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most citedEffect of population density on epidemics

105 citations · 477 across the 60 of their papers we have counts for

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64 papers

physics.bio-ph2021

Death rate during the exponential growth of E. coli

Loic Brot, Zengru Di, Romain Morichon +4

So fast is the growth of a culture of E. coli that it led researchers to overlook a possible death rate. As a matter of fact, the experiments done in the first half of the 20th cen…

physics.bio-ph2021

Transient frailty induced by cell division. Observation, reasons and implications

Zengru Di, Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Peter Richmond +2

We know that stress-factors, e.g. X-rays, have an effect on cells that is more lethal in rapid exponential growth than in stationary phase. It is this effect which makes radiothera…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 3 cited

Cliophysics: A scientific analysis of recurrent historical events

Yuji Aruka, Belal Baaquie, Xiasong Chen +6

Named after Clio, the Greek goddess of history, cliophysics is a daughter (and in a sense an extension) of econophysics. Like econophysics it relies on the methodology of experimen…

physics.bio-ph2021

A joint explanation of infant and old age mortality

Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner

Infant deaths and old age deaths are very different. The former are mostly due to severe congenital malformations of one or a small number of specific organs. On the contrary, old…

q-bio.CB2021

Is there an infant mortality in bacteria?

Eduardo M. Garcia-Roger, Peter Richmond, Bertrand M. Roehner

This manuscript proposes a significant step in our long-run investigation of infant mortality across species. Since 2016 (Berrut et al. 2016) a succession of studies (Bois et al. 2…

physics.soc-ph2021

Impact of personal income on mortality by age: biological versus socio-economic effects

Peter Richmond, Wonguk Cho, Beom Jun Kim +1

The influence of per capita income on life expectancy is well documented, mostly through studies of multinational samples. However, one expects fairly weak correlations at both end…