Christopher R. Stephens

ORCID: 0000-0002-2491-606X
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Research Areas
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Trypanosoma species research and implications
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
  • Stock Market Forecasting Methods
  • Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
  • Quantum many-body systems
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Data Mining Algorithms and Applications

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2015-2024

Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
2009-2023

University Of Bristol Dental Hospital
2023

University of Bristol
2023

Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares
2006-2022

Northwestern University
2022

Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
2017

Winchester Medical Center
2012

Illinois State University
2012

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
2010

An approach to black hole quantization is proposed wherein it assumed that quantum coherence preserved. A consequence of this the Penrose diagram describing gravitational collapse will show same topological structure as flat Minkowski space. After giving our motivations for such a procedure we formulate background field approximation, in which particles are divided into "hard" and "soft" particles. The space-time metric depends both on in-states out-states. We present some model calculations...

10.1088/0264-9381/11/3/014 article EN Classical and Quantum Gravity 1994-03-01

Leishmania (Leishmania) mexicana causes cutaneous leishmaniasis, an endemic zoonosis affecting a growing number of patients in the southeastern states Mexico. Some foci are found shade-grown cocoa and coffee plantations, or near perennial forests that provide rich breeding grounds for sand fly vectors, but also harbor variety bat species live off abundant fruits provided by these shade-giving trees. The close proximity between flies bats makes their interaction feasible, yet infected with...

10.1371/journal.pntd.0003438 article EN cc-by PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2015-01-28

Metabolic disorders, such as obesity, elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemias, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, and hyperuricemia have all been identified risk factors for an epidemic of important widespread chronic-degenerative diseases, type 2 diabetes cardiovascular disease, that constitute some the world's most public health challenges. Their increasing prevalence can be associated with ageing population to lifestyles within obesogenic environment. Age is not a controllable variable;...

10.3389/fpubh.2020.00180 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Public Health 2020-05-20

Networks offer a powerful tool for understanding and visualizing inter-species ecological evolutionary interactions. Previously considered examples, such as trophic networks, are just representations of experimentally observed direct However, species interactions so rich complex it is not feasible to directly observe more than small fraction. In this paper, using data mining techniques, we show how potential can be inferred from geographic data, rather by observation. An important...

10.1371/journal.pone.0005725 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2009-05-27

Using a set of different search metrics and model landscapes we theoretically empirically study how ldquooptimalrdquo mutation rates for the simple genetic algorithm (SGA) depend not only on fitness landscape, but also population size state. We discuss limitations current rate heuristics, showing that any fixed can be expected to suboptimal in terms balancing exploration exploitation. then develop heuristic offers better balance by assigning subpopulations. When is assigned through ranking...

10.1109/tevc.2008.927707 article EN IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 2008-09-29

Visual data mining of spatial is a challenging task. As exploratory analysis fundamental, it beneficial to explore the using different potential visualisations. In this article, we propose and analyse network graphs as useful visualisation tool mine data. Due their ability represent complex systems relationships in visually insightful intuitive way, offer rich structure that has been recognised many fields powerful visual representation. However, they have not sufficiently exploited mining,...

10.1080/13658816.2011.594799 article EN International Journal of Geographical Information Science 2012-02-14

Contemporary patterns of land use and global climate change are modifying regional pools parasite host species. The impact community changes on human disease risk, however, is difficult to assess due a lack information about zoonotic assemblages. We have used recently developed method infer parasite-host interactions for Chagas Disease (CD) from vector-host co-occurrence networks. Vector-host networks were constructed analyze topological characteristics the network ecological traits species’...

10.7717/peerj.3152 article EN cc-by PeerJ 2017-04-12

Zoonoses are an important class of infectious diseases. An element determining the impact a zoonosis on domestic animal and human health is host range. Although for particular zoonoses some species have been identified, until recently there no methods to predict those most likely be hosts or their relative importance. Complex inference networks infer potential biotic interactions between using degree geographic co-occurrence, posited as tool predicting disease hosts. Here we present results...

10.1371/journal.pntd.0005004 article EN cc-by PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2016-10-07

SUMMARY Chagas disease is one of the most important vector-borne zoonotic diseases in Latin America. Control strategies could be improved if transmissibility patterns its aetiologic agent, Trypanosoma cruzi , were better understood. To understand Mexico, we inferred potential vectors and hosts T. from geographic distributions nine species Triatominae 396 wild mammal species, respectively. The probable represented a Complex Inference Network, which formulated predictive model several...

10.1017/s0031182016002468 article EN Parasitology 2017-01-12

We apply game theory to a vehicular traffic model study the effect of driver strategies on flow. The resulting inherits realistic dynamics achieved by two-lane and aims incorporate phenomena caused driver-driver interactions. To achieve this goal, game-theoretic description interaction was developed. This formalization allows one different lane-changing behaviors keep track mobility performance. simulate evolution cooperation, flow, performance for modeled behaviors. analysis these results...

10.1371/journal.pone.0165381 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2016-11-17

A theoretical and experimental analysis is made of the effects self-adaptation in a simple evolving system. Specifically, we consider coding mutation crossover probabilities genetic algorithm certain model fitness landscapes. The resultant genotypephenotype mapping degenerate space, there being no direct selective advantage for one probability versus another. Thus “symmetry” between various genotypes that all correspond to same phenotype. We show action lifts this degeneracy, is, operators...

10.1162/106454698568512 article EN Artificial Life 1998-04-01

The concept of a fitness landscape arose in theoretical biology, while that effective has its origin evolutionary computation. Both have emerged as useful conceptual tools with which to understand the dynamics processes, especially presence complex genotype-phenotype relations. In this contribution we attempt provide unified discussion these two approaches, discussing both their advantages and disadvantages context some simple models. We also discuss how change under various transformations...

10.1080/08948550302439 article EN Comments® on Theoretical Biology 2003-07-01

Summary We extend a recently developed method for constructing ecological networks to infer potential biotic interactions between species and also include environmental factors, in particular land cover, thus permitting simultaneous analysis of the interaction environment distribution as well inter‐species interactions. apply transmission dispersal leishmaniasis Mexico. find that most important vectors reservoirs can be classified into assemblages associated with different types habitat....

10.1111/j.1863-2378.2012.01479.x article EN Zoonoses and Public Health 2012-09-01

Gliders in one-dimensional cellular automata are compact groups of non-quiescent and non-ether patterns (ether represents a periodic background) translating along automaton lattice. They analogous localizations or quasi-local collective excitations traveling spatially extended nonlinear medium. can be considered as binary strings symbols ring, interacting with each other changing their states, symbolic values, result interactions. We analyze what types interaction occur between gliders on...

10.1142/s0129183111016348 article EN International Journal of Modern Physics C 2011-04-01
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