Statistics conference to mark eminent statistician’s 70th birthday
Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University is to host a conference in honour of the 70th birthday of Distinguished Professor Peter ...
Tag: Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity
HIV ‘hotspots’ not necessarily major drivers of new infections
Credit: Kate Grabowski Areas of high HIV prevalence, known as 'hotspots', do not necessarily fuel the epidemic in the wider ...
Understanding the mechanisms of seemingly chaotic synchronization in trees
Synchronization of Chaos: Understanding the mechanisms of period-3 synchronization in plant populations located 20 kilometers apartCredit: Kenshi Sakai, TUAT The ...
Why collapse is not always a bad thing
New book provides an analysis of the process of failure and collapse, and outlines principles that help us manage these ...
Researchers reach milestone in quantum standardization
Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to ...
Birds of a feather flock together, but how do they decide where to go?
Researchers propose a new method of studying coordinated behavior in biological systems, which they use to study pigeon flightsCredit: Angie ...
Are some urban settings riskier for traffic injury or death? We know less than you think
Researchers examine crash risk, crash exposure and the built environmentCredit: Florida Atlantic University How dangerous is travel in the United ...
Nanoscale manipulation of light leads to exciting new advancement
UNM researchers find decreasing the density of nanoparticles in ordered arrays produces exceptional field enhancementsCredit: University of New Mexico Department ...
Underwater manatee chatter may aid in their conservation
Credit: Sean Mattson/STRI Listening in on manatee conversations could help restore populations of this endangered marine mammal. Each manatee has ...
Artificial intelligence solution improves clinical trial recruitment
Study in emergency department shows automated patient screening eases enrollmentCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI--Clinical trials are a critical tool for getting ...
Hidden dynamics detected in neuronal networks
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University show that neuronal networks can assume a second, previously unknown critical modeCredit: ...
Chaos theory produces map for predicting paths of particles emitted into the atmosphere
Combining wind data with the fractal-like behavior that air particles take on in the atmosphere provides a way for determining ...
UCI researchers’ deep learning algorithm solves Rubik’s Cube faster than any human
Work is step toward advanced AI systems that can think, reason, plan and make decisionsCredit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, ...
Strange warping geometry helps to push scientific boundaries
Credit: Kollár et al. Atomic interactions in everyday solids and liquids are so complex that some of these materials' properties ...
Training trials
Capping medical residency hours does not hamper new doctors' quality of training When new rules capped training hours for medical ...
An innovative method for detecting defaulting participants based on sparse reconstruction
Credit: Shun-ichi Azuma In the contract-based demand response, some of the participants may default in providing the scheduled negawatt energy ...
Machine learning reveals how strongly interacting electrons behave at atomic level
Machine learning helps solve a puzzle of how strongly interacting electrons behave at atomic levelCredit: JC Séamus Davis For the ...
Finding missing network links could help develop new drugs, stop disease, ease traffic
Sex, drugs and traffic: Search for missing links in networks could help uncover new cancer treatments, build more efficient traffic ...
Review emphasizes the power of simple physical models for complex protein machines
Credit: Kanazawa University The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various ...
God doesn’t play dice — does cancer?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The saying "God doesn't play dice" is meant to suggest that nothing happens by ...
