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A spectrum of complexity uncovers Dunbar's number and other leaps in social structure
Martín Saavedra, Jorge Mira, Alberto P Muñuzuri +1
Social dynamics are shaped by each person's actions, as well as by collective trends that emerge when individuals are brought together. These latter kind of influences escape anyon…
Are Dutch and French languages miscible?
Luís F Seoane, Jorge Mira
We study the stability of the cohabitation of French and Dutch in the Brussels-capital region (Belgium). To this aim, we use available time series of fractions of speakers of monol…
Learning and teaching Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity: state of the art
Xabier Prado, José Manuel Domínguez, Iván Area +3
This work analyzes the difficulties in learning and teaching Einstein's theory of special relativity. An extensive bibliographic review has been performed, considering articles pub…
Optimal control of the COVID-19 pandemic: controlled sanitary deconfinement in Portugal
Cristiana J. Silva, Carla Cruz, Delfim F. M. Torres +9
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced policy makers to decree urgent confinements to stop a rapid and massive contagion. However, after that stage, societies are being forced to find an…
Linguistic evolution driven by network heterogeneity and the Turing mechanism
Sayat Mimar, Mariamo Mussa Juane, Jorge Mira +3
Given the rapidly evolving landscape of linguistic prevalence, whereby a majority of the world's existing languages are dying out in favor of the adoption of a comparatively fewer…
Is the coexistence of Catalan and Spanish possible in Catalonia?
Luís F. Seoane, Xaquín Loredo, Henrique Monteagudo +1
We study the stability of two coexisting languages (Catalan and Spanish) in Catalonia (North-Eastern Spain), a key European region in political and economic terms. Our analysis rel…
Modeling the life and death of competing languages from a physical and mathematical perspective
Luís F Seoane, Jorge Mira
Recent contributions address the problem of language coexistence as that of two species competing to aggregate speakers, thus focusing on the dynamics of linguistic traits across p…
The last sunset on mainland Europe
Jorge Mira
This paper documents the places in mainland Europe at which the sun sets latest, by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), on any given day (distortion due to differences in local stand…
Analytic solution of a model of language competition with bilingualism and interlinguistic similarity
Victoria Otero-Espinar, Luís F. Seoane, Juan J. Nieto +1
An in-depth analytic study of a model of language dynamics is presented: a model which tackles the problem of the coexistence of two languages within a closed community of speakers…
Importance of interlinguistic similarity and stable bilingualism when two languages compete
Jorge Mira, Luís F. Seoane, Juan J. Nieto
In order to analyze the dynamics of two languages in competition, one approach is to fit historical data on their numbers of speakers with a mathematical model in which the paramet…
Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics
J. Mira, A. Paredes
We analyze the time evolution of a system of two coexisting languages (Castillian Spanish and Galician, both spoken in northwest Spain) in the framework of a model given by Abrams…