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Dunbar RIM. The origins and function of musical performance. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1257390. [PMID: 38022957 PMCID: PMC10667447 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1257390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function, or why and when it evolved. I summarise experimental evidence that the primary function of musicking lies in social bonding, both at the dyadic and community levels, via the effect that performing any form of music has on the brain's endorphin system (the principal neurohormonal basis for social bonding in primates). The many other functions associated with music-making (mate choice, pleasure, coalition signalling, etc) are all better understood as derivative of this, either as secondary selection pressures or as windows of evolutionary opportunity (exaptations). If music's function is primarily as an adjunct of the social bonding mechanism (a feature it shares with laughter, feasting, storytelling and the rituals of religion), then reverse engineering the problem suggests that the capacity for music-making most likely evolved with the appearance of archaic humans. This agrees well with anatomical evidence for the capacity to sing.
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- Robin I. M. Dunbar
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Quarter, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Vergara Hidd V, Zhang M, Centellegher S, Roberts SGB, Lepri B, López E. The rhythms of transient relationships: allocating time between weekdays and weekends. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:230834. [PMID: 37885985 PMCID: PMC10598443 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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A fundamental question of any new relationship is, will it last? Transient relationships, recently defined by the authors, are an ideal type of social tie to explore this question: these relationships are characterized by distinguishable starting and ending temporal points, linking the question of tie longevity to relationship finite lifetime. In this study, we use mobile phone data sets from the UK and Italy to analyse the weekly allocation of time invested in maintaining transient relationships. We find that more relationships are created during weekdays, with a greater proportion of them receiving more contact during these days of the week in the long term. The smaller group of relationships that receive more phone calls during the weekend tend to remain active for more time. We uncover a sorting process by which some ties are moved from weekdays to weekends and vice versa, mostly in the first half of the relationship. This process also carries more information about the ultimate lifetime of a tie than the part of the week when the relationship started, which suggests an early evaluation period that leads to a decision on how to allocate time to different types of transient ties.
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- Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Filazzola A, Xie G, Barrett K, Dunn A, Johnson MTJ, MacIvor JS. Using smartphone-GPS data to quantify human activity in green spaces. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010725. [PMID: 36520687 PMCID: PMC9754188 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Cities are growing in density and coverage globally, increasing the value of green spaces for human health and well-being. Understanding the interactions between people and green spaces is also critical for biological conservation and sustainable development. However, quantifying green space use is particularly challenging. We used an activity index of anonymized GPS data from smart devices provided by Mapbox (www.mapbox.com) to characterize human activity in green spaces in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. The goals of our study were to describe i) a methodological example of how anonymized GPS data could be used for human-nature research and ii) associations between park features and human activity. We describe some of the challenges and solutions with using this activity index, especially in the context of green spaces and biodiversity monitoring. We found the activity index was strongly correlated with visitation records (i.e., park reservations) and that these data are useful to identify high or low-usage areas within green spaces. Parks with a more extensive trail network typically experienced higher visitation rates and a substantial proportion of activity remained on trails. We identified certain land covers that were more frequently associated with human presence, such as rock formations, and find a relationship between human activity and tree composition. Our study demonstrates that anonymized GPS data from smart devices are a powerful tool for spatially quantifying human activity in green spaces. These could help to minimize trade-offs in the management of green spaces for human use and biological conservation will continue to be a significant challenge over the coming decades because of accelerating urbanization coupled with population growth. Importantly, we include a series of recommendations when using activity indexes for managing green spaces that can assist with biomonitoring and supporting sustainable human use.
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- Alessandro Filazzola
- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Apex Resource Management Solutions, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Conservation Halton, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Urban Environments, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Apex Resource Management Solutions, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Nelson TR, Michel CJ, Gary MP, Lehman BM, Demetras NJ, Dudley PN, Hammen JJ, Horn MJ. Riverine fish density, predator–prey interactions, and their relationships with artificial light at night. Ecosphere 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- T. Reid Nelson
- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California USA
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center—Fisheries Ecology Division National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Santa Cruz California USA
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- Fisheries and Wildlife Resources Group United States Bureau of Reclamation Denver Colorado USA
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- Fisheries and Wildlife Resources Group United States Bureau of Reclamation Denver Colorado USA
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Roy C, Bhattacharya K, Dunbar RIM, Kaski K. Turnover in close friendships. Sci Rep 2022; 12:11018. [PMID: 35773294 PMCID: PMC9247060 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-15070-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Humans are social animals and the interpersonal bonds formed between them are crucial for their development and well being in a society. These relationships are usually structured into several layers (Dunbar’s layers of friendship) depending on their significance in an individual’s life with closest friends and family being the most important ones taking major part of their time and communication effort. However, we have little idea how the initiation and termination of these relationships occurs across the lifespan. Mobile phones, in particular, have been used extensively to shed light on the different types of social interactions between individuals and to explore this, we analyse a national cellphone database to determine how and when changes in close relationships occur in the two genders. In general, membership of this inner circle of intimate relationships is extremely stable, at least over a three-year period. However, around 1–4% of alters change every year, with the rate of change being higher among 17-21 year olds than older adults. Young adult females terminate more of their opposite-gender relationships, while older males are more persistent in trying to maintain relationships in decline. These results emphasise the variability in relationship dynamics across age and gender, and remind us that individual differences play an important role in the structure of social networks. Overall, our study provides a holistic understanding of the dynamic nature of close relationships during different stages of human life.
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- Chandreyee Roy
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.,Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.,The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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In this study, call detail records (CDR), covering Budapest, Hungary, are processed to analyze the circadian rhythm of the subscribers. An indicator, called wake-up time, is introduced to describe the behavior of a group of subscribers. It is defined as the time when the mobile phone activity of a group rises in the morning. Its counterpart is the time when the activity falls in the evening. Inhabitant and area-based aggregation are also presented. The former is to consider the people who live in an area, while the latter uses the transit activity in an area to describe the behavior of a part of the city. The opening hours of the malls and the nightlife of the party district are used to demonstrate this application as real-life examples. The proposed approach is also used to estimate the working hours of the workplaces. The findings are in a good agreement with the practice in Hungary, and also support the workplace detection method. A negative correlation is found between the wake-up time and mobility indicators (entropy, radius of gyration): on workdays, people wake up earlier and travel more, while on holidays, it is quite the contrary. The wake-up time is evaluated in different socioeconomic classes, using housing prices and mobile phones prices, as well. It is found that lower socioeconomic groups tend to wake up earlier.
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Roy C, Monsivais D, Bhattacharya K, Dunbar RIM, Kaski K. Morningness-eveningness assessment from mobile phone communication analysis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:14606. [PMID: 34272421 PMCID: PMC8285513 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93799-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Human behaviour follows a 24-h rhythm and is known to be governed by the individual chronotypes. Due to the widespread use of technology in our daily lives, it is possible to record the activities of individuals through their different digital traces. In the present study we utilise a large mobile phone communication dataset containing time stamps of calls and text messages to study the circadian rhythms of anonymous users in a European country. After removing the effect of the synchronization of East-West sun progression with the calling activity, we used two closely related approaches to heuristically compute the chronotypes of the individuals in the dataset, to identify them as morning persons or “larks” and evening persons or “owls”. Using the computed chronotypes we showed how the chronotype is largely dependent on age with younger cohorts being more likely to be owls than older cohorts. Moreover, our analysis showed how on average females have distinctly different chronotypes from males. Younger females are more larkish than males while older females are more owlish. Finally, we also studied the period of low calling activity for each of the users which is considered as a marker of their sleep period during the night. We found that while “extreme larks” tend to sleep more than “extreme owls” on the weekends, we do not observe much variation between them on weekdays. In addition, we have observed that women tend to sleep even less than males on weekdays while there is not much difference between them on the weekends.
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- Chandreyee Roy
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.,Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland.,The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
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Mattingly SM, Grover T, Martinez GJ, Aledavood T, Robles-Granda P, Nies K, Striegel A, Mark G. The effects of seasons and weather on sleep patterns measured through longitudinal multimodal sensing. NPJ Digit Med 2021; 4:76. [PMID: 33911176 PMCID: PMC8080821 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-021-00435-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Previous studies of seasonal effects on sleep have yielded unclear results, likely due to methodological differences and limitations in data size and/or quality. We measured the sleep habits of 216 individuals across the U.S. over four seasons for slightly over a year using objective, continuous, and unobtrusive measures of sleep and local weather. In addition, we controlled for demographics and trait-like constructs previously identified to correlate with sleep behavior. We investigated seasonal and weather effects of sleep duration, bedtime, and wake time. We found several small but statistically significant effects of seasonal and weather effects on sleep patterns. We observe the strongest seasonal effects for wake time and sleep duration, especially during the spring season: wake times are earlier, and sleep duration decreases (compared to the reference season winter). Sleep duration also modestly decreases when day lengths get longer (between the winter and summer solstice). Bedtimes and wake times tend to be slightly later as outdoor temperature increases.
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- Stephen M Mattingly
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
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- Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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- Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Kim H, Jo HH, Jeong H. Impact of environmental changes on the dynamics of temporal networks. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250612. [PMID: 33909631 PMCID: PMC8081251 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dynamics of complex social systems has often been described in the framework of temporal networks, where links are considered to exist only at the moment of interaction between nodes. Such interaction patterns are not only driven by internal interaction mechanisms, but also affected by environmental changes. To investigate the impact of the environmental changes on the dynamics of temporal networks, we analyze several face-to-face interaction datasets using the multiscale entropy (MSE) method to find that the observed temporal correlations can be categorized according to the environmental similarity of datasets such as classes and break times in schools. By devising and studying a temporal network model considering a periodically changing environment as well as a preferential activation mechanism, we numerically show that our model could successfully reproduce various empirical results by the MSE method in terms of multiscale temporal correlations. Our results demonstrate that the environmental changes can play an important role in shaping the dynamics of temporal networks when the interactions between nodes are influenced by the environment of the systems.
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- Hyewon Kim
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea
- Department of Physics, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Center for Complex Systems, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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Farzanehfar A, Houssiau F, de Montjoye YA. The risk of re-identification remains high even in country-scale location datasets. PATTERNS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2021; 2:100204. [PMID: 33748793 PMCID: PMC7961185 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Although anonymous data are not considered personal data, recent research has shown how individuals can often be re-identified. Scholars have argued that previous findings apply only to small-scale datasets and that privacy is preserved in large-scale datasets. Using 3 months of location data, we (1) show the risk of re-identification to decrease slowly with dataset size, (2) approximate this decrease with a simple model taking into account three population-wide marginal distributions, and (3) prove that unicity is convex and obtain a linear lower bound. Our estimates show that 93% of people would be uniquely identified in a dataset of 60M people using four points of auxiliary information, with a lower bound at 22%. This lower bound increases to 87% when five points are available. Taken together, our results show how the privacy of individuals is very unlikely to be preserved even in country-scale location datasets.
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- Ali Farzanehfar
- Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Monsivais-Velazquez D, Bhattacharya K, Barrio RA, Maini PK, Kaski KK. Dynamics of hierarchical weighted networks of van der Pol oscillators. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2020; 30:123146. [PMID: 33380066 DOI: 10.1063/5.0010638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We investigate the dynamics of regular fractal-like networks of hierarchically coupled van der Pol oscillators. The hierarchy is imposed in terms of the coupling strengths or link weights. We study the low frequency modes, as well as frequency and phase synchronization, in the network by a process of repeated coarse-graining of oscillator units. At any given stage of this process, we sum over the signals from the oscillator units of a clique to obtain a new oscillating unit. The frequencies and the phases for the coarse-grained oscillators are found to progressively synchronize with the number of coarse-graining steps. Furthermore, the characteristic frequency is found to decrease and finally stabilize to a value that can be tuned via the parameters of the system. We compare our numerical results with those of an approximate analytic solution and find good qualitative agreement. Our study on this idealized model shows how oscillations with a precise frequency can be obtained in systems with heterogeneous couplings. It also demonstrates the effect of imposing a hierarchy in terms of link weights instead of one that is solely topological, where the connectivity between oscillators would be the determining factor, as is usually the case.
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science, 00076 Helsinki, Finland
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. postal 01000, CDMX, Mexico
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- Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, 00076 Helsinki, Finland
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Fudolig MID, Bhattacharya K, Monsivais D, Jo HH, Kaski K. Link-centric analysis of variation by demographics in mobile phone communication patterns. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0227037. [PMID: 31899785 PMCID: PMC6941803 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We present a link-centric approach to study variation in the mobile phone communication patterns of individuals. Unlike most previous research on call detail records that focused on the variation of phone usage across individual users, we examine how the calling and texting patterns obtained from call detail records vary among pairs of users and how these patterns are affected by the nature of relationships between users. To demonstrate this link-centric perspective, we extract factors that contribute to the variation in the mobile phone communication patterns and predict demographics-related quantities for pairs of users. The time of day and the channel of communication (calls or texts) are found to explain most of the variance among pairs that frequently call each other. Furthermore, we find that this variation can be used to predict the relationship between the pairs of users, as inferred from their age and gender, as well as the age of the younger user in a pair. From the classifier performance across different age and gender groups as well as the inherent class overlap suggested by the estimate of the bounds of the Bayes error, we gain insights into the similarity and differences of communication patterns across different relationships.
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
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- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Republic of Korea
- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
- Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, Finland
- The Alan Turing Institute, London, England, United Kingdom
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Batotsyrenova E, Kashuro V, Ivanov M. The role of light desynchronosis in the development of stress-induced aging. BIO WEB OF CONFERENCES 2020. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20202201006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The long-term change of the light mode for three months – light desynchronosis, disturbs the rhythm of the signals received from the external pacemaker. As a result of the study, it was found that a long-term change in the light mode and a violation of the rhythmicity of signals received from an external pacemaker contributes to the activation of ROS formation as triggers for bioenergetic processes in the cell. At the same time, changing the light mode disrupts the balance of oxygen in the cell and this is a provoking factor for the stress of the antioxidant cell system. The resulting tissue hypoxia in chronic light desynchronosis disrupts the bioenergetic potential of the cell, contributing to the development of pathophysiological processes and the death of neurons. Therefore, a violation of the balance of the pro-oxidant and anti-oxidant systems leads to destructive processes in the brain. A significant change in the concentration of the neurotrohic markers indicates destructive processes in the brain tissues. Summarizing the above, we conclude that light desynchronosis is directly involved in the ROS-dependent stress-induced aging of brain cells and in that way, to the progression of processes that lead to aging of the body.
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Martín-Olalla JM. Latitudinal trends in human primary activities: characterizing the winter day as a synchronizer. Sci Rep 2018; 8:5350. [PMID: 29593223 PMCID: PMC5871928 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23546-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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This work analyzes time use surveys from 19 countries (17 European and 2 American) in the middle latitude (38–61 degree) accounting for 45% of world population in this range. Time marks for primary activities are contrasted against light/dark conditions. The analysis reveals winter sunrise synchronizes labor start time below 54 degree, occurring within winter civil twilight. Winter sunset is a source of synchronization for labor end times. Winter terminator punctuate meal times in Europe: dinner occurs 3 h after winter sunset time within 1 h; 40% narrower than variability of dinner local times. The sleep-wake cycle of laborers is shown to be related to winter sunrise whereas standard population’s appears to be irrespective of latitude. The significance of the winter terminator depends on two competing factors average labor time (~7 h30 m) and the shortest photoperiod. Winter terminator gains significance when both roughly matches. That is within a latitude range from 38 degree to 54 degree. The significance of winter terminator as a source of synchronization is also related to contemporary year round time schedules: the shortest photoperiod represents the worst case scenario the society faces.
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- José María Martín-Olalla
- Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, PO Box 1065, ES41080, Seville, Spain.
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