Control of human gait stability through foot placementJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 15 Số 143 - Trang 20170816 - 2018
Sjoerd M. Bruijn, Jaap H. van Dieën
During human walking, the centre of mass (CoM) is outside the base of support for most of the time, which poses a challenge to stabilizing the gait pattern. Nevertheless, most of us are able to walk without substantial problems. In this review, we aim to provide an integrative overview of how humans cope with an underactuated gait pattern. A central idea that emerges from the literature is...... hiện toàn bộ
Distributed robustness in cellular networks: insights from synthetic evolved circuitsJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 6 Số 33 - Trang 393-400 - 2009
Javier Macía, Ricard V. Solé
Evolved natural systems are known to display some sort of distributed robustness against the loss of individual components. Such type of robustness is not just the result of redundancy. Instead, it seems to be based on degeneracy, i.e. the ability of elements that are structurally different to perform the same function or yield the same output. Here, we explore the problem of how relevant ...... hiện toàn bộ
Nano-sized manganese oxides as biomimetic catalysts for water oxidation in artificial photosynthesis: a reviewJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 9 Số 75 - Trang 2383-2395 - 2012
Mohammad Mahdi Najafpour, Fahimeh Rahimi, Eva‐Mari Aro, Choon-Hwan Lee, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev
There has been a tremendous surge in research on the synthesis of various metal compounds aimed at simulating the water-oxidizing complex (WOC) of photosystem II (PSII). This is crucial because the water oxidation half reaction is overwhelmingly rate-limiting and needs high over-voltage (approx. 1 V), which results in low conversion efficiencies when working at current densities required f...... hiện toàn bộ
Complementary vasoactivity and matrix remodelling in arterial adaptations to altered flow and pressureJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 6 Số 32 - Trang 293-306 - 2009
Andreas Valentin, L. Cardamone, Seungik Baek, Jay D. Humphrey
Arteries exhibit a remarkable ability to adapt to sustained alterations in biomechanical loading, probably via mechanisms that are similarly involved in many arterial pathologies and responses to treatment. Of particular note, diverse data suggest that cell and matrix turnover within vasoaltered states enables arteries to adapt to sustained changes in blood flow and pressure. The goal here...... hiện toàn bộ
Co-culture systems and technologies: taking synthetic biology to the next levelJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 11 Số 96 - Trang 20140065 - 2014
Lisa Goers, Paul S. Freemont, Karen M. Polizzi
Co-culture techniques find myriad applications in biology for studying natural or synthetic interactions between cell populations. Such techniques are of great importance in synthetic biology, as multi-species cell consortia and other natural or synthetic ecology systems are widely seen to hold enormous potential for foundational research as well as novel industrial, medical and environmen...... hiện toàn bộ
Challenges in tissue engineeringJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 3 Số 10 - Trang 589-601 - 2006
Yoshito Ikada
Almost 30 years have passed since a term ‘tissue engineering’ was created to represent a new concept that focuses on regeneration of neotissues from cells with the support of biomaterials and growth factors. This interdisciplinary engineering has attracted much attention as a new therapeutic means that may overcome the drawbacks involved in the current artificial organs and organ transplan...... hiện toàn bộ
Exit rights open complex pathways to cooperationJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 18 Số 174 - Trang 20200777 - 2021
Chen Shen, Marko Jusup, Лей Ши, Zhen Wang, Matjaž Perc, Petter Holme
We study the evolutionary dynamics of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game in which cooperators and defectors interact with another actor type called exiters. Rather than being exploited by defectors, exiters exit the game in favour of a small pay-off. We find that this simple extension of the game allows cooperation to flourish in well-mixed populations when iterations or reputation are added. In ...... hiện toàn bộ
The evolution of trust and trustworthinessJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 17 Số 169 - Trang 20200491 - 2020
Aanjaneya Kumar, Valerio Capraro, Matjaž Perc
Trust and trustworthiness form the basis for continued social and economic interactions, and they are also fundamental for cooperation, fairness, honesty, and indeed for many other forms of prosocial and moral behaviour. However, trust entails risks, and building a trustworthy reputation requires effort. So how did trust and trustworthiness evolve, and under which conditions do they thrive...... hiện toàn bộ
Landscape epidemiology of plant diseasesJournal of the Royal Society Interface - Tập 4 Số 16 - Trang 963-972 - 2007
Sandrine Petit, Christophe Le May, Frédéric Fabre
Many agricultural landscapes are characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity and fragmentation. Landscape ecology focuses on the influence of habitat heterogeneity in space and time on ecological processes. Landscape epidemiology aims at applying concepts and approaches originating from landscape ecology to the study of pathogen dynamics at the landscape scale. However, despite the str...... hiện toàn bộ