We study a class of singularly perturbed dynamical systems that have fast and slow components, ε⪡1 being the fast to slow timescale ratio. The fast components are governed by a strongly mixing discrete map, which is iterated at time intervals ε. The slow components are governed by a...

This research examined the impact of community-policing programs on calls for service, Part 1 crime, total crime, and narcotics cases infour Houston neighborhoods. The methodology used time-senes analysis and examined lagged and dynamic effects. The analysis produced mixed results, indicating...

This article uses ARIMA and tobit analysis to examine the extent to which restrictive policies and intensified monitoring of "hot" pursuits by law enforcement officers induce these officers to ignore requirements that the initiation of such chases be communicated to their superiors and that...

The extinction transition on a 1D heterogeneous substrate with diffusive correlations is studied. Diffusively correlated heterogeneity is shown to affect the location of the transition point, as the reactants adapt to the fluctuating environment. At the transition point the density decays like...

Stable wrinkled fronts were often observed in experiments on fluid invasion into porous media, when the invaded phase is less viscous than the invading one. Recent experiments by a group at the Weizmann institute, show that capillary wetting of paper may also lead to rough self-affine fronts. A...

Various bacterial strains exhibit colonial branching patterns during growth on poor substrates. These patterns reflect bacterial cooperative self-organization and cybernetic processes of communication, regulation and control employed during colonial development. One method of modeling is the...

The application of evolution-inspired strategies to hardware design and circuit self-configuration leads to the concept of evolvable hardware (EHW). EHW refers to self-configuration of electronic hardware by evolutionary/genetic algorithms (EA and GA, respectively). Unconventional circuits, for...

Bacteria have developed sophisticated modes of cooperative behavior to cope with unfavorable environmental conditions. Here we report the effect of antibiotic stress on the colonial development of Paenibacillus dendritiformis and P. vortex. We focus on the effect of co-trimoxazole on the...

We present a study of interfacial pattern formation during diffusion-limited growth of Bacillus subtilis. It is demonstrated that bacterial colonies can develop patterns similar to morphologies observed during diffusion-limited growth in non-living (azoic) systems such as solidification and...