News tagged with networking model

Barriers fall between TV, Internet

You say TV, I say Internet. Toe-mate-o, toe-mah-to.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How the brain routes traffic for maximum alertness

A new UC Davis study shows how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bursting neurons follow the same beat, sometimes

A simplified mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry shows that repetitious, overlapped firing of neurons can lead to the waves of overly synchronized brain activity that may cause the halting movements that are ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Control of fear in the brain decoded

When healthy people are faced with threatening situations, they react with a suitable behavioural response and do not descend into a state of either panic or indifference, as is the case, for example, with ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Online activity grows in a similar pattern to those of real-life networks

The activity of online communities does not grow in line with the number of users, according to a model recently published in the European Physical Journal B.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future

In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 50 | with audio podcast

Swarms of locusts use social networking to communicate

Social studies of Facebook and Twitter have been adapted to gain a greater understanding of the swarming behaviour of locusts. The enormous success of social networking sites has vividly illustrated the importance of networking ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nordic countries grill Facebook on privacy

Data protection agencies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland have quizzed social network giant Facebook on its management of users' private information, they said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ASU bioengineers will expand work to solve cardiovascular health challenges

Biomedical research at Arizona State University will be boosted with support from the American Heart Association for the work of three bioengineers.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Model finds optimal fiber optic network connections 10,000 times more quickly

Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places – a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers from North Carolina State University ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Networking' turns up flu viruses with close ties to pandemic of 2009

Scientists using new mathematical and computational techniques have identified six influenza A viruses that have particularly close genetic relationships to the H1N1 "swine" flu virus that swept through the United States ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Metabolic models make remediation more manageable

(PhysOrg.com) -- In efforts to reduce contamination at a former uranium mill tailings site, Dr. Krishna Mahadevan is developing genome-scale models to determine why certain bacteria reduce uranium better than ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Guilt, cooperation linked by neural network

(Medical Xpress) -- Economic models backed up by fMRI scans offer new insights on why people choose to cooperate rather than act selfishly.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How to control complex networks

At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast