Maurizio Porfiri

Nov 25, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Maurizio Porfiri |Aerospace Engineering |Nicole Abaid |Simon Garnier

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Porfiri M, Abaid N, Garnier S (2024) Socially driven negative feedback regulates activity and energy use in ant colonies. PLoS Comput Biol 20(11): e1012623.

Aug 5, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Maurizio Porfiri |Nicole Abaid |Simon Garnier

AbstractDespite almost a century of research on energetics in biological systems, we still cannot explain energy regulation in social groups, like ant colonies. How do individuals regulate their collective activity without a centralized control system? What is the role of social interactions in distributing the workload amongst group members? And how does the group save energy by avoiding being constantly active?

Apr 26, 2024 | caledonianrecord.com | Maurizio Porfiri |Aerospace Engineering |Biomedical Engineering

By Maurizio Porfiri, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, New York University So far in 2024, 86 people have been killed in Philadelphia - the vast majority of them after being shot. And yet, the city is still on track to have the lowest number of homicides since 2016, a sign of just how violent it has been in past years.

Apr 26, 2024 | theconversation.com | Maurizio Porfiri |Rayan Succar

Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities.

Oct 11, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Duncan Clark |James Macinko |Maurizio Porfiri

Policy Points Promoting healthy public policies is a national priority, but state policy adoption is driven by a complex set of internal and external factors. This study employs new social network methods to identify underlying connections among states and to predict the likelihood of new firearm-related policy adoption given changes to this interstate network.