News tagged with network structure
All decked out: Networks of chitin filaments are integral components of diatom silica shells
Dec 01, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A whole microcosm of various bizarrely shaped life forms opens up when you look at diatoms, the primary component of ocean plankton, under a microscope. The regularly structured silica shells of these tiny ...
Search results for network structure
Physics rules network dynamics
Dec 11, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (25) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to the workings of the Web, the brain, or a social network, physics finds universal truths.
From terrorism to HIV, it's all about the network
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 18, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Similarities between webs of terrorists and networks of rescue personnel may seem unlikely. To an eclectic collaboration of engineers and social scientists, the connections are not only possible, but a potential ...
Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes
Dec 21, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...
Physics Model Determines Dynamics of Friends and Enemies
Dec 02, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (16) |
6
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes friends can become enemies and enemies become friends, and it’s difficult to understand exactly how or why the changes took place. A new study shows that when the shifting of alliances ...
A cell's 'cap' of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease (w/ Video)
Dec 02, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.
Loneliness can be contagious
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2009 |
4 / 5 (4) |
4
Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows.
Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
1
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...
A social network that ballooned
Dec 11, 2009 |
1 / 5 (1) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Tuesday, Dec. 1, members of the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Laboratory received an e-mail with a $40,000 proposition. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects ...
ARS Explores Ways to Keep Carbon in the Soil
Dec 03, 2009 |
1 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon ...
Ending the cycle of poverty
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- While many academically talented high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, are figuring out what outfit to wear to school on a particular day, other top grade-earners are busily getting ...
List of search results for network structure
