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Betancourt F, Riascos AP, Mateos JL. Temporal visitation patterns of points of interest in cities on a planetary scale: a network science and machine learning approach. Sci Rep 2023; 13:4890. [PMID: 36966183 PMCID: PMC10039356 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32074-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023] Open
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We aim to study the temporal patterns of activity in points of interest of cities around the world. In order to do so, we use the data provided by the online location-based social network Foursquare, where users make check-ins that indicate points of interest in the city. The data set comprises more than 90 million check-ins in 632 cities of 87 countries in 5 continents. We analyzed more than 11 million points of interest including all sorts of places: airports, restaurants, parks, hospitals, and many others. With this information, we obtained spatial and temporal patterns of activities for each city. We quantify similarities and differences of these patterns for all the cities involved and construct a network connecting pairs of cities. The links of this network indicate the similarity of temporal visitation patterns of points of interest between cities and is quantified with the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two distributions. Then, we obtained the community structure of this network and the geographic distribution of these communities worldwide. For comparison, we also use a Machine Learning algorithm-unsupervised agglomerative clustering-to obtain clusters or communities of cities with similar patterns. The main result is that both approaches give the same classification of five communities belonging to five different continents worldwide. This suggests that temporal patterns of activity can be universal, with some geographical, historical, and cultural variations, on a planetary scale.
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- Francisco Betancourt
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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Alatorre D, Gershenson C, Mateos JL. Stocks and cryptocurrencies: Antifragile or robust? A novel antifragility measure of the stock and cryptocurrency markets. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0280487. [PMID: 36928831 PMCID: PMC10019607 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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In contrast with robust systems that resist noise or fragile systems that break with noise, antifragility is defined as a property of complex systems that benefit from noise or disorder. Here we define and test a simple measure of antifragility for complex dynamical systems. In this work we use our antifragility measure to analyze real data from return prices in the stock and cryptocurrency markets. Our definition of antifragility is the product of the return price and a perturbation. We explore different types of perturbations that typically arise from within the system. Our results suggest that for both the stock market and the cryptocurrency market, the tendency among the 'top performers' is to be robust rather than antifragile. It would be important to explore other possible definitions of antifragility to understand its role in financial markets and in complex dynamical systems in general.
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- Darío Alatorre
- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America
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- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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Dealing with traffic congestion is one of the most pressing challenges for cities. Transport authorities have implemented several strategies to reduce traffic jams with varying degrees of success. The use of reversible lanes is a common approach to improve traffic congestion during rush hours. A reversible lane can change its direction during a time interval to the more congested direction. This strategy can improve traffic congestion in specific scenarios. Most reversible lanes in urban roads are fixed in time and number; however, traffic patterns in cities are highly variable and unpredictable due to this phenomenon’s complex nature. Therefore, reversible lanes may not improve traffic flow under certain circumstances; moreover, they could worsen it because of traffic fluctuations. In this paper, we use cellular automata to model adaptive reversible lanes(aka dynamic reversible lanes). Adaptive reversible lanes can change their direction using real-time information to respond to traffic demand fluctuations. Using real traffic data, our model shows that adaptive reversible lanes can improve traffic flow up to 40% compared to conventional reversible lanes. Our results show that there are significant fluctuations in traffic flow even during rush hours, and thus cities would benefit from implementing adaptive reversible lanes.
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- Dante Pérez-Méndez
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Lakeside Labs GmbH, Klagenfurt am, Wörthersee, Austria
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- Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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Riascos AP, Boyer D, Herringer P, Mateos JL. Random walks on networks with stochastic resetting. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:062147. [PMID: 32688619 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.062147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We study random walks with stochastic resetting to the initial position on arbitrary networks. We obtain the stationary probability distribution as well as the mean and global first passage times, which allow us to characterize the effect of resetting on the capacity of a random walker to reach a particular target or to explore a finite network. We apply the results to rings, Cayley trees, and random and complex networks. Our formalism holds for undirected networks and can be implemented from the spectral properties of the random walk without resetting, providing a tool to analyze the search efficiency in different structures with the small-world property or communities. In this way, we extend the study of resetting processes to the domain of networks.
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- Alejandro P Riascos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 Ciudad de México, México
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 Ciudad de México, México
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 Ciudad de México, México
- Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Ciudad de México, México
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Riascos AP, Mateos JL. Networks and long-range mobility in cities: A study of more than one billion taxi trips in New York City. Sci Rep 2020; 10:4022. [PMID: 32132592 PMCID: PMC7055277 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60875-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 02/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We analyze the massive data set of more than one billion taxi trips in New York City, from January 2009 to December 2015. With these records of seven years, we generate an origin-destination matrix that has information of a vast number of trips. The mobility and flow of taxis can be described as a directed weighted network that connects different zones of high demand for taxis. This network has in and out degrees that follow a stretched exponential and a power law with an exponential cutoff distributions, respectively. Using the origin-destination matrix, we obtain a rank, called "OD rank”, analogous to the page rank of Google, that gives the more relevant places in New York City in terms of taxi trips. We introduced a model that captures the local and global dynamics that agrees with the data. Considering the taxi trips as a proxy of human mobility in cities, it might be possible that the long-range mobility found for New York City would be a general feature in other large cities around the world.
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- A P Riascos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, Ciudad de México, Mexico. .,Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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There is a burst of work on human mobility and encounter networks. However, the connection between these two important fields just begun recently. It is clear that both are closely related: Mobility generates encounters, and these encounters might give rise to contagion phenomena or even friendship. We model a set of random walkers that visit locations in space following a strategy akin to Lévy flights. We measure the encounters in space and time and establish a link between walkers after they coincide several times. This generates a temporal network that is characterized by global quantities. We compare this dynamics with real data for two cities: New York City and Tokyo. We use data from the location-based social network Foursquare and obtain the emergent temporal encounter network, for these two cities, that we compare with our model. We found long-range (Lévy-like) distributions for traveled distances and time intervals that characterize the emergent social network due to human mobility. Studying this connection is important for several fields like epidemics, social influence, voting, contagion models, behavioral adoption and diffusion of ideas.
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- A. P. Riascos
- Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Mariana, San Juan de Pasto, Colombia
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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In this paper we study the quantum transport on networks with a temporal evolution governed by the fractional Schrödinger equation. We generalize the dynamics based on continuous-time quantum walks, with transitions to nearest neighbors on the network, to the fractional case that allows long-range displacements. By using the fractional Laplacian matrix of a network, we establish a formalism that combines a long-range dynamics with the quantum superposition of states; this general approach applies to any type of connected undirected networks, including regular, random, and complex networks, and can be implemented from the spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix. We study the fractional dynamics and its capacity to explore the network by means of the transition probability, the average probability of return, and global quantities that characterize the efficiency of this quantum process. As a particular case, we explore analytically these quantities for circulant networks such as rings, interacting cycles, and complete graphs.
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- A P Riascos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., México
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., México
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Riascos AP, Mateos JL. Fractional dynamics on networks: emergence of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2014; 90:032809. [PMID: 25314484 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.032809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2014] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We introduce a formalism of fractional diffusion on networks based on a fractional Laplacian matrix that can be constructed directly from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix. This fractional approach allows random walks with long-range dynamics providing a general framework for anomalous diffusion and navigation, and inducing dynamically the small-world property on any network. We obtained exact results for the stationary probability distribution, the average fractional return probability, and a global time, showing that the efficiency to navigate the network is greater if we use a fractional random walk in comparison to a normal random walk. For the case of a ring, we obtain exact analytical results showing that the fractional transition and return probabilities follow a long-range power-law decay, leading to the emergence of Lévy flights on networks. Our general fractional diffusion formalism applies to regular, random, and complex networks and can be implemented from the spectral properties of the Laplacian matrix, providing an important tool to analyze anomalous diffusion on networks.
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- A P Riascos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., México
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- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., México
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Arzola AV, Volke-Sepúlveda K, Mateos JL. Dynamical analysis of an optical rocking ratchet: theory and experiment. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2013; 87:062910. [PMID: 23848751 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.87.062910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A thorough analysis of the dynamics in a deterministic optical rocking ratchet [introduced in A. V. Arzola et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 168104 (2011)] and a comparison with experimental results are presented. The studied system consists of a microscopic particle interacting with a periodic and asymmetric light pattern, which is driven away from equilibrium by means of an unbiased time-periodic external force. It is shown that the asymmetry of the effective optical potential depends on the relative size of the particle with respect to the spatial period, and this is analyzed as an effective mechanism for particle fractionation. The necessary conditions to obtain current reversals in the deterministic regime are discussed in detail.
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- Alejandro V Arzola
- Institute of Scientific Instruments of the ASCR, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 147, 612 64 Brno, Czech Republic.
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New drugs for type 2 diabetes that act on incretin metabolism have been shown to improve glycemic control, reduce body weight and have a low risk for hypoglycemia. Among these, liraglutide is the first glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analogue approved for subcutaneous, once-daily administration. According to results from clinical trials, liraglutide is an attractive alternative for the early treatment of type 2 diabetes. The results of the LEAD (Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes) study program demonstrated the efficacy and safety of liraglutide in terms of reduction of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, significant loss of body weight that was maintained over the long term, better control of the lipid profile and systolic arterial pressure, reduction of the risk for hypoglycemia and reduction of cardiovascular risk. Moreover, the drug was demonstrated to be safe and can be co-administered with oral antidiabetic agents. The product's tolerability has been demonstrated, with nausea as the most common adverse event, which waned from the fourth week of treatment.
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- J L Mateos
- University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil
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Riascos AP, Mateos JL. Long-range navigation on complex networks using Lévy random walks. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2012; 86:056110. [PMID: 23214846 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.056110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We introduce a strategy of navigation in undirected networks, including regular, random, and complex networks, that is inspired by Lévy random walks, generalizing previous navigation rules. We obtained exact expressions for the stationary probability distribution, the occupation probability, the mean first passage time, and the average time to reach a node on the network. We found that the long-range navigation using the Lévy random walk strategy, compared with the normal random walk strategy, is more efficient at reducing the time to cover the network. The dynamical effect of using the Lévy walk strategy is to transform a large-world network into a small world. Our exact results provide a general framework that connects two important fields: Lévy navigation strategies and dynamics on complex networks.
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- A P Riascos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México, D.F., México
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We study the transport properties for a walker on a ratchet potential. The walker consists of two particles coupled by a bistable potential that allow the interchange of the order of the particles while moving through a one-dimensional asymmetric periodic ratchet potential. We consider the stochastic dynamics of the walker on a ratchet with an external periodic forcing, in the overdamped case. The coupling of the two particles corresponds to a single effective particle, describing the internal degree of freedom, in a bistable potential. This double-well potential is subjected to both a periodic forcing and noise and therefore is able to provide a realization of the phenomenon of stochastic resonance. The main result is that there is an optimal amount of noise where the amplitude of the periodic response of the system is maximum, a signal of stochastic resonance, and that precisely for this optimal noise, the average velocity of the walker is maximal, implying a strong link between stochastic resonance and the ratchet effect.
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- José L Mateos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, Mexico.
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Arzola AV, Volke-Sepúlveda K, Mateos JL. Experimental control of transport and current reversals in a deterministic optical rocking ratchet. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 106:168104. [PMID: 21599418 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.168104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2010] [Revised: 03/24/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We present an experimental demonstration of a deterministic optical rocking ratchet. A periodic and asymmetric light pattern is created to interact with dielectric microparticles in water, giving rise to a ratchet potential. The sample is moved with respect to the pattern with an unbiased time-periodic rocking function, which tilts the potential in alternating opposite directions. We obtain a current of particles whose direction can be controlled in real time and show that particles of different sizes may experience opposite currents. Moreover, we observed current reversals as a function of the magnitude and period of the rocking force.
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- Alejandro V Arzola
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
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Mateos JL. [Selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), celecoxib and parecoxib: a systematic review]. Drugs Today (Barc) 2010; 46 Suppl A:1-25. [PMID: 20224826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes mediate prostaglandin generation. COX-1 is expressed in all cells, producing prostaglandins that maintain cellular homeostasis, and COX-2 is an inducible enzyme that generates inflammatory prostaglandins at sites of inflammation and healing. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that nonselectively inhibit COX-1 and COX-2 continue to be an important option for the management of pain. However, despite the potential advantages of NSAIDs, including their opioid-sparing effect and reduced opioid-related side effects, improved analgesia, and attenuation of the inflammatory pain response, several side effects limit their use. NSAIDs predispose to ulcer formation and upper gastrointestinal bleeding, impaired coagulation, cardiovascular effects and renal dysfunction. Selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors were designed based on the hypothesis that selective inhibition of the COX-2 isoform should reduce pain and inflammation without compromising the integrity of the gastric mucosa. Celecoxib and parecoxib are two COX-2 inhibitors (coxibs) that are approved for the relief of acute postoperative pain and symptoms of chronic inflammatory conditions such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. They have similar pharmacological properties but a slightly improved gastrointestinal safety profile compared with traditional NSAIDs. Celecoxib is an orally administered coxib. Agents such as celecoxib, which are highly COX-2 specific and have shown excellent efficacy in relieving inflammation and associated pain, unfortunately exhibit only modest aqueous solubility, thus restricting dosing options. Parecoxib is the sulfonamide-based prodrug of valdecoxib and is the only parenterally administered coxib available to date. There is no evidence demonstrating any greater degree of pain relief between these two coxibs. However, parenteral preparations may be especially useful in the immediate postoperative period, when patients are unable to take oral medication or are experiencing nausea and vomiting.
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Arzola AV, Volke-Sepúlveda K, Mateos JL. Force mapping of an extended light pattern in an inclined plane: deterministic regime. Opt Express 2009; 17:3429-3440. [PMID: 19259181 DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.003429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We present a full quantitative mapping of the non-linear optical trapping force associated to an extended interference pattern of fringes as a function of the position. To map this force, we studied the dynamics of microscopic spherical beads of different sizes (8, 10 and 14.5 microns in diameter) moving through the light pattern. For this range of particle sizes, the system is overdamped due to the viscous drag and the effect of thermal noise is negligible. The novel experimental approach consists in tilting the sample cell a small angle with respect to the horizontal, thus we have a deterministic particle in an inclined plane. The combined action of the optical force and gravity gives rise to a washboard potential. We compared our experimental results with a ray optics model and found a good quantitative agreement. For each size of the microsphere we studied different spatial periods of the interference fringes.
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- Alejandro V Arzola
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México Apdo. Postal 20-364, 01000 México Distrito Federal, México
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The phenomenon of phase synchronization for a particle in a periodic ratchet potential is studied. We consider the deterministic dynamics in the underdamped case where the inertia plays an important role since the dynamics can become chaotic. The ratchet potential is tilted due to a constant external force and is rocking by an external periodic forcing. This potential has to be tilted in order to obtain a rotator or self-sustained nonlinear oscillator in the absence of the external periodic forcing; this oscillator then acquires an intrinsic frequency that can be locked with the frequency of the external driving. We introduced an instantaneous linear phase, using a set of discrete time markers, and the associated average frequency, and show that this frequency can be synchronized with the frequency of the driving. We calculate Arnold tongues in a two-dimensional parameter space and discuss their implications for the chaotic transport in ratchets. We show that the local maxima in the current correspond to the borders of these Arnold tongues; in this way we established a link between optimal transport in ratchets and phase synchronization.
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- José L Mateos
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
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Santos MC, Boyer D, Miramontes O, Viswanathan GM, Raposo EP, Mateos JL, da Luz MGE. Origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: the influence of landscape geometry. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 75:061114. [PMID: 17677227 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.061114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We investigate the properties of a deterministic walk, whose locomotion rule is always to travel to the nearest site. Initially the sites are randomly distributed in a closed rectangular (ALxL) landscape and, once reached, they become unavailable for future visits. As expected, the walker step lengths present characteristic scales in one (L-->0) and two (AL approximately L) dimensions. However, we find scale invariance for an intermediate geometry, when the landscape is a thin striplike region. This result is induced geometrically by a dynamical trapping mechanism, leading to a power-law distribution for the step lengths. The relevance of our findings in broader contexts--of both deterministic and random walks--is also briefly discussed.
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- M C Santos
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 81531-990 Curitiba--PR, Brazil
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Boyer D, Ramos-Fernández G, Miramontes O, Mateos JL, Cocho G, Larralde H, Ramos H, Rojas F. Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment. Proc Biol Sci 2006; 273:1743-50. [PMID: 16790406 PMCID: PMC1634795 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Scale-free foraging patterns are widespread among animals. These may be the outcome of an optimal searching strategy to find scarce, randomly distributed resources, but a less explored alternative is that this behaviour may result from the interaction of foraging animals with a particular distribution of resources. We introduce a simple foraging model where individual primates follow mental maps and choose their displacements according to a maximum efficiency criterion, in a spatially disordered environment containing many trees with a heterogeneous size distribution. We show that a particular tree-size frequency distribution induces non-Gaussian movement patterns with multiple spatial scales (Lévy walks). These results are consistent with field observations of tree-size variation and spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) foraging patterns. We discuss the consequences that our results may have for the patterns of seed dispersal by foraging primates.
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- Denis Boyer
- Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoApartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, México
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional, Unidad Oaxaca, Instituto Politécnico NacionalCalle Hornos 1003, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, 71230 Oaxaca, México
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- Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoApartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, México
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- Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoApartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, México
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- Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoApartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, México
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- Centro de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCuernavaca, 62210 Morelos, México
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- Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoApartado Postal 20-364, 01000 México DF, México
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- Facultad de Ciencias Físico Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de PueblaAv. San Claudio y Río Verde, Col. San Manuel, 72570 Puebla, México
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Kostur M, Hänggi P, Talkner P, Mateos JL. Anticipated synchronization in coupled inertial ratchets with time-delayed feedback: a numerical study. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2005; 72:036210. [PMID: 16241551 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.036210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We investigate anticipated synchronization between two periodically driven deterministic, dissipative inertial ratchets that are able to exhibit directed transport with a finite velocity. The two ratchets interact through a unidirectional delay coupling, one is acting as a master system while the other one represents the slave system. Each of the two dissipative deterministic ratchets is driven externally by a common periodic force. The delay coupling involves two parameters, the coupling strength and the (positive-valued) delay time. We study the synchronization features for the unbounded, current carrying trajectories of the master and the slave, respectively, for four different strengths of the driving amplitude. These in turn characterize differing phase space dynamics of the transporting ratchet dynamics, regular, intermittent and a chaotic transport regime. We find that the slave ratchet can respond in exactly the same way as the master will respond in the future, thereby anticipating the nonlinear directed transport.
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- Marcin Kostur
- Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, Universitatsstrasse 1, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
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Fontaniella B, Mateos JL, Vicente C, Legaz ME. Improvement of the analysis of dansylated derivatives of polyamines and their conjugates by high-performance liquid chromatography. J Chromatogr A 2001; 919:283-8. [PMID: 11442033 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)00841-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The paper described a method for improving the hydrolysis of conjugated polyamines in PH fraction, isolated from the lichen Evernia prunastri, as well as the optimization of dansylation procedure of these polyamines on the basis of the pH value to which derivatization is achieved. Dansylated polyamines have been later separated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using a gradient elution. Hydrolysis of conjugates requires acid treatment at room temperature rather than at 110 degrees C, as usually described. Dansylation is improved at high pH values, whereas removal of phenolics (mainly evernic acid), from the conjugates requires low pH values.
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- B Fontaniella
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Genomic DNA was isolated from the lichen Evernia prunastri in order to analyze by high-performance liquid chromatography the occurrence of polyamines conjugated to the macromolecule. The acid-insoluble (PH) fraction of this DNA contained mainly conjugated spermidine, although small amounts of free putrescine and spermidine were also present. The PH fraction of DNA also contained conjugated evernic acid, the main phenol produced by this lichen species. Conjugation of polyamines to calf thymus DNA was carried out under in vitro conditions. Conjugation was to spermidine and mainly to spermine and produced DNA compactation. Evernic acid enhanced the action of polyamines in order to produce DNA aggregation.
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- J L Mateos
- Department of Plant Physiology, The Lichen Team, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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We address the problem of the classical deterministic dynamics of a particle in a periodic asymmetric potential of the ratchet type. We take into account the inertial term in order to understand the role of the chaotic dynamics in the transport properties. By a comparison between the bifurcation diagram and the current, we identify the origin of the current reversal as a bifurcation from a chaotic to a periodic regime. Close to this bifurcation, we observed trajectories revealing intermittent chaos and anomalous deterministic diffusion.
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- JL Mateos
- Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Apartado Postal 20-364, Mexico D.F. 01000, Mexico
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García-Calderón G, Mateos JL, Moshinsky M. Resonant spectra and the time evolution of the survival and nonescape probabilities. Phys Rev Lett 1995; 74:337-340. [PMID: 10058733 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.74.337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Bermúdez JA, Coronado V, Mijares A, León C, Velázquez A, Noble P, Mateos JL. Stereochemical approach to increase the specificity of steroid antibodies. J Steroid Biochem 1975; 6:283-90. [PMID: 1237763 DOI: 10.1016/0022-4731(75)90144-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The stereochemistry of the reduction of a number of cyclic ketones with complex metal hydrides has been determined. In the absence of any large steric effect in the ketones, the reduction is essentially stereospecific, giving the more stable alcohol.
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Wheeler OH, Mateos JL. REACTIVITY STUDIES ON NATURAL PRODUCTS: V. RATES OF BOROHYDRIDE REDUCTION OF SOME RING A AND B STEROID KETONES. CAN J CHEM 1958. [DOI: 10.1139/v58-150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The rates of reduction of 3-, 6-, and 7-cholestanone, coprostan-3-one, Δ4- and Δ5-cholesten-3-one, and Δ8(14)-ergosten-3-one with sodium borohydride in isopropanol have been measured. The proportions of α- and β-isomers formed were determined in most cases and the corresponding rates of equatorial and axial reduction obtained. Δ5-Cholesten-3-one and 6- and 7-cholestanone are reduced at a slower rate and Δ5-cholesten-3-one and Δ8(14)-ergosten-3-one at a higher rate than the saturated 3-ketosteroids.
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Wheeler OH, Mateos JL. REACTIVITY STUDIES ON NATURAL PRODUCTS: IV. DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF THE CYANOHYDRINS OF SOME STEROID KETONES. CAN J CHEM 1958. [DOI: 10.1139/v58-101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The dissociation constants of the cyanohydrins of 3-, 6-, and 7-ketocholestane, 3-ketocoprostane, Δ4- and Δ5-cholestenone, and Δ7-, Δ8(9)-, Δ8(14)-, and Δl4-ergosten-3-one have been measured in 80% dioxane at 25.0°. Cholestan-3-one and coprostan-3-one have essentially the same reactivity. 6- and 7-Ketocholestane show "eclipsing" effects of neighboring hydrogen atoms. Δ4- and Δ5-Cholestenone are less reactive than cholestanone owing to the electronic effect of the double bond, but Δ7-, Δ8(9)-, Δ8(14)-, and Δl4-ergostenone are more reactive, the effect decreasing with the distance of the double bond from the 3-keto group.
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