to date, various approaches have been used in attempt to treat spinal cord injury (sci) but there is no definite treatment for repair of the damaged tissue. it is well known that sci results in a loss of neural tissues and formation of cystic cavities that inhibit regeneration of axons. tissue engineering, in which cells, signals and scaffolds are combined, is one of the most promising areas of...

We discuss similarities between midutterance self-correction, which is often seen as a phenomenon that lies outside the scope of theories of dialogue meaning, and other discourse phenomena, and argue that an approach that captures these similarities is desirable. We then provide a sketch of such an approach, using Ginzburg’s KoS formalism, and discuss the implications of including ‘sub-utteranc...

To illustrate the different kinetics of cellular self-repair mechanism under external perturbations from outer environment, a mathematical model of DNA damage repair process is proposed by using the Kinetic Theory of Active Particles (KTAP) framework. The profile of cellular self-repair process is represented by two sub-populations, each of which is made up of the active particles with differen...

The ontogenetic development of living beings suggests the design of a new kind of multicellular automaton endowed with novel quasi-biological properties: self-repair and self-replication. In the framework of the Embryonics (embryonic electronics) project, we have developed such an automaton. Its macroscopic architecture is de ned by three features: multicellular organization, cellular di erenti...

The ability of natural organisms to selfassemble, self-repair and reproduce in an environment with sufficient nutrients is one of the defining features of life. In this paper, we build on both our own previous work and that of others to demonstrate the feasibility of robotic systems that can assemble functional copies of themselves from either basic sets of parts or from incomplete replicas tha...