Pith Number

pith:NMBNXQ2L

pith:2014:NMBNXQ2LHWUW3SUWYE6DIQ6ZKI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Feedback Control as a Framework for Understanding Tradeoffs in Biology

Eatai Roth, Eric S. Fortune, Jonathan P. Dyhr, Manu S. Madhav, Mustafa Mert Ankarali, Noah J. Cowan, Sarah A. Stamper, Shahin Sefati, Simon Sponberg, Thomas L. Daniel

arxiv:1402.5702 v1 · 2014-02-24 · q-bio.QM · q-bio.NC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NMBNXQ2LHWUW3SUWYE6DIQ6ZKI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:58:13.974976Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b02dbc34b3da96dca96c13c3443d95239c2ea28cf6ed9c2a4c7546e1dfd2a2b

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5702 · arxiv_version: 1402.5702v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5702 · pith_short_12: NMBNXQ2LHWUW · pith_short_16: NMBNXQ2LHWUW3SUW · pith_short_8: NMBNXQ2L

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NMBNXQ2LHWUW3SUWYE6DIQ6ZKI \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6b02dbc34b3da96dca96c13c3443d95239c2ea28cf6ed9c2a4c7546e1dfd2a2b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "168216d458fe23a0b82cbc4d441d4fd2cb599efe6ecb7da68771f2ba274aa111",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.QM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-24T01:49:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fbf141f973f676ad25d6c2fafedf36d03e55a231922fb1058f6ef90fb57c77bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}