Peripheral nerve injury triggers the activation of RhoA in spinal motor and peripheral sensory neurons. RhoA activates a number of effector proteins including the Rho-associated kinase, ROCK, which targets the cytoskeleton and leads to inhibition of neurite outgrowth. Blockade of the Rho/ROCK pathway by pharmacological means improves axon regeneration after experimental injury. C3(bot) transfer...

—Bot fl ies (Diptera: Muscidae: Philornis spp.) are a group of fl ies comprising mostly species with a Neotropical distribution. Their larvae parasitize several species of birds, living subcutaneously on altricial chicks. We investigated the eff ect of parasitism by bot fl ies (P. seguyi) on the reproductive success of Chalk-browed Mockingbirds (Mimus saturninus) in temperate grasslands near th...

Botnets, as networks of compromised “zombie” computers, represent one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. This paper explores how machines compromised with bot malware can be identified at local and enterprise networks in accurate and time-efficient manner. The paper introduces a novel multi-level botnet detection approach that performs network traffic analysis of three ...

objectives this study is the first of its kind to determine the framework, advantages, and limitations of bot contracts for health care projects in selected countries. background advantages and limitations of build-operate-transfer (bot) contracts in various forms of public-private partnership (ppp) arrangements have not been studied. conclusions this study suggests that more information transp...

This paper proposes an Evolutionary Algorithm for finetuning the behavior of a bot designed for playing Planet Wars, a game that has been selected for the the Google Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2010. The behavior engine of the proposed bot is based on a set of rules established by means of heuristic experimentation, followed by the application of an evolutionary algorithm to set the const...

With regard to literature, improved estimations for the number of possible moves and placements are provided, showing that the complexity of Diplomacy is enormous, making it a good candidate for machine learning and evolutionary learning techniques. To enhance the playing strength of an existing Diplomacy bot and alleviate the distance to the presumed best current bot, a look-ahead planning com...

We present a computational model for the generation of a Twitter bot that aspires to be considered creative by generating riddles about celebrities and well-known characters. The riddles are created by combining information from both wellstructured and poorly-structured information sources. This model has been implemented as an interactive Twitter bot (@TheRiddlerBot) that presents its outputs ...

The subject of this thesis is a new game called Hearthstone. It is a strategy card game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, in which players duel with each other with cards they collected. The game of Hearthstone provides a challenge for developing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent. The agent has to be able to deal with unknown information and stochastic events in a large search space. In ...