Signal propagation in complex networks drives epidemics, is responsible for information
going viral, promotes trust and facilitates moral behavior in social groups, enables the …

Background Social distancing is one of the community mitigation measures that may be
recommended during influenza pandemics. Social distancing can reduce virus transmission …

Infectious disease occurs when a person is infected by a pathogen from another person or
an animal. It is a problem that causes harm at both individual and macro scales. The Korea …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

The basic reproduction number is one of the conceptual cornerstones of mathematical
epidemiology. Its classical definition as the number of secondary cases generated by a …

Human mobility is differentiated by time scales. While the mechanism for long time scales
has been studied, the underlying mechanism on the daily scale is still unrevealed. Here, we …

Among the realistic ingredients to be considered in the computational modeling of infectious
diseases, human mobility represents a crucial challenge both on the theoretical side and in …

Human mobility is a key component of large-scale spatial-transmission models of infectious
diseases. Correctly modeling and quantifying human mobility is critical for improving …

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:▶ Integration of empirical mobility networks in a computational
epidemic model.▶ Discrete stochastic epidemic model at the worldwide scale.▶ …

Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis,
when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the …