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Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations
2012. PLoS ONE 7, e36439. AbstractDecreasing the number of people who must be vaccinated to immunize a community against an infectious disease could both save resources and decrease outbreak sizes. A k
Understanding Rural Change – Demography as a Key to the Future
The aim of this paper is to exploit demographic change in rural areas as a means to forecast their possible economic and social futures. The peripheral rural areas of Europe will experience problems o
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Rae Langton: How our attitudes accommodate injustice
Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University ABSTRACTWhat we do with words can help or hinder justice in ways that exploit rules of accommodation: a process of adjustment that tends to
Learning by Imitation in Games: Theory, Field and Lab
Erik Mohlin, Oxford University We exploit a unique opportunity to study how a large population of players in the field learn to play a novel game which has a complicated and non-intuitive mixed strateg
Raya Muttarak: Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change
Register Abstract Australian bushfire in 2020 and severe floods in Western Europe and exceptional heatwaves in North America in summer 2021, to name a few, are examples of extreme events that are docume
Elite Schools, Elite Ambitions? The Consequences of Secondary-Level School Choice Sorting for Tertiary-Level Educational Choices
in: European Sociological Review, Volume 36, Issue 4 AbstractWe ask if school choice, through its effect on sorting across schools, affects high school graduates’ application decisions to higher educatof higher educational programs applied for. Low achievers increased their propensity to apply for the ‘low-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to less prestigious, less well-paid occupations, and high achievers increased their propensity to apply for ‘high-status’ educational programs, on average destining them to more prestigious, well-paid occupations. The results suggest that increased sorting across schools reinforces differences across schools and groups in ‘cultures of ambition’. Although these effects translate into relatively small increases in the gender gap, the immigration gap, and the parental education gap in educational choice, our results indicate that school choice, and the increased sorting it leads to, through conformity mechanisms in schools polarizes educational choices of students across achievement groups.
Evidence from 43 countries that disease leaves cultures unchanged in the short-term
Nature, Scientific Reports Abstract Did cultures change shortly after, and in response to, the COVID-19 outbreak? If so, then in what way? We study these questions for a set of macro-cultural dimensions
How much crime can foreign background explain? with Amber Beckley
Can the number of people with foreign background living in an area explain the level of crime in that same area? In this talk Amber Beckley gives us the numbers and finds a correlation that points cle
Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to aviod the hype
Karim Jebari, PhD in Philosophy and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies talks about some tools for finding interesting things to study in the field of the social impact of artificial intelligence. And also, advice on how to avoid some of the hype surrounding AI. From the workshop “Why we need research on AI impact now”, that was held at the Institute for Futures Studies on January 21st 2020.
