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Biokinesis: A Soft Kinetic Architectural Skin

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon_a_01352 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 76-76

Author(s):

Jae Wan Park ◽

Ju Yeon Kim

Keyword(s):

Genetic Algorithm ◽

Morphological Transformations ◽

Biological Dynamics

This article proposes a soft kinetic architectural skin that represents natural, formative intelligence. Biokinesis is an interactive kinetic installation that performs soft, dynamic movements through morphological transformations based on a genetic algorithm. In this article, the authors present new possibilities for the kinetic skin by interpreting mechanical movements as holistic, biological dynamics.

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Coralivoría del gasterópodo Jenneria pustulata (Ovulidae: Pediculariinae) en dos arrecifes coralinos del PNN isla Gorgona

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research ◽

10.25268/bimc.invemar.2018.47.2.744 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Mauro Giovanni Zucconi ◽

Levy D. Obonaga ◽

Edgardo Londoño-Cruz

Keyword(s):

Coral Reefs ◽

Coral Species ◽

Size Structure ◽

Coral Tissue ◽

Laboratory Conditions ◽

Set Up ◽

Biological Dynamics ◽

Colombian Pacific

Coral reefs are very important and highly biodiverse ecosystems that are exposed to various stressors, including biological ones, such as parasitism and corallivory – the direct consumption of coral tissue by a predator. Knowledge on the effects of corallivory on the coral reefs in the Colombian Pacific is poor. Therefore a study was set up to quantify the abundance of and the corallivory rate by the snail Jenneria pustulata in La Azufrada and Playa Blanca coral reefs (Gorgona Island, Colombia). Snails were manually sampled from the underside of Pocillopora sp. colonies and measured in situ to determine their size structure for each reef. To measure possible damage caused by corallivory, several snails were kept under controlled laboratory conditions for 24 h. Snail sizes and corallivory varied significantly between reefs (P=0.0001; P«0.001). Snails from Playa Blanca were larger than snails from La Azufrada, while corallivory was higher in La Azufrada than in Playa Blanca. Although corallivory rates by J. pustulata are smaller than rates reported for other predators in different coral species, it is recommended to continue this kind of investigations in order to increase the knowledge on biological dynamics of this species and to understand how they affect the reefs at Gorgona Island.

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Entropy change of biological dynamics in COPD

International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽

10.2147/copd.s140636 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol Volume 12 ◽

pp. 2997-3005 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Yu Jin ◽

Chang Chen ◽

Zhixin Cao ◽

Baoqing Sun ◽

Iek Long Lo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Entropy Change ◽

Biological Dynamics

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Effects of forest fragmentation on neotropical fauna: current research and data availability

Environmental Reviews ◽

10.1139/a95-009 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 191-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 45

Author(s):

Holly L. Offerman ◽

Virginia H. Dale ◽

Scott M. Pearson ◽

Robert V. O'Neill ◽

Richard O. Bierregaard Jr.

Keyword(s):

Forest Fragmentation ◽

Amazon Basin ◽

Data Availability ◽

Forest Fragments ◽

Forest Patches ◽

Neotropical Fauna ◽

Using Data ◽

Spatially Explicit Data ◽

Biological Dynamics

Tropical deforestation often produces landscapes characterized by isolated patches of forest habitat surrounded by pasture, agriculture, or regrowth vegetation. Both the size and the distribution of these forest patches may influence the long-term persistence of faunal species. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand faunal responses to patterns of forest fragmentation in tropical systems. The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) provides a wealth of autecological information and spatially explicit data describing habitat use and movement of fauna between Amazonian forest fragments. Using data from the BDFFP and other studies in the Amazon Basin, this paper reviews the information available on tropical insects, frogs, birds, primates, and other mammals that can be used to identify and classify species most at risk for extirpation in fragmented forests.Key words: Amazonia, habitat fragmentation, rainforest, fauna, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation Project.

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P Systems for Biological Dynamics

Applications of Membrane Computing - Natural Computing Series ◽

10.1007/3-540-29937-8_3 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 83-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Luca Bianco ◽

Federico Fontana ◽

Giuditta Franco ◽

Vincenzo Manca

Keyword(s):

P Systems ◽

Biological Dynamics

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Video-rate imaging of biological dynamics at centimetre scale and micrometre resolution

Nature Photonics ◽

10.1038/s41566-019-0474-7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 809-816 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jingtao Fan ◽

Jinli Suo ◽

Jiamin Wu ◽

Hao Xie ◽

Yibing Shen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Biological Dynamics

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Dimensions Missing from Ecology

Philosophies ◽

10.3390/philosophies3030024 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 24 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Ulanowicz

Keyword(s):

Functional Redundancy ◽

Living Systems ◽

Coupled Processes ◽

Temporal Series ◽

The Face ◽

Ecosystem Organization ◽

Physical Laws ◽

Biological Dynamics

Ecology, with its emphasis on coupled processes and massive heterogeneity, is not amenable to complete mechanical reduction, which is frustrated for reasons of history, dimensionality, logic, insufficiency, and contingency. Physical laws are not violated, but can only constrain, not predict. Outcomes are predicated instead by autocatalytic configurations, which emerge as stable temporal series of incorporated contingencies. Ecosystem organization arises out of agonism between autocatalytic selection and entropic dissolution. A degree of disorganization, inefficiency, and functional redundancy must be retained by all living systems to ensure flexibility in the face of novel disturbances. That physical and biological dynamics exhibit significant incongruencies argues for the formulation of alternative metaphysical assumptions, referred to here as “Process Ecology”.

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