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5 papers
Random Spatial Networks: Small Worlds without Clustering, Traveling Waves, and Hop-and-Spread Disease Dynamics
John Lang, Hans De Sterck, Jamieson L. Kaiser +1
Random network models play a prominent role in modeling, analyzing and understanding complex phenomena on real-life networks. However, a key property of networks is often neglected…
The Statistical Mechanics of Human Weight Change
John C. Lang, Hans De Sterck, Daniel M. Abrams
In the context of the global obesity epidemic, it is important to know who becomes obese and why. However, the processes that determine the changing shape of Body Mass Index (BMI)…
A Hierarchy of Linear Threshold Models for the Spread of Political Revolutions on Social Networks
John C. Lang, Hans De Sterck
We study a linear threshold agent-based model (ABM) for the spread of political revolutions on social networks using empirical network data. We propose new techniques for building…
The influence of societal individualism on a century of tobacco use: modelling the prevalence of smoking
John C. Lang, Daniel M. Abrams, Hans De Sterck
Smoking of tobacco is predicted to cause approximately six million deaths worldwide in 2014. Responding effectively to this epidemic requires a thorough understanding of how smokin…
The Arab Spring: A Simple Compartmental Model for the Dynamics of a Revolution
John Lang, Hans De Sterck
The self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17, 2011 in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid, set off a sequence of events culminating in the revolutions of the Arab Spri…