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Spatio-temporal characteristics of dengue outbreaks
Saulo D. S. Reis, Lucas Böttcher, João P. da C. Nogueira +4
After their re-emergence in the last decades, dengue fever and other vector-borne diseases are a potential threat to the lives of millions of people. Based on a data set of dengue…
The Great Divide: Drivers of Polarization in the US Public
Lucas Böttcher, Hans Gersbach
Many democratic societies have become more politically polarized, with the U.S. as the main example. The origins of this phenomenon are still not well-understood and subject to deb…
The Impact of Technologies in Political Campaigns
Moritz Hoferer, Lucas Böttcher, Hans J. Herrmann +1
Recent political campaigns have demonstrated how technologies are used to boost election outcomes by microtargeting voters. We propose and analyze a framework which analyzes how po…
Clout, Activists and Budget: The Road to Presidency
L. Böttcher, Hans J. Herrmann, Hans Gersbach
Political campaigns involve, in the simplest case, two competing campaign groups which try to obtain a majority of votes. We propose a novel mathematical framework to study politic…
Targeted Recovery as an Effective Strategy against Epidemic Spreading
Lucas Böttcher, José S. Andrade, Hans J. Herrmann
We propose a targeted intervention protocol where recovery is restricted to individuals that have the least number of infected neighbours. Our recovery strategy is highly efficient…
Temporal dynamics of online petitions
Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Dirk Brockmann
Online petitions are an important avenue for direct political action, yet the dynamics that determine when a petition will be successful are not well understood. Here we analyze th…