Storylines: Synchronicity

Unseen Faces, Lingering Storylines

that occurred in difficult to reach rural settings, the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic involved major urban areas and thereby increased the potential to escalate from a regional epidemic to a pandemic. The West Africa Ebola outbreak was unprecedented in its scope, resulting in 28,616 reported cases and 11,300 deaths among adults and children. In all, Ebola cases were treated in 10 differe...

Global Hydrogen and Electricity Storylines

Generating storylines from sensor data

We present an approach for producing narratives, or storylines, from sensor data collected from a mobile phone. Given a training set of English-language descriptions of events and a set of corresponding sensor data, we learn a probabilistic translation model. Then, given new sensor data, our model can produce English-language descriptions of the events present in the data. Our approach is evalu...

Synchronicity from Synchronized Chaos

The dynamical systems paradigm of synchronized chaos may realize the philosophical notion of “synchronicity”. Effectively unpredictable chaotic systems commonly exhibit a predictable relationship when they are coupled through only a few of many variables, a relationship that can be highly intermittent in realistic configurations, as with philosophical “synchronicities”. Synchronicities are mean...

Transcribed in synchronicity

But the discrete clocks can work as one because they are synchronized by electrical impulses. Our internal clock, which controls circadian behaviors and physiology, is a circuitry of many thousands of neurons in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The Kobe group looked at communication within this circuitry in cultured brain slices of transgenic mice using a fluorescent reporter...