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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Living Systems"”.
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Spatial Organization of Multicellular Living Systems
… to define the local microstates of multicellular living systems. In chapter 3, we develop configurational fingerprints based on these local structures, and extract two parameters, namely the volumetric and shear order parameters, that are reflective of the transitions of local order in the …
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Collective and emergent behavior of living systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Thermodynamic and topological characterization of living systems
… dynamics, and response of complex biophysical systems at single-cell and subcellular resolution, from bacterial communities and tissues to intra-cellular signaling and expression dynamics of genes. Despite such progress in data collection, major theoretical challenges remain to find structure …
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
<p>Covenantal ethics is a living system for living systems. We humans are not simple, isolated individuals living stagnant, dead lives. Rather we are immersed in a complex system of living, glowing and developing interpersonal relationships with others. Philosophy in general and ethics in …
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Leveraging latent patterns in the study of living systems
… techniques to observe and perturb biological systems has led to remarkable progress in the last several decades. From the tremendous amounts of data being accumulated, new opportunities have emerged, including the possibility of finding latent patterns in high-dimensional variables that are …
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Multilamellar lipid structures and their elastic properties in living systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Nuclear spin transfer studies of chemical reactions in living systems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Program in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, 1987.
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Spectroscopy versus turbidity: non-invasive in vivo monitoring of living systems
… the use of light for noninvasive monitoring of living systems generally defined. We first describe work used to test a methodology for real-time probing of chemical and physical changes in spinal cords in the immediate aftermath of a localized contusive injury by way of calculating pH to monitor …
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Chemical probes for studying cyclooxygenase-2 and nitric oxide in living systems
Molecular imaging enables the direct detection of analytes and biomolecular species within their native biological environment. Although the field derives from diagnostic biomedical imaging, there has been a significant shift over the past couple decades towards using imaging to evaluate and …
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The Subjecthood of Slime Mould: modelling single-celled intelligence through living systems art
… that alludes to the complex interweaving of systems that we share and co-constitute with other forms of life. In emphasising the role of the nonhuman as both a subject and co-creator, the work connects in practice what contemporary posthumanities scholars argue is urgently needed in response …
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Biofabrication of muscular and neuronal in-vitro tissue for multi-cellular engineered living systems
… them to achieve the engineering of heterotypic living systems is a key element for the progress of “New Biology”. This perspective consists of utilizing engineering concepts for design of complex systems and combining with the principles and properties of multiple disciplines in cellular biology …
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Light in Living Systems: Ultra-Weak Photon Emission and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Cellular Dynamics
… confocal SPAD hybrids, EMCCD imaging, and PMT systems were implemented to test biological photon emission against mechanical artefacts. Entropy mapping, autocorrelation, and spectral analyses show that apparent low frequency rhythms are explained by system level artefacts (e.g. stepper motor …
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Characterization of the nano- and meso-scale hierarchic assembly in biomimetic membranes and living systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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HOW TO GROW A SPACESHIP: A Hybrid Living Material (HLM) Framework for Developing Technological Interfaces to Complex Living Systems
… that our ability to design with biological systems—from genes, to bodies, to biospheres—will play a crucial role in meeting humanity’s goals for both planetary sustainability and long-term space exploration. Our foundational “spaceship” Earth is our only current form of sustained life …
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The southeast Michigan stewardship coalition: A deep design of eco-democratic reform that is situational, local, and in support of living systems
… to each other and the larger environmental systems to which we belong. In efforts to address the role of education in alleviating and eliminating social suffering and environmental degradation in many of the worlds’ diverse communities, the purpose of this critical ethnographic case study is …
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Mechanistic Studies of Lipoxygenases Using Synthetic Substrate Analogues
… plays a key role in the biochemistry of living systems. The oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids is crucial in pain and inflammation mediation, as well as in cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and reproductive function modulation. However, if excessively stimulated, this process leads …
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Investigating C. Elegans Small-Molecule Signaling Pathways Via 2D-Nmr Based Comparative Metabolomics
… provide the basis and structure of all life and living systems. Specifically, small molecules are principle mediators of essential processes across phyla, including signal transduction and metabolism, as well as interorganismal chemical attraction and defense. Therefore, the knowledge of the …
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
… 1) historical materialism, 2) Dialogism, and 3) Living Systems Theory. Each methodology will focus on different aspects of narratives in both African American and European American communities in order to better understand the rhetorical processes that would need to be utilized in order to create …
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Saldanha Bay as a living space: negotiating (re)source dynamics in a water scarce Bay
… second busiest port, exists as a complex set of living systems, poised at the interchange between land and water. Because of its role as a port city, it is a place where water systems, transport routes, and industrial activity meet and intermingle. This thesis focuses on the threat that is posed …
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