER and IREP. Like these other algorithms IREP++ produces accurate, human readable rules from noisy data sets. However IREP++ is able to produce such rule sets more quickly and can often express the target concept with fewer rules and fewer literals per rule resulting in a concept description that is easier for humans to understand. The...

This paper introduces a new cellular automaton model of excitable media with improved treatments of (1) diiusion and wave propagation, and (2) slow dynamics of the recovery variable. The automaton is both computationally eecient and faithful to the underlying partial diierential equations.