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A universal animal communication tempo resonates with the receiver's brain Open

Guy Amichay, Vijay Balasubramanian, Daniel M. Abrams · 2025

During fieldwork in Thailand we observed nearly identical frequencies of co-located flashing fireflies and chirping crickets. Motivated by this, we perform a meta-analysis and show an abundance of evolutionarily distinct species that commu…

Equilibrium Moment Analysis of Itô SDEs Open

David Sabin-Miller, Daniel M. Abrams · 2025

Stochastic differential equations have proved to be a valuable governing framework for many real-world systems which exhibit ``noise'' or randomness in their evolution. One quality of interest in such systems is the shape of their equilibr…

Face-to-face or face-to-screen: A quantitative comparison of conferences modalities Open

Emma R. Zajdela, Kimberly Huynh, Andrew L. Feig, Richard Wiener, Daniel M. Abrams · 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a societal shift from in-person to virtual activities, including scientific conferences. As society navigates a “new normal,” the question arises as to the advantages and disadvantages of these alternative moda…

Compiling Kabbalistic Secrets after the Spanish Expulsion Open

Daniel M. Abrams · 2024

This study offers a bibliographic history of the manuscript evidence and printed editions of the compilation Shushan Sodot , arranged by Moshe of Kyiv (1449–c. 1520). Positioned within a larger inquiry of numbered compilations of short-for…

A Mexican hat dance: clustering in Ricker-potential particle systems Open

David Sabin-Miller, Daniel M. Abrams · 2024

The dynamics and spontaneous organization of coupled particles is a classic problem in modeling and applied mathematics. Here we examine the behavior of particles coupled by the Ricker potential, exhibiting finite local repulsion transitio…

Use of consumer wearables to monitor and predict pain in patients with sickle cell disease Open

Caroline Vuong, Utkarsh Kumar, Rebecca Stojancic, Arvind Subramaniam, Olivia Fernandez , et al. · 2023

Background In sickle cell disease (SCD), unpredictable episodes of acute severe pain, known as vaso-occlusive crises (VOC), disrupt school, work activities and family life and ultimately lead to multiple hospitalizations. The ability to pr…

Pain Forecasting using Self-supervised Learning and Patient Phenotyping: An attempt to prevent Opioid Addiction Open

Swati Padhee, Tanvi Banerjee, Daniel M. Abrams, Nirmish Shah · 2023

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a chronic genetic disorder characterized by recurrent acute painful episodes. Opioids are often used to manage these painful episodes; the extent of their use in managing pain in this disorder is an issue of de…

Phase chimera states: frozen patterns of disorder Open

Emma R. Zajdela, Daniel M. Abrams · 2023

Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on oscillat…

Interpretation of generalized Langevin equations Open

David Sabin-Miller, Daniel M. Abrams · 2022

Many real-world systems exhibit ``noisy'' evolution in time; interpreting their finitely-sampled behavior as arising from continuous-time processes (in the Itô or Stratonovich sense) has led to significant success in modeling and analysis …

Dynamics of social interaction: Modeling the genesis of scientific collaboration Open

Emma R. Zajdela, Kimberly Huynh, Andy T. Wen, Andrew L. Feig, Richard Wiener , et al. · 2022

Collaboration plays a key role in physics and in the broader scientific enterprise. Here we develop a mathematical model for predicting new collaborations. We demonstrate that a simple ordinary differential equation model is a good fit to …

Improving Pain Assessment Using Vital Signs and Pain Medication for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease: Retrospective Study Open

Swati Padhee, Gary K. Nave, Tanvi Banerjee, Daniel M. Abrams, Nirmish Shah · 2022

Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. Most patients with SCD experience repeated, unpredictable episodes of severe pain. These pain episodes are the leading…

Improving Pain Assessment Using Vital Signs and Pain Medication for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease: Retrospective Study (Preprint) Open

Swati Padhee, Gary K. Nave, Tanvi Banerjee, Daniel M. Abrams, Nirmish Shah · 2022

BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder affecting millions of people worldwide. Most patients with SCD experience repeated, unpredictable episodes of severe pain. These pain episodes are the leadin…

Catalyzing collaborations: Prescribed interactions at conferences determine team formation Open

Emma R. Zajdela, Kimberly Huynh, Andy T. Wen, Andrew L. Feig, Richard Wiener , et al. · 2021

Collaboration plays a key role in knowledge production. Here, we show that patterns of interaction during conferences can be used to predict who will subsequently form a new collaboration, even when interaction is prescribed rather than fr…

A Mathematical Model for the Origin of Name Brands and Generics Open

Joseph Johnson, Adam M. Redlich, Daniel M. Abrams · 2021

Firms in the U.S. spend over 200 billion dollars each year advertising their products to consumers, around one percent of the country's gross domestic product. It is of great interest to understand how that aggregate expenditure affects pr…

Clustering of Pain Dynamics in Sickle Cell Disease from Sparse, Uneven Samples Open

Gary K. Nave, Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Nirmish Shah , et al. · 2021

Irregularly sampled time series data are common in a variety of fields. Many typical methods for drawing insight from data fail in this case. Here we attempt to generalize methods for clustering trajectories to irregularly and sparsely sam…

A dynamical model for the origin of anisogamy Open

Joseph Johnson, Nathan L. White, Alain Kangabire, Daniel M. Abrams · 2021

Can subjective pain be inferred from objective physiological data? Evidence from patients with sickle cell disease Open

Mark J. Panaggio, Daniel M. Abrams, Fan Yang, Tanvi Banerjee, Nirmish Shah · 2021

Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) experience lifelong struggles with both chronic and acute pain, often requiring medical interventMaion. Pain can be managed with medications, but dosages must balance the goal of pain mitigation agai…

Pain Intensity Assessment in Sickle Cell Disease Patients Using Vital Signs During Hospital Visits Open

Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Arvind Subramaniam, Daniel M. Abrams , et al. · 2021

Supplementary data for "Can subjective pain be inferred from objective physiological data? Evidence from patients with sickle cell disease" (PLOS CB, 2021) Open

Nirmish Shah, Mark J. Panaggio, Daniel M. Abrams, Tanvi Banerjee, Fan Yang · 2020

Pain Intensity Assessment in Sickle Cell Disease patients using Vital\n Signs during Hospital Visits Open

Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Arvind R. Subramaniam, Daniel M. Abrams , et al. · 2020

Pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) is often associated with increased\nmorbidity, mortality, and high healthcare costs. The standard method for\npredicting the absence, presence, and intensity of pain has long been\nself-report. However, me…

Pain Intensity Assessment in Sickle Cell Disease patients using Vital Signs during Hospital Visits Open

Swati Padhee, Amanuel Alambo, Tanvi Banerjee, Arvind Subramaniam, Daniel M. Abrams , et al. · 2020

Pain in sickle cell disease (SCD) is often associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and high healthcare costs. The standard method for predicting the absence, presence, and intensity of pain has long been self-report. However, medic…

Measuring Pain in Sickle Cell Disease using Clinical Text Open

Amanuel Alambo, Ryan Andrew, Sid Gollarahalli, Jacqueline Vaughn, Tanvi Banerjee , et al. · 2020

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a hereditary disorder of red blood cells in humans. Complications such as pain, stroke, and organ failure occur in SCD as malformed, sickled red blood cells passing through small blood vessels get trapped. Part…

When Pull Turns To Shove: A Mathematical Model For Opinion Dynamics Open

David Sabin-Miller, Daniel M. Abrams · 2020

Accurate modeling of opinion dynamics has the potential to help us understand polarization and what makes effective political discourse possible or impossible. Here, we use differential equations to model the evolution of political opinion…

Why Are U.S. Parties So Polarized? A “Satisficing” Dynamical Model Open

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Daniel M. Abrams, Georgia Kernell, Adilson E. Motter · 2020

Since the 1960s, Democrats and Republicans in U.S. Congress have taken increasingly polarized positions, while the public's policy positions have remained centrist and moderate. We explain this apparent contradiction by developing a dynami…

Continuous Pain Assessment Using Ensemble Feature Selection from Wearable Sensor Data Open

Fan Yang, Tanvi Banerjee, Mark J. Panaggio, Daniel M. Abrams, Nirmish Shah · 2019

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a red blood cell disorder complicated by lifelong issues with pain. Management of SCD related pain is particularly challenging due to its subjective nature. Hence, the development of an objective automatic pain…

Modeling the origin of urban-output scaling laws Open

Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Andrew V. Papachristos, Daniel M. Abrams · 2019

Urban outputs often scale superlinearly with city population. A difficulty in understanding the mechanism of this phenomenon is that different outputs differ considerably in their scaling behaviors. Here, we formulate a physics-based model…

Use of Mobile Health Apps and Wearable Technology to Assess Changes and Predict Pain During Treatment of Acute Pain in Sickle Cell Disease: Feasibility Study Open

Amanda Johnson, Fan Yang, Siddharth Gollarahalli, Tanvi Banerjee, Daniel M. Abrams , et al. · 2019

Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited red blood cell disorder affecting millions worldwide, and it results in many potential medical complications throughout the life course. The hallmark of SCD is pain. Many patients experi…

A coupled oscillator model for the origin of bimodality and multimodality Open

Joseph Johnson, Daniel M. Abrams · 2019

Perhaps because of the elegance of the central limit theorem, it is often assumed that distributions in nature will approach singly-peaked, unimodal shapes reminiscent of the Gaussian normal distribution. However, many systems behave diffe…

Use of mHealth Apps and Wearable Technology to Assess Changes and Predict Pain During Treatment of Acute Pain in Sickle Cell Disease (Preprint) Open

Amanda Johnson, Fan Yang, Siddharth Gollarahilli, Tanvi Banerjee, Daniel M. Abrams , et al. · 2019

BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited red blood cell disorder affecting millions worldwide that results in many potential medical complications throughout the lifecourse. The hallmark of SCD is pain. Many patients experienc…

The tipping point: A mathematical model for the profit-driven abandonment of restaurant tipping Open

Sara M. Clifton, Eileen Herbers, Jack Chen, Daniel M. Abrams · 2018

The custom of voluntarily tipping for services rendered has gone in and out of fashion in America since its introduction in the 19th century. Restaurant owners that ban tipping in their establishments often claim that social justice drives…

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