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Open AccessInvestigating healthcare worker mobility and patient contacts within a UK hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insights into behaviours relevant to the transmission of infections are extremely valuable for epidemiological investigations. Healthcare worker (HCW) mobility and patient contacts within the hospital can cont...
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Using agent-based modelling to simulate social-ecological systems across scales
Agent-based modelling (ABM) simulates Social-Ecological-Systems (SESs) based on the decision-making and actions of individual actors or actor groups, their interactions with each other, and with ecosystems. Ma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Precise Are the Specifications of a Psychological Theory? Comparing Implementations of Lindenberg and Steg’s Goal-Framing Theory of Everyday Pro-environmental Behaviour
This chapter compares four implementations of (Lindenberg and Steg, J Soc Issues 63(1):117–137, 2007) Goal-Framing Theory of everyday pro-environmental behaviour. Two are from different versions of CEDSS (Comm...
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Emergent Complexity in Conway’s Game of Life
It is shown that both small, finite patterns and random infinite very low density (“sparse”) arrays of the Game of Life can produce emergent structures and processes of great complexity, through ramifying feed...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
In the e-Science context, workflow technologies provide a problem-solving environment for researchers by facilitating the creation and execution of experiments from a pool of available services. In this paper ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Cardiac Electrophysiology
We believe that there are persuasive arguments for investigating the application of qualitative modelling techniques within medicine1. Although the work reported here is concerned with the specific domain of card...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Qualitative Spatial Representation for Cardiac Electrophysiology
A qualitative representation for the distribution of polarized and depolarized areas of conductive tissue in the heart is presented. This is based on the idea of spatially continuous “lobes” of tissue made up ...
