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Trends and drivers of pedestrian mobility in Barcelona: A fine-grained study across its commercial tissue 

Rames, Clément; Rhoads, Daniel; Meseguer Artola, Antoni; Lozano, Sergi; Borge Holthoefer, Javier; Solé Ribalta, Albert (Data de publicació: 2025-12-15)

Identifying factors that promote active mobility, especially walking, is essential for designing resilient and livable cities and promoting sustainable urban mobility. In spite of recent advances in this direction, available ...

Discounting the Distant Future: What Do Historical Bond Prices Imply about the Long-Term Discount Rate? 

Farmer, J. Doyne; Geanakoplos, John; Richiardi, Matteo G.; Montero Matellanes, M. Mikel; Perelló, Josep, 1974-; Masoliver, Jaume, 1951- (Data de publicació: 2025-07-14)

We present a thorough empirical study on real interest rates by also including risk aversion through the introduction of the market price of risk. From the viewpoint of complex systems science and its multidisciplinary ...

Astrocyte dysfunction and neuronal network hyperactivity in a CRISPR engineered pluripotent stem cell model of frontotemporal dementia 

Canals, Isaac; Comella Bolla, Andrea; Cepeda-Prado, Efrain; Avaliani, Natalia; Crowe, James A.; Oburoglu, Leal; Bruzelius, Andreas; King, Naomi; Pajares, María A.; Pérez-Sala, Dolores; Heuer, Andreas; Rylander Ottosson, Daniella; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi; Ahlenius, Henrik (Data de publicació: 2023-07-14)

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the second most prevalent type of early-onset dementia and up to 40% of cases are familial forms. One of the genes mutated in patients is CHMP2B, which encodes a protein found in a complex ...

Dominance of metric correlations in two-dimensional neuronal cultures described through a Random Field Ising Model 

Hernández Navarro, Lluís; Gómez Orlandi, Javier; Cerruti, Benedetta; Vives i Santa-Eulàlia, Eduard; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Data de publicació: 2018-05-14)

We introduce a novel random field Ising model, grounded on experimental observations, to assess the importance of metric correlations in cortical circuits in vitro. Metric correlations arise from both the finite axonal ...

Opinion competition dynamics on multiplex networks 

Amato, Roberta; Kouvaris, Nikos E.; San Miguel, Maxi; Díaz Guilera, Albert (Data de publicació: 2017-12-15)

Multilayer and multiplex networks represent a good proxy for the description of social phenomena where social structure is important and can have different origins. Here, we propose a model of opinion competition where ...

Reservoir computing in simulated neuronal cultures: Effectof network structure 

Mats Houben, Akke; Haeb, Anna-Christina; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Data de publicació: 2026-03-18)

Biological neurons are emerging as attractive candidates for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications given their natural energy efficiency and self-repair capacity. However, they differ from their idealized ...

Tunable dynamics of flexible magnetic microcrosses: synchronous rotation, breathing and out-of-plane arm overtaking 

Tavacoli, Joe; Stikuts, Andris P.; Dass, Mihir; Liedl, Tim; Tierno, Pietro (Data de publicació: 2026-01-23)

We combine colloidal self-assembly and soft-lithography techniques to realize flexible magnetic microcrosses that can be manipulated via external, time dependent magnetic fields. The crosses are characterized by a central ...

Citizen science for social physics: digital tools and participation 

Perelló, Josep, 1974-; Larroya, Ferran; Bonhoure, Isabelle; Peter, Franziska (Data de publicació: 2024-10-22)

Social physics is an active and diverse field in which many scientists with formal training in physics study a broad class of complex social phenomena. Social physics investigates societal problems but most often does not ...

Aproximacions a la perspectiva de la persona en tractament de manteniment amb metadona: Reflexions a propòsit de 10 anys de recerca 

Trujols i Albet, Joan; Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan, 1958-; Iraurgi Castillo, Ioseba; Pérez de los Cobos Peris, José C. (Data de publicació: 2018-06-25)

Els tractaments de manteniment amb metadona (TMM) són un autèntic tractament psicofarmacològic de la dependència d'heroïna i, a la vegada, un element indispensable de les polítiques i les intervencions de reducció de danys. ...

Large-scale citizen science provides high-resolution nitrogen dioxide values and health impact while enhancing community knowledge and collective action 

Perelló, Josep, 1974-; Cigarini, Anna; Vicens, Julián; Bonhoure, Isabelle; Rojas Rueda, David; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Cirach, Marta; Daher, Carolyn; Targa, Jaume; Ripoll, Anna (Data de publicació: 2021-07-15)

We present outcomes from a large-scale air quality citizen science campaign (xAire, 725 measurements) to demonstrate its positive contribution in the interplay between advances in exposure assessment and developments in ...

Stationary patterns in star networks of bistable units: theory and application to chemical reactions 

Kouvaris, Nikos E.; Sebek, M.; Iribarne, A.; Díaz Guilera, Albert; Kiss, I. Z. (Data de publicació: 2017-06-23)

We present theoretical and experimental studies on pattern formation with bistable dynamical units coupled in a star network configuration. By applying a localized perturbation to the central or the peripheral elements, ...

Modular architecture confers robustness to damage and facilitates recovery in spikingneural networks modeling in vitro neurons 

Sumi, Takuma; Houben, Akke Mats; Yamamoto, Hideaki; Kato, Hideyuki; Katori, Yuichi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi; Hirano-Iwata, Ayumi (Data de publicació: 2026-01-07)

Impaired brain function is restored following injury through dynamic processes that involve synaptic plasticity. This restoration is supported by the brain’s inherent modular organization, which promotes functional separation ...

Propulsion and hydrodynamic particle transport of magnetically twisted colloidal ribbons 

Massana-Cid, Helena; Navarro Argemí, Eloy; Martínez Pedrero, Fernando; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio; Tierno, Pietro (Data de publicació: 2018-06-22)

We describe a method to trap, transport and release microscopic particles in a viscous fluid using the hydrodynamic flow field generated by a magnetically propelled colloidal ribbon. The ribbon is composed of ferromagnetic ...

Functionability in complex networks: Leading nodes for the transition from structural to functional networks through remote asynchronization 

Rosell-Tarragó, Gemma; Díaz Guilera, Albert (Data de publicació: 2020-01-20)

Complex networks are essentially heterogeneous not only in the basic properties of the constituent nodes, such as their degree, but also in the effects that these have on the global dynamical properties of the network. ...

Dynamics and interactions of magnetically driven colloidal microrotors 

Hernández Hernández, Raúl Josué; Fischer, Thomas M.; Tierno, Pietro (Data de publicació: 2022-04-13)

We study the pair interactions between magnetically driven colloidal microrotors with an anisotropic shape. An external precessing magnetic field induces a torque to these particles spinning them at a fixed angular frequency. ...

The long cross-over dynamics of capillary imbibition 

Ruiz-Gimenez, E.; Armstrong, S.; Leveque, A.; Michel, C.; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio; Wells, G.G.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ledesma Aguilar, Rodrigo Andrés (Data de publicació: 2023-02-20)

Spontaneous capillary imbibition is a classical problem in interfacial fluid dynamics with a broad range of applications, from microfluidics to agriculture. Here we study the duration of the cross-over between an initial ...

Parkinson’s disease patient-specific neuronal networks carrying the LRRK2 G2019S mutation unveil early functional alterations that predate neurodegeneration 

Carola, Giulia; Malagarriga, Daniel; Calatayud Aristoy, Carles; Pons-Espinal, Meritxell; Blasco Agell, Lucas; Richaud-Patin, Yvonne; Fernandez-Carasa, Irene; Baruffi, Valentina; Beltramone, Silvia; Molina, Elsa; Dell’Era, Patrizia; Toledo Aral, Juan J.; Tolosa, Eduardo; Muotri, Alysson R.; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi; Raya Chamorro, Ángel; Consiglio, Antonella (Data de publicació: 2021-07-19)

A deeper understanding of early disease mechanisms occurring in Parkinson's disease (PD) is needed to reveal restorative targets. Here we report that human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived dopaminergic neurons ...

Nematic ordering of anisotropic nanoparticles in block copolymers 

Diaz, Javier; Pinna, Marco; Zvelindovsky, Andrei V.; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio (Data de publicació: 2022-04-08)

Block copolymer melts have been previously used to control the position and alignment of anisotropic nanoparticles. In this work, 2D and 3D mesoscopic simulations are used to explore the phase behavior of block ...

Large scale three dimensional simulations of hybrid block-copolymer/nanoparticle systems 

Diaz, Javier; Pinna, Marco; Zvelindovsky, Andrei V.; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio (Data de publicació: 2020-04-28)

Block copolymer melts self-assemble in the bulk into a variety of nanostructures, making them perfect candidates to template the position of nanoparticles. The morphological changes of block copolymers are studied in the ...

Single-file dynamics of colloids in circular channels: Time scales, scaling laws and their universality 

Villada-Balbuena, Alejandro; Ortiz-Ambriz, Antonio; Castro-Villarreal, Pavel; Tierno, Pietro; Castañeda-Priego, Ramón; Méndez-Alcaraz, José Miguel (Data de publicació: 2022-04-08)

In colloidal systems, Brownian motion emerges from the massive separation of time and length scales associated with characteristic dynamics of the solute and solvent constituents. This separation of scales produces several ...

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