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Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Humans in 2022
High-quality academic publishing is built on rigorous peer review [...]
Humans Editorial Office
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The network limits of infectious disease control via occupation-based targeting
Policymakers commonly employ non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce the scale and severity of pandemics. Of non-pharmaceutical interventions, physical distancing policies—designed to reduce person-to-person pathogenic spread – have risen to recent ...
Demetris Avraam+4 more
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The small-world network of global protests
Protest diffusion is a cascade process that can spread over different regions of the planet. The way and the extension that this phenomenon can occur is still not properly understood. Here, we empirically investigate this question using protest data from
Leonardo N. Ferreira+3 more
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Crises in a global setting of interdependencies call for time-critical coordinated responses. However, it is often the case that the mechanisms responsible for these actions do not agree across all their hierarchies.
Jason Bassett+3 more
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Modularity and composite diversity affect the collective gathering of information online
Here, the authors test the ability of groups to predict real world geopolitical events using online content, and provide evidence suggesting that group diversity helps forecasting ability as a function of group size.
Niccolò Pescetelli+2 more
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Social mobilization and polarization can create volatility in COVID-19 pandemic control
During the COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization has emerged as a significant threat that inhibits coordinated action of central and local institutions reducing the efficacy of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).
Inho Hong+2 more
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Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis
There is concern that the time taken to publish academic papers in microbiological science has significantly increased in recent years. While the data do not specifically support this, evidence suggests that editors are having to invite more and more ...
Carolina Tropini+12 more
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Background The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented itself as one of the most important health concerns of the 2020’s, and hit the geriatric population the hardest.
Maria E. Goossens+13 more
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UCA-EHAR: A Dataset for Human Activity Recognition with Embedded AI on Smart Glasses
Human activity recognition can help in elderly care by monitoring the physical activities of a subject and identifying a degradation in physical abilities. Vision-based approaches require setting up cameras in the environment, while most body-worn sensor
Pierre-Emmanuel Novac+3 more
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The dynamic resilience of urban labour networks
Both cities and markets are well understood as complex systems which are amenable to analysis using physically inspired methods. Cities have shown fascinating universality with size, while labour markets modelled as networks have considerable explanatory
Xiangnan Feng, Alex Rutherford
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