Many collective human activities have been shown to exhibit universal patterns. However, the possibility of universal patterns across timing events of researcher migration has barely been explored at global scale. Here, we show that timing events of migration within different countries exhibit remarkable similarities. Specifically, we look at the distribution governing the data of researcher mi...

Altitudinal migrations are common in all major vertebrate and some invertebrate lineages. Such migrations have important implications for the basic and applied ecology of animals making these movements. The idea that bats make altitudinal migrations has been suggested for nearly a century. However, studies documenting the existence and causes of altitudinal bat migrations are scarce, and are fr...

The link between population mobility and environmental change is fundamental for our understanding of how future global environmental changes will affect our societies, and also how the increased mobility will change our role in the Earth system. Climate change has been predicted as a major cause of human migration, both voluntary and forced, through for example increased storm and drought freq...

6 One of the most remarkable characteristics of collective motion of fish is the emergence of 7 complex migration patterns in which swimming fish are synchronised by remaining together 8 and moving in the same direction. These migration patterns, referred to as fish schools, are 9 often explained using individual based models (IBM’s) that focus on interactions between 10 single individuals. The...

Agent based simulation can be an important tool for enhancing our understanding of the dynamics of complex systems. This paper studies the migration and behavior adoption patterns of agents in a system of agents situated in geographically distributed communities. We consider two agent types with binary and continuous states. Agents either probabilistically adopt the predominant state in their c...

When a bank replaces its core-banking information system, the bank must migrate data like accounts from the old into the new system. Migrating data is necessary but not a catalyst for new business opportunities. The consequence is cost pressure to be addressed by an efficient software development process together with an industrialization of the development. Industrialization requires defining ...

Abstract The ways border regimes affect migration patterns remain ambiguous. Closed borders may constrain but also encourage migrants to pursue alternative channels and destinations. While open be associated with higher migration, oftentimes they promote circulation return. To clarify how different influence patterns, this article examines the impact of closed on outcomes in Guyana, Suriname Fr...

The region of North Africa (NA) represents a striking locality regarding migration with several migration patterns, namely emigration in the form of labour export to Europe and North America and, to a lesser extent, to the Arab Gulf area. The latter has increased enormously in the last decade because of the political instability in most of the NA countries. The aim of the present chapter was to...

BACKGROUND Neurons are dynamically coupled with each other through neurite-mediated adhesion during development. Understanding the collective behavior of neurons in circuits is important for understanding neural development. While a number of genetic and activity-dependent factors regulating neuronal migration have been discovered on single cell level, systematic study of collective neuronal mi...

BACKGROUND Mexican-American fertility is poorly understood because data limitations prevent researchers from accurately estimating the fertility levels of members of this group and from determining how their fertility changes within and across generations. OBJECTIVE Using binational data and an innovative methodological addressing key methodological limitations, I (1) estimate the fertility of ...