Due to the fact that 1/f noise gains the increasing interests in the field of biomedical signal processing and living systems, we present this introductive survey that may suffice to exhibit the elementary and the particularities of 1/f noise in comparison with conventional random functions. Three theorems are given for highlighting the particularities of 1/f noise. The first says that a random...

This research explores the interaction between internal heritage personnel and the public over social media. Focusing on the phenomenon of crowdsourcing and what it means to those individuals involved with it, this paper aims to understand: to what extent, and in what circumstances, can crowdsourcing help heritage professionals protect, preserve and promote National heritage? To answer this que...

Much of the public debate about abortion concerns the question whether deliberate feticide ought to be unlawful, at least in most circumstances. We will lay that question aside here in order to focus fIrst on the question: is the choice to have, to perform, or to help procure an abortion morally wrong? We shall argue that the choice of abortion is objectively immoral. By "objectively" we indica...

When we are confronted with a living system, whose design is mysterious and whose optimizations are obscure, it is no easy task--as Professor Stein reminds us--to arrive at an answer to the question he has posed in this paper. Stein's target article is an important contribution for two main reasons. The first, which we shall mention only in passing, is that it is likely to provide much debate o...

Assisted living systems can help support elderly persons with their daily activities in order to help them maintain healthy and safety while living independently. However, most current systems are ineffective in actual situation, difficult to use and have a low acceptance rate. There is a need for an assisted living solution to become intelligent and also practical issues such as user acceptanc...

EvAAL (Evaluating AAL Systems Through Competitive Benchmarking) is an international competition aimed at the evaluation and assessment of Ambient Assisted Living systems components, services and platforms. In 2011 took place the first edition of EvAAL on the special theme of Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL. This paper describes the technical aspects of the first edition of EvAAL and dr...

We present the findings of an in situ field study conducted using our assisted living system, I-Living, that aims to enable seniors to live in a costeffective manner independently. Basing the study on both interviews and diaries provided valuable and well-rounded data. Some of the main findings revealed that seniors will wear small health sensors if designed carefully. The study further reveals...

The long-time dynamics of somatic adaptability in immune system is simulated by a simple physical model defined in the shape space. The immune system described by the model exhibits a scale free behavior as is observed in living systems. The balance between the positive and negative feedbacks of the model leads to a robust immune system where the positive one corresponds to the formation of mem...

This paper describes a participatory design-oriented study of an ambient assisted living system for monitoring the daily activities of elderly residents. The work presented addresses these questions 1) What daily activities the elderly participants like to be monitored, 2) With whom they would want to share this monitored data and 3) How a monitoring system for the elderly should be designed. F...

The rationale for this module is simple: the forces of global change have the potential to alter physical and chemical climate conditions, which determine where organisms can live. In order to understand how climate change might affect living systems, we must first discuss some basics about the biota and how it is linked to climate. Once we understand these links, we will be able to recognize m...