In the design of cellular structures using unit cell-based modeling, idealized structures with infinite dimensions and negligible boundary conditions are often assumed in order to simplify the analysis. However, such treatments also result in signifi...
The rapid development of urban metropolises has attracted a growing number of immigrants and travelers, increasing the burden on transportation systems. Previous research on urban mobility patterns have ignored the temporal variations and heterogenei...
Lightning-induced forest fires frequently inflict substantial damage on forest ecosystems, with the Daxing’anling region in northern China recognized as a high-incidence region for such phenomena. To elucidate the occurrence patterns of forest...
The objective is to find a Cellular Automata (CA) rule that can generate “loop patterns”. A loop pattern is given by ones on a zero background showing loops. In order to find out how loop patterns can be locally defined, tentative loop pa...
Cell growth in plants occurs due to relaxation of the cell wall in response to mechanical forces generated by turgor pressure. Growth can be anisotropic, with the principal direction of growth often correlating with the direction of lower stiffness o...
The basic rules of self-organization using a totalistic cellular automaton (CA) were investigated, for which the cell state was determined by summing the states of neighboring cells, like in Conway’s Game of Life. This study used a short-range...
We propose a Cellular Automata (CA) model in which three ubiquitous and relevant processes in nature are present, namely, spatial competition, distinction between dynamically stronger and weaker agents and the existence of an inner resistance to chan...
It is well known that elastic instabilities induce pattern transformations when a soft cellular structure is compressed beyond critical limits. The nonlinear phenomena of pattern transformations make them a prime candidate for controlling macroscopic...
Decadal to centennial land use and land cover change has been consistently singled out as a key element and an important driver of global environmental change, playing an essential role in balancing energy use. Understanding long-term human-environme...
Cellular automata (CA) are parallel computational models that comprise of a grid of cells. CA is mainly used for modeling complex systems in various fields, where the geometric structure of the lattices is different. In the absence of a CA model to a...
A cellular neural network (CNN) based on a VO2 carbon nanotube memristor is proposed in this paper. The device is modeled by SPICE at first, and then the cell dynamic characteristics based on the device are analyzed. It is pointed out that only when...
The addition of omnidirectional capability and modularization to conveyor systems is an exciting and trending topic in current conveyor research. The implementation of omnidirectional modular conveyors is foreseen as mandatory in the future of convey...
A cellular 5G sub-6 GHz vehicle antenna design with a consistent radiation pattern across the frequency bands in 0.617–5 GHz is demonstrated via characteristic mode analysis. The design focuses on maintaining monopole first-order mode radiation...
Animal skin patterns are increasingly explained using the Turing pattern model proposed by Alan Turing. The Turing model, a self-organizing model, can produce spotted or striped patterns. However, several animal patterns exist that do not correspond...
Living cell microarrays have been combined with microfluidic bioreactors, which provide multiple advantages for multiplex dynamic analyses and high-throughput screening. In the last decade, many developments in this new field have been introduced. Th...
To examine the development of pattern formation from the viewpoint of symmetry, we applied a two-dimensional discrete Walsh analysis to a one-dimensional cellular automata model under two types of regular initial conditions. The amount of symmetropy...
Here, two different electrode patterns are described as cyclic voltammetry (CV) biosensors to detect the effect of a hypo CO2 condition (for 6 h) in ambient on cellular secretion. The cells were selected from breast cancer and endothelial standard li...
The purine nucleotide adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is known for its fundamental role in cellular bioenergetics. However, in the last decades, different works have described emerging functions for ATP, such as that of a danger signaling molecule actin...
Classification is an important task of machine learning for solving a wide range of problems in conforming patterns. In the literature, machine learning algorithms dealing with non-conforming patterns are rarely proposed. In this regard, a cellular a...
In plants, the first asymmetrical division of a zygote leads to the formation of two cells with different developmental fates. The establishment of various patterns relies on spatial and temporal gene expression, however the precise mechanism respons...
Plasmodesmata form intercellular channels which ensure the transport of various molecules during embryogenesis and postembryonic growth. However, high permeability of plasmodesmata may interfere with the establishment of auxin maxima, which are requi...
The issue of spatial diffusion and pattern division of traditional cellular automata (CA) has drawn widespread attention and generated extensive work by scholars. However, there are many deficiencies in traditional configurations of CA neighborhoods,...
Coxsackievirus-B4 (CV-B4) can persist in pancreatic cell lines and impair the phenoytpe and/or gene expressions in these cells; however, the models used to study this phenomenon did not produce insulin. Therefore, we investigated CV-B4 persistence an...
We live in the information age, but we still do not fully understand how the surrounding nature exchanges, collects, and manages information—both at the ecosystem and cellular levels. Still, it is crucial to possess a dynamic and developing com...
Understanding asymmetric interactions among heterogeneous traffic participants is essential for managing congestion and enhancing safety at urban signalized intersections. This study proposes a cellular automaton modeling framework that captures the...
Different patterns can be created on the surface of growing crystals, among which the step bunches and/or step meanders are two of the most studied. The Ehrlich–Schwoebel effect at the surface steps is considered one of the “usual suspects” of such p...
The expanding cropland profoundly affects stream water quality. However, the relationships between landscape patterns and stream water quality in different cropland composition classes remain unclear. We observed total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus...
Cellular-pulsating (hotspot) burning of energetic materials has resisted a unified theoretical explanation for over 6 decades, despite extensive experimental characterization across multiple materials and laboratories. The central question—why...
We investigate two closely related Lattice Gas Cellular Automata models of the interplay of aggregation of biological cells and synchronization of intracellular oscillations (“clocks”): clock-dependent aggregation, where the adhesive forc...
Temperature offers a simple yet powerful signal to program cellular behavior. Here, we engineered and characterized a set of temperature-dependent genetic circuits that integrate RNA thermometers with site-specific DNA recombinases to achieve precise...
Information processing in the brain takes place in a dense network of neurons connected through synapses. The collaborative work between these two components (Synapses and Neurons) allows for basic brain functions such as learning and memorization. T...
The long-known role of cell migration in physiological and pathological contexts still requires extensive research to be fully understood, mainly because of the intricate interaction between moving cells and their surroundings. While conventional ass...
Accurate forecasting of data traffic assumes a critical role in the administration of 5G networks, as it allows for optimal routing, detection of network anomalies, and improved management of network resources. The latter aspect significantly contrib...
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Enhancing urban vitality is a key goal for both the government and ordinary urban residents, and creating this vitality is emphasized in China’s urban development strategy. Enhancing urban vitality through the rational design of urban forms is a lead...
Any cancer type is one of the leading death causes around the world. Skin cancer is a condition where malignant cells are formed in the tissues of the skin, such as melanoma, known as the most aggressive and deadly skin cancer type. The mortality rat...
International crop exchange always brings the risk of introducing pests to countries where they are not yet present. The invasive pest Tuta absoluta (Meyrick 1917), after taking just a decade (2008–2017) to invade the entire Africa continent, i...
The process of cell-sorting is essential for development and maintenance of tissues. Mathematical modeling can provide the means to analyze the consequences of different hypotheses about the underlying mechanisms. With the Differential Adhesion Hypot...
Rapid urbanization has further expanded the scale of construction land in urban agglomerations. The encroachment of urban land on ecological land has led to severe ecological problems and threatened the stability of ecological security in urban agglo...
Identifying group movement patterns of crowds and understanding group behaviors are valuable for urban planners, especially when the groups are special such as tourist groups. In this paper, we present a framework to discover tourist groups and inves...
Helicobacter pylori is one of the most successful gastric pathogens that has co-existed with human for centuries. H. pylori is recognized by the host immune system through human pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), such as toll-like receptors (TLRs)...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects hepatocytes but not dendritic cells (DCs), but DCs effectively mature in response to HCV-infected hepatocytes. Using gene-disrupted mice and hydrodynamic injection strategy, we found the MAVS pathway to be crucial for...
The aim of this paper is to discuss several aspects regarding the dynamics and pattern formation in select cellular and graph neural circuit type architectures and to propose a new application. A unifying approach for these types of neural circuits b...
Identifying the progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to accelerated CLL (aCLL) or transformation to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (Richter transformation; RT) has significant clinical implications as it prompts a major change in patient...
The simulation and prediction of the land use changes is generally carried out by cellular automata—Markov (CA-Markov) model, and the generation of suitable maps collection is subjective in the simulation process. In this study, the CA-Markov m...
The oviduct provides an optimal environment for the final preparation, transport, and survival of gametes, the fertilization process, and early embryonic development. Most of the studies on reproduction are based on in vitro cell culture models becau...
The antral follicle stage is a critical period in mammalian oocyte maturation, marked by complex interactions between oocyte development and neighboring granulosa cells. Understanding the heterogeneity and communication patterns of granulosa cells wi...
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) particle morphogenesis in infected cells is an orchestrated process that eventually results in the release of enveloped virions. Proteomic analysis has been employed to reveal the complexity in the protein composition of...
Urban sprawl in developing countries changes urban land use structure and function, and threatens the sustainable development of regional ecology and security patterns of city landscapes. A new way to control urban sprawl is to develop a comprehensiv...
This paper presents a review of the theory and applications of memristor cellular nonlinear networks. By mapping the physical processes to the memristive framework, all resistive switching devices can be modeled. The idea is to find a state variable...
During the COVID-19 outbreak, modeling the spread of infectious diseases became a challenging research topic due to its rapid spread and high mortality rate. The main objective of a standard epidemiological model is to estimate the number of infected...
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