Urban areas exist in a wide variety of population sizes, from small towns to huge megacities. No proposed form for the statistical distribution of city sizes has received more attention than Zipf’s law, a Pareto distribution with power law exponent equal to one. However, this distribution is ...
Diffusion processes are central to human interactions. One common prediction of the current modelling frameworks is that initial spreading dynamics follow exponential growth. Here we find that, for subjects ranging from mobile handsets to automobiles and
Fintech is redefining the financial services customer journey. The digital era has unleashed a disruptive development and emergence across the financial industry allowing financial technology firms to attract previously “unbanked” people in emerging markets while holding already existing conventional bank cu...
This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical dynamics and actual approaches toward the emergence of international dimensions in East Asian higher education (In this book, “East Asia” implies mainly ASEAN+3 (Japan, China, and South Korea). However, this term has also been defined as an...
Cities grow in a bottom-up manner, leading to fractal-like urban morphologies characterized by scaling laws. The correlated percolation model has succeeded in modeling urban geometries by imposing strong spatial correlations; however, the origin of the u
Global scientific output is expanding exponentially, which in turn calls for a better understanding of the science of science and especially how the boundaries of scientific fields expand through processes of emergence. The present study proposes the app
Introduction Social hierarchies, defined here as organizational structures in which certain individuals or groups have greater social power and/or access to resources than others, are ubiquitous across cultures and species (Cheney and Seyfarth2007). These hierarchies shape many aspects of life, from one...
I also connect his date with the emergence of Śaivism as a popular religion in South India. Based on my study, I place Ādi Śaṅkarācārya in the fifth century BCE and as a result, I emphasize the importance of redating Hindu scriptures, especially the Vedas, as Ādi Śaṅ...
Solar energy offers a viable solution to our growing energy need. While adoption of conventional photovoltaics on rooftops and in solar farms has grown rapidly in the last decade, there is still plenty of opportunity for expansion. See-through solar tech
India are uncertain. A substantial increase in genomic surveillance across the country would probably facilitate the study of the emergence and expansion of Delta there, but is outside the scope of this work. To put the UK epidemic into context, we estimated the time of the most recent common...