Powerful new metric quickly reveals network structure at multiple scales
What does a network look like? It typically depends on what scale you're analyzing.
Computer Sciences
Aug 19, 2016
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From happiness on Twitter to DNA organization
Twitter users who are happy tend to be more connected with other happy users. This is the confirmation of a property of social networks known as assortativity: a measure of to what extent people who tend to connect with each ...
Biotechnology
Aug 3, 2016
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What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a much more essential commodity: food. Now, researchers reporting on the food sharing networks of two contemporary groups of hunter-gatherers ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2016
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Research showing why hierarchy exists will aid the development of artificial intelligence
New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to create artificial intelligence. The study, published ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 9, 2016
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Team analyzed network heterogeneity of suprachiasmatic nucleus to reverse age-related decline in circadian rhythm
If you've ever felt groggy the morning after traversing time zones, you can thank the temporary mismatch between your body's 24-hour circadian rhythm and your new local time. In mammals, this rhythm is governed on a neuronal ...
General Physics
May 31, 2016
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It's complicated: Self-organized patterns identify emergent behavior near critical transitions
From the perspective of complex systems, a range of events – from chemistry and biology to extreme weather and population ecology – can be viewed as large-scale self-emergent phenomena that occur as a consequence of deteriorating ...
ESA image: Space-brain networking
An advanced MRI scan of a human brain showing neural networks.
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2014
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Facebook, Cornell researchers analyze romantic ties
Facebook's Eric Backstrom, senior engineer, together with Jon Kleinberg, a computer scientist at Cornell University, have sparked interest with the online publication over the weekend of their paper, "Romantic Partnerships ...
Better models for studying the flow of information in networks
Physicist Atieh Mirshahvalad uses network models to better understand the connection between the flow of information and social structures. Among other things she has introduced a group formation model for social systems. ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 19, 2013
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How does complex behavior spontaneously emerge in the brain?
(Phys.org) —The idea of emergence, in which complex behavior spontaneously emerges out of simple interactions, exists in a wide variety of areas, such as economics, the Internet, and urban development. But perhaps the ultimate ...
