Information modelling is a method of providing standardized syntax, semantics and hierarchical structures to the data that is exchanged among different devices and systems.
An Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) is composed of a number of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) instances, which allow energy/material exchanges among the different industrial enterprises (Individual Actors, IA) therein.
The objective is the optimal selection of the system components among several candidate technologies (micro combined heat and power units, photovoltaic arrays, boilers, central power grid), including the optimal design of a heating pipeline network, that allows heat exchange among the different nodes.
For example, one can speculate about the existence of the water associated with the collagen (the crystalline water), the water associated with the proteoglycan (the hydration water), and the relatively free water (ignoring for the moment the exchanges among the different populations and the distribution of each population).
Plasmids evolve as an integral part of the bacterial genome, providing resistance genes that can be easily exchanged among bacteria of different origin and source by conjugation.
The language that microbes use is chemical where small molecules are exchanged among different microbial cells.
Structure of XML documents exchanged among different components of a system (e.g. services in a Service-Oriented Architecture) is usually described with XML schemas.
In fact, many of the most common resistance genes found in hospitals today are encoded on small plasmids that can be exchanged among different bacterial strains and species (Bennett 2008).
Plasmids usually evolve as an integral part of the bacterial genome, consisting of several extra-chromosomal traits, one of which is their resistance genes, which can be exchanged among bacteria of different origins by conjugation [ 34].
Plasmids also play a role in genome diversification and are exchanged among strains and circulate between different Legionella species.
