News tagged with complex networks
Physics rules network dynamics
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.
Researchers unravel brain's wiring to understand memory
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Using a powerful microscope, Karel Svoboda, a brain scientist at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va., peers through a plastic window in the top of a mouse's head to watch its brain's neurons sprout new connections ...
'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' game provides clue to efficiency of complex networks
Nov 17, 2008 |
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As the global population continues to grow exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively small, as if we're all protagonists in the Kevin Bacon game inspired by "Six Degrees of Separation," ...
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What's the semantic organization of human language?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2009 |
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A Chinese semantic network with semantic (argument structure) annotation was built and investigated for finding its global statistical properties. The results show that semantic network is also small-world and scale-free ...
Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map'
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How does an e-mail get routed so quickly to its recipient's inbox, or a search query generate relevant Web pages from servers from around the world? Navigating the Internet - or any similar ...
This is your grid on brains
Oct 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Managing power networks in the future may involve a little more brain power than it does today, if researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology succeed in a new project that ...
Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...
Researchers develop computational tool to untangle complex data
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of Dartmouth researchers have developed a mathematical tool that can be used to unscramble the underlying structure of time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of ...
Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells
Nov 09, 2009 |
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On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped ...
Ancient archaeology holds clue to new computer systems
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Researchers are looking back at ancient civilisations in order to develop future computer systems in a £1.75m project.
Scientists create working artificial nerve networks
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the brain and eventually healing conditions such as blindness or epilepsy. In the ...
New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have theorized for decades about how neural networks might be able to accomplish the incredibly complex calculations the human brain performs all the time. But simply stabilizing ...
Technology on way to forecasting humanity's needs
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana University's Alessandro Vespignani believes we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic ...
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