Agent based modelling has received significant attention in the recent years mainly due its wide adoption by scientists in a number of fields. Although agent simulation platforms have proven to be quite mature and expressive for modelling simple agents, little has been done regarding enhancing these platforms by higher level agent oriented programming facilities. This work aims at this directio...

The fact that food can produce adverse effects on behavior has long been known, but efforts to systematically evaluate foods and other chemicals for such effects are a more recent pursuit. The fields that have evolved to assess these effects have come to be termed behavioral toxicology when effects on mature organisms are examined’ and behavioral teratology when the effects on developing organi...

1. VISION: AUTOMATIC SCIENTIST For thousands of years science happens in a rather manual way. Mathematics, engineering and computer science provide the means to automate some of the laborious tasks that have to do with computation, data collection and management, and to some degree predictability. As scientific fields grow more mature, though, and scientists over-specialize a new problem appear...

While the two sets of authors agree on certain, specific empirical results and a number of critical concepts, such as the basic point that the field is evolving into a mature discipline, they disagree on whether IS is influencing other fields. What is fascinating to scholars intrigued by the domain of scientometrics—that is, the study of the scientific process itself—is that the groups could ha...

At the 2009 Ecodesign conference the results of a survey on the future of Design for Sustainable Behavior (DfSB) was presented. In this paper, the survey is revisited, and responses from both surveys are compared and discussed. The contribution of theoretical fields, research priorities, integration in business, and the location and position of DfSB are discussed. The current discourse on behav...

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) fruit is an important medicinal plant in Iran. The harvesting time is a crucial for jujube fruit quality. Several characteristics of jujube fruit when harvested at four development stages; white mature (light green), crisp mature (white-red), fully mature (red) and fully ripe (dehydrated brown) were evaluated. Fruit weight, diameter, volume, pulp to stone ratio, f...

objective: n present study effect of various factors including sucrose, agar, peg, agno3, activated charcoal on somatic embryo induction and its subsequent regeneration was investigated using varieties dom siah and nemat. methods: 330 explant (mature embryos) of each varieties were cultured, 33/plate (100 x 15 mm), on callus induction murashige and skoog (ms) medium (murashige and skoog 1962) s...

The dentate gyrus (DG) occupies a key position in information flow through the hippocampus. Its principal cell, the granule cell, has spatially selective place fields. However, the behavioral correlates of cells located in the hilus of the rat dentate gyrus are unknown. We report here that cells below the granule layer show spatially selective firing that consists of multiple subfields. Other c...