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Biophotons: New Experimental Data and Analysis

Description: Article describes how biophotons are an ultra-weak emission of photons in the visible energy range from living matter. The authors study the emission from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity.
Date: October 10, 2023
Creator: Benfatto, Maurizio; Pace, Elisabetta; Davoli, Ivan; Francini, Roberto; Matteis, Fabio De; Scordo, Alessandro et al.
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Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks

Description: Article describes how the transdisciplinary nature of science as a whole became evident as the necessity for the complex nature of phenomena to explain social and life science, along with the physical sciences, blossomed into complexity theory and most recently into complexitysynchronization. The authors use the scaling of empirical datasets from the brain, cardiovascular and respiratory networks to support the hypothesis that complexity synchronization occurs between scaling indices or equival… more
Date: September 28, 2023
Creator: West, Bruce J.; Grigolini, Paolo; Kerick, Scott E.; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & Mahmoodi, Korosh
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Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs

Description: Authors of the article address the measurable consequences of the network effect (NE) on time series generated by different parts of the brain, heart, and lung organ-networks (ONs), which are directly related to their inter-network and intra-network interactions. The authors assert that these same physiologic ONs have been shown to generate crucial event (CE) time series, and herein are shown ,using modified diffusion entropy analysis (MDEA) to have scaling indices with quasiperiodic changes in… more
Date: July 15, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & West, Bruce J.
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Fractal structure of human and primate social networks optimizes information flow

Description: Article describes how primate and human social groups exhibit a fractal structure that has a very limited range of preferred layer sizes. The authors calculate the size dependence of the scaling properties of complex social network models and argue that this aggregate behavior exhibits a form of collective intelligence.
Date: June 7, 2023
Creator: West, Bruce J.; Culbreth, Garland; Dunbar, Robin I. M. & Grigolini, Paolo
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Temporal complexity measure of reaction time series: Operational versus event time

Description: Article describes how detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a well-established method to evaluate scaling indices of time series, which categorize the dynamics of complex systems. The authors propose treating each reaction time as a duration time that changes the representation from operational (trial number) time n to event (temporal) time t, or X(t).
Date: May 23, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Pitor J. & West, Bruce J.
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Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps toward stigmergy?

Description: Article discusses an interesting approach to accounting for brain and behavioral asymmetry based on competition and cooperation in phenotypically asymmetric individuals. The model in question shows, in an almost fully analytical way, that under proper conditions, there exists an unequal number of equilibrium of left-and right-lateralized individuals.
Date: February 2, 2023
Creator: Tonello, Lucio & Vallortigara, Giorgio
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Unusual Mathematical Approaches Untangle Nervous Dynamics

Description: Article reports that the massive amount of available neurodata suggests the existence of a mathematical backbone underlying neuronal oscillatory activities. The authors assert that the Monge’s theorem might contribute to our visual ability of depth perception and the brain connectome can be tackled in terms of tunnelling nanotubes.
Date: October 14, 2022
Creator: Tozzi, Arturo & Mariniello, Lucio
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Crucial Development: Criticality Is Important to Cell-to-Cell Communication and Information Transfer in Living Systems

Description: This article is the fourth paper of the Special Issue Memory and Criticality. It bridges the the theoretical debate on the role of memory and criticality discussed in the three earlier manuscripts, with a review of key concepts in biology and focus on cell-to-cell communication in organismal development. The authors suggest that in conjunction with morphogenetic gradients, there exist gradients of information transfer creating cybernetic loops of stability and disorder, setting the stage for ad… more
Date: August 31, 2021
Creator: Hunt von Herbing, Ione; Tonello, Lucio; Benfatto, Maurizio; Pease, April & Grigolini, Paolo
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Approaching Bounded Rationality: From Quantum Probability to Criticality

Description: This article discusses the decision-making model (DMM), a paradigmatic instance of criticality, which deals with bounded rationality issues in a similar way as quantum probability (QP), generating choices that cannot be accounted by classical probability (CP). This work may contribute to considering criticality as another possible fundamental pillar in order to improve the understanding of cognition and of quantum mechanics.
Date: June 13, 2021
Creator: Tonello, Lucio & Grigolini, Paolo
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Do gene-environment interactions play a role in COVID-19 distribution? The case of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin, air pollution and COVID-19

Description: This article evaluates the role that gene-environment interaction between air-pollution and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) genes plays in the severity of COVID-19. Results find parallelism between the number of COVID deaths and the AAT*air pollution global risk in Europe.
Date: May 7, 2021
Creator: Murgia, Nicola; Corsico, Angelo Guido; D'Amato, Gennaro; Maesano, Cara Nichole; Tozzi, Arturo & Annesi-Maesano, Isabella
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Biophotons-and-emergence-of-quantum-coherencea-diffusion-entropy-analysisEntropy

Description: This article studies the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. It analyzes the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process.
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Benfatto, Maurizio; Pace, Elisabetta; Curceanu, Catalina; Scordo, Alessandro; Clozza, Alberto; Davoli, Ivan et al.
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Caputo Fractional Derivative and Quantum-Like Coherence

Description: This article studies two forms of anomalous diffusions and discusses the joint use of these prescriptions, with a phenomenological method and a theoretical projection method, leading to two apparently different diffusion equations. The authors prove that the two diffusion equations are equivalent and design a time series that corresponds to the anomalous diffusion equation proposed.
Date: February 9, 2021
Creator: Culbreth, Garland; Bologna, Mauro; West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
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Diffusion Entropy vs. Multiscale and Rényi Entropy to Detect Progression of Autonomic Neuropathy

Description: This article reviews the literature to argue the importance of the occurrence of crucial events in the dynamics of physiological processes. Crucial events are interpreted as short time intervals of turbulence, and the time distance between two consecutive crucial events is a waiting time distribution density with an inverse power law (IPL) index µ, with µ < 3 generating non-stationary behavior.
Date: January 14, 2021
Creator: Jelinek, Herbert F.; Tuladhar, Rohisha; Culbreth, Garland; Bohara, Gyanendra; Cornforth, David; West, Bruce J. et al.
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Complex Periodicity and Synchronization

Description: Article explores experimental walking synchronization and complexity restoration. The main goal is to establish a physiological foundation of these important results based on the recent advances on the dynamics of the brain, interpreted as a system at criticality.
Date: September 30, 2020
Creator: Grigolini, Paolo; Mahmoodi, Korosh & West, Bruce J.
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Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective

Description: The article describes cosmic expansion as correlated with the standpoints of local observers’ co-moving horizons. In keeping with relational quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum systems are only meaningful in the context of measurements, the authors suggest that information gets ergodically “diluted” in our isotropic and homogeneous expanding Universe, so that an observer detects just a limited amount of the total cosmic bits.
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Tozzi, Arturo & Peters, James F.
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Entropic Approach to the Detection of Crucial Events

Description: This article establishes a clear distinction between two processes yielding anomalous diffusion and 1/ f noise. One of the processes, Aging Fractional Brownian Motion (AFBM), has been concluded to be the form of communication between the heart and the brain.
Date: February 14, 2019
Creator: Culbreth, Garland; West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
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Computational Topology Techniques Help To Solve A Long-Lasting Forensic Dilemma: Aldo Moro's Death

Description: The article shows how a recently-introduced method from algebraic topology, namely proximal planar vortex 1-cycles, might be helpful in detecting hidden features of the shapes and holes in images, therefore contributing to the solution of both cold and fresh forensic cases. They apply this technique in a recent case, Aldo Moro's death.
Date: November 13, 2018
Creator: Peters, James F. & Tozzi, Arturo
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Team Resilience in Complex and Turbulent Environments: The Effect of Size and Density of Social Interactions

Description: This article addresses the question of how teams cope with environmental threats by investigating two drivers of team resilience: the team size and the density of social interactions among team members.
Date: July 24, 2018
Creator: Giannoccaro, Ilaria; Massari, Giovanni F. & Carbone, Giuseppe
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On social sensitivity to either zealot or independent minorities

Description: This article uses the self-organized temporal criticality (SOTC) model to identify the timing of crucial events as a new mechanism with which to generate criticality, thereby establishing a way for the internal dynamics of the decision making process to suppresss the sensitivity of social opinion to either zealot or independent minorities.
Date: March 27, 2018
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
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