Quantitative Biology

Authors and titles for December 2020

[101] arXiv:2012.08235 [pdf, other]

Title: Architectures of epidemic models: accommodating constraints from empirical and clinical data

Gabriel Turinici

Journal-ref: Ann. Al. I. Cuza Univ., volume LXVI, 2020, f. 2, 161

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Applications (stat.AP)

[102] arXiv:2012.08252 [pdf, other]

Title: Mathematical model of brain tumour growth with drug resistance

José Trobia, Kun Tian, Antonio Marcos Batista, Celso Grebogi, Hai-Peng Ren, Moises Souza Santos, Paulo Ricardo Protachevicz, Fernando da Silva Borges, José Danilo Szezech Jr, Ricardo Luiz Viana, Iberê Luiz Caldas, Kelly Cristiane Iarosz

Subjects: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[103] arXiv:2012.08325 [pdf, other]

Title: 39 Hints to Facilitate the Use of Semantics for Data on Agriculture and Nutrition

Caterina Caracciolo (FAO), Sophie Aubin (DipSO), Clement Jonquet (LIRMM, UM, CNRS), Emna Amdouni (LIRMM, UM, CNRS), Romain David (MISTEA, ERINHA-AISBL), Leyla Garcia (ZB MED), Brandon Whitehead, Catherine Roussey (UR TSCF, INRAE), Armando Stellato, Ferdinando Villa (BC3)

Journal-ref: CODATA Data Science Journal, Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), 2020, 19 (1)

Subjects: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT); Databases (cs.DB)

[104] arXiv:2012.08580 [pdf, other]

Title: PANTHER: Pathway Augmented Nonnegative Tensor factorization for HighER-order feature learning

Yuan Luo, Chengsheng Mao

Comments: Accepted by 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[105] arXiv:2012.08667 [pdf, other]

Title: An information-theoretic framework to measure the dynamic interaction between neural spike trains

Gorana Mijatovic, Yuri Antonacci, Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo, Ludovico Minati, Luca Faes

Comments: 12 pages, 7 figures; supplementary material at this http URL

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[106] arXiv:2012.08671 [pdf, other]

Title: SimpleChrome: Encoding of Combinatorial Effects for Predicting Gene Expression

Wei Cheng, Ghulam Murtaza, Aaron Wang

Subjects: Genomics (q-bio.GN); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[107] arXiv:2012.08755 [pdf, other]

Title: Simple control for complex pandemics

Sarah C. Fay, Dalton J. Jones, Munther A. Dahleh, A. E. Hosoi

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Probability (math.PR); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[108] arXiv:2012.08843 [pdf, other]

Title: Disease Momentum: Estimating the Reproduction Number in the Presence of Superspreading

Kory D. Johnson, Mathias Beiglböck, Manuel Eder, Annemarie Grass, Joachim Hermisson, Gudmund Pammer, Jitka Polechová, Daniel Toneian, Benjamin Wölfl

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph); Methodology (stat.ME)

[109] arXiv:2012.08897 [pdf, other]

Title: Indirect Identification of Horizontal Gene Transfer

David Schaller, Manuel Lafond, Peter F. Stadler, Nicolas Wieseke, Marc Hellmuth

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM); Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)

[110] arXiv:2012.08905 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of administration gamma-amino butyric acid on physiological performance of broiler chicks

Hasanain N. Ezzat, Ihsan M. Shihab, Samer S. Hameed

Comments: 9 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures

Subjects: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)

[111] arXiv:2012.08973 [pdf, other]

Title: Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with global accessibility

Tara van Viegen (1), Athena Akrami (2), Kate Bonnen (3), Eric DeWitt (4), Alexandre Hyafil (5), Helena Ledmyr (6), Grace W. Lindsay (7), Patrick Mineault, John D. Murray (8), Xaq Pitkow (9 and 10 and 11), Aina Puce (12), Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani (13), Carsen Stringer (14), Titipat Achakulvisut (15), Elnaz Alikarami (16), Melvin Selim Atay (17), Eleanor Batty (18), Jeffrey C. Erlich (19), Byron V. Galbraith (20), Yueqi Guo (21), Ashley L. Juavinett (22), Matthew R. Krause (23), Songting Li (24), Marius Pachitariu (14), Elizabeth Straley (9), Davide Valeriani (25 and 26 and 27), Emma Vaughan (28), Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam (29), Michael L. Waskom (3), Gunnar Blohm (30), Konrad Kording (15), Paul Schrater (31), Brad Wyble (32), Sean Escola (33), Megan A. K. Peters (34) ((1) Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, (2) Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, London, UK, (3) Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York City, NY, USA, (4) Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, (5) Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (6) International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, (7) Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London, London, UK, (8) Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, (9) Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Neuroscience, Houston, TX, USA, (10) Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Houston, TX, USA, (11) Rice University, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, TX, USA, (12) Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, (13) Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Jupiter, FL, USA, (14) HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA, (15) University of Pennsylvania, Depts of Neuroscience and Bioengineering, Philadelphia, PA, USA, (16) Faculty of dentistry, McGill University, Montreal, QB, Canada, (17) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, (18) Department of Neurobiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, (19) New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China, (20) Talla, Inc, Boston, MA, USA (21) Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA, (22) Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, (23) Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QB, Canada, (24) School of Mathematical Sciences, MOE-LSC and Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China, (25) Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA, USA, (26) Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, (27) Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, (28) IBRO - Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, Cape Town, South-Africa, (29) Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, (30) Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, (31) University of Minnesota, Depts of Psychology and Computer Science & Eng, Minneapolis, MN, USA, (32) Psychology Department, Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, (33) Columbia University, Dept of Psychiatry, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York, NY, USA, (34) Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvina, CA, USA)

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. Equal contribution by the executive committee members of Neuromatch Academy: Tara van Viegen, Athena Akrami, Kate Bonnen, Eric DeWitt, Alexandre Hyafil, Helena Ledmyr, Grace W. Lindsay, Patrick Mineault, John D. Murray, Xaq Pitkow, Aina Puce, Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, Carsen Stringer. and equal contribution by the board of directors of Neuromatch Academy: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Kording, Paul Schrater, Brad Wyble, Sean Escola, Megan A. K. Peters

Subjects: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)

[112] arXiv:2012.09027 [pdf, other]

Title: A Differential Model of the Complex Cell

Miles Hansard, Radu Horaud

Journal-ref: Neural Computation, 23(9), 2011

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

[113] arXiv:2012.09122 [pdf, other]

Title: AMICI: High-Performance Sensitivity Analysis for Large Ordinary Differential Equation Models

Fabian Fröhlich, Daniel Weindl, Yannik Schälte, Dilan Pathirana, Łukasz Paszkowski, Glenn Terje Lines, Paul Stapor, Jan Hasenauer

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[114] arXiv:2012.09325 [pdf, other]

Title: Improve it or lose it: evolvability costs of competition for expression

Jacob Moran, Devon Finlay, Mikhail Tikhonov

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary Material

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 103, 062402 (2021)

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[115] arXiv:2012.09435 [pdf, other]

Title: Making experimental data tables in the life sciences more FAIR: a pragmatic approach

Daniel Jacob (BFP), Romain David (MISTEA, ERINHA-AISBL), Sophie Aubin (DV-IST), Yves Gibon (BFP)

Journal-ref: GigaScience, BioMed Central, 2020, 9 (12)

Subjects: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)

[116] arXiv:2012.09562 [pdf, other]

Title: KwARG: Parsimonious reconstruction of ancestral recombination graphs with recurrent mutation

Anastasia Ignatieva, Rune B. Lyngsø, Paul A. Jenkins, Jotun Hein

Comments: 18 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in Bioinformatics

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[117] arXiv:2012.09624 [pdf, other]

Title: Distance-aware Molecule Graph Attention Network for Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction

Jingbo Zhou, Shuangli Li, Liang Huang, Haoyi Xiong, Fan Wang, Tong Xu, Hui Xiong, Dejing Dou

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

[118] arXiv:2012.09658 [pdf, other]

Title: Metabolic response to point mutations reveals principles of modulation of in vivo enzyme activity and phenotype

Sanchari Bhattacharyyaa, Shimon Bershtein, Bharat V. Adkara, Jaie Woodarda, Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM); Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)

[119] arXiv:2012.09660 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast whole-brain imaging of seizures in zebrafish larvae by two-photon light-sheet microscopy

Giuseppe de Vito, Lapo Turrini, Caroline Müllenbroich, Pietro Ricci, Giuseppe Sancataldo, Giacomo Mazzamuto, Natascia Tiso, Leonardo Sacconi, Duccio Fanelli, Ludovico Silvestri, Francesco Vanzi, Francesco Saverio Pavone

Comments: Replacement: accepted version of the manuscript, to be published in Biomedical Optics Express. 36 pages, 15 figures

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[120] arXiv:2012.09723 [pdf, other]

Title: App-based saccade latency and error determination across the adult age spectrum

Hsin-Yu Lai, Gladynel Saavedra-Pena, Charles G. Sodini, Thomas Heldt, Vivienne Sze

Comments: 11 pages, 16 figures, journal

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[121] arXiv:2012.09805 [pdf, other]

Title: A native chemical chaperone in the human eye lens

Eugene Serebryany, Sourav Chowdhury, Nicki E. Watson, Arthur McClelland, Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[122] arXiv:2012.09844 [pdf, other]

Title: Potential evolutionary advantage of a dissociative search mechanism in DNA mismatch repair

Kyle Crocker, James London, Andrés Medina, Richard Fishel, Ralf Bundschuh

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 103, 052404 (2021)

Subjects: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)

[123] arXiv:2012.09930 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-genetic acoustic stimulation of single neurons by a tapered fiber optoacoustic emitter

Linli Shi (1), Ying Jiang (2), Fernando R. Fernandez (2,5,6), Lu Lan (3), Guo Chen (3), Heng-ye Man (4,5), John A. White (2,5,6), Ji-Xin Cheng (2,3), Chen Yang (1, 3) ((1) Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, USA, (2) Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA, (3) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston, USA, (4) Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, USA, (5) Center for Systems Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, USA, (6) Neurophotonics Center, Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, USA)

Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[124] arXiv:2012.09948 [pdf, other]

Title: Symbiotic behaviour in the Public Goods game with altruistic punishment

Lucas S. Flores, Heitor C. M. Fernandes, Marco A. Amaral, Mendeli H. Vainstein

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[125] arXiv:2012.10006 [pdf, other]

Title: Relationship between brain injury criteria and brain strain across different types of head impacts can be different

Xianghao Zhan, Yiheng Li, Yuzhe Liu, August G. Domel, Hossein Vahid Alizadeh, Samuel J. Raymond, Jesse Ruan, Saeed Barbat, Stephen Tiernan, Olivier Gevaert, Michael Zeineh, Gerald Grant, David B. Camarillo

Comments: 28 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Applications (stat.AP)

[126] arXiv:2012.10115 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolutionary dynamics of complex traits in sexual populations in a strongly heterogeneous environment: how normal?

Léonard Dekens

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

[127] arXiv:2012.10197 [pdf, other]

Title: The impact of physiological stress conditions on protein structure and trypsin inhibition of serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) and its N34S variant

Ina Buchholz, Felix Nagel, Annelie Klein, Preshit R. Wagh, Ujjwal M. Mahajan, Andreas Greinacher, Markus M. Lerch, Julia Mayerle, Mihaela Delcea

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[128] arXiv:2012.10230 [pdf, other]

Title: Epidemic spreading in an expanded parameter space: the supercritical scaling laws and subcritical metastable phases

Gaetano Campi, Antonio Valletta, Andrea Perali, Augusto Marcelli, Antonio Bianconi

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Physical Biology. (May 26, 2021)

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[129] arXiv:2012.10295 [pdf, other]

Title: Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools

Petr Danecek, James K. Bonfield, Jennifer Liddle, John Marshall, Valeriu Ohan, Martin O Pollard, Andrew Whitwham, Thomas Keane, Shane A. McCarthy, Robert M. Davies, Heng Li

Subjects: Genomics (q-bio.GN)

[130] arXiv:2012.10331 [pdf, other]

Title: Neural network fast-classifies biological images using features selected after their random-forests-importance to power smart microscopy

Maël Balluet, Florian Sizaire, Youssef El Habouz, Thomas Walter, Jérémy Pont, Baptiste Giroux, Otmane Bouchareb, Marc Tramier, Jacques Pécréaux

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[131] arXiv:2012.10677 [pdf, other]

Title: How does neural activity encode spontaneous motor behavior in zebrafish larvae ?

Selma Mehyaoui

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[132] arXiv:2012.10687 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity of metabolic networks: perturbing metabolite concentrations

Nicola Vassena

Subjects: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN); Dynamical Systems (math.DS)

[133] arXiv:2012.10717 [pdf, other]

Title: Co-evolution between Codon Usage and Protein-Protein Interaction in Bacteria

Maddalena Dilucca, Giulio Cimini, Sergio Forcelloni, Andrea Giansanti

Journal-ref: Gene 778, 145475 (2021)

Subjects: Genomics (q-bio.GN); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)

[134] arXiv:2012.10785 [pdf, other]

Title: Unconsciousness reconfigures modular brain network dynamics

Sofia Morena del Pozo, Helmut Laufs, Vincent Bonhomme, Steven Laureys, Pablo Balenzuela, Enzo Tagliazucchi

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[135] arXiv:2012.10792 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-equilibrium brain dynamics as a signature of consciousness

Yonatan Sanz Perl, Hernan Bocaccio, Ignacio Perez-Ipina, Steven Laureys, Helmut Laufs, Morten Kringelbach, Gustavo Deco, Enzo Tagliazucchi

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 104, 014411 (2021)

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)

[136] arXiv:2012.10822 [pdf, other]

Title: FMO Interaction Energy between 17$\beta$-Estradiol, 17$\alpha$-Estradiol and Human Estrogen Receptor $\alpha$

Ricardo Ugarte

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures; PCA modes movies. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.10808. The interaction energy in aqueous systems is corrected (Tables III and IV)

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[137] arXiv:2012.10965 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding infection progression under strong control measures through universal COVID-19 growth signatures

Magdalena Djordjevic, Marko Djordjevic, Bojana Ilic, Stefan Stojku, Igor Salom

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Global Challenges 2021, 2000101

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[138] arXiv:2012.11043 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial Scales of Population Synchrony generally increases as fluctuations propagate in a Two Species Ecosystem

Miguel Ángel Fernández-Grande, Francisco Javier Cao-Garcia

Comments: 17 pages, 2 figures

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[139] arXiv:2012.11240 [pdf, other]

Title: Improving J-divergence of brain connectivity states by graph Laplacian denoising

Tiziana Cattai, Gaetano Scarano, Marie-Constance Corsi, Danielle S. Bassett, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani, Stefania Colonnese

Comments: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication

Journal-ref: IEEE transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks 7 (2021): 493-508

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Signal Processing (eess.SP)

[140] arXiv:2012.11508 [pdf, other]

Title: The genomic architecture and evolutionary fates of supergenes

Juanita Gutiérrez-Valencia, William Hughes, Emma L. Berdan, Tanja Slotte

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Genomics (q-bio.GN)

[141] arXiv:2012.11665 [pdf, other]

Title: A new algebraic approach to genome rearrangement models

Venta Terauds, Jeremy Sumner

Comments: 32 pages. v2 more concise (former Sec. 4 removed)

Journal-ref: J. Math. Biol. 84, 49 (2022)

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Rings and Algebras (math.RA)

[142] arXiv:2012.11713 [pdf, other]

Title: The Neolithic Transition in Europe at 50 Years

Albert Ammerman

Comments: 32 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)

[143] arXiv:2012.11889 [pdf, other]

Title: Establishment of a diagnostic model to distinguish coronavirus disease 2019 from influenza A based on laboratory findings

Dongyang Xing, Suyan Tian, Yukun Chen, Jinmei Wang, Xuejuan Sun, Shanji Li, Jiancheng Xu

Comments: 26 pages,3 figures

Subjects: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)

[144] arXiv:2012.12127 [pdf, other]

Title: The Control of Lung Branching Morphogenesis

Dagmar Iber

Subjects: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO); Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB); Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)

[145] arXiv:2012.12267 [pdf, other]

Title: Predicting the Spatially Varying Infection Risk in Indoor Spaces Using an Efficient Airborne Transmission Model

Zechariah Lau, Ian M. Griffiths, Aaron English, Katerina Kaouri

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures. Version v3 substantially revises v1. (v3 same as v2 but with a more compact layout, hence fewer pages.) Compared to v1 the model has been extended to determine the spatiotemporal infection risk and recast as an extension of the Wells-Riley model. Another author has been added. The underlying model and domain linked to the semi-analytic solution are now explained in detail

Subjects: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

[146] arXiv:2012.12319 [pdf, other]

Title: Letter to the Editor and Comments on: Intravital dynamic and correlative imaging reveals diffusion-dominated canalicular and flow-augmented ductular bile flux

Lutz Brusch (1), Yannis Kalaidzidis (2,6), Kirstin Meyer (3), Ivo F. Sbalzarini (2,4,5,6), Marino Zerial (2,5,6) ((1) ZIH at Technische Universität Dresden, (2) Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Dresden, (3) UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute, (4) Chair of Scientific Computing for Systems Biology at Faculty of Computer Science of Technische Universität Dresden, (5) Center for Systems Biology Dresden, (6) Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life Dresden)

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)

[147] arXiv:2012.12351 [pdf, other]

Title: Is the brain macroscopically linear? A system identification of resting state dynamics

Erfan Nozari, Maxwell A. Bertolero, Jennifer Stiso, Lorenzo Caciagli, Eli J. Cornblath, Xiaosong He, Arun S. Mahadevan, George J. Pappas, Dani Smith Bassett

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Signal Processing (eess.SP); Dynamical Systems (math.DS); Optimization and Control (math.OC)

[148] arXiv:2012.12390 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling a novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): A stochastic SEIR-HCD approach, with real-time parameter estimation & forecasting for Scotland

Jonathan Wells, Chris Robertson, Vincent Marmara, Alan Yeung, Adam Kleczkowski

Comments: 30 pages, 9 figures, 1 table

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Applications (stat.AP)

[149] arXiv:2012.12400 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on: A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection-fatality rates

Chen Shen, Derrick Van Gennep, Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Yaneer Bar-Yam

Comments: 5 pages, reviewing the work of Meyerowitz-Katz and Merone: this https URL

Subjects: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)

[150] arXiv:2012.12486 [pdf, other]

Title: Microcircuit synchronization and heavy tailed synaptic weight distribution in preB\"otzinger Complex contribute to generation of breathing rhythm

Valentin M. Slepukhin (1), Sufyan Ashhad (2), Jack L. Feldman (2), Alex J. Levine (1,3 and 4) ((1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, (2) Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, (3) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, (4), Department of Biomathematics, UCLA)

Comments: 47 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC); Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn); Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)