We discuss the occurrence of chimera states in networks of nonlocally coupled bistable oscillators, in which individual subsystems are characterized by the coexistence of regular (a fixed point or a limit cycle) and chaotic attractors. By analyzing the dependence of the network dynamics on the range and strength of coupling, we identify parameter regions for various chimera states, which are ch...

Trafficking of the rhoptry chimeric protein RhopH2-GFP, which contains RhopH2 signal peptide plus the downstream five amino acids, was dissected by treating parasites with Brefeldin A at three different time points. Twenty eight hrs-stage trophozoites accumulated the chimera within the parasite endoplasmic reticulum. In 32 hrs-stage schizonts, the chimera was distributed in the parasite cytopla...

The phenomenon of chimera states in the systems of coupled, identical oscillators has attracted a great deal of recent theoretical and experimental interest. In such a state, different groups of oscillators can exhibit coexisting synchronous and incoherent behaviors despite homogeneous coupling. Here, considering the coupled pendula, we find another pattern, the so-called imperfect chimera stat...

The Propagation Rule Compiler (PROP) is a tool developed within task 2.4 \Tools for Rule Design and Analysis". It aims at supporting developers of Chimera applications during schema design and prototyping. PROP consists of two components: the rule compiler as such and an explanation facility. The task of the explanation facility is to graphically illustrate the logical dependencies established ...

Increasing demand of medical implants has lead researchers to develop biomaterial surfaces that offer improved performance and lower thrombogenecity. There have been attempts to model biomaterial surfaces after the native endothelium as it represents an optimal non-thrombotic surface. Typically, when biomaterials are contacted with blood, they often invoke the activation of clotting cascades. T...

We study the emergence of traveling chimera state in a two-dimensional network Hindmarsh-Rose burst neurons with mutual presence local and non-local couplings. show that unique chemical coupling modeled by nonlinear function, phenomenon occurs displacement both directions plane grid. The introduction electrical shows influence two types can, for certain values, generate chimera, imperfect-trave...

During the last ve years, the object-oriented data model Chimera has served as a focus of numerous research activities within the European cooperation project IDEA. Chimera particularly emphasizes the use of deductive and active rules during object-oriented modeling. Apart from a full application design methodology based on Chimera, a number of tools supporting the diierent phases of this metho...

Arrays of identical oscillators can display a remarkable spatiotemporal pattern in which phase-locked oscillators coexist with drifting ones. Discovered two years ago, such "chimera states" are believed to be impossible for locally or globally coupled systems; they are peculiar to the intermediate case of nonlocal coupling. Here we present an exact solution for this state, for a ring of phase o...

Chimera is a novel database language jointly designed by researchers at Politecnico di Milano, Bonn University, and ECRC of Munich in the context of the Esprit Project P6333, IDEA. Chimera integrates an object-oriented data model, a declarative query language based on deductive rules, and an active rule language for reactive processing. In this paper, we present the authors’ proposal for constr...