Abstract: Cells can launch self-protective mechanisms against injury, induced by ischemia, mechanical impact, toxins, radiation, or microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, and fungi), and can also recruit other cells to assist in the ...

Abstract: Protective biology and engineering are an integrated discipline aiming to understand the naturally occurring protective mechanisms established through an evolution in response to environmental insults and genetic defects ...

Abstract: With a single stochastic extremum seeking control signal, we steer multiple autonomous vehicles, modeled as nonholonomic unicycles, toward the maximum of an unknown, spatially distributed signal field. The vehicles, whose ...

Abstract: Because of the nonlinearity nature of contacts, real contact information in discontinuous computation is unknown before analysis. In standard three-dimensional (3D) discontinuous deformation analysis (3D DDA), the ...