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Uncertainty and cooperation: Analytical results and a simulated agent society (2006)
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Andras, P., Lazarus, J., Roberts, G., & Lynden, S. J. (2006). Uncertainty and cooperation: Analytical results and a simulated agent society. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9(1),

Uncertainty is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we distinguish between three aspects of uncertainty. Environmental uncertainty is the variance of resources in the environment, perceived... Read More about Uncertainty and cooperation: Analytical results and a simulated agent society.

The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules (2005)
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Andras, P., & Andras, C. (2005). The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.20

The ‘protein interaction world’ (PIW) hypothesis of the origins of life assumes that life emerged as a self-reproducing and expanding system of protein interactions. In mainstream molecular biology, ‘replication’ refers to the material copying of mol... Read More about The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules.

Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform (2005)
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Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562

University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems to have broadly favourable results both in terms of the individual and of so... Read More about Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform.

Pattern computation in neural communication systems (2005)
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Andras, P. (2005). Pattern computation in neural communication systems. Biological Cybernetics, 92, 452-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-005-0572-0

Biological data suggests that activity patterns emerging in small- and large-scale neural systems may play an important role in performing the functions of the neural system, and in particular, neural computations. It is proposed in this paper that n... Read More about Pattern computation in neural communication systems.

Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine (2005)
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Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005). Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1

Modernization is the trend for societies to grow functionally more complex, efficient and productive. Modernization usually occurs by increased specialization of function (e.g. division of labour, such as the proliferation of specialists  in  medicin... Read More about Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine.

Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse (2005)
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Charlton, B., & Andras, P. (2005). Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 98(1), 53-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci003

The continual and uninterrupted expansion of medical research funding is generally assumed to be a permanent feature of modern societies, but this expectation may turn out to be mistaken. Sciences tend to go through boom and bust phases. Twentieth ce... Read More about Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse.

Neural activity pattern systems (2004)
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Andras, P. (2005). Neural activity pattern systems. Neurocomputing, 65, 531-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.041

Understanding how neural systems work needs appropriate models. Here we propose a model that describes neural systems in terms of abstract communication systems. We indicate how to apply the proposed framework to the analysis of real neural systems.