Theories on the Nature of Life. Giovanni Blandino, New York: Philosophical Library, 1969. xiv, 374 pp. $6.00. [PDF]
, 2017 In a short span, this encyclopedic work summarizes the historical problems of the nature of life. Blandino conducts his narrative in a condensed and highly-packed form that assumes the nature of an outline.
Wilkinson, Ronald S
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Ontology-assisted database integration to support natural language processing and biomedical data-mining [PDF]
, 2004 Successful biomedical data mining and information extraction require a complete picture of biological phenomena such as genes, biological processes, and diseases; as these exist on different levels of granularity.
Ceusters, Werner +4 more
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Deterministic chaos theory and forecasting in Social Sciences. Contribution to the discussion [PDF]
, 2018 Forecasting social phenomena may be hampered in many ways. This is because in nature of these phenomena lies strong and multilateral connection with other social phenomena; but not only – also physical and biological (natural) ones.
Donaj, Łukasz
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Optimization of Microalga Chlorella vulgaris Magnetic Harvesting
Nanomaterials, 2021 Harvesting of microalgae is a crucial step in microalgae-based mass production of different high value-added products. In the present work, magnetic harvesting of Chlorella vulgaris was investigated using microwave-synthesized naked magnetite (Fe3O4 ...
Maria G. Savvidou +6 more
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Palliative care - illness, dying, and death as biological-medical and socio-cultural phenomena [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2023 Introduction. In modern global times, the answer to the question of how to live well is palliative care. It is a type of care that is dedicated to creating circumstances in which the process of dying, and death itself, becomes a dignified and acceptable ...
Prodović Tanja +4 more
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Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2018 Efforts to understand the causes of psychopathology have remained stifled in part because current practices do not clearly describe how psychological constructs differ from biological phenomena and how to integrate them in unified explanations.
Joel G. Thomas, Paul B. Sharp
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Disentangling Extrinsic from Intrinsic Biological Phenomena [PDF]
, 2015 Facial skin ageing is caused by intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms. Intrinsic ageing is highly related to chronological age. Age related skin changes can be measured using clinical and biophysical methods.
Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike +4 more
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Physicochemical Characteristics of Model Membranes Composed of Legionella gormanii Lipids
Membranes, 2023 Legionella gormanii is one of the species belonging to the genus Legionella, which causes atypical community-acquired pneumonia. The most important virulence factors that enable the bacteria to colonize the host organism are associated with the cell ...
Katarzyna Pastuszak +5 more
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Connecting empirical phenomena and theoretical models of biological coordination across scales [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2018 Coordination in living systems—from cells to people—must be understood at multiple levels of description. Analyses and modelling of empirically observed patterns of biological coordination often focus either on ensemble-level statistics in large-scale ...
Mengsen Zhang +3 more
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Protention and retention in biological systems [PDF]
, 2011 This paper proposes an abstract mathematical frame for describing some features of cognitive and biological time. We focus here on the so called "extended present" as a result of protentional and retentional activities (memory and anticipation).
A Botzung +17 more
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