The topography of the environment alters the optimal search strategy for active particles

G Volpe, G Volpe - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
In environments with scarce resources, adopting the right search strategy can make the
difference between succeeding and failing, even between life and death. At different scales …

Variation in individual walking behavior creates the impression of a Lévy flight

S Petrovskii, A Mashanova… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Many animal paths have an intricate statistical pattern that manifests itself as a power law-
like tail in the distribution of movement lengths. Such distributions occur if individuals move …

A learning automata-based hybrid MPA and JS algorithm for numerical optimization problems and its application on data clustering

S Barshandeh, R Dana, P Eskandarian - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithms possess various actions inspired by natural
phenomena, animal behaviors, chemistry or physics laws etc. The actions are utilized to …

Crowding, diffusion, and biochemical reactions

M Weiss - International review of cell and molecular biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Diffusion is the basic mode of transport for molecules in living cells. Diffusion leads to
dispersion of individual molecules, but it is also the driving force behind biochemical …

Distribution, site affinity and regional movements of the manta ray, Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868), along the east coast of Australia

LIE Couturier, FRA Jaine, KA Townsend… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Despite the increasing tourism interest worldwide for the manta ray, Manta alfredi, very little
is known about its biology and ecology. Knowledge of its distribution and movement patterns …

[HTML][HTML] Parallel multimodal circuits control an innate foraging behavior

A López-Cruz, A Sordillo, N Pokala, Q Liu, PT McGrath… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Foraging strategies emerge from genetically encoded programs that are similar across
animal species. Here, we examine circuits that control a conserved foraging state, local …

Stepping molecular motor amid Lévy white noise

B Lisowski, D Valenti, B Spagnolo, M Bier… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We consider a model of a stepping molecular motor consisting of two connected heads.
Directional motion of the stepper takes place along a one-dimensional track. Each head is …

High activity and Lévy searches: jellyfish can search the water column like fish

GC Hays, T Bastian, TK Doyle… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over-fishing may lead to a decrease in fish abundance and a proliferation of jellyfish. Active
movements and prey search might be thought to provide a competitive advantage for fish …

A self-adaptive hybridized differential evolution naked mole-rat algorithm for engineering optimization problems

R Salgotra, U Singh, G Singh, N Mittal… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a self-adaptive hybrid variant of differential evolution (DE) algorithm and
naked mole-rat algorithm (NMRA), namely SaDN. The algorithm is altogether a new version …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive Lévy processes and area-restricted search in human foraging

TT Hills, C Kalff, JM Wiener - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
A considerable amount of research has claimed that animals' foraging behaviors display
movement lengths with power-law distributed tails, characteristic of Lévy flights and Lévy …