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Author : Sandra Seagal,David Horne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1883823064
Author : Márton Karsai,Hang-Hyun Jo,Kimmo Kaski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319685403
This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour. It presents common and alternative understanding of the investigated phenomena, and points out open questions worthy of further investigations. The book is structured as follows. In the introduction the authors discuss the motivation of the field, describe bursty phenomena in case of human behaviour, and relate it to other disciplines. The second chapter addresses the measures commonly used to characterise heterogeneous signals, bursty human dynamics, temporal paths, and correlated behaviour. These definitions are first introduced to set the basis for the discussion of the third chapter about the observations of bursty human patterns in the dynamics of individuals, dyadic interactions, and collective behaviour. The subsequent fourth chapter discusses the models of bursty human dynamics. Various mechanisms have been proposed about the source of the heterogeneities in human dynamics, which leads to the introduction of conceptually different modelling approaches. The authors address all of these perspectives objectively, highlight their strengths and shortcomings, and mention possible extensions to them. The fifth chapter addresses the effect of individual heterogeneous behaviour on collective dynamics. This question in particular has been investigated in various systems including spreading phenomena, random walks, and opinion formation dynamics. Here the main issues are whether burstiness speeds up or slows down the co-evolving processes, and how burstiness modifies time-dependent paths in the system that determine the spreading patterns of any kind of information or influence. Finally in the sixth chapter the authors end the review with a discussion and future perspectives. It is an ideal book for researchers and students who wish to enter the field of bursty human dynamics or want to expand their knowledge on such phenomena.
Author : Sy-Miin Chow,Emilio Ferrer,Fushing Hsieh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135262587
This interdisciplinary volume features contributions from researchers in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, statistics, computer science, and physics. State-of-the-art techniques and applications used to analyze data obtained from studies in cognition, emotion, and electrophysiology are reviewed along with techniques for modeling in real time and for examining lifespan cognitive changes, for conceptualizing change using item response, nonparametric and hierarchical models, and control theory-inspired techniques for deriving diagnoses in medical and psychotherapeutic settings. The syntax for running the analyses presented in the book is provided on the Psychology Press site. Most of the programs are written in R while others are for Matlab, SAS, Win-BUGS, and DyFA. Readers will appreciate a review of the latest methodological techniques developed in the last few years. Highlights include an examination of: Statistical and mathematical modeling techniques for the analysis of brain imaging such as EEGs, fMRIs, and other neuroscience data Dynamic modeling techniques for intensive repeated measurement data Panel modeling techniques for fewer time points data State-space modeling techniques for psychological data Techniques used to analyze reaction time data. Each chapter features an introductory overview of the techniques needed to understand the chapter, a summary, and numerous examples. Each self-contained chapter can be read on its own and in any order. Divided into three major sections, the book examines techniques for examining within-person derivations in change patterns, intra-individual change, and inter-individual differences in change and interpersonal dynamics. Intended for advanced students and researchers, this book will appeal to those interested in applying state-of-the-art dynamic modeling techniques to the the study of neurological, developmental, cognitive, and social/personality psychology, as well as neuroscience, computer science, and engineering.
Author : Andrzej Nowak,Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak,David Brée
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642314360
This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems. The aim is to provide scientists with different backgrounds - physics, applied mathematics and computer sciences - with the opportunity to apply the tools of their trade to an altogether new range of possible applications. At the same time, this book will serve as a first reference for a new generation of social scientists and psychologists wishing to familiarize themselves with the new methodology and the "thinking in complexity".
Author : Shih-Lung Shaw,Daniel Sui
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319892444
This book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-aware technology have fundamentally changed the ways how social, political, economic and transportation systems work in today’s globally connected world. It delivers on many exciting research questions related to human dynamics at both disaggregate and aggregate levels that attract the attention of researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Human Dynamics Research involves theoretical perspectives, space-time analytics, modeling human dynamics, urban analytics, social media and big data, travel dynamics, privacy issues, development of smart cities, and problems and prospects of human dynamics research. This book includes contributions on theoretical, technical, or application aspects of human dynamics research from different disciplines. Appealing to researchers, scholars and students across a wide range of topics and disciplines including: urban studies, space-time, mobility and the internet, social media, big data, behavioral geography and spatio-temporal-network visualization, this book offers a glimpse at the cutting edge of research on human dynamics.
Author : Aydin Tözeren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387216911
A quantitative approach to studying human biomechanics, presenting principles of classical mechanics using case studies involving human movement. Vector algebra and vector differentiation are used to describe the motion of objects and 3D motion mechanics are treated in depth. Diagrams and software-created sequences are used to illustrate human movement.
Author : Ann Skalka
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781437917222
Increased understanding of adversaries, their operating environ. and the relevant host population is important to conduct complex operations (incl. stability, security, transition and reconstruction operations), to devise effective terrorist countermeasures, to support strategic commun., and to aid intell analysis and planning for contingencies. This report: Reviews and re-evaluates previous and current attempts in DoD to assess host population social structures, adversarial thinking styles and patterns of behavior; Identify and assess current relevant S&T investment plans to include research, analysis, tools and techniques; and Identify how relevant approaches, analysis, methods, and technologies can be incorporated into U.S. military capabilities and systems. Illus.
Author : Atsushi Nara,Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030830106
This book discusses theoretical backgrounds, techniques and methodologies, and applications of the current state-of-the-art human dynamics research utilizing social media and geospatial big data. It describes various forms of social media and big data with location information, theory development, data collection and management techniques, and analytical methodologies to conduct human dynamics research including geographic information systems (GIS), spatiotemporal data analytics, text mining and semantic analysis, machine learning, trajectory data analysis, and geovisualization. The book also covers applied interdisciplinary research examples ranging from disaster management, public health, urban geography, and spatiotemporal information diffusion. By providing theoretical foundations, solid empirical research backgrounds, techniques, and methodologies as well as application examples from diverse interdisciplinary fields, this book will be a valuable resource to students, researchers and practitioners who utilize or plan to employ social media and big data in their work.
Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781586039592
Globalization, security infrastructure and energy sustainability can be designed based on a scientific principle. This book approaches these objectives based on constructal theory, which means to design such projects as global 'flow' architectures that are 'alive' with movement of personnel, equipment, information, and education."
Author : Daniel Raposo,Nuno Martins,Daniel Brandão
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030804152
This book addresses the importance of human factors in the design of artifacts and systems that serves contemporary individual and societal needs. It reports on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary design research and practices fostering creativity, interaction and co-creation, sustainability, digital development, mobility, as well as science and education. Gathering contributions to the first edition of the AHFE 2021 Affiliated Conference on Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies, held virtually on July 25-29, 2021, from USA, this book, which brings together experts with different design and human factors engineering as well as user interface and user experience backgrounds, offers a timely perspective on the role of human factors and design in the developments of modern society and is expected to foster new approaches and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Author : Josh Williams
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781605906775
Many companies have taken steps to improve awareness and management of safety systems, yet safety directors continue to report high injury rates. In Keeping People Safe: The Human Dynamics of Injury Prevention, author Josh Williams provides safety leaders with information they can use to further reduce injuries and improve workplace safety. This book addresses five integral components of workplace safety: Systems/Conditions, Leadership, Behaviors, People-Factors, and Communication. It recommends strategies for every aspect of safety management from organizational commitment and safety culture to improving managerial behavior and working with union members. These recommendations are based on years of practical experience, empirical research on the human dynamics of safety, and seminal studies in social psychology on authority and conformity. Utilizing the hugely influential and widely practiced model of Behavior Based Safety, Williams provides the safety manager with all the tools needed to lower injury rates and improve safety. Numerous charts and tables, a checklist for improving safety performance, and a foreword by world-renowned safety leader E. Scott Geller complement the text.
Author : Roy M. Anderson,Robert M. May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019854040X
This book deals with infectious diseases -- viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth -- in terms of the dynamics of their interaction with host populations. The book combines mathematical models with extensive use of epidemiological and other data. This analytic framework is highly useful for the evaluation of public health strategies aimed at controlling or eradicating particular infections. Such a framework is increasingly important in light of the widespread concern for primary health care programs aimed at such diseases as measles, malaria, river blindness, sleeping sickness, and schistosomiasis, and the advent of AIDS/HIV and other emerging viruses. Throughout the book, the mathematics is used as a tool for thinking clearly about fundamental and applied problems having to do with infectious diseases. The book is divided into two parts, one dealing with microparasites (viruses, bacteria and protozoans) and the other with macroparasites (helminths and parasitic arthropods). Each part begins with simple models, developed in a biologically intuitive way, and then goes on to develop more complicated and realistic models as tools for public health planning. The book synthesizes previous work in this rapidly growing field (much of which is scattered between the ecological and the medical literature) with a good deal of new material.
Author : Timothy A. Kohler,George J. Gumerman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780195131680
With an emphasis on small-scale societies in an effort to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social evolution, this volume is an important step toward an actor-oriented, cross-disciplinary approach to understanding human behavior over time.".
Author : Raoul Huys,Viktor K. Jirsa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642162619
Humans engage in a seemingly endless variety of different behaviors, of which some are found across species, while others are conceived of as typically human. Most generally, behavior comes about through the interplay of various constraints – informational, mechanical, neural, metabolic, and so on – operating at multiple scales in space and time. Over the years, consensus has grown in the research community that, rather than investigating behavior only from bottom up, it may be also well understood in terms of concepts and laws on the phenomenological level. Such top down approach is rooted in theories of synergetics and self-organization using tools from nonlinear dynamics. The present compendium brings together scientists from all over the world that have contributed to the development of their respective fields departing from this background. It provides an introduction to deterministic as well as stochastic dynamical systems and contains applications to motor control and coordination, visual perception and illusion, as well as auditory perception in the context of speech and music.
Author : James W. Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351521468
Awarded the W. W. Howells Award for the Outstanding Book in Biological Anthropology, this volume presents a comprehensive, integrated, and up-to-date overview of the major physiological and behavioral factors affecting human reproduction. In attempting to identify the most important causes of variation in fertility within and among human populations, Wood summarizes data from a wide range of societies. Trained as an anthropologist as well as a demographer, he devotes special attention to so-called ""natural fertility"" populations, in which modern contraceptives and induced abortion are not used to limit reproductive output. Such an emphasis enables him to study the interaction of biology and behavior with particular clarity.The volume weaves together the physiological, demographic, and biometric approaches to human fertility in a way that will encourage future interdisciplinary research. Instead of offering a general overview, the focus is to answer one question: Why does fertility and the number of live births vary from couple to couple within any particular population, and from population to population across the human species as a whole?Topics covered include ovarian function, conception and pregnancy, intrauterine mortality, reproductive maturation and senescence, coital frequency and the waiting time to conception, marriage patterns and the initiation of reproduction, the fertility-reducing effects of breastfeeding, the impact of maternal nutrition on reproduction, and reproductive seasonality. This unique combination of comprehensive subject matter and an integrated analytical approach makes the book ideally suited both as a graduate-level textbook and as a reference work.