Sentences with phrase «artificial system»

But an isolated lab colony is a highly artificial system.

These projects share certain concerns — how natural and artificial systems operate, how media affect memory, and the relationship between humans and animals.

Mimicking nature is not easy, but new insights by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help create a viable artificial system of photosynthesis.

Finally, biomolecules themselves or their synthetic mimics will be used in artificial systems designed to emulate biological systems.

As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory and technology for building artificial systems that obtain information from images or multi-dimensional data.

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has demonstrated that a nanoscale device, called a memristor, could be used to power artificial systems that can mimic the human brain.

Evolution is an observable fact, whether the natural common cold, flu, or artificial system like computer technology or cars.

They achieved this by integrating a conventional solid - state complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane containing ATP - powered ion pumps, opening the door to creating entirely new artificial systems that contain both biological and solid - state components.

In different sets of photographs, the scientists developed software that replicated how colors look under different types of color vision, including different types of color blindness, and the type of trichromatic vision seen in many artificial systems, with even spacing of the green and red photoreceptors.

A light - activated compass at the back of some birds» eyes may preserve electrons in delicate quantum states for longer than the best artificial systems.

The invention of a less invasive implant device with many more channels that can interact with the brain would result in revolutionary improvements to brain - machine interfaces, including direct interfaces to the auditory cortex and the visual cortex, expanding dramatically the ways in which artificial systems can support brain function.

It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to researchers at the University of Sheffield.

Recent breakthroughs in creating artificial systems that outplay humans in a diverse array of challenging games have their roots in neural networks inspired by information processing in the brain.

For example, the process of becoming painstakingly explicit about informa - tion and rules that is necessary to the successful construction of artificial systems accords with the basic clinical aspiration of surfacing and critically examining the tacit understandings and modes of interaction that underlie the behavior of legal actors.

Lead author Dr Alex Serb, from Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, said: «If we want to build artificial systems that can mimic the brain in function and power we need to use hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions of artificial synapses, many of which must be able to implement learning rules of varying degrees of complexity.

«Brain - inspired device to power artificial systems.»

The research team, led by Professor of Physics Dr. Seth Fraden of Brandeis University, drew inspiration from the mesmerizing sinuous motion of a swimming blue eel and puzzlingly large gap between how natural systems move and the lack of such coordinated and smooth movement in artificial systems.

The artificial system is used to observe the effects of air pollutants on cells in the upper airway.

Some of the frogs conserved at New York's Bronx Zoo were later bred in Tanzania and are now living in the wild near an artificial system of sprinklers

Neuroengineer José Carmena of the University of California, Berkeley, says Millán's approach «has a lot of novelty» in how it integrates both natural and artificial systems.

Thus in our research project, an artificial system is more or less linked into natural cycles.

The advantage: The artificial system — developed by an Israeli enterprise — makes an immunosuppression in the recipient superfluous.

But computer scientists can overcome this problem in an artificial system by introducing pheromone decay: when the chemical evaporates quickly, longer paths will have trouble maintaining stable pheromone trails.

The mice in the 1988 study were an artificial system.

Exoskeletons work in parallel with human muscles, serving as an artificial system that helps the body overcome inertia and gravity, says Hugh Herr, principal investigator for M.I.T.'s Biomechatronics Group, which is developing a light, low - power exoskeleton that straps to a person's waist, legs and feet.

This research has implications for both robot design and theory of artificial systems.»

They are designing an artificial system that mimics how plants and other photosynthetic organisms use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into molecules that humans can later use for fuel.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

«Scientists could use it to discover the rules governing natural or artificial systems, especially where behaviour can not be easily characterised using similarity metrics,» he said.

Understanding these processes is complex, because the brains of other living humans are the most complex object in the universe, and our ability to so intuitively feel what goes on in these other brains is an amazing and mysterious feat, that requires what so far no artificial system can do: transform the complex observable behaviours of others into hypotheses of what these people feel inside of them, hidden from view.

This international conference is a Convergent Science Network event and is targeted at the intersection of research on novel life - like technologies inspired by the scientific investigation of biological systems — biomimetics, and research that seeks to interface biological and artificial systems to create biohybrid systems.

Other examples have made the error of using this heightened, artificial system to replicate human characteristics, with the result that perfectly fetching actors invariably emerge resembling action - figures of themselves.

In a world where technology and artificial systems are becoming more prevalent, my films are a reminder that they are both a product of nature.»

We would then choose a particular position in the talahib where we would install a certain flowering plant that would be sustained in an artificial system, possibly a hydroponic one.

A scientific consortium in cahoots to place an artificial systems of cap and trade for pure profit in the guise of environmentalism.

That's what the artificial systems are supposed to reproduce.

Winfield said it's currently not technically possible to build an artificial system with moral agency.