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Simulating Dynamical Features of Escape Panic [PDF]

Nature 407, 487-490 (2000), 2000
One of the most disastrous forms of collective human behaviour is the kind of crowd stampede induced by panic, often leading to fatalities as people are crushed or trampled. Sometimes this behaviour is triggered in life-threatening situations such as fires in crowded buildings; at other times, stampedes can arise from the rush for seats or seemingly ...
A Mintz, BD Jacobs, D Elliott, D Helbing, D Helbing, DE Wolf, Dirk Helbing, E Quarantelli, GH Ristow, GK Still, HH Kelley, HH Kelley, Illés Farkas, KH Drager, M Ebihara, NR Johnson, R Brown, RA Smith, T Vicsek, Tamás Vicsek, U Weidmann, WM Predtetschenski   +21 more
arxiv   +6 more sources

PANIC: A Near-infrared Camera for the Magellan Telescopes [PDF]

Proc.SPIE Int.Soc.Opt.Eng.5492:1653-1660,2004, 2004
PANIC (Persson's Auxiliary Nasmyth Infrared Camera) is a near-infrared camera designed to operate at any one of the f/11 folded ports of the 6.5m Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The instrument is built around a simple, all-refractive design that reimages the Magellan focal plane to a plate scale of 0.125'' pixel^{-1} onto a ...
Birk, C., Gunnels, S. M., Koch, E., Martini, Paul, Murphy, D. C., Persson, S. E., Shectman, S. A.   +6 more
arxiv   +4 more sources

Voice hearing in young people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following multiple trauma exposure [PDF]

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Background: PTSD is comorbid with a number of other mental health difficulties and the link between voice hearing and PTSD has been explored in adult samples.Objective: To compare the trauma history, symptomatology, and cognitive phenotypes of children ...
Katie Lofthouse, Ella Beeson, Tim Dalgleish, Andrea Danese, Joanne Hodgekins, Gerwyn Mahoney-Davies, Patrick Smith, Paul Stallard, Jon Wilson, Richard Meiser-Stedman   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Market panic on different time-scales [PDF]

arXiv, 2010
Cross-sectional signatures of market panic were recently discussed on daily time scales in [1], extended here to a study of cross-sectional properties of stocks on intra-day time scales. We confirm specific intra-day patterns of dispersion and kurtosis, and find that the correlation across stocks increases in times of panic yielding a bimodal ...
Borland, Lisa, Hassid, Yoan
arxiv   +3 more sources

Confinement in QCD [PDF]

Nucl.Phys. A663 (2000) 199-205, 1999
The guiding lines of lattice investigations on colour confinement are reviewed, together with recent results.
A. Di Giacomo, Alles, Creutz, Di Cecio, Di Giacomo, Di Giacomo, Di Giacomo, Di Vecchia, Englert, Fringberg, Fröhlich, Fukugita, Haymaker, Kadanoff, Mandelstam, Marino, Müller, Okun, Polyakov, Seiberg, Veneziano, Weinberg, Weinberg, Wilson, Witten, Witten, ’t Hooft, ’t Hooft, ’t Hooft, ’t Hooft   +29 more
arxiv   +3 more sources

Drastic Reduction Inpatient Visits to the Emergency Department in a Hospital in Israel During the COVID-19 Outbreak, Compared to the H1N1 2009 [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022
BackgroundOn February 26, 2020, the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detected in Israel. The Ministry of Health (MoH) instructed people to take isolation measures and restrict their movement.
Fuad Basis, Hisam Zeidani, Khetam Hussein, Shlomo Hareli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal immune activation generates anxiety in offspring: A translational meta-analysis

Translational Psychiatry, 2021
Maternal immune activation (MIA) during pregnancy is recognized as an etiological risk factor for various psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and autism.
Laiana A. Quagliato, Ursula de Matos, Antonio E. Nardi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The anxious-depressive attack severity scale: development and initial validation and reliability

BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2021
Background Anxious-depressive attack (ADA) is a symptom complex that comprises sudden intense feelings of anxiety or depression, intrusive rumination of regretful memories or future worries, emotional distress due to painful thoughts, and coping ...
Shota Noda, Satomi Matsumoto, Naoko Kawasaki, Mina Masaki, Itaru Fukui, Hisanobu Kaiya   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Panic and the Lack of Moral Competence. How We Can Help to Prevent Panic Pandemics

Ethics in Progress, 2021
Often we have to decide on difficult problems and conflicts. For this, a certain level of moral competence is needed, in order to solve them as quickly and adequately as possible.
Georg Lind
doaj   +1 more source

Political, Ethical, and Societal Aspects of Issuing Warnings to Humanity [PDF]

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2020
The scientific community has a sustained history of issuing warnings to society’s leaders and policy-makers. In such cases, scientists take on the task of alerting those in power to issues they may not notice or not wish to see. A distinctive thing about
Steven Yearley
doaj   +1 more source