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Physics of mind: Experimental confirmations of theoretical predictions
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.021 2018-04-02 What is common among Newtonian mechanics, statistical physics, thermodynamics, quantum physics, the theory of relativity, astrophysics and the theory of superstrings? All these areas of physics have in common a methodology, which is discussed in the first few... |
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Shock wave–induced permeabilization of mammalian cells
10.1016/j.plrev.2018.03.001 2018-03-21 Controlled permeabilization of mammalian cell membranes is fundamental to develop gene and cell therapies based on macromolecular cargo delivery, a process that emerged against an increasing number of health afflictions, including genetic disorders, cancer an... |
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How much free energy is absorbed upon breaking DNA base pairs?: Comment on “DNA melting and energetics of the double helix” by Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii et al.
10.1016/j.plrev.2018.03.008 2018-03-07 Highlights • Sequence dependence of DNA melting. • Comparison of nearest-neighbor parameters from different laboratories. • Entropic origin of salt dependence of DNA melting. |
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Modelling thrombosis in silico: frontiers, challenges, unresolved problems and milestones
10.1016/j.plrev.2018.02.005 2018-03-05 Hemostasis is a complex physiological mechanism that functions to maintain vascular integrity under any conditions. Its primary components are blood platelets and a coagulation network that interact to form the hemostatic plug, a combination of cell aggregate... |
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At the root of the paradox: Comment on “An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music” by Tuomas Eerola et al.
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.12.008 2017-12-28 Eerola et al.'s multi-layered model for the pleasure taken in music-elicited sadness is an important step in integrating explanatory accounts from different disciplines. Here, I would like to point out two theoretical inconsistencies that lie at the very root... |
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An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.016 2017-11-23 The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic. However, none of these have attempted to weigh the existing evidence in a systematic f... |
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DNA melting and energetics of the double helix
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.012 2017-11-14 Studying melting and energetics of the DNA double helix has been one of the major topics of molecular biophysics over the past six decades. The main objective of this article is to overview the current state of the field and to emphasize that there are still ... |
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Network Science of Biological Systems at Different Scales: A Review
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.003 2017-11-03 Network science is today established as a backbone for description of structure and function of various physical, chemical, biological, technological, and social systems. Here we review recent advances in the study of complex biological systems that were insp... |
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A critical analysis towards research perspectives: Reply to comments on “Modeling human behavior in economics and social science”
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.09.004 2017-10-09 We take advantage of the challenging comments to the modelling approach we proposed in [35] to look ahead at a number of applications of the methods to the alternative questions these comments raise. In turn, our effort results in a number of interesting and ... |
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Seeing mental states: An experimental strategy for measuring the observability of other minds
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.10.002 2017-10-06 Is it possible to perceive others' mental states? Are mental states visible in others' behavior? In contrast to the traditional view that mental states are hidden and not directly accessible to perception, in recent years a phenomenologically-motivated accoun... |