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A Framework for Reconstructing COVID-19 Transmission Network to Inform Betweenness Centrality-Based Control Measures
Sara Najem, Stefano Monni, Rola Hatoum +6
In this paper, we propose a general framework for optimal control measures, which follows the evolution of COVID-19 infection counts collected by Surveillance Units on a country le…
Precarious trajectories: How far away is the next refugee drowning?
Ashod Khederlarian, Martin Grant, Monika Halkort +1
In this paper, we explore the analogy between the refugees' drownings in the sea and the earthquakes' occurrences and focus on the aspect that characterizes the statistics of their…
Machine learning for buildings characterization and power-law recovery of urban metrics
Alaa Krayem, Aram Yeretzian, Ghaleb Faour +1
In this paper, we focus on a critical component of the city: its building stock, which holds much of its socio-economic activities. In our case, the lack of a comprehensive databas…
Buildings as Species: Competition and Scaling Rules in Cities
Tarek Tohme, Martin Grant, Sara Najem
We look at buildings' competition over space in cities through the lens of ecology. Adopting the convex hull of the building's footprint perimeter as a definition of species yields…
Debye-Hückel Theory for Refugees' Migration
Sara Najem
In this Letter we follow the short-ranged Syrian refugees' migration to Lebanon as documented by the UNHCR. We propose a model inspired by the Debye-Hückel theory and show that it…
Along the sun-drenched roadside: On the interplay between urban street orientation entropy and the buildings' solar potential
Sara Najem
We explore the relation between urban road network characteristics particularly circuitry, street orientation entropy and the city's topography on the one hand and the building's o…