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Mar 23, 2015
03/15
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Joe USA
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Episode 001
Topics: politics, society
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Jan 21, 2015
01/15
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Tom Merritt
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The State of the Union, feeling grown up, the state of journalism, why bad people aren't always recognized, selective law enforcement, how can success be measured, are we good at being a big society, will a robot brain turn against us? How do we decided what we're suited for, and why we'll soon have jobs growing organs for people in our bodies.
Topics: society, philosophy
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Abstract life
Topics: Politics, Society
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Sri Venkateshwara Education Trust established in the year 2004 in Bangalore with an ambition to promote and disseminate knowledge and serves in general the cause of regular as well as distance courses. The Society has been continuously aiming at developing quality human recourses and maintaining high academic standards, covering large segments of student community.
Topics: SV International Educational Society, SV International Educational Society Bangalore, SVI...
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Max Tegmark
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I discuss the impact of computer progress on nuclear war policy, both by enabling more accurate nuclear winter simulations and by affecting the probability of war starting accidentally. I argue that from a cosmic perspective, humanity's track record of risk mitigation is inexcusably pathetic, jeopardizing the potential for life to flourish for billions of years.
Topics: Physics and Society, Computing Research Repository, Physics, Computers and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00246
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Peter Richmond; Bertrand M. Roehner
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Cheating in examinations is acknowledged by an increasing number of organizations to be widespread. We examine two different approaches to assess their effectiveness at detecting anomalous results, suggestive of collusion, using data taken from a number of multiple-choice examinations organized by the UK Radio Communication Foundation. Analysis of student pair overlaps of correct answers is shown to give results consistent with more orthodox statistical correlations for which confidence limits...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00824
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Rémi Louf
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The amount of data that is being gathered about cities is increasing in size and specificity. However, despite this wealth of information, we still have little understanding of what really drives the processes behind urbanisation. In this thesis we apply some ideas from statistical physics to the study of cities. We first present a stochastic, out-of-equilibrium model of city growth that describes the structure of the mobility pattern of individuals. The model explains the appearance of...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08236
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Pedro J. Martínez; Ricardo Chacón
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Optimizing information transmission across a network is an essential task for controlling and manipulating generic information-processing systems. Here, we show how topological amplification effects in scale-free networks of signaling devices are optimally enhanced when the $\it{impulse}$ transmitted by periodic external signals (time integral over two consecutive zeros) is maximum. This is demonstrated theoretically by means of a star-like network of overdamped bistable systems subjected to...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01430
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Naoya Fujiwara; Abhijeet R. Sonawane; Koji Iwayama; Kazuyuki Aihara
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Recently developed techniques to acquire high-quality human mobility data allow large-scale simulations of the spread of infectious diseases with high spatial and temporal resolution.Analysis of such data has revealed the oversimplification of existing theoretical frameworks to infer the final epidemic size or influential nodes from the network topology. Here we propose a spectral decomposition-based framework for the quantitative analysis of epidemic processes on realistic networks of human...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01901
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Markus Schläpfer; Joey Lee; Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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The shape of buildings plays a critical role in the energy efficiency, lifestyles, land use and infrastructure systems of cities. Thus, as most of the world's cities continue to grow and develop, understanding the interplay between the characteristics of urban environments and the built form of cities is essential to achieve local and global sustainability goals. Here, we compile and analyze the most extensive data set of building shapes to date, covering more than 4.8 million individual...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00946
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Wei Wang; Quan-Hui Liu; Lin-Feng Zhong; Ming Tang; Hui Gao; H. Eugene Stanley
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Researchers have developed several theoretical methods for predicting epidemic thresholds, including the mean-field like (MFL) method, the quenched mean-field (QMF) method, and the dynamical message passing (DMP) method. When these methods are applied to predict epidemic threshold they often produce differing results and their relative levels of accuracy are still unknown. We systematically analyze these two issues---relationships among differing results and levels of accuracy---by studying the...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.05214
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Oct 17, 2015
10/15
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Joe USA
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Episode 004
Topics: politics, society, revolution
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06/16
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American Numismatic Society
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An educational video produced for the American Numismatic Society's exhibition "Drachmas, Doubloons and Dollars: The History of Money," which ran at the New York Federal Reserve from 2002 to 2012. For more information and content, please go to numismatics.org/exhibits.
Topics: Numismatics, American Numismatic Society
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Mario Vincenzo Tomasello; Claudio Juan Tessone; Frank Schweitzer
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This paper investigates the process of knowledge exchange in inter-firm Research and Development (R&D) alliances by means of an agent-based model. Extant research has pointed out that firms select alliance partners considering both network-related and network-unrelated features (e.g., social capital versus complementary knowledge stocks). In our agent-based model, firms are located in a metric knowledge space. The interaction rules incorporate an exploration phase and a knowledge transfer...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01756
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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O. López-Corona; P. Padilla; A. Huerta; D. Mustri-Trejo; K. Perez; A. Ruiz; O. Valdés; F. Zamudio
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Assessing quantitatively the state and dynamics of a social system is a very difficult problem. It is of great importance for both practical and theoretical reasons such as establishing the efficiency of social action programs, detecting possible community needs or allocating resources. In this paper we propose a new general theoretical framework for the study of social complexity, based on the relation of complexity and entropy in combination with evolutionary dynamics to asses the dynamics of...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05741
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Toni Pérez; Konstantin Klemm; Víctor M. Eguíluz
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We study the stochastic dynamics of coupled states with transition probabilities depending on local persistence, this is, the time since a state has changed. When the population has a preference to adopt older states the system orders quickly due to the dominance of the old state. When preference for new states prevails, the system can show coexistence of states or synchronized collective behavior resulting in long ordering times. In this case, the magnetization $m(t)$ of the system oscillates...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08045
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Rebekka Burkholz; Antonios Garas; Frank Schweitzer
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We consider the problem of risk diversification in complex networks. Nodes represent e.g. financial actors, whereas weighted links represent e.g. financial obligations (credits/debts). Each node has a risk to fail because of losses resulting from defaulting neighbors, which may lead to large failure cascades. Classical risk diversification strategies usually neglect network effects and therefore suggest that risk can be reduced if possible losses (i.e., exposures) are split among many neighbors...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00925
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Roberto da Silva; Pablo A. Valverde; Luis C. Lamb
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Darwin's theory of evolution - as introduced in game theory by Maynard Smith - is not the only important evolutionary aspect in a evolutionary dynamics, since complex interdependencies, competition, and growth should be modeled by, for example, reactive aspects. In the ultimatum game the reciprocity and the fifty-fifty partition seems to be a deviation from rational behavior of the players under the light of the Nash equilibrium concept.Such equilibrium emerges, for example, from the punishment...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06775
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Robert Paluch; Krzysztof Suchecki; Janusz A. Holyst
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We extend the well-known Cont-Bouchaud model to include a hierarchical topology of agent's interactions. The influence of hierarchy on system dynamics is investigated by two models. The first one is based on a multi-level, nested Erdos-Renyi random graph and individual decisions by agents according to Potts dynamics. This approach does not lead to a broad return distribution outside a parameter regime close to the original Cont-Bouchaud model. In the second model we introduce a limited...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02015
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Jun Zhang; Antoine Tordeux; Armin Seyfried
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In this paper we investigate effects of boundary conditions on one dimensional pedestrian flow which involves purely longitudinal interactions. Qualitatively, stop-and-go waves are observed under closed boundary condition and dissolve when the boundary is open. To get more detailed information the fundamental diagrams of the open and closed systems are compared using Voronoi-based measurement method. Higher maximal specific flow is observed from the pedestrian movement at open boundary...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06768
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Giulia Ajmone Marsan; Nicola Bellomo; Livio Gibelli
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This paper proposes a systems approach to social sciences based on mathematical framework derived from a generalization of the mathematical kinetic theory and on theoretical tools of game theory. Social systems are modeled as a living evolutionary ensemble composed by many individuals, who express specific strategies, cooperate, compete and might aggregate into groups which pursue a common interest. A critical analysis on the complexity features of social system is developed and a differential...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05699
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Yerali Gandica; Floriana Gargiulo; Timoteo Carletti
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We consider a metapopulation version of the Schelling model of segregation over several complex networks and lattice. We show that the segregation process is topology independent and hence it is intrinsic to the individual tolerance. The role of the topology is to fix the places where the segregation patterns emerge. In addition we address the question of the time evolution of the segregation clusters, resulting from different dynamical regimes of a coarsening process, as a function of the...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09075
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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M. Chraibi; T. Ensslen; H. Gottschalk; M. Saadi; A. Seyfried
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Many agent based simulation approaches have been proposed for pedestrian flow. As such models are applied e.g.\ in evacuation studies, the quality and reliability of such models is of vital interest. Pedestrian trajectories are functional data and thus functional principal component analysis is a natural tool to asses the quality of pedestrian flow models beyond average properties. In this article we conduct functional PCA for the trajectories of pedestrians passing through a bottleneck. We...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00528
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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K. Malarz; K. Kulakowski
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A new model of collusions in an organization is proposed. Each actor $a_{i=1,\cdots,N}$ disposes one unique good $g_{j=1,\cdots,N}$. Each actor $a_i$ has also a list of other goods which he/she needs, in order from desired most to those desired less. Finally, each actor $a_i$ has also a list of other agents, initially ordered at random. The order in the last list means the order of the access of the actors to the good $g_j$. A pair after a pair of agents tries to make a transaction. This...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03927
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Mohcine Chraibi; Takahiro Ezaki; Antoine Tordeux; Katsuhiro Nishinari; Andreas Schadschneider; Armin Seyfried
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Force-based models describe pedestrian dynamics in analogy to classical mechanics by a system of second order ordinary differential equations. By investigating the linear stability of two main classes of forces, parameter regions with unstable homogeneous states are identified. In this unstable regime it is then checked whether phase transitions or stop-and-go waves occur. Results based on numerical simulations show, however, that the investigated models lead to unrealistic behavior in form of...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04045
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Nuno Crokidakis
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In this work we study a 3-state opinion formation model considering two distinct mechanisms, namely independence and conviction. Independence is introduced in the model as a noise, by means of a probability of occurrence $q$. On the other hand, conviction acts as a disorder in the system, and it is introduced by two discrete probability distributions. We analyze the effects of such two mechanisms on the phase transitions of the model, and we found that the critical exponents are universal over...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00257
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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William Pickering; Chjan Lim
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We consider the voter model with $M$ states initially in the system. Using generating functions, we pose the spectral problem for the Markov transition matrix and solve for all eigenvalues and eigenvectors exactly. With this solution, we can find all future probability probability distributions, the expected time for the system to condense from $M$ states to $M-1$ states, the moments of consensus time, the expected local times, and the expected number of states over time. Furthermore, when the...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02757
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Mohcine Chraibi; Antoine Tordeux; Andreas Schadschneider
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Stop-and-go waves in single-file movement are a phenomenon that is ob- served empirically in pedestrian dynamics. It manifests itself by the co-existence of two phases: moving and stopping pedestrians. We show analytically based on a simplified one-dimensional scenario that under some conditions the system can have instable homogeneous solutions. Hence, oscillations in the trajectories and in- stabilities emerge during simulations. To our knowledge there exists no force-based model which is...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01166
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Trevor Fenner; Mark Levene; George Loizou
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The recent interest in human dynamics has led researchers to investigate the stochastic processes that explain human behaviour in various contexts. Here we propose a generative model to capture the dynamics of survival analysis, traditionally employed in clinical trials and reliability analysis in engineering. We derive a general solution for the model in the form of a product, and then a continuous approximation to the solution via the renewal equation describing age-structured population...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07558
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Tobias Kretz; Jochen Lohmiller; Johannes Schlaich
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It was recently found that the Social Force Model of pedestrian dynamics in a macroscopic limit for 1d movement does not reproduce the empirically found inflection point of the speed-density relation. It could be shown that, however, a simple and intuitively comprehensible extension of the Social Force Model shows the inflection point. Motivated by this observation in this contribution the relation of the Social Force Model with the Kladek formula for the speed-density relation of urban...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01426
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Seung Ki Baek; Seung-Woo Son; Hyeong-Chai Jeong
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We consider a tournament among four equally strong semifinalists. The players have to decide how much stamina to use in the semifinals, provided that the rest is available in the final and the third-place playoff. We investigate optimal strategies for allocating stamina to the successive matches when players' prizes (payoffs) are given according to the tournament results. From the basic assumption that the probability to win a match follows a nondecreasing function of stamina difference, we...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00071
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Jun 2, 2016
06/16
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American Numismatic Society
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A promotional video from the ANS archives.
Topics: Numismatics, American Numismatic Society
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Dániel Czégel; Gergely Palla
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Signs of hierarchy are prevalent in a wide range of systems in nature and society. One of the key problems is quantifying the importance of hierarchical organisation in the structure of the network representing the interactions or connections between the fundamental units of the studied system. Although a number of notable methods are already available, their vast majority is treating all directed acyclic graphs as already maximally hierarchical. Here we propose a hierarchy measure based on...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07732
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Alessandro Corbetta; Chung-min Lee; Adrian Muntean; Federico Toschi
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We investigate via extensive experimental data the dynamics of pedestrians walking in a corridor-shaped landing in a building at Eindhoven University of Technology. With year-long automatic measurements employing a Microsoft KinectTM 3D-range sensor and ad hoc tracking techniques, we acquired few hundreds of thousands pedestrian trajectories in real-life conditions. Here we discuss the asymmetric features of the dynamics in the two walking directions with respect to the flights of stairs (i.e....
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04735
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Li-Gong Xu; Ming-Xia Li; Wei-Xing Zhou
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Weiqi is one of the most complex board games played by two persons. The placement strategies adopted by Weiqi players are often used to analog the philosophy of human wars. Contrary to the western chess, Weiqi games are less studied by academics partially because Weiqi is popular only in East Asia, especially in China, Japan and Korea. Here, we propose to construct a directed tree using a database of extensive Weiqi games and perform a quantitative analysis of the Weiqi tree. We find that the...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03745
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Korosh Mahmoodi; Paolo Grigolini
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The nodes of a regular two-dimensional lattice play a game based on the joint action of two distinct levels. At the first step of the game, using a random prescription half players are assigned the cooperation and half the defection state. At the bottom level the strategy choice is done on the mere basis of imitation according to the homo imitans principle, generating a form of collective intelligence that makes the system sensitive to the criteria determining the strategy choice adopted at the...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00100
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Enrico Ubaldi; Nicola Perra; Márton Karsai; Alessandro Vezzani; Raffaella Burioni; Alessandro Vespignani
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The structure and dynamic of social network are largely determined by the heterogeneous interaction activity and social capital allocation of individuals. These features interplay in a non-trivial way in the formation of network and challenge a rigorous dynamical system theory of network evolution. Here we study seven real networks describing temporal human interactions in three different settings: scientific collaborations, Twitter mentions, and mobile phone calls. We find that the node's...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04563
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Cesar Henrique Comin; Filipi Nascimento Silva; Luciano da Fontoura Costa
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The access to an ever increasing amount of information in the modern world gave rise to the development of many quantitative indicators about urban regions in the globe. Therefore, there is a growing need for a precise definition of how to delimit urban regions, so as to allow proper respective characterization and modeling. Here we present a straightforward methodology to automatically detect urban region borders around a single seed point. The method is based on a diffusion process having...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06326
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Nestor Caticha; Jonatas Cesar; Renato Vicente
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Within an agent-based model where moral classifications are socially learned, we ask if a population of agents behaves in a way that may be compared with conservative or liberal positions in the real political spectrum. We assume that agents first experience a formative period, in which they adjust their learning style acting as supervised Bayesian adaptive learners. The formative phase is followed by a period of social influence by reinforcement learning. By comparing data generated by the...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03394
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski; Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron; Janusz Szwabiński
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We propose and compare six different ways of mapping the modified $q$-voter model to complex networks. Considering square lattices, Barab\'asi-Albert, Watts-Strogatz and real Twitter networks, we ask the question if always a particular choice of the group of influence of a fixed size $q$ leads to different behavior at the macroscopic level. Using Monte Carlo simulations we show that the answer depends on the relative average path length of the network and for real-life topologies the...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05091
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Massimiliano Zanin
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Functional networks, i.e. networks representing dynamic relationships between the components of a complex system, have been instrumental for our understanding of, among others, the human brain. Due to limited data availability, the multi-layer nature of numerous functional networks has hitherto been neglected, and nodes are endowed with a single type of links even when multiple relationships coexist at different physical levels. A relevant problem is the assessment of the benefits yielded by...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04302
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Nicola Bellomo; Stefano Berrone; Livio Gibelli; Alexandre Pieri
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This paper presents a new approach to behavioral-social dynamics of human crowds. First order models are derived based on mass conservation at the macroscopic scale, while methods of the kinetic theory are used to model the decisional process by which walking individuals select their velocity direction. Crowd heterogeneity is modeled by dividing the whole system into subsystems identified by different features. The passage from one subsystem to the other is induced by interactions. It is shown...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02828
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Jun 26, 2018
06/18
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Denise Pumain; Elfie Swerts; Clémentine Cottineau; Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo; Antonio Ignazzi; Anne Bretagnolle; François Delisle; Robin Cura; Liliane Lizzi; Solène Baffi
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For the first time the systems of cities in seven countries or regions among the largest in the world (China, India, Brazil, Europe, the Former Soviet Union (FSU), the United States and South Africa) are made comparable through the building of spatio-temporal standardised statistical databases. We first explain the concept of a generic evolutionary urban unit ("city") and its necessary adaptations to the information provided by each national statistical system. Second, the...
Topics: Physics, Physics and Society
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06408
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Débora Torres; Matías A. Di Muro; Cristian E. La Rocca; Lidia A. Braunstein
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Synchronization problems in complex networks are very often studied by researchers due to its many applications to various fields such as neurobiology, e-commerce and completion of tasks. In particular, Scale Free networks with degree distribution $P(k)\sim k^{-\lambda}$, are widely used in research since they are ubiquitous in nature and other real systems. In this paper we focus on the surface relaxation growth model in Scale Free networks with $2.5 < \lambda
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02751
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Han-Xin Yang; Zhihai Rong; Wen-Xu Wang
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The paradox of cooperation among selfish individuals still puzzles scientific communities. Although a large amount of evidence has demonstrated that cooperator clusters in spatial games are effective to protect cooperators against the invasion of defectors, we continue to lack the condition for the formation of a giant cooperator cluster that assures the prevalence of cooperation in a system. Here, we study the dynamical organization of cooperator clusters in spatial prisoner's dilemma game to...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00143
Huntington Choral Society Spring concert - "Great Opera Choruses". April 25th 2015. Huntington, N.Y. Musical Director - Steven Finch. Accompanist - Christine Doré.
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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D. P. Kiley; A. J. Reagan; L. Mitchell; C. M. Danforth; P. S. Dodds
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Sports are spontaneous generators of stories. Through skill and chance, the script of each game is dynamically written in real time by players acting out possible trajectories allowed by a sport's rules. By properly characterizing a given sport's ecology of `game stories', we are able to capture the sport's capacity for unfolding interesting narratives, in part by contrasting them with random walks. Here, we explore the game story space afforded by a data set of 1,310 Australian Football League...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03886
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Jun 27, 2018
06/18
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Anupam Jain; Rakhi N K; Ganesh Bagler
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Any national cuisine is a sum total of its variety of regional cuisines, which are the cultural and historical identifiers of their respective regions. India is home to a number of regional cuisines that showcase its culinary diversity. Here, we study recipes from eight different regional cuisines of India spanning various geographies and climates. We investigate the phenomenon of food pairing which examines compatibility of two ingredients in a recipe in terms of their shared flavor compounds....
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00890
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Ka Wai Cheung; Ho Fai Ma; Degang Wu; Ga Ching Lui; Kwok Yip Szeto
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The original Parrondo game, denoted as AB3, contains two independent games: A and B. The winning or losing of A and B game is defined by the change of one unit of capital. Game A is a losing game if played continuously, with winning probability $p=0.5-\epsilon$, where $\epsilon=0.003$. Game B is also losing and it has two coins: a good coin with winning probability $p_g=0.75-\epsilon$ is used if the player`s capital is not divisible by $3$, otherwise a bad coin with winning probability...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03089
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Jun 28, 2018
06/18
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Yu-Qin Song; Jin-Long Liu; Zu-Guo Yu; Bao-Gen Li
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Complex networks have attracted growing attention in many fields. As a generalization of fractal analysis, multifractal analysis (MFA) is a useful way to systematically describe the spatial heterogeneity of both theoretical and experimental fractal patterns. Some algorithms for MFA of unweighted complex networks have been proposed in the past a few years, including the sandbox (SB) algorithm recently employed by our group. In this paper, a modified SB algorithm (we call it SBw algorithm) is...
Topics: Physics and Society, Physics
Source: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07248
