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God (), the first small world network
Marcel Ausloos
In this paper, the approach of network mapping of words in literary texts is extended to ''textual factors'': the network nodes are defined as ''concepts''; the links are ''communi…
Tsallis entropy for cross-shareholding network configurations
Roy Cerqueti, Giulia Rotundo, Marcel Ausloos
In this work, we develop the Tsallis entropy approach for examining the cross-shareholding network of companies traded on the Italian stock market. In such a network, the nodes rep…
Hagiotoponyms in France: Saint popularity, like a herding phase transition
Marcel Ausloos
A spectacular order-order-like transition is presented in the distribution of hagiotoponyms in France. Data analysis and displays distinguish male and female cases. The respective…
Rank-size law, financial inequality indices and gain concentrations by cyclist teams. The case of a multiple stage bicycle race, like Tour de France
Marcel Ausloos
This note examines financial distributions to competing teams at the end of the most famous multiple stage professional (male) bicyclist race, TOUR DE FRANCE. A rank-size law (RSL)…
Optimization of the post-crisis recovery plans in scale-free networks
Mohammad Bahrami, Narges Chinichian, Ali Hosseiny +2
General Motors or a local business, which one is better to be stimulated in post-crisis recessions, where government stimulation is meant to overcome recessions? Due to the budget…
Dynamical phase diagrams of a love capacity constrained prey-predator model
P. Toranj Simin, G. R. Jafari, M. Ausloos +5
One interesting question in love relationships is: finally, what and when is the end of this love relationship? Using a prey-predator Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra (VLV) model we imply c…
Fractional Dynamics of Network Growth Constrained by aging Node Interactions
Hadiseh Safdari, Milad Zare Kamali, Amirhossein Shirazi +3
In many social complex systems, in which agents are linked by non-linear interactions, the history of events strongly influences the whole network dynamics. However, a class of "co…
Glassy states of aging social networks
F. Hassanibesheli, L. Hedayatifar, H. Safdari +2
Individuals often develop reluctance to change their social relations, called "secondary homebody", even though their interactions with their environment evolve with time. Some mem…
On Dynamical Systems Theory in Quantitative Psychology and Cognition Science: A Fair Discrimination Between Deterministic and Statistical Counterparts Is Required
Adam Gadomski, Marcel Ausloos, Tahlia Casey
The present communication addresses a set of observations, obeying both deterministic as well as statistical formal requirements, and serving to operate within the framework of the…
Memory effects on epidemic evolution: The susceptible-infected-recovered epidemic model
M. Saeedian, M. Khalighi, N. Azimi-Tafreshi +2
Memory has a great impact on the evolution of every process related to human societies. Among them, the evolution of an epidemic is directly related to the individuals' experiences…
Day of the week effect in paper submission/acceptance/rejection to/in/by peer review journals
Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic, Aleksandar Dekanski
This paper aims at providing an introduction to the behavior of authors submitting a paper to a scientific journal. Dates of electronic submission of papers to the Journal of the S…
How visas shape and make visible the geopolitical architecture of the planet
Meghdad Saeedian, Tayeb Jamali, S. Vasheghani Farahani +2
The aim of the present study is to provide a picture for geopolitical globalization: the role of all world countries together with their contribution towards globalization is highl…
Inferring cultural regions from correlation networks of given baby names
Mateusz Pomorski, Malgorzata J. Krawczyk, Krzysztof Kulakowski +2
We report investigations on the statistical characteristics of the baby names given between 1910 and 2010 in the United States of America. For each year, the 100 most frequent name…
Effect of religious rules on time of conception in Romania from 1905 to 2001
Claudiu Herteliu, Bogdan Vasile Ileanu, Marcel Ausloos +1
Population growth (or decay) in a country can be due to various f socio-economic constraints, as demonstrated in this paper. For example, sexual intercourse is banned in various re…
Quantifying the quality of peer reviewers through Zipf's law
Marcel Ausloos, Olgica Nedic, Agata Fronczak +1
This paper introduces a statistical and other analysis of peer reviewers in order to approach their "quality" through some quantification measure, thereby leading to some quality m…
France new regions planning? Better order or more disorder ?
Marcel Ausloos
This paper grounds the critique of the 'reduction of regions in a country' not only in its geographical and social context but also in its entropic space. The various recent plans…
Review times in peer review: quantitative analysis of editorial workflows
Maciej J. Mrowinski, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak +2
We examine selected aspects of peer review and suggest possible improvements. To this end, we analyse a dataset containing information about 300 papers submitted to the Biochemistr…
Test of two hypotheses explaining the size of populations in a system of cities
Nikolay K. Vitanov, Marcel Ausloos
Two classical hypotheses are examined about the population growth in a system of cities: Hypothesis 1 pertains to Gibrat's and Zipf's theory which states that the city growth-decay…
Slow-down or speed-up of inter- and intra-cluster diffusion of controversial knowledge in stubborn communities based on a small world network
Marcel Ausloos
Diffusion of knowledge is expected to be huge when agents are open minded. The report concerns a more difficult diffusion case when communities are made of stubborn agents. Communi…
Coherent measures of the impact of co-authors in peer review journals and in proceedings publications
Marcel Ausloos
This paper focuses on the coauthor effect in different types of publications, usually not equally respected in measuring research impact. {\it A priori} unexpected relationships ar…
Religion-based Urbanization Process in Italy: Statistical Evidence from Demographic and Economic Data
Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti
This paper analyzes some economic and demographic features of Italians living in cities containing a Saint name in their appellation (hagiotoponyms). Demographic data come from the…
Socio-economical analysis of Italy: The case of hagiotoponym cities
Roy Cerqueti, Marcel Ausloos
This paper pursues the scopes of joining the economical characteristics of Italian cities with a relevant sociological aspect: the cult of the catholic Saints. Indeed, more than in…
Evidence of Economic Regularities and Disparities of Italian Regions From Aggregated Tax Income Size Data
Roy Cerqueti, Marcel Ausloos
This paper discusses the size distribution, - in economic terms - of the Italian municipalities over the period 2007-2011. Yearly data are rather well fitted by a modified Lavalett…
Benford's law predicted digit distribution of aggregated income taxes: the surprising conformity of Italian cities and regions
Tariq Ahmad Mir, Marcel Ausloos, Roy Cerqueti
The yearly aggregated tax income data of all, more than 8000, Italian municipalities are analyzed for a period of five years, from 2007 to 2011, to search for conformity or not wit…