Sentences with phrase «collective behaviour»

For centuries, scientists and non-scientists alike have been fascinated by the beautiful and often complex collective behaviour of animal groups, such as the highly synchronised movements of flocks of birds and schools of fish.

Patterns of Interpersonal Coordination in Rugby Union: Analysis of Collective Behaviours in a Match Situation

«Even though the particles have no social interaction or intelligence, they can exhibit collective behaviour,» Palacci notes.

New research conducted at the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology suggests that observations of different groups of schooling fish could provide important insights into how the make - up of groups can drive collective behaviour and performance.

«Collective behaviour requires that the system is able to propagate information successfully across the group,» says Cavagna.

Using a plain mirror game — in which two «players» are asked to imitate each other's movements — the team showed that people who have similar movements will tend to display more organised collective behaviour.

When the FQHE was first discovered in the 1980s, condensed matter physicists quickly worked out that the fractionally charged «particles» inside their semiconductors were actually quasiparticles — that is, emergent collective behaviours of the system that imitate particles.

Methodology of non-equilibrium statistical physics is as a natural framework to study collective behaviour in biological systems.

By paying villagers in Uganda quite small sums not to clear the forest on their land, they changed collective behaviour and more than halved the expected tree loss.

Module 3 covers collective behaviour and social issues such as crowd dynamics, the impact of culture on behaviour, prejudice and intergroup hostility.

In explaining people's individual and collective behaviours, it is essential to look at the material structures in which they are embedded.

Ever wondered what makes the collective behaviour in insect swarms possible?

The authors suggest that the observed laws might describe a variety of dynamic phenomena from the motion of synthetic active particles to animal flocks and herds, human crowd or opinion dynamics and help to formulate the general laws of collective behaviour.

The tubes» collective behaviour may also prove interesting.

He believes their collective behaviour could give clues to the ways more complicated groups of electrons behave, perhaps even shedding light on high - temperature superconductivity.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

The collective behaviour of ants is complex, but not because they are complex individuals, says Steward.

Properties of the gas can be found which describe the collective behaviour of all the molecules, such as the air pressure or the temperature, which results from the particles» energy.

The collective behaviour also allows the worms to act as a kind of dynamic «social seaweed» that may improve their stability, colonising sandy areas that regular types of seaweed can't because of a lack of places to anchor themselves.

Regardless, says Moore, there is an undeniable appeal in how the collective behaviour of electrons can lead to so many wonderful things.

Studies cover a breadth of topics ranging from single molecules (molecular motors, DNA - protein interactions, membrane proteins) to cellular functions (cell adhesion, cell division, cell motility, intracellular transport) and the collective behaviour of cells in tissues and organisms (wound healing, morphogenesis).

Similarly to Independent New York's trend earlier this year of showing new and established (or late) artists» work together, Elizabeth Dee gallery will show the work of Leo Gabin — the Ghent - born trio, comprising Lieven Deconinck, Gaëtan Begerem, and Robin De Vooght whose work often explores the collective behaviour enabled by the online world — alongside pieces from the late radical American artist Steven Parrino.

«Sagar has collaborated with dancers, performers, choreographers, writers and architects, expanding the borders of art practice in order to draw new perspectives on the constraints that a space places on our collective behaviour.»

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