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Balanced and fragmented phases in societies with homophily and social balance
Tuan Minh Pham, Andrew C. Alexander, Jan Korbel +2
Recent attempts to understand the origin of social fragmentation are based on spin models which include terms accounting for two social phenomena: homophily -- the tendency for peo…
Balancing quarantine and self-distancing measures in adaptive epidemic networks
Leonhard Horstmeyer, Christian Kuehn, Stefan Thurner
We study the relative importance of two key control measures for epidemic spreading: endogenous social self-distancing and exogenous imposed quarantine. We use the framework of ada…
Behavioral gender differences are reinforced during the COVID-19 crisis
Tobias Reisch, Georg Heiler, Jan Hurt +3
Behavioral gender differences are known to exist for a wide range of human activities including the way people communicate, move, provision themselves, or organize leisure activiti…
Why are most COVID-19 infection curves linear?
Stefan Thurner, Peter Klimek, Rudolf Hanel
Many countries have passed their first COVID-19 epidemic peak. Traditional epidemiological models describe this as a result of non-pharmaceutical interventions that pushed the grow…
The effect of social balance on social fragmentation
Tuan Minh Pham, Imre Kondor, Rudolf Hanel +1
With the availability of cell phones, internet, social media etc. the interconnectedness of people within most societies has increased drastically over the past three decades. Acro…
Thermodynamics of structure-forming systems
Jan Korbel, Simon David Lindner, Rudolf Hanel +1
Structure-forming systems are ubiquitous in nature, ranging from atoms building molecules to self-assembly of colloidal amphibolic particles. The understanding of the underlying th…