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Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama
We present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures we study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation. We present similarities and differences between these measures visually and through…
E Aaron, J H Long Jr
For an integrated understanding of how evolutionary dynamics operate in parallel on multiple levels, computational models can enable investigations that would be otherwise infeasible or impossible. We present one modeling framework, Embodied Computational Evolution (ECE), and employ it to investigate how two types of…
Dominic K Devlin, Austen RD Ganley, Nobuto Takeuchi
Morphogenesis of complex body shapes is reproducible despite the noise inherent in the underlying morphogenetic processes. However, how these morphogenetic processes work together to achieve this reproducibility remains unclear. Here, we ask how morphogenetic reproducibility is realised by developing a computational…
Luyi Miao, Xu Dai, Hanchen Song, André Ricardo Backes + 1 more
Morphological complexity reflects the biological structure of an organism and is closely linked to its associated functions and phylogenetics. In animals with shells, ornamentation is an important characteristic of morphological complexity, and it has various functions. However, because of the variations in type…
Julie Nijs, Freek Van de Velde, Hubert Cuyckens, Stanisław Drożdż + 2 more
'Tomasz Stanisz' 'Jarosław Kwapień'] This study examines the relationship between morphological complexity and word order rigidity, addressing a gap in the literature regarding causality in linguistic changes. While prior research suggests that the loss of inflectional morphology correlates with the adoption of fixed…
Guillaume Dera, Elise Nardin, Laurent Risser, Marius Albino + 3 more
The Earth’s biosphere exhibits a notable diversity of forms, yet the full morphological extent and limits of life remain largely unexplored. Here, we develop a geometric complexity space for comparing all known unicellular and multicellular phyla using fractal descriptors of the density and heterogeneity of body mass…
Fei Gao, Lin Hua, Yuwen He, Zhen Yuan
To date, it is still unclear how word structure might impact lexical processing in the brain for morphological impoverished language like Chinese. In this study, concurrent EEG and fNIRS recordings were performed to inspect the temporal and spatial brain activity that are related to the morphological priming effect…
Yue Xie, Kai-fung Chu, Xing Wang, Fumiya Iida
Soft robotics holds transformative potential for enabling adaptive and adaptable systems in dynamic environments. However, the interplay between morphological and control complexities and their collective impact on task performance remains poorly understood. Therefore, in this study, we investigate these trade-offs…
Joonwoo Kim, Solbin Lee, Kichun Nam
A fundamental question in psycholinguistics concerns whether morphological decomposition is obligatory during visual word recognition or whether whole-word access can occur under conditions of high frequency and familiarity. The present study aimed to examine how morphological complexity and lexical frequency jointly…
Kevin J. Peterson, Alexander W. Clarke, Grygoriy Zolotarov, Bradley Deline + 3 more
A prevailing problem in evolutionary biology is elucidating the “genotype-phenotype map” that characterizes how genomic activities regulate different aspects of organismal morphology and their variability in both space and time. Here, we explore potential causality between genome content and both morphological…
Tim Rock, Matthew A. Wills
An increasing number of evolutionary studies seek to quantify the morphological complexity of organisms, particularly those comprising serially homologous elements at different hierarchical levels of organization. Numerous operational frameworks have been proposed for doing this, but most focus on one or multiple…
Gui Wang, Hui Wang, Li Wang
Based on 774 argumentative writings produced by Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, this study examined the extent to which Kolmogorov complexity metrics can distinguish the proficiency levels of beginner, lower-intermediate, and upper-intermediate second language (L2) English learners. Kolmogorov…
Amanda Doucette, Ryan Cotterell, Morgan Sonderegger, Timothy O’Donnell
the Lexicon Authors: ['Amanda Doucette' 'Ryan Cotterell' 'Morgan Sonderegger' 'Timothy O’Donnell'] It has been claimed that within a language, morphologically irregular words are more likely to be phonotactically simple and morphologically regular words are more likely to be phonotactically complex. This inverse…
Hadar Nasi, Daniel Barak, Maria C. di Gregorio, Linda J. W. Shimon + 2 more
Straight facets and sharp edges are among the most distinctive indicators of well-defined crystals, and often reflect the polyhedral geometry and symmetry of the underlying close-packed, molecular structure. Curved morphologies are sometimes observed in biogenic crystals where templating or non-classical…
Abigail Dommer, Nicholas Wauer, Kyle Angle, Aakash Davasam + 6 more
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) ejected through bursting bubbles at the ocean surface are complex mixtures of salts and organic species. Composition affects their ability to form marine clouds which cover nearly three-quarters of the Earth and play a critical role in the climate system. Submicron SSA particles have long…
Maria Chiara di Gregorio, Vivek Singh, Linda J. W. Shimon, Michal Lahav + 1 more
The symmetry of a crystal’s morphology usually reflects the symmetry of the crystallographic packing. For single-crystals, the space and point groups allow only a limited number of mathematical descriptions of the morphology (forms), all of which are convex polyhedrons. In contrast, concave polyhedrons are a hallmark…
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Single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) are a class of materials formed by the intramolecular cross-linking and collapse of single polymer chains. Because their morphology dictates suitability for specific applications, such as nanoscale reactors and drug delivery vehicles, understanding how to control or tailor…
Adrian Krzyzanowski, Axel Pahl, Michael Grigalunas, Herbert Waldmann
The fraction of sp3 hybridised carbons (Fsp3) and the fraction of stereogenic carbons (FCstereo) are two widely employed scores of molecular complexity with a strong link to biologically relevant features such as frequency, potency and selectivity of protein binding. However, due to their simplistic nature, they do not…
Michael Coleman Dalvean
Word complexity is defined in a number of different ways. Psycholinguistic, morphological and lexical proxies are often used. Human ratings are also used. The problem here is that these proxies do not measure complexity directly, and human ratings are susceptible to subjective bias. In this study we contend that some…
Jillian A Sanderson, Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong, Charles-Olivier Dufresne-Camaro, D Luke Mahler
Exploring the diversity and function of complex colour patterns is a fundamental interest in ecology and evolutionary biology, but progress on many questions is limited by our ability to quantify diverse visual patterns. We address this problem by introducing Dude, Everyone Wants Colour Pattern Analysis Tools (DEWPAT)…
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Fungal pathogens, including Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Pestalotiopsis spp., are significant threats to global cacao production. Understanding their response to novel antifungal compounds is crucial for developing new and effective plant protection strategies. To establish a clear structure-activity relationship…
Alan V. Rincon, Bridget M. Waller, Julie Duboscq, Alexander Mielke + 3 more
The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. Here, we test the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their degree of social tolerance and complexity. We coded facial…