Santa Fe Institute

Environmental Structuring and Applied Importance of Diptera Assemblages in Brazil: Altitude, Organic Substrates, Synanthropy, Decomposition, and Chi-Square Reanalysis

Diptera associated with feces, decomposing animal tissues, fruits, and carcasses occupy dynamic habitats whose suitability varies with environmental conditions and resource characteristics. This study integrated quantitative information from eight experimental compilations conduc...

Structural causal influence captures the forces of social inequality in models of infectious disease

Abstract Mathematical models are central to understanding disease transmission for host–pathogen systems across the biosphere. However, most existing frameworks do not explicitly treat host population heterogeneity as a formal driver of variation in transmission dynamics. This ga...

Diabetes-Related Foot Ulceration as a Biological and Clinical Continuum: An Integrative Review of Risk, Chronicity, Multimodal Care, Nursing, and Recurrence Prevention

Diabetes-related foot ulceration is a progressive and recurrent complication in which neurological, vascular, biomechanical, metabolic, inflammatory, microbial, behavioral, and health-system factors interact across time. This integrative narrative review critically synthesizes ev...