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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Color image segmentation using multilevel thresholding-cooperative bacterial foraging algorithm
, 2015 Multilevel thresholding is of great importance in the fields of image segmentation techniques. This paper proposes multilevel thresholding for color image segmentation using cooperative bacterial foraging algorithm (CBFA), which combined bacterial chemo ...
Liu Y(刘洋) +7 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Quorum sensing and DNA methylation play active roles in clinical Burkholderia phase variation
Journal of BacteriologyPhenotypic diversity in bacteria often results from adaptation to changing environmental conditions, exemplified by variable colony morphotypes. In Burkholderia pseudomallei, discrete genomic alterations and modulation of gene expression facilitate ...
Pauline M. L. Coulon +5 more
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Bacterial colony foraging optimization
, 2014 This paper proposes a novel bacterial colony foraging (BCF) algorithm for complex optimization problems. The proposed BCF extend original bacterial foraging algorithm to adaptive and cooperative mode by combining bacterial chemotaxis, cell-to-cell ...
Niu B(牛奔) +4 more
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Cell-cell communication enhances bacterial chemotaxis toward external attractants
, 2017 Bacteria are able to coordinate their movement, growth and biochemical activities through cell-cell communication. While the biophysical mechanism of bacterial chemotaxis has been well understood in individual cells, the role of communication in the ...
Zhicheng Long +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Acute pancreatitis (AP) begins with pancreatic local inflammation, leading to the onset of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), followed by compensatory anti‐inflammatory response syndrome (CARS), which causes immune paralysis and higher mortality rate.
Liwei Liu +15 more
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, 2014 Inspired by the colony foraging behavior of Escherichia coli bacteria, this paper proposes a novel bacterial colony foraging optimization (BCFO) algorithm for complex optimization problems.
Chen HN(陈瀚宁) +3 more
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Relevance of Quantum Mechanics in Bacterial Communication [PDF]
, 2018 The recent findings confirm that bacteria communicate each other through chemical and electrical signals. Bacteria use chemical signaling molecules, which are called as quorum sensing molecules (QSMs) or autoinducers.
Sarangam, Majumdar, Roy, Sisir
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