Institut de Recerca en Sistemes Complexos (UBICS): Recent submissions
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Active and reactive behaviour in human mobility: the influence of attraction points on pedestrians
Human mobility is becoming an accessible field of study, thanks to the progress and availability of tracking technologies as a common feature of smart phones. We describe an example of a scalable experiment exploiting these ...
Active nematic flows confined in a two dimensional channel with hybrid alignment at the walls: A unified picture
Active nematic fluids confined in narrow channels are known to generate spontaneous flows when the activity is sufficiently intense. Recently, it was demonstrated [R. Green, J. Toner, and V. Vitelli, Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, ...
Clustering of topological defects in two-dimensional melting of active and passive disks
We provide a comprehensive quantitative analysis of localized and extended topological defects in the steady state of 2D passive and active repulsive Brownian disk systems. We show that, both in and out-of-equilibrium, the ...
Metabolic plasticity in synthetic lethal mutants: viability at higher cost
The most frequent form of pairwise synthetic lethality (SL) in metabolic networks is known as plasticity synthetic lethality. It occurs when the simultaneous inhibition of paired functional and silent metabolic reactions ...
Geometric Correlations Mitigate the Extreme Vulnerability of Multiplex Networks against Targeted Attacks
We show that real multiplex networks are unexpectedly robust against targeted attacks on high-degree nodes and that hidden interlayer geometric correlations predict this robustness. Without geometric correlations, multiplexes ...
Multiscale unfolding of real networks by geometric renormalization
Symmetries in physical theories denote invariance under some transformation, such as self-similarity under a change of scale. The renormalization group provides a powerful framework to study these symmetries, leading to a ...
Bidirectional zigzag growth from clusters of active colloidal shakers
Driven or self-propelling particles moving in viscoelastic fluids recently emerged as a novel class of active systems showing a complex yet rich set of phenomena due to the non-Newtonian nature of the dispersing medium. ...
Citizen science and sustainability transitions
Citizen Science (CS) projects involve members of the general public as active participants in research. While some advocates hope that CS can increase scientific knowledge production ('productivity view'), others emphasize ...
Citizen science at public libraries: Data on librarians and users perceptions of participating in a citizen science project in Catalunya, Spain
As libraries struggle to keep pace with the changing societal landscape, emerging practices such as citizen science (CS) initiatives are being incorporated to reinforce the idea of public libraries as gathering, meeting, ...
Diffusion capacity of single and interconnected networks
Understanding diffusive processes in networks is a significant challenge in complexity science. Networks possess a diffusive potential that depends on their topological configuration, but diffusion also relies on the process ...
Arrested phase separation in chiral fluids of colloidal spinners
We investigate phase separation in a chiral fluid, made of spinning ferromagnetic colloids that interact both via hydrodynamic and dipolar forces and collectively organize into separated circulating clusters. We show that, ...
Nanoparticle anisotropy induces sphere-to-cylinder phase transition in block copolymer melts
Block copolymer nanocomposites including anisotropic nanoparticles have been previously found to co-assemble into complex structures with nanoparticle alignment. Anisotropic nanoparticles with large aspect ratios are found ...
Shape selection and mis-assembly in viral capsid formation by elastic frustration
The successful assembly of a closed protein shell (or capsid) is a key step in the replication of viruses and in the production of artificial viral cages for bio/nanotechnological applications. During self-assembly, the ...
Equivalence between non-Markovian and Markovian dynamics in epidemic spreading processes
A general formalism is introduced to allow the steady state of non-Markovian processes on networks to be reduced to equivalent Markovian processes on the same substrates. The example of an epidemic spreading process is ...
Noise focusing in neuronal tissues: Symmetry breaking and localization in excitable networks with quenched disorder
We introduce a coarse-grained stochastic model for the spontaneous activity of neuronal cultures to explain the phenomenon of noise focusing, which entails localization of the noise activity in excitable networks with ...
Spatio-temporal organization of correlated local activity within global avalanches in slowly driven interfaces
We study the jerky response of slowly driven fronts in disordered media, just above the depinning transition. We focus on how spatially disconnected clusters of internally correlated activity lead to large-scale velocity ...
Astrocyte dysfunction and neuronal network hyperactivity in a CRISPR engineered pluripotent stem cell model of frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most prevalent type of early-onset dementia and up to 40% of cases are familial forms. One of the genes mutated in patients is CHMP2B, which encodes a protein found in a complex ...
Dominance of metric correlations in two-dimensional neuronal cultures described through a Random Field Ising Model
We introduce a novel random field Ising model, grounded on experimental observations, to assess the importance of metric correlations in cortical circuits in vitro. Metric correlations arise from both the finite axonal ...
Opinion competition dynamics on multiplex networks
Multilayer and multiplex networks represent a good proxy for the description of social phenomena where social structure is important and can have different origins. Here, we propose a model of opinion competition where ...
Navigable maps of structural brain networks across species
Connectomes are spatially embedded networks whose architecture has been shaped by physical constraints and communication needs throughout evolution. Using a decentralized navigation protocol, we investigate the relationship ...
