Tip** points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are
increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere …

A large proportion of dryland trees and shrubs (hereafter referred to collectively as trees)
grow in isolation, without canopy closure. These non-forest trees have a crucial role in …

Social media data have been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related
phenomena. From cohort-level discussions of a condition to population-level analyses of …

We describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of EMBERS, an automated, 24x7
continuous system for forecasting civil unrest across 10 countries of Latin America using …

Recent protests have fuelled deliberations about the extent to which social media ignites
popular uprisings. In this article, we use time-series data of Twitter, Facebook, and onsite …

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the
research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable …

The rise of the internet and mobile telecommunications has created the possibility of using
large datasets to understand behavior at unprecedented levels of temporal and geographic …

Proactive handling of social unrest events which are common happenings in both
democracies and authoritarian regimes requires that the risk of upcoming social unrest …