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Santa Fe Institute
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About: Santa Fe Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 558 authors who have published 4558 publications receiving 396015 citations. The organization is also known as: SFI.
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TL;DR: An extension to multivariate time series of the phase-randomized Fourier-transform algorithm for generating surrogate data that mimic not only the autoncorrelations of each of the variables in the original data set, but also the cross-correlations between all the variables as well.
Abstract: We propose an extension to multivariate time series of the phase-randomized Fourier-transform algorithm for generating surrogate data. Such surrogate data sets must mimic not only the autocorrelations of each of the variables in the original data set, they must mimic the cross correlations between all the variables as well. The method is applied both to a simulated example (the three components of the Lorentz equations) and to data from a multichannel electroencephalogram.
582 citations
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TL;DR: A large-scale analysis based on over eight million papers across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities reveals a number of understated and persistent ways in which gender inequities remain this paper.
Abstract: Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and it might be tempting to think that gender inequity will soon be a problem of the past. However, a large-scale analysis based on over eight million papers across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities reveals a number of understated and persistent ways in which gender inequities remain. For instance, even where raw publication counts seem to be equal between genders, close inspection reveals that, in certain fields, men predominate in the prestigious first and last author positions. Moreover, women are significantly underrepresented as authors of single-authored papers. Academics should be aware of the subtle ways that gender disparities can occur in scholarly authorship.
575 citations
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TL;DR: Policing not only controls conflict, it significantly influences the structure of networks that constitute essential social resources in gregarious primate societies, and plays a critical role in infant survivorship, emergence and spread of cooperative behaviour, social learning and cultural traditions.
Abstract: All organisms interact with their environment, and in doing so shape it, modifying resource availability. Termed niche construction, this process has been studied primarily at the ecological level with an emphasis on the consequences of construction across generations1. We focus on the behavioural process of construction within a single generation, identifying the role a robustness mechanism2—conflict management—has in promoting interactions that build social resource networks or social niches. Using ‘knockout’ experiments on a large, captive group of pigtailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina), we show that a policing function, performed infrequently by a small subset of individuals3, significantly contributes to maintaining stable resource networks in the face of chronic perturbations that arise through conflict. When policing is absent, social niches destabilize, with group members building smaller, less diverse, and less integrated grooming, play, proximity and contact-sitting networks. Instability is quantified in terms of reduced mean degree, increased clustering, reduced reach, and increased assortativity. Policing not only controls conflict3,4,5, we find it significantly influences the structure of networks that constitute essential social resources in gregarious primate societies. The structure of such networks plays a critical role in infant survivorship6, emergence and spread of cooperative behaviour7, social learning and cultural traditions8. Niche construction is the process by which organisms shape the environment by their actions, modifying their own and each other's niches. It is an important factor in evolution across generations, but a paper in this issue shows how it can act within a single generation too. The study population was a group of pigtailed macaques and the niche was their social network. The use of ‘knockout’ experiments, involving selective removal of group members, showed that a few individuals served a ‘policing’ function, helping to stabilize the community in the face of disruption caused by conflicts between individuals. In the absence of this policing, social niches and the associated learning and cultural traditions break down. A mechanism for managing conflict therefore seems to be an integral component of the social niches that the pigtailed macaque has evolved.
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TL;DR: A "use-modify-create" framework is presented, representing three phases of students' cognitive and practical activity in computational thinking, suggesting continued investment in the development of CT-rich learning environments, in educators who can facilitate their use, and in research on the broader value of computational thinking.
Abstract: Computational thinking (CT) has been described as the use of abstraction, automation, and analysis in problem-solving [3]. We examine how these ways of thinking take shape for middle and high school youth in a set of NSF-supported programs. We discuss opportunities and challenges in both in-school and after-school contexts. Based on these observations, we present a "use-modify-create" framework, representing three phases of students' cognitive and practical activity in computational thinking. We recommend continued investment in the development of CT-rich learning environments, in educators who can facilitate their use, and in research on the broader value of computational thinking.
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TL;DR: It is shown that incorporating a limited amount of choice in the classic Erdös-Rényi network formation model causes its percolation transition to become discontinuous.
Abstract: Networks in which the formation of connections is governed by a random process often undergo a percolation transition, wherein around a critical point, the addition of a small number of connections causes a sizable fraction of the network to suddenly become linked together. Typically such transitions are continuous, so that the percentage of the network linked together tends to zero right above the transition point. Whether percolation transitions could be discontinuous has been an open question. Here, we show that incorporating a limited amount of choice in the classic Erdos-Renyi network formation model causes its percolation transition to become discontinuous.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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James Hone | 127 | 637 | 108193 |
James H. Brown | 125 | 423 | 72040 |
Alan S. Perelson | 118 | 632 | 66767 |
Mark Newman | 117 | 348 | 168598 |
Bette T. Korber | 117 | 392 | 49526 |
Marten Scheffer | 111 | 350 | 73789 |
Peter F. Stadler | 103 | 901 | 56813 |
Sanjay Jain | 103 | 881 | 46880 |
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen | 102 | 1286 | 48138 |
Dirk Helbing | 101 | 642 | 56810 |
Oliver G. Pybus | 100 | 447 | 45313 |
Andrew P. Dobson | 98 | 322 | 44211 |
Carel P. van Schaik | 94 | 329 | 26908 |
Seth Lloyd | 92 | 490 | 50159 |
Andrew W. Lo | 85 | 378 | 51440 |