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A model for brain life history evolution

Complex cognition and relatively large brains are distributed across various taxa, and many primarily verbal hypotheses exist to explain such diversity. Yet, mathematical approaches formalizing verbal hypotheses would help deepen the understanding of brain ...

Public Library Science2017

Challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinarity : insights from human-centric building research at EPFL

Marilyne Andersen

Interdisciplinarity has become an inherent component of most research and education developments nowadays. It brings with it new challenges, from how to share a common language to how to avoid becoming generalists, as well as new opportunities in solving m ...

2017

Daylight in the built environment

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, Jan Wienold, Silvia Coccolo, Magali Bodart

Relatively recent cultural and technological changes, particularly in Westernized societies, have led to habitat and lifestyle shifts that have gradually estranged us from daylight. Although human beings are resilient and appear able to cope with extreme v ...

Science/AAAS2017

Glucose Homeostasis: Regulation by Peripheral Circadian Clocks in Rodents and Humans

Frédéric Bruno Martin Gachon

Most organisms, including humans, have developed an intrinsic system of circadian oscillators, allowing the anticipation of events related to the rotation of Earth around its own axis. The mammalian circadian timing system orchestrates nearly all aspects o ...

Endocrine Soc2017

A Historical Review of Diachrony and Semantic Dimensions of Trace in Neurosciences and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Pierre Magistretti

Experience leaves a trace in the nervous system through plasticity. However, the exact meaning of the mnesic trace is poorly defined in current literature. This article provides a historical review of the term trace in neuroscience and psychoanalysis liter ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Learning adaptive dressing assistance from human demonstration

Sylvain Calinon, Emmanuel Pignat

For tasks such as dressing assistance, robots should be able to adapt to different user morphologies, preferences and requirements. We propose a programming by demonstration method to efficiently learn and adapt such skills. Our method encodes sensory info ...

2017

NMR spectroscopy of single sub-nL ova with inductive ultra-compact single-chip probes

Giovanni Boero, Franck Vincent, Marco Grisi, Nicola Harris, Beatrice Volpe

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy enables non-invasive chemical studies of intact living matter. However, the use of NMR at the volume scale typical of microorganisms is hindered by sensitivity limitations, and experiments on single intact orga ...

2017

Interactive Locomotion of Mechanically Coupled Bipedal Agents: Modeling and Experiments

Auke Ijspeert, Jessica Lanini

This paper investigates the interactive locomotion for physically coupled bipedal agents using a human-human object carrying experiment and a simple mathematical model. The model is based on the Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SLIP) and on the assumption ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Reinforcement learning: the effect of environment

Michael Herzog, He Xu

Reinforcement learning is a type of supervised learning, where reward is sparse and delayed. For example in chess, a series of moves is made until a sparse reward (win, loss) is issued, which makes it impossible to evaluate the value of a single move. Stil ...

2016

Red squirrels in the British Isles are infected with leprosy bacilli

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Jérémie Piton, Chloé Marie Loiseau

Leprosy, caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or the recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was once endemic in humans in the British Isles. Red squirrels in Great Britain (Sciurus vulgaris) have increasingly been observed with leprosy-li ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

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