Biological self-assembly systems lie at the interface between molecular biology, chemistry, polymer science and engineering. The key elements in molecular self-assembly are chemical complementarity and structural compatibility. Several types of self-assembling peptides have been engineered. Type I peptides undergo intermolecular self-assembly, type II peptides undergo self-assembly and disassem...

Information spreading in self-organized networks is a frequently investigated research topic today; however, investigating the characteristics of application spreading by exploiting the direct connections between the user devices has not been widely studied yet. In this paper, we present our spreading model, in which we use Closed Queuing Networks to model the application spreading process. In ...

This research examines the opposing theories that high self–esteem is responsible for aggression and that low self–esteem is responsible for aggression. Our findings suggest that both theories may be correct. Targets’ self–esteem and self–reported physical aggression were assessed; additionally, targets’ roommates reported their esteem for the target. In support of both theories, self–esteem wa...

Theories matter because they affect behavior and can, under certain circumstances, become self-fulfilling. For a theory to become self-fulfilling, people must be aware of the theory and have the ability to make choices according to its dictates, social and physical arrangements are altered on the basis of the theory’s prescriptions, and the proponents have the power to implement social arrangem...

We introduce a model of self-assembly P systems as devices that use some of the features of population P systems to progressively grow a graph structure by forming new bonds between the existing cells and some new cells which are brought into the system step by step. The new cells are then able to self-assemble locally either at the level of cells or at the level of neighbourhoods of cells by u...