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The Statistical Mechanics of Human Weight Change

Autor: Lang, John C., De Sterck, Hans, Abrams, Daniel M.

In the context of the global obesity epidemic, it is important to know who becomes obese and why. However, the processes that determine the changing shape of Body Mass Index (BMI) distributions in high-income societies are not well-understood. Here w

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00656

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A Hierarchy of Linear Threshold Models for the Spread of Political Revolutions on Social Networks

Autor: Lang, John C., De Sterck, Hans

We study a linear threshold agent-based model (ABM) for the spread of political revolutions on social networks using empirical network data. We propose new techniques for building a hierarchy of simplified ordinary differential equation (ODE) based m

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04091

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The influence of societal individualism on a century of tobacco use: modelling the prevalence of smoking

Autor: Lang, John C., Abrams, Daniel M., De Sterck, Hans

Publikováno v: BMC Public Health 15 (1280), 1-13 (2015)

Smoking of tobacco is predicted to cause approximately six million deaths worldwide in 2014. Responding effectively to this epidemic requires a thorough understanding of how smoking behaviour is transmitted and modified. Here, we present a new mathem

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2188

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