There is a robust and compelling body of evidence supporting the ergogenic and
therapeutic role of creatine supplementation in muscle. Beyond these well-described effects …

Containing the spread of crime in urban societies remains a major challenge. Empirical
evidence suggests that, if left unchecked, crimes may be recurrent and proliferate. On the …

In recent years, various studies have been conducted on the prediction of crime
occurrences. This predictive capability is intended to assist in crime prevention by facilitating …

Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it
is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to …

Scaling is a general analytical framework used by many disciplines—from physics to biology
and the social sciences—to characterize how population-averaged properties of a collective …

In the context of urbanization and sustainable development, efficient urban land use is
essential, especially in China, the world's most populous country. Within this context, the law …

Income inequality is blamed for being the main driver of violent crime by the majority of the
literature. However, earlier work on the topic largely neglects the role of poverty and income …

One of the most celebrated findings in complex systems in the last decade is that different
indexes y (eg patents) scale nonlinearly with the population x of the cities in which they …

The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We
propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity, and cultural evolution to derive …

Human mobility has a significant impact on several layers of society, from infrastructural
planning and economics to the spread of diseases and crime. Representing the system as a …