Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Martin W. Hoffmann, Somayeh Malakuti, Sten Gruener, Soeren Finster, Joerg Gebhardt, Ruomu Tan, Thorsten Schindler, Thomas Gamer
Summary: Industrial Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is an emerging approach towards value creation in modern industrial production, with the development and implementation being rewarding yet challenging. This paper presents a concept to develop, commercialize, operate, and maintain industrial CPS to motivate future research and industrial practice. The multidisciplinary nature of industrial CPS leads to challenges in developing such systems, and solutions to overcome these challenges are discussed to aid researchers and industrial practitioners in the development and commercialization of industrial CPS.
Article
Economics
Sepideh Yeganegi, Parshotam Dass, Andre O. Laplume
Summary: This paper reviews the literature on private sector employee spinouts and integrates insights spanning multiple academic disciplines. It proposes a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework and summarizes the key research questions, theories, and evidence in six themes, providing suggestions for future research.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Morgan L. Gustison, Steven M. Phelps
Summary: Social behavior varies across individuals and species. This article reviews research on social attachment from psychological, ethological, and neurobiological perspectives, with a focus on pair-bonding in prairie voles. It also proposes a new conceptual framework for studying individual variation in attachment behavior, integrating perspectives from philosophy, physics, ethology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Charon A. Pierson
Summary: Editors rely on peer reviewers' comments and insight to make decisions. This article discusses what reviewers should consider when accepting a review assignment and the essential elements they should include in their review.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Cristina-Iulia Bucur, Tobias Kuhn, Davide Ceolin, Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Summary: With the increasing amount of scientific literature, it is challenging for researchers to keep up with the latest findings in their field. Existing approaches to process scientific articles automatically have poor accuracy beyond basic tasks. This study proposes a step towards machine-interpretable publication of high-level scientific claims by demonstrating the feasibility of formally publishing them in a special issue using nanopublications. The evaluation shows the technical and practical feasibility, indicating the potential to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of scientific research as a whole.
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Mechanics
Rohit Ghadge, Ratnakar Ghorpade, Sumedh Joshi
Summary: A systematic multi-disciplinary design approach is used to optimize the tailoring of composite materials, which poses a challenging design optimization problem. MDO establishes connections between parameters from different disciplines, and researchers compare the capabilities and constraints of various MDO frameworks applied to the design optimization of composite materials and structures.
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Satya Das, Shannon S. Stockton, Saamir A. Hassan
Summary: This article reviews major CaHD guidance papers and provides expert clinical perspectives on how to implement these recommendations into clinical practice, with the goal of increasing screening for CaHD, optimizing multidisciplinary collaboration, and discussing exploratory therapies to prevent the development of CaHD. Early screening and valvular replacement are emphasized as important in managing CaHD.
Article
Mining & Mineral Processing
Kevin Andrews, Steve Keim
Summary: Crossing beneath streams or rivers in underground mining scenarios can be necessary but requires a multi-disciplinary approach for thorough assessment to avoid safety and cost issues.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Alex Pillen, Emma-Kate Matthews
Summary: This paper explores the possibility of representing one aspect of natural language in three dimensions. Using contemporary software for 3D modeling, the study compares the structure of language to geometry and examines evidentiality as a third dimension. By presenting four prototypes and digital images, natural language is printed in 3D, extending computational design and aiding understanding of unfamiliar languages through spatial intuition.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Magdalena Zasada, Jenny Harris, Johanna Groothuizen, Eunice Aroyewun, Jeewaka Mendis, Cath Taylor, Madeleine Hewish
Summary: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are essential for effective cancer care, but there are inefficiencies in the current MDTM pathways. This study identified problems in MDTM functioning, such as low attendance rates, repeat discussions pre-diagnosis, and waiting for results. Improving MDTM efficiency requires individualized approaches and support at local, regional, and national levels to enhance workforce, facilities, and resources.
Editorial Material
Plant Sciences
Vincent Vadez, Carlos D. Messina, Andrea Carminati
Summary: Water scarcity poses a major challenge for food production globally, with drought already affecting many regions. The Interdrought community has been tackling this issue for almost three decades through interdisciplinary research, encompassing various fields such as biology, genetics, agronomy, and policy. This special issue features papers from the 7th Interdrought conference, which focused on drought in smallholder agriculture and incorporated a systems approach.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gerhard Thonhauser, Martin Weichold
Summary: Significant progress has been made in investigating collective actions in recent decades. However, the true progress lies in the diversity of approaches from different fields, each with its own fruitful mechanisms but also limitations. The next step is to acknowledge the plurality of approaches and foster dialogue for a more comprehensive understanding of collective action.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Reace Louise Edwards, Carolina Font-Palma, Joe Howe
Summary: Hydrogen has the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions in various sectors in the UK, but there is a lack of clear policy and regulatory support. Further multidisciplinary research is needed to advance hydrogen technologies and their applications.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTS
(2021)
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Heidi Ledford
Summary: This article discusses how the mobile version of a computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ken Tann, Andrew Scott
Summary: This study examines the relationship between academic literacy and business ethics by analyzing a case study of an academic language support program, finding that students need to shift knowledge practices during classroom interaction to relate language knowledge to the discipline, in order to enhance learning motivation and understanding.
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Ines Wichert, Sanghun Jee, Erik De Schutter, Sungho Hong
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Yunliang Zang, Erik De Schutter
Summary: This study explored the coding strategy used by individual neurons in the cerebellar Purkinje cells, finding that increasing input intensity shifts cells from linear rate-coders to burst-pause timing-coders through triggering dendritic spikes. Both linear and burst-pause computations use individual branches as computational units, challenging the traditional view of these cells as linear point neurons. Dendritic spike thresholds can be regulated by various factors to expand the dynamic range of information processing.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biology
Erik De Schutter
PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS
(2021)
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Giorgio A. Ascoli, David N. Kennedy, Erik De Schutter
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Sergio Verduzco-Flores, William Dorrell, Erik De Schutter
Summary: This paper explores a neural control architecture that is both biologically plausible and capable of autonomous learning. It uses feedback controllers that learn to achieve a desired state by selecting the errors that drive them, employing a family of differential Hebbian learning rules. The architecture can control systems with monotonically or non-monotonically changing error responses through reinforcement learning. The use of feedback control simplifies the learning problem and allows for learning of more complex actions.
Article
Neurosciences
Audrey Denizot, Misa Arizono, U. Valentin Nagerl, Hugues Berry, Erik De Schutter
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between astrocytic nanoscale morphology and Ca2+ activity using computational tools and idealized 3D geometries. The results demonstrate that astrocytic morphology significantly influences Ca2+ signals, with swelling hindering signal propagation. This highlights the importance of astrocyte morphology in neuron-astrocyte communication, particularly in pathological conditions.
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Weiliang Chen, Tristan Carel, Omar Awile, Nicola Cantarutti, Giacomo Castiglioni, Alessandro Cattabiani, Baudouin Del Marmol, Iain Hepburn, James G. King, Christos Kotsalos, Pramod Kumbhar, Jules Lallouette, Samuel Melchior, Felix Schuermann, Erik De Schutter
Summary: STEPS 4.0 is a computational neuroscience simulation project designed to improve performance and memory efficiency for novel scientific studies of whole cells.
By introducing a new parallel stochastic reaction-diffusion solver and a deterministic membrane potential solver, STEPS 4.0 significantly reduces memory consumption and enables massively parallel simulations on modern HPC clusters.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Sergio Oscar Verduzco-Flores, Erik De Schutter
Summary: In this paper, the importance of feedback control in understanding neural dynamics of sensorimotor control is demonstrated using a minimal model. The model shows the ability to learn and perform reaching movements, and exhibits emergent properties such as directional tuning and oscillatory dynamics.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Akshay Markanday, Sungho Hong, Junya Inoue, Erik De Schutter, Peter Thier
Summary: The study shows that the cerebellum's ability for multidimensional computations allows it to flexibly control multiple movement parameters to ensure movement precision.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Mizuki Kato, Erik De Schutter
Summary: The primary dendrite selection of Purkinje cells is related to the migration of their presynaptic partner granule cells. A computational model was constructed to explore the role of physical and synaptic interactions in dendritic selection. The model suggests that interaction with parallel fibers is crucial for establishing the distinct planar morphology of Purkinje cell dendrites.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Erik De Schutter
Summary: The Neural Development Simulator, NeuroDevSim, is a Python module that simulates the key processes of brain development. It adopts an agent-based modeling approach inherited from the NeuroMaC software and uses code executed by specific agents called fronts. The program achieves parallel processing without messaging and demonstrates strong parallel scaling up to 96 cores, mainly achieved through shared memory without memory locking.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Audrey Denizot, Corrado Cali, Hugues Berry, Erik De Schutter
Summary: The study investigates the impact of distance between astrocytic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and synapse on neuronal activity-induced Ca2+ signals using stochastic reaction-diffusion simulations, finding that as the distance increases, Ca2+ peak amplitude, duration and frequency decrease rapidly. This suggests that the increased cytosolic volume of branchlets with larger ER-synapse distances is the main cause of this effect, with no effect on local Ca2+ activity when varying ER-synapse distance with constant cytosolic volume.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOSCALE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION (ACM NANOCOM 2021)
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Gabriela Capo Rangel, Erik De Schutter
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Sungho Hong, Erik De Schutter, Jae Kwon, Sunpil Kim, C. Justin Lee
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Meeting Abstract
Neurosciences
A. Denizot, C. Cali, H. Berry, E. De Schutter
