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2008

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Title:Neutrality and Robustness in Evo-devo: Emergence of Lateral Inhibition
Author(s):Andreea Munteanu and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:08-10-045
 
Title:Monomeric Bistability and the Role of Autoloops in Gene Regulation
Author(s):Stefanie Widder, Javier Macía, and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:08-10-044
 
Title:How Markets Slowly Digest Changes in Supply and Demand
Author(s):Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, J. Doyne Farmer, and Fabrizio Lillo
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Paper #:08-09-043
 
Title:Dynamics of Human Behavior
Author(s):Douglas R. White
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Paper #:08-09-042
 
Title:Hox Cluster Duplication in the Basal Teleost Hiodon alosoides (Osteoglossomorpha)
Author(s):Karen E. Chambers, Ryan McDaniell, Jeremy D. Raincrow, Maya Deshmukh, Peter F. Stadler, , and Chi-hua Chiu
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Paper #:08-09-041
 
Title:Why Model?
Author(s):Joshua M. Epstein
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Paper #:08-09-040
 
Title:A Story of Growing Confusion: Genes and Their Regulation
Author(s):Sonja J. Prohaska and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:08-08-039
 
Title:Folding Kinetics of Large RNAs
Author(s):Michael Geis, Christoph Flamm, Michael T. Wolfinger, Ivo L. Hofacker, Martin Middendorf, Christian Mandl, Peter F. Stadler, and Caroline Thurner
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Paper #:08-08-038
 
Title:The Amphioxus Hox Cluster: Characterization, Comparative Genomics, and Evolution
Author(s):Chris T. Amemiya, Sonya J. Prohaska, Alicia Hill-Force, April Cooke, Jessica Wasserscheid, David E. K. Ferrier, Juan Pascual Anaya, Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Ken Dewar, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:08-08-037
 
Title:Translational Control by RNA-RNA Interaction: Improved Computation of RNA-RNA Binding Thermodynamics
Author(s):Ulrike Mückstein, Hakim Tafer, Stephan H. Bernhart, Maribel Hernandez-Rosales, Jörg Vogel, Peter F. Stadler, and Ivo L. Hofacker
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Paper #:08-08-036
 
Title:Noisy: Identification of Problematic Columns in Multiple Sequence Alignments
Author(s):Andreas W. M. Dress, Christoph Flamm, Guido Fritzsch, Stefan Grünewald, Matthias Kruspe , Sonja J. Prohaska, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:08-08-035
 
Title:Inequality and Network Structure
Author(s):Garud Iyengar, Willemien Kets, Rajiv Sethi, and Sam Bowles
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Paper #:08-08-034
 
Title:Approximate Graph Products
Author(s):Marc Hellmuth, Wilfried Imrich, Werner Klöckl, and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:08-08-033
 
Title:The Coevolution of Cooperation and Dispersal in Social Groups and its Implications for the Emergence of Multicellularity
Author(s):Michael E. Hochberg, Daniel J. Rankin, and Michael Taborsky
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Paper #:08-08-032
 
Title:Time Evolution of the Mutual Fund Size Distribution
Author(s):Yonathan Schwarzkopf and J. Doyne Farmer
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Paper #:08-08-031
 
Title:Cooperative Homo economicus
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
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Paper #:08-07-030
 
Title:Is Altruism Bad for Cooperation?
Author(s):Sung-Ha Hwang and Samuel Bowles
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Paper #:08-07-029
 
Title:The Organization of Intrinsic Computation: Complexity-Entropy Diagrams and the Diversity of Natural Information Processing
Author(s):David P. Feldman, Carl S. McTague, and James P. Crutchfield
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Paper #:08-07-028
 
Title:Market Selection and Asset Pricing
Author(s):Lawrence Blume and David Easley
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Paper #:08-07-027
 
Title:Protein Robustness Promotes Evolutionary Innovations on Large Evolutionary Time Scales
Author(s):Evandro Ferrada and Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:08-06-026
 
Title:Neutral Network Sizes of Biological RNA Molecules Can Be Computed and Are Atypically Large
Author(s):Thomas Jörg, Olivier C. Martin, and Andreas Wagner
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Paper #:08-06-025
 
Title:A Theory for the Formation of Large Agrarian Empires
Author(s):Peter Turchin
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Paper #:08-05-024
 
Title:A Mathematical Model for Optimal Tuning Systems
Author(s):Larry Polansky, Daniel Rockmore, Kimo Johnson, and Douglas Repetto
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Paper #:08-05-023
 
Title:The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the U.S. Southwest
Author(s):Timothy A. Kohler, Matt Pier Glaude, Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, and Brian M. Kemp
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Paper #:08-05-022
 
Title:To How Many Politicians Should Government Be Left?
Author(s):Peter Klimek, Rudolf Hanel, and Stefan Thurner
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Paper #:08-05-021
 
Title:Maximum Entropy Approach to Central Limit Distributions of Correlated Variables
Author(s):Stefan Thurner and Rudolf Hanel
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Paper #:08-05-020
 
Title:Defeating Drug Resistance in Pathogens: Guidance from Evolutionary Theory
Author(s):John W. Pepper
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Paper #:08-05-019
 
Title:The Market Organism: Long Run Survival in Markets with Heterogeneous Traders
Author(s):Lawrence E. Blume and David Easley
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Paper #:08-04-018
 
Title:A Simple Spin Glass Perspective on Martensitic Shape-Memory Alloys
Author(s):David Sherrington
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Paper #:08-04-017
 
Title:Assisting the Analysis of Conserved Synteny Information
Author(s):Jörg Lehmann, Peter F. Stadler, and Sonja J. Prohaska
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Paper #:08-04-016
 
Title:Persistent Institutions
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Suresh Naidu
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Paper #:08-04-015
 
Title:The Virtues and Vices of Equilibrium and the Future of Financial Economics
Author(s):J. Doyne Farmer and John Geneakoplos
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Paper #:08-03-014
 
Title:Emerging Markets in an Anxious Global Economy
Author(s):Ana Fostel and John Geneakoplos
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Paper #:08-03-013
 
Title:Social Preferences and Public Policies: Mechanism Design when Preferences Depend on Incentives
Author(s):Samuel Bowles and Sung Ha Hwang
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Paper #:08-03-012
 
Title:“Genes”
Author(s):Sonja J. Prohaska and Peter F. Stadler
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Paper #:08-03-011
 
Title:Spontaneous Coordinated Activity in Cultured Networks: Analysis of Multiple Ignition Sites, Primary Circuits, and Burst Phase Delay Distributions
Author(s):Michael I. Ham, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Floyd D. McDaniel, and Guenter W. Gross
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Paper #:08-03-010
 
Title:Analysis of the Karmarkar-Karp Differencing Algorithm
Author(s):Stefan Boettcher and Stephan Mertens
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Paper #:08-03-009
 
Title:Diversity Emerging: From Competitive Exclusion to Neutral Coexistence in Ecosystems
Author(s):Juan E. Keymer, Miguel A. Fuentes, and Pablo A. Marquet
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Paper #:08-03-008
 
Title:Prokaryotic Branch of the Tree of Life: A Composition Vector Approach
Author(s):Bailin HAO and Lei GAO
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Paper #:08-02-007
 
Title:Predictive Information and Explorative Behavior of Autonomous Robots
Author(s):Nihat Ay, Nils Bertschinger, Ralf Der, Frank Güttler, and Eckehard Olbrich
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Paper #:08-02-006
 
Title:Distributed Robustness in Cellular Networks: Insights from Synthetic Evolved Circuits
Author(s):Javier Macia and Ricard V. Solé
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Paper #:08-02-005
 
Title:On the Generative Nature of Prediction
Author(s):Wolfgang Löhr and Nihat Ay
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Paper #:08-02-004
 
Title:Identification of Functional Information Subgraphs in Complex Networks
Author(s):Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Vadas Gintautas, and Michael I. Ham
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Paper #:08-01-003
 
Title:A Dual Eigenvector Condition for Strong Lumpability of Markov Chains
Author(s):Martin Nilsson Jacobi and Olof Göernerup
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Paper #:08-01-002
 
Title:A Refinement of the Common Cause Principle
Author(s):Nihat Ay
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Paper #:08-01-001