Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Jul 19, 2023
A widely mentioned but not experimentally confirmed view (known as the 'criticality hypothesis') argues that biological swarm systems gain optimal responsiveness to perturbations and information processing capabilities by operating near the critical ...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Apr 19, 2023
Increasing fungicide dose tends to lead to better short-term control of plant diseases. However, high doses select more rapidly for fungicide resistant strains, reducing long-term disease control. When resistance is qualitative and complete-i.e. resi...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Apr 5, 2023
The potential for complex systems to exhibit tipping points in which an equilibrium state undergoes a sudden and often irreversible shift is well established, but prediction of these events using standard forecast modelling techniques is quite diffic...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Mar 1, 2023
Jumping animals launch themselves from surfaces that vary widely in compliance from grasses and shrubs to tree branches. However, studies of robotic jumpers have been largely limited to those jumping from rigid substrates. In this paper, we leverage ...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Jan 18, 2023
Neurodegenerative diseases of the brain pose a major and increasing global health challenge, with only limited progress made in developing effective therapies over the last decade. Interdisciplinary research is improving understanding of these diseas...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Jan 4, 2023
Inferring the underlying processes that drive collective behaviour in biological and social systems is a significant statistical and computational challenge. While simulation models have been successful in qualitatively capturing many of the phenomen...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Nov 23, 2022
The use of flying robots (drones) is increasing rapidly, but their utility is limited by high power demand, low specific energy storage and poor gust tolerance. By contrast, birds demonstrate long endurance, harvesting atmospheric energy in environme...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Sep 21, 2022
The deformation of cellular membranes regulates trafficking processes, such as exocytosis and endocytosis. Classically, the Helfrich continuum model is used to characterize the forces and mechanical parameters that cells tune to accomplish membrane s...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Jun 29, 2022
The annual global production of chickens exceeds 25 billion birds, which are often housed in very large groups, numbering thousands. Distress calling triggered by various sources of stress has been suggested as an 'iceberg indicator' of chicken welfa...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Apr 6, 2022
Scientific results should not just be 'repeatable' (replicable in the same laboratory under identical conditions), but also 'reproducible' (replicable in other laboratories under similar conditions). Results should also, if possible, be 'robust' (rep...