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Analysis of Infectious-Recovery Epidemic Models for Membership Dynamics of Online Social Networks
Daniel Cooney, Francisco Prieto-Castrillo, Yaneer Bar-Yam
The recent rapid growth of social media and online social networks (OSNs) has raised interesting questions about the spread of ideas and fads within our society. In the past year,…
A Possible Link Between Pyriproxyfen and Microcephaly
Dan Evans, Fred Nijhout, Raphael Parens +2
The Zika virus is the primary suspect in the large increase in microcephaly cases in 2015-6 in Brazil, however its role is unconfirmed despite individual cases of viral infections…
From Big Data To Important Information
Yaneer Bar-Yam
Advances in science are being sought in newly available opportunities to collect massive quantities of data about complex systems. While key advances are being made in detailed map…
Military Strategy in a Complex World
Dominic K. Albino, Katriel Friedman, Yaneer Bar-Yam +1
A strategy is a plan, method, or series of actions for obtaining a specified goal. A military strategy typically employs the threat or use of military force in opposition to an adv…
Special Operations Forces: A Global Immune System?
Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam
The use of special operations forces (SOF) in war fighting and peace keeping efforts has increased dramatically in recent decades. A scientific understanding of the reason for this…
Step by Step to Peace in Syria
Raphael Parens, Yaneer Bar-Yam
The revolution and Civil War in Syria has led to substantial death and suffering, a massive refugee crisis, and growth of ISIS extremism and its terror attacks globally. Conflict b…