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Dynamics of Information Flow and Task Allocation of Social Insect Colonies: Impacts of Spatial Interactions and Task Switching
Models of social interaction dynamics have been powerful tools for understanding the efficiency of information spread and the robustness of task allocation in social insect colonies. How workers spatially dist...
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Effect of Human Behavior on the Evolution of Viral Strains During an Epidemic
It is well known in the literature that human behavior can change as a reaction to disease observed in others, and that such behavioral changes can be an important factor in the spread of an epidemic. It has b...
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Social Ecological Contexts and Alcohol Drinking Dynamics: An Application of the Survey Data-Driven Agent-Based Model for University Students
College-aged students are one of the most vulnerable populations to high-risk alcohol drinking behaviors that could cause them consequences such as injury or sexual assault. An important factor that may influe...
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Open AccessGenerating a heterosexual bipartite network embedded in social network
We describe an approach to generate a heterosexual network with a prescribed joint-degree distribution embedded in a prescribed large-scale social contact network. The structure of a sexual network plays an im...
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A single precursor route to synthesize CuO and CuS nanostructures based on copper ammine and thiourea complexes
The hydrothermal synthesis is reported of copper(II) oxide and copper(II) sulfide nanostructures with different morphologies using ammine (NH3) and thiourea (tu) complexes of copper(I) and copper(II) as the start...
