Athel Cornish-Bowden,María Luz Cárdenas
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Disagreement over whether life is inevitable when the conditions can support life remains unresolved, but calculations show that self-organization can arise naturally from purely random effects. Closure to efficient causation, or the need f...
Sergiy Koshkin,Zachary Zalles,Michael F Tobin et al.
Sergiy Koshkin et al.
We study optimal two-sector (vegetative and reproductive) allocation models of annual plants in temporally variable environments that incorporate effects of density-dependent lifetime variability and juvenile mortality in a fitness function...
Bernhard Voelkl,Hanno Würbel
Bernhard Voelkl
Reproducibility in biomedical research, and more specifically in preclinical animal research, has been seriously questioned. Several cases of spectacular failures to replicate findings published in the primary scientific literature have led...
On the historical roots of creationism and intelligent design: German Allmacht and Darwinian evolution in context [0.03%]
创世论和智能设计的历史根源再审视——兼论德国的全能上帝与达尔文进化论的关系
Elizabeth Watts,Ulrich Kutschera
Elizabeth Watts
As detailed in a Letter published in Science in 2017, the adherents of creationism and intelligent design are still active in promoting their biblical-literalist views of the origin and evolution of life on Earth. In this contribution, we t...
Role of integrated noise in pathway-specific signal propagation in feed-forward loops [0.03%]
整合噪声在前馈环路信号传播中的作用
Mintu Nandi
Mintu Nandi
Cells impose optimal noise control mechanism in diverse situations to cope with distinct environmental cues. Sometimes, it is desirable for the cell to utilize fluctuations for noise-driven processes. In other cases, noise can be harmful to...
Mathematical computations on epidemiology: a case study of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) [0.03%]
基于冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)疫情案例的流行病学数学计算研究
Saikat Batabyal,Arthita Batabyal
Saikat Batabyal
The outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading at an unprecedented rate to the human populations and taking several thousands of life all over the world. Scientists are trying to map the pattern of the transmission of coronavirus (SARS-C...
Quantifying the impact of network structure on speed and accuracy in collective decision-making [0.03%]
量化网络结构对集体决策速度和准确度的影响
Bryan C Daniels,Pawel Romanczuk
Bryan C Daniels
Found in varied contexts from neurons to ants to fish, binary decision-making is one of the simplest forms of collective computation. In this process, information collected by individuals about an uncertain environment is accumulated to gui...
Mathematical modeling and analysis of anemia during pregnancy and postpartum [0.03%]
孕期和产后的贫血的数学建模与分析
Auni Aslah Mat Daud,Cher Qing Toh,Salilah Saidun
Auni Aslah Mat Daud
Anemia is a significant public health problem worldwide especially among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries. In this study, a mathematical model of the population dynamics of anemia during pregnancy and postpartum is constru...
Hyunju Kim,Gabriele Valentini,Jake Hanson et al.
Hyunju Kim et al.
Collective behavior is widely regarded as a hallmark property of living and intelligent systems. Yet, many examples are known of simple physical systems that are not alive, which nonetheless display collective behavior too, prompting simple...
Fariba Fayazi,Elena Fimmel,Lutz Strüngmann
Fariba Fayazi
In the 1950s, Crick proposed the concept of so-called comma-free codes as an answer to the frame-shift problem that biologists have encountered when studying the process of translating a sequence of nucleotide bases into a protein. A little...