During the past decades, multiple remote sensing data sources, including nighttime light
images, high spatial resolution multispectral satellite images, unmanned drone images, and …

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues
ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings …

A general explanatory framework for the social processes underpinning urbanisation should
account for empirical regularities that are shared among contemporary urban systems and …

An evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI) occurs when a previously independent
organism becomes a lower level unit within a higher hierarchical level (for example, cells in …

The peoples of southern Mesoamerica, including the Classic period Maya, are often claimed
to exhibit a distinct type of spatial organization relative to contemporary urban systems …

Nepali government's official delineation of several human settlements as new urban areas
has been questionable because many important criteria such as urban infrastructure and …

Mycobacterium bovis is the main causative agent of zoonotic tuberculosis in humans and
frequently devastates livestock and wildlife worldwide. Previous studies suggested the …

Abstract Objective Skeletal populations from Byblos, Beirut, and Tyre were studied to assess
mechanical stress along the Roman Phoenician coast. Materials The sample included 153 …

Food security in ancient urban centers is often discussed but rarely formally modelled.
Despite its location in an inhospitable desert where food production is a constant challenge …

Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling
tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities …