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Spatial games provide a simple and elegant mathematical model to study the evolution of cooperation in networks. In spatial games, individuals reside in vertices, adopt simple strategies, and interact with neighbors to receive a payoff. Depending on their own and neighbors' payoffs, individuals can change their strategy.

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Pairing-specific microstructure in depletion gels of bidisperse colloids.

Soft Matter

November 2024

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, 911 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.

We report the ensemble-averaged and pairing-specific network microstructure formed by short-range depletion attractions in hard sphere-like colloidal systems. Gelation is induced by adding polystyrene molecules at a fixed concentration to colloids with different colloid bidispersity ratios ( = 1, 0.72, and 0.

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Cell neighbor exchanges play a critical role in regulating tissue fluidity during epithelial morphogenesis and repair. , these neighbor exchanges are often hindered by the formation of transiently stable fourfold vertices, which can develop into complex multicellular rosettes where five or more cell junctions meet. Despite their importance, the mechanical origins of multicellular rosettes have remained elusive, and current cellular models lack the ability to explain their formation and maintenance.

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Spurious correlations in surface-based functional brain imaging.

bioRxiv

July 2024

School of Psychological Sciences, College of Engineering, Science and the Environment, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

The study of functional MRI data is increasingly performed after mapping from volumetric voxels to surface vertices. Processing pipelines commonly used to achieve this mapping produce meshes with uneven vertex spacing, with closer neighbours in sulci compared to gyri. Consequently, correlations between the fMRI time series of neighbouring sulcal vertices are stronger than expected.

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Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites.

Theor Popul Biol

October 2024

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, Ruth-Moufang-Straße 1, 60438, Germany. Electronic address:

In this paper we study invasion probabilities and invasion times of cooperative parasites spreading in spatially structured host populations. The spatial structure of the host population is given by a random geometric graph on [0,1], n∈N, with a Poisson(N)-distributed number of vertices and in which vertices are connected over an edge when they have a distance of at most r with r of order N for some 0<β<1. At a host infection many parasites are generated and parasites move along edges to neighbouring hosts.

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