4 papers
Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi
Laura Ozella, Daniela Paolotti, Guilherme Lichand +5
Measuring close proximity interactions between individuals can provide key information on social contacts in human communities. With the present study, we report the quantitative a…
Particle velocity controls phase transitions in contagion dynamics
Jorge P. Rodríguez, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Víctor M. Eguíluz
Interactions often require the proximity between particles. The movement of particles, thus, drives the change of the neighbors which are located in their proximity, leading to a s…
Big data analyses reveal patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals
Jorge P. Rodríguez, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Michele Thums +10
The growing number of large databases of animal tracking provides an opportunity for analyses of movement patterns at the scales of populations and even species. We used analytical…
Risk of coinfection outbreaks in temporal networks: a case study of a hospital contact network
Jorge P. Rodríguez, Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad, Víctor M. Eguíluz
We study the spreading of cooperative infections in an empirical temporal network of contacts between people, including health care workers and patients, in a hospital. The system…