Gregory Benford at Singularity Summit 2009 -- Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity

SciVee ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Benford
Keyword(s):  
Selection For ◽  
Biological Selection

scholarly journals Entropy and Selection: Life as an Adaptation for Universe Replication

Complexity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Price
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Complex Order ◽  
Cosmological Natural Selection ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Biological Selection ◽  
Intelligent Life

Natural selection is the strongest known antientropic process in the universe when operating at the biological level and may also operate at the cosmological level. Consideration of how biological natural selection creates adaptations may illuminate the consequences and significance of cosmological natural selection. An organismal trait is more likely to constitute an adaptation if characterized by more improbable complex order, and such order is the hallmark of biological selection. If the same is true of traits created by selection in general, then the more improbably ordered something is (i.e., the lower its entropy), the more likely it is to be a biological or cosmological adaptation. By this logic, intelligent life (as the least-entropic known entity) is more likely than black holes or anything else to be an adaptation designed by cosmological natural selection. This view contrasts with Smolin’s suggestion that black holes are an adaptation designed by cosmological natural selection and that life is the by-product of selection for black holes. Selection may be the main or only ultimate antientropic process in the universe/multiverse; that is, much or all observed order may ultimately be the product or by-product of biological and cosmological selection.

Gregory Benford: Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity

SciVee ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Benford
Keyword(s):  
Selection For ◽  
Biological Selection

scholarly journals The Pattern ofp53Mutations Caused by PAHo-Quinones is Driven by 8-oxo-dGuo Formation while the Spectrum of Mutations is Determined by Biological Selection for Dominance

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1039-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong-Heum Park ◽  
Stacy Gelhaus ◽  
Srilakshmi Vedantam ◽  
Andrea L. Oliva ◽  
Abhita Batra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Selection For ◽  
Biological Selection

scholarly journals Correction to The Pattern of p53 Mutations Caused by PAHo-Quinones is Driven by 8-Oxo-dGuo Formation while the Spectrum of Mutations is Determined by Biological Selection for Dominance

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1907-1907
Author(s):  
Jong-Heum Park ◽  
Stacy Gelhaus ◽  
Srilakshmi Vedantam ◽  
Andrea L. Oliva ◽  
Abhita Batra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
P53 Mutations ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Biological Selection

Biological selection for organ conservation

2001 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. S286 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Sauer ◽  
C. Rodel
Keyword(s):  
Selection For ◽  
Biological Selection

Framework for Selecting Vocabulary for Preliterate Children Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1000-1009
Author(s):  
Allison Bean ◽  
Lindsey Paden Cargill ◽  
Samantha Lyle
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Developmentally Appropriate ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
School Based ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Nonverbal Children ◽  
Grammatical Structures ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge

Purpose Nearly 50% of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) provide services to school-age children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). However, many SLPs report having insufficient knowledge in the area of AAC implementation. The objective of this tutorial is to provide clinicians with a framework for supporting 1 area of AAC implementation: vocabulary selection for preliterate children who use AAC. Method This tutorial focuses on 4 variables that clinicians should consider when selecting vocabulary: (a) contexts/environments where the vocabulary can be used, (b) time span during which the vocabulary will be relevant, (c) whether the vocabulary can elicit and maintain interactions with other people, and (d) whether the vocabulary will facilitate developmentally appropriate grammatical structures. This tutorial focuses on the role that these variables play in language development in verbal children with typical development, verbal children with language impairment, and nonverbal children who use AAC. Results Use of the 4 variables highlighted above may help practicing SLPs select vocabulary that will best facilitate language acquisition in preliterate children who use AAC.

Teaching Partners to Support Communication for Adults with Acquired Communication Impairment

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Ball ◽  
Joanne Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Practice Patterns ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Communication Impairment ◽  
Communication Partner ◽  
Communication Partners ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
End Of Life Communication ◽  
Lateral Sclerosis

Abstract For adults with acquired communication impairment, particularly those who have communication disorders associated with stroke or neurodegenerative disease, communication partners play an important role in establishing and maintaining communicative competence. In this paper, we assemble some evidence on this topic and integrate it with current preferred practice patterns (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2004). Our goals are to help speech-language pathologists (SLPs) identify and describe partner-based communication strategies for adults with acquired impairment, implement evidence-based approaches for teaching strategies to communication partners, and employ a Personnel Framework (Binger et al., 2012) to clarify partners? roles in acquiring and supporting communication tools for individuals with acquired impairments. We offer specific guidance about AAC techniques and message selection for communication partners involved with chronic, degenerative, and end of life communication. We discuss research and provide examples of communication partner supports for person(s) with aphasia and person(s) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis who have complex communication needs.

Patient selection for Port-Access? multi vessel revascularization

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. S43-S47 ◽  
Author(s):  
G WIMMERGREINECKER
Keyword(s):  
Patient Selection ◽  
Port Access ◽  
Selection For

Identifying Measurement Invariant Item Sets in Cross-Cultural Settings Using an Automated Item Selection Procedure

Methodology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Schultze ◽  
Michael Eid
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Item Selection ◽  
Ant System ◽  
Item Quality ◽  
Ant System Algorithm ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract. In the construction of scales intended for the use in cross-cultural studies, the selection of items needs to be guided not only by traditional criteria of item quality, but has to take information about the measurement invariance of the scale into account. We present an approach to automated item selection which depicts the process as a combinatorial optimization problem and aims at finding a scale which fulfils predefined target criteria – such as measurement invariance across cultures. The search for an optimal solution is performed using an adaptation of the [Formula: see text] Ant System algorithm. The approach is illustrated using an application to item selection for a personality scale assuming measurement invariance across multiple countries.

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