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Running on the Hedonic Treadmill: A Dynamical Model of Happiness Based on an Approach–Avoidance Framework
Describing the dynamical nature of happiness is crucial for understanding why individuals are constantly running on a hedonic treadmill around set...
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Should I stay or should I go: A dynamical model of musicians’ agglomeration and migration
The musicians’ working scenario is characterized by unstable employment, professional oversupply, and competition. To cope with uncertainty musicians...
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Health and health theories
In the study, subjective health theories of western ayahuasca users in South America were examined. Some general scientific western perspectives...
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An Analysis of the Dynamics of COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe Using the Extended SEIR Model with Treatment and Quarantine
The World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that unless effective measures were taken in Africa, as many as 44 million people would be infected by...
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Preliminaries
This chapter contains a succinct presentation of the main analytical tools to be used in later chapters. Dynamical systems, instability, games and...
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Modelling of malaria incidence in Akure, Nigeria: negative binomial approach
The connections between malaria incidence and climate variability have been studied in recent time using some mathematical and statistical models....
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Efficiency and economic analysis of intervention strategies for recurrent malaria transmission
In epidemiological modelling, efficiency and economic analyses have become important metrics for identifying efficient and cost-effective...
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Internet use and cognitive frailty in older adults: a large-scale multidimensional approach
Although research on sociodemographic correlates of internet use in older adults without and with pronounced cognitive impairment is already quite...
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Introduction
Inequality is ubiquitous. Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality in the distribution of resources, at a level beyond that which could...
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Validating Simulation Models: The Case of Opinion Dynamics
Agent-based simulation models are often without a direct relation to their target systems in the real world but describe artificial societies, using...
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Not Anytime Soon: The Clinical Translation of Nanorobots and Its Biocompatibility-Interdisciplinarity Critique
Medical nanorobots combine the hype, hope and discontents of the wider AI, biorobotics and nanotechnology domains into a single artefact with the...
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Future Trends and Developments for Urban Mobility
The second chapter describes what is meant by trends, how they can be analysed, and how they relate to sustainability transitions. Further, it looks...
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AI Is Leaving the Lab and Entering Society
Since the birth of AI in 1956, various applications of the technology have left the lab and spread through society. Expert systems have been in...
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Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Community Well-Being in Multivariate Functional Data Approach
The twofold goal of this paper embraces interconnected methodological and substantive issues involved in analysing temporal and spatial aspects of...
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The Dynamics of Treatment and Capacity
All the case studies in this book are based on system dynamic models representing patient pathways as stock-flow (or ‘bathtub’) systems. This chapter...
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Quantifying and analyzing nonlinear relationships with a fresh look at a classical dataset of student scores
Student past and present performances are analyzed, compared, and reflected upon by teachers, curriculum developers, and educational researchers. For...
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The Concept of Self-Organized Criticality: The Case Study of the Arab Uprising
In today’s more connected, interdependent, fast, and highly globalized social world, conventional concepts and approaches for understanding social...
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Complexity Theory: Societies as Complex Systems
This chapter offers an alternative approach to systems drawing on complexity, emergence, and critical realism. It suggests that social-ecological...
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Mutuality of Interaction
This Chapter discusses the mutuality of interaction or complexity of relationship virtue. An overview of its conditions is provided as well as...