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Evidence-based policy-making in sports funding using a data-driven optimization approach

Jan Hurt, Liuhuaying Yang, Johannes Sorger +5

Many European countries face rising obesity rates among children, compounded by decreased opportunities for sports activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to sports facilit…

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Small coverage effect in epidemic network models shows that masks can become more effective with less people wearing them

Peter Klimek, Katharina Ledebur, Stefan Thurner

The effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is determined by numerous contextual factors, including adherence. Conventional wisdom holds…

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Specialization in Criminal Careers

Georg Heiler, Tuan Pham, Jan Korbel +2

We use a comprehensive longitudinal dataset on criminal acts over five years in a European country to study specialization in criminal careers. We cluster crime categories by their…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 10 cited

Stress-testing the Resilience of the Austrian Healthcare System Using Agent-Based Simulation

Michaela Kaleta, Jana Lasser, Elma Dervic +6

Patients do not access physicians at random but rather via naturally emerging networks of patient flows between them. As retirements, mass quarantines and absence due to sickness d…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 35 cited

Loss of sustainability in scientific work

Niklas Reisz, Vito D. P. Servedio, Vittorio Loreto +3

For decades the number of scientific publications has been rapidly increasing, effectively out-dating knowledge at a tremendous rate. Only few scientific milestones remain relevant…