The term synthetic biology was first introduced by the French scientist Stéphane Leduc (1912), be it with a different meaning as today’s, and (it seems) in modern times by the Polish geneticist Waclaw Szybalski (1974). Putting aside priority questions it is true that the term gained popularity in mainstream science only in the year 2004 when the first international meeting, called Synthetic Bio...

This paper discusses an approach to more believable behaviour by groups of synthetic agents. It considers the theories of William Schutz based on interpersonal relations and provides an initial discussion how it might be implemented within the FAtiMA-PSI architecture.

In this paper, Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic schemes are proposed as an alternative to the classical ̄X synthetic schemes when the assumption of normality fails to hold. First, the basic design of the Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic scheme is developed and its performance investigated using exact formulae. Secondly, the non-side-sensitive and side-sensitive Burr-type XII ̄X synthetic schemes are int...

the main goal of the present study is to identify characteristics of the inter-station horizontal magnetic responses and the vertical magnetic data, as two types of magnetotelluric transfer functions, in the modeling procedure. through consideration of model responses and two-dimensional inversion of synthetic data, sensitivity of the data components in detecting different geophysical structure...

This study investigates whether L2 learners can be trained to make better use of phonetic information from visual cues in their perception of a novel phonemic contrast. It also evaluates the impact of audiovisual perceptual training on the learners pronunciation of a novel contrast. The use of visual cues for speech perception was evaluated for two English phonemic contrasts: the /v/–/b/–/p/ la...

We report on a case study in synthetic biology, demonstrating the modeldriven design of a self-powering electrochemical biosensor. An essential result of the design process is a general template of a biosensor, which can be instantiated to be adapted to specific pollutants. This template represents a gene expression network extended by metabolic activity. We illustrate the model-based analysis ...