Coordination of agent teams depends on the scale of the team. Teams comprising hundreds of agents tend to perform better with local computation and interactions (i.e. swarm intelligence, evolutionary computing, etc.) Teams comprising tens of agents tend to perform better with more sophisticated agents (e.g. BDI agents) with complex reasoning abilities. In the long term, our objective is to achi...

Mass spectrometry provides rapid and quantitative identification of protein species with relatively low sample consumption. The trend towards biological analysis at increasingly smaller scales, ultimately down to the volume of an individual cell, continues, and mass spectrometry with a sensitivity of a few to single molecules will be necessary. Nanoelectromechanical systems provide unparalleled...

The reported prevalence of interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis has varied from 10% to 50%, yet less than 5% of patients with arthritis develop severe fibrosing interstitial lung disease. This suggests that subclinical disease may not always presage progressive disease. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and either clinically evident ...

An understanding of hematological cancer cell signaling processes poses one of the most complex and intractable problems in modern biomedical inquiry. While we understand some of the fundamental players that contribute to oncogenic processes, significant effort is focused upon determining how these individual players relay information to each other to create the composite functions of a cancer ...

Glaucoma is one of the second leading cause of blindness in India. It cannot be cured when it doesn’t presage in an accurate time. 90% of people have never been diagnosed before in India. According to the World Health Organization statistics, one in eight persons above the age of 40 getting are affected from Glaucoma or lead to cause of death. It can be diagnosed by two types of images such as ...

Variant late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (vLINCL), caused by CLN6 mutation, and juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL), caused by CLN3 mutation, share clinical and pathological features, including lysosomal accumulation of mitochondrial ATP synthase subunit c, but the unrelated CLN6 and CLN3 genes may initiate disease via similar or distinct cellular processes. To gain insi...

In our empirical and theoretical study of color naming among the Hadza, a Tanzanian hunter-gatherer group, we show that Hadza color naming is sparse (the color appearance of many stimulus tiles was not named), diverse (there was little consensus in the terms for the color appearance of most tiles), and distributed (the universal color categories of world languages are revealed in nascent form w...