In addition to describing biological interactions, evolutionary theory has also become a valuable tool to make sense of the dynamics of social norms. Social norms determine which behaviors should be regarded as positive, and how community members should act towards each other....

In the quest to unravel the underlying mechanisms of natural systems, accurately identifying causal interactions is of paramount importance. Leveraging the advancements in time-series data collection through cutting-edge technologies, computational methods have emerged as powerful tools for...

In the face of existential dilemmas that are shared by all of humanity, including the consequences of inequality or climate change, it is crucial to understand the conditions leading to cooperation. A new game theory model developed at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) based on...

Everyone knows that 2 + 2 = 4, but why do we have arithmetic in the first place, and why is it true? Researchers at the University of Canterbury have recently answered these questions by "reverse engineering" arithmetic from a psychological perspective. To do this, they considered all possible ways...

Life, from the perspective of thermodynamics, is a system out of equilibrium, resisting tendencies towards increasing their levels of disorder. In such a state, the dynamics are irreversible over time. This link between the tendency toward disorder and irreversibility is expressed as the 'arrow of...

It's a dilemma that many a regular bettor probably faces often—deciding when to place a sports bet. In a study entitled, "A statistical theory of optimal decision-making in sports betting," Jacek Dmochowski, Associate Professor in the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York,...

Children do better at math when music is a key part of their lessons, an analysis of almost 50 years of research on the topic has revealed....

Zhihong Chen, Dongsheng Li. Source: Advances in Differential Equations, Volume 26, Number 1/2, 83--106.Abstract: In this paper, we consider a system related to Maxwell's equations, which has different structure with general elliptic systems. The existence of the weak solution is obtained in...

Yanan Li, Zhijian Yang. Source: Advances in Differential Equations, Volume 26, Number 1/2, 45--82.Abstract: The paper investigates the existence of strong global and exponential attractors and their continuity for a class of semilinear wave equations with fractional damping in $\Omega\subset...

Xiaoming Wang, Hao Wu. Source: Advances in Differential Equations, Volume 26, Number 1/2, 1--44.Abstract: We study the Navier-Stokes-Darcy-Boussinesq system that models the thermal convection of a fluid overlying a saturated porous medium in a general decomposed domain. In both two and three...