Computing: autonomic

PCA of the measures results in two components that are used to compute autonomic component scores that may reveal the activity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems within the "doctrine of autonomic space" (Bemtson et al., 1991). However, the use of PCA to extract cardiac autonomic information can only be validated through examination of the extent to which the PCA method is consistent with better methods of obtaining the same information. 

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Early implementations of the CIP rules for computer detection and specification of chirality were described for the LHASA [105], CHIRON [106], and CACTVS [107] software packages. Recently, several commercial molecular editors and visualizers (e.g., CambridgeSoft s ChemOffice, ACD s I-Lab, Accelrys WebLab, and MDL s AutoNom) have also implemented the CIP rules. 

Computers, Systems, Languages and Other Fragments. CAST Newsletter, An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Con-... 

The scaling prescription (59) embodies the assumption that the external force is so weak that it does not drive the TS trajectory out of the phase-space region in which the normal form expansion is valid. In the autonomous version of geometric TST, one generally assumes that this region is sufficiently large to make the normal form expansion a useful tool for the computation of the geometric objects. Once this assumption has been made, the additional condition imposed by Eq. (59) is only a weak constraint. 

A. Elfes, Occupancy grids a stochastic spatial representation for active robot perception, in Autonomous Mobile Robots Perception, Mapping and Navigation, Vol. 1, S. S. Iyengar and A. Elfes, Editors, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, pp. 60-70. 

Maes, P., Darrell, T., Blumberg, B. Pentland, A. 1995. The ALIVE system wireless, full-body interaction with autonomous agents. Proc. Computer Animation, IEEE Press, April 1995. 

The Lyapunov exponents provide a computable measure of the sensitivity to initial conditions, i.e. characterize the mean exponential rate of divergence of two nearby trajectories if there is at least one positive Lyapunov exponent, or convergence when all Lyapunov exponents are negative. The Lyapunov exponents are defined for autonomous dynamical systems and can be described by ... 

There are two classes of movements in the human body voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary movements are pretty clear they are the movements that we can control. Reaching for the French fries, swinging a baseball bat, turning on the TV, and typing at a computer keyboard provide obvious examples. Involuntary movements include those movements that we cannot readily control such as heart beats, vascular contraction, and movement of the gut muscles, and they basically control the internal environment of the body. Voluntary movements are controlled by the somatic nervous system. Involuntary movements are controlled by the autonomic nervous system, to which we now turn. 

Domains may be regarded as the basic units for the structure, function and evolution of proteins, but the definition of a domain remains fuzzy. They are most often treated as compact or connected areas that are apparent from a visual inspection of protein models. To avoid subjectivity and ambiguities of visual inspection, computer algorithms have been developed to localize domains. Rashin offered an alternative interpretation domains are stable globular fragments, generated in biochemical experiments that refold autonomously and retain specific functions. He proposed a method for localiz-... 

For nonlinear reaction schemes, maintained far from chemical equilibrium, a variety of more interesting interactions are possible (2) These include threshold phenomena in which a small transitory external perturbation may induce a permanent change in the steady state concentrations of metabolites. In such a case the magnitude of the change may be independent of that of the stimulus beyond a certain threshold value. Nonlinear reactions may also display a form of resonance when the perturbation oscillates in time. This can be inferred by examining the stability properties of linearized forms of nonlinear reaction schemes (2, 3) A complete description of this form of interaction, however, usually requires numerical computations ( ). I shall now describe the results of some computations in which a nonlinear reaction scheme that is capable of autonomous oscillations was perturbed by an oscillating stimulus applied over a range of frequencies ( ) ... 

The autonomous functions exhibit circadian rhythms which are under the control of a neuronal pacemaker, located in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. The circadian pacemaker arises from complex dynamics of gene expression and is synchronized to the external light. In the case of mental disorders, the regular rhythms of autonomous functions are obviously disturbed which led to the formulation of the desynchronization hypotheses [8, 9], This does not necessarily contradict the transmitter hypothesis . Transmitter imbalance, of course, also interferes with the inherent system dynamics and can change the endogenous rhythmicity, eventually with the result of desynchronization. A first computational approach which simulates the rhythmicity of the HPA axis and its alterations with scaling of transmitter mediated positive and negative feedback loops is briefly summarized in the second Results section. 

Computer Simulations of Episode Sensitization with Autonomous Disease Progression... 

Nowadays, Semantic Web is a much-hyped expression that is used (and misused) by many people from different areas of human endeavor. On Semantic Web computers we will be able to autonomously search for different information items and process them and provide answers to questions that currently require many hours of effort by human experts. However, before we can connect the individual pieces of information, we have to find and transform them to computer-readable form. Unfortunately, this is not a trivial task. 

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