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Regional development: contribution of evolutionary biology [PDF]

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This paper tries to set out a potential of application of some evolutionary biology concepts to the issue of regional development. The objective is to show that employment of these concepts or at least inspiration by them may enrich some theories of ...
Lucie Vaskova
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Global Optimization, Local Adaptation, and the Role of Growth in Distribution Networks

open access: yes, 2016
Highly-optimized complex transport networks serve crucial functions in many man-made and natural systems such as power grids and plant or animal vasculature.
Katifori, Eleni, Ronellenfitsch, Henrik
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Whence philosophy of biology? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
A consensus exists among contemporary philosophers of biology about the history of their field. According to the received view, mainstream philosophy of science in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s focused on physics and general epistemology, neglecting analyses ...
Byron (formerly Baker), Jason M.
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Association between changes in genital immune markers and vaginal microbiome transitions in bacterial vaginosis

open access: yesScientific Reports
Bacterial vaginosis (BV), characterized by an imbalance in the vaginal microbiota, is a prevalent condition among women of reproductive age and a risk factor for human immunodeficiency virus, sexually transmitted infections, and preterm birth.
Philipp Foessleitner   +8 more
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Central limit theorems and diffusion approximations for multiscale Markov chain models

open access: yes, 2014
Ordinary differential equations obtained as limits of Markov processes appear in many settings. They may arise by scaling large systems, or by averaging rapidly fluctuating systems, or in systems involving multiple time-scales, by a combination of the ...
Kang, Hye-Won   +2 more
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Publications of the NASA space biology program for 1980 - 1984 [PDF]

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A listing of 562 publications supported by the NASA Space Biology Program for the years 1980 to 1984 is presented. References are arranged under the headings which are plant gravitational research, animal gravitational research, and general.
Pleasant, L. G., Solberg, J. L.
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Generative Models for Synthetic Biology

open access: yes, 2020
Over the past several years, the fields of synthetic biology and machine learning have demonstrated marked advances in the scale of their capabilities and the success of their applications. The work presented in this thesis focuses on the translation of recent advances in machine learning toward new applications in synthetic biology.
openaire   +3 more sources

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