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Agencies reporting on disease outbreaks face many choices about what to report and the scale of its dissemination. Reporting impacts an epidemic by influencing individual decisions directly, and the social net...
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Open AccessA Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation
The Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project revealed a robust and striking pattern of the extreme dominance (>99%) of locally produced ceramics over six centuries and across different depositional conte...
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Open AccessObservations and conversations: how communities learn about infection risk can impact the success of non-pharmaceutical interventions against epidemics
Individual behavioural decisions are responses to a person’s perceived social norms that could be shaped by both their physical and social environment. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, these environmen...
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Neutral models are a tool, not a syndrome
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Open AccessModelling rapid online cultural transmission: evaluating neutral models on Twitter data with approximate Bayesian computation
As social media technologies alter the variation, transmission and sorting of online information, short-term cultural evolution is transformed. In these media contexts, cultural evolution is an intra-generatio...
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ACACIA-ES: an agent-based modeling and simulation tool for investigating social behaviors in resource-limited two-dimensional environments
In this paper, we describe a framework for studying social agents’ individual decision making, that takes account of the environment and social dynamics. We describe a study in which we explored the efficiency...
