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Understanding the Vegetable Oil Debate and Its Implications for Sustainability through Social Media
Elena Candellone, Alberto Aleta, Henrique Ferraz de Arruda +2
The global production and consumption of vegetable oils have sparked several discussions on sustainable development. This study analyzes over 20 million tweets related to vegetable…
Characterising the role of human behaviour in the effectiveness of contact-tracing applications
Ariadna Fosch, Alberto Aleta, Yamir Moreno
Albeit numerous countries relied on contact-tracing (CT) applications as an epidemic control measure against the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate around their effectiveness is still o…
Ethics in rotten apples: A network epidemiology approach for active cyber defense
Francesco Bonacina, Ignacio Echegoyen, Diego Escribano +5
As Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, so does the threat of malware infections. A proposed countermeasure, the use of benevolent "white worms" to combat malicious "black wo…
An informational approach to uncover the age group interactions in epidemic spreading from macro analysis
Tiago Martinelli, Alberto Aleta, Francisco A. Rodrigues +1
We investigate the use of transfer entropy (TE) as a proxy to detect the contact patterns of the population in epidemic processes. We first apply the measure to a classical age-str…