Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Protein Networks

Protein Networks

An organism can have thousands of different proteins, and these proteins must cooperate to ensure the health of an organism. Proteins bind to other proteins and form complexes to carry out their functions. Many proteins interact with multiple other proteins creating a complex network of protein interactions.
These interactions can be represented through maps depicting protein-protein interaction networks, represented as nodes and edges. Nodes are circles that are representative of a protein,...

Network Covalent Solids

Network Covalent Solids

Network covalent solids contain a three-dimensional network of covalently bonded atoms as found in the crystal structures of nonmetals like diamond, graphite, silicon, and some covalent compounds, such as silicon dioxide (sand) and silicon carbide (carborundum, the abrasive on sandpaper). Many minerals have networks of covalent bonds.
To break or to melt a covalent network solid, covalent bonds must be broken. Because covalent bonds are relatively strong, covalent network solids are typically...

Protein Complexes with Interchangeable Parts

Protein Complexes with Interchangeable Parts

Groups of proteins may form a complex where each protein in this complex has a different role in the overall execution of the complex’s function. Often some of the proteins in the complex can be replaced by a closely related variant to give a complex that contains many of the same components yet is functionally distinct.
The SCF ubiquitin ligase is a protein complex of five individual proteins. This complex attaches ubiquitin to other target proteins to mark them for degradation. In order...

What is Natural Selection?

What is Natural Selection?

Natural selection is an evolutionary process in which individuals with survival-promoting traits reproduce at higher rates. These favorable traits become more common within a population or species. Naturally selected traits initially arise via random genetic mutations. In order for selection to occur, there must be variation within a population, the trait controlling the variation must be heritable, and there must be an evolutionary advantage for variation in the trait.

Optimal Foraging

Optimal Foraging

How animals obtain and eat their food is called foraging behavior. Foraging can include searching for plants and hunting for prey and depends on the species and environment.

Setting Time of Cement

Setting Time of Cement

The setting time of cement refers to the process of cement paste transitioning from a plastic state to a solid state. This process is crucial in construction as it dictates the timeframe for concrete placement, compaction, and finishing. The onset of this solidification is termed the initial set, indicating when the paste becomes unworkable. The final set is when the paste has solidified completely, and further handling or manipulation can no longer affect its shape. The cement strength is...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Multi-scaling reservoir computing learns noise-induced transitions with Lévy noise.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)·2025

Same author

Early warnings are too late when parameters change rapidly.

Scientific reports·2025

Same author

Nonmonotonic emergence of order from chaos in turbulent thermoacoustic fluid systems.

Physical review. E·2025

Same author

Dynamic Evolution of Complex Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Applying Evolutionary Games to Community Structure.

IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence·2025

Same author

The circular movement of synchronous extreme precipitation preceding Kerala floods in 2018 and 2019.

Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.)·2025

Same author

Extreme events in two coupled chaotic oscillators.

Physical review. E·2025

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Feb 6, 2026

Author Spotlight: Enhancement of Salient Object Detection for Smart Grid Applications

Author Spotlight: Enhancement of Salient Object Detection for Smart Grid Applications

Published on: December 15, 2023

Optimization of targeted node set in complex networks under percolation and selection.

Yang Liu^1,2, Xi Wang³, Jürgen Kurths^1,4,5

¹Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 14412 Potsdam, Germany.

Physical Review. E

|August 17, 2018

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

This study introduces two novel network analysis strategies, relationship-related (RR) and prediction relationship (PR), to overcome local optimization in network robustness and immunization. These methods effectively collapse or protect networks, outperforming existing approaches on large real-world datasets.

More Related Videos

Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain

Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain

Published on: October 13, 2023

Optimize Flue Gas Settings to Promote Microalgae Growth in Photobioreactors via Computer Simulations

Optimize Flue Gas Settings to Promote Microalgae Growth in Photobioreactors via Computer Simulations

Published on: October 1, 2013

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Feb 6, 2026

Author Spotlight: Enhancement of Salient Object Detection for Smart Grid Applications

Author Spotlight: Enhancement of Salient Object Detection for Smart Grid Applications

Published on: December 15, 2023

Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain

Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain

Published on: October 13, 2023

Optimize Flue Gas Settings to Promote Microalgae Growth in Photobioreactors via Computer Simulations

Optimize Flue Gas Settings to Promote Microalgae Growth in Photobioreactors via Computer Simulations

Published on: October 1, 2013

Area of Science:

Network Science
Complex Systems Analysis
Computational Social Science

Background:

Existing network robustness and targeted immunization methods often rely on greedy strategies, leading to local optimization.
Overcoming local optima is crucial for effectively analyzing and manipulating network structures.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop novel strategies for network robustness and targeted immunization that avoid local optimization.
To introduce the relationship-related (RR) and prediction relationship (PR) strategies based on network interrelationships.

Main Methods:

The relationship-related (RR) strategy combines sum and product rules from explosive percolation theory.
The prediction relationship (PR) strategy assumes higher importance for nodes with higher degrees.
Both strategies investigate interrelationships among nodes to avoid local optima.

Main Results:

Simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of RR and PR strategies in collapsing or protecting networks.
The RR strategy successfully fragments large real-world networks into a giant component of a consistent size.
RR requires less than 90% of the nodes compared to the best existing methods for similar performance.

Conclusions:

The proposed RR and PR strategies offer improved performance over existing greedy methods for network robustness and immunization.
These novel approaches provide a more effective way to manage network structures, particularly on large, complex networks.
Investigating interrelationships among nodes is a promising direction for developing advanced network analysis techniques.