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Minimum entropy production by microswimmers with internal dissipation
Nature Communications, 2023 The energy dissipation and entropy production by self-propelled microswimmers differ profoundly from passive particles pulled by external forces.
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider +2 more
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Guided self-organization [PDF]
HFSP Journal, 2009 Typically, self-organization is defined as the evolution of a system into an organized form in the absence of external pressures. A broad definition of self-organization is given by Haken (2006).
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Controlling molecular transport in minimal emulsions
Nature Communications, 2016 Emulsion droplets have many biotechnological applications, such as parallelized single cell analysis. Here, Gruner et al. introduce the concept of the minimal emulsions in a microfluidic device that allows full control of molecular transport between ...
Philipp Gruner +6 more
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Current and future challenges in interdisciplinary Ph.D. education as perceived by students
Communications Physics, 2021 Göttingen is home to the Third Infinity conference, a biennial event organized by Ph.D. candidates that aims, beyond discussing complex systems physics, at providing a platform to discuss themes central to doctoral life and education.
Aina Gallemí-Pérez +1 more
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Sustainable and convenient: Bi-modal public transit systems outperforming the private car
Multimodal Transportation, 2023 Mobility is an indispensable part of modern human societies, but the dominance of motorized individual traffic (MIV, i.e., the private car) leads to a prohibitive waste of energy as well as other resources.
Puneet Sharma +4 more
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Understanding and Self-Organization [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2017 How do we manage to understand a completely novel state of affairs, such as the sudden effects of an unexpected earthquake, or the arrival of a total stranger instead of the sister we were waiting for? In each case, for a moment we might be stunned, but we are able quite quickly to fit these events into our overall framework for understanding the world.
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Contact numbers in packings of frictional cylinders [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesThe mechanical stability of a granular system depends on the average number of contacts Z between its particles. For most particle shapes, predicting Z as a function of the average volume fraction ϕ is complicated by the spatial correlations between ...
Schröter Matthias +2 more
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Schneefernerhaus as a mountain research station for clouds and turbulence [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2015 Cloud measurements are usually carried out with airborne campaigns, which are expensive and are limited by temporal duration and weather conditions. Ground-based measurements at high-altitude research stations therefore play a complementary role in cloud
S. Risius +6 more
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Interplay Between Risk Perception, Behavior, and COVID-19 Spread
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been crucial for controlling COVID-19. They are complemented by voluntary health-protective behavior, building a complex interplay between risk perception, behavior, and disease spread.
Philipp Dönges +13 more
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Information-Geometric Optimization with Natural Selection
Entropy, 2020 Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between classical population genetics of quantitative traits and evolutionary ...
Jakub Otwinowski +2 more
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