Cryptocurrencies are considered the latest innovation in finance with considerable impact across social, technological, and economic dimensions. This new class of financial assets has also motivated a myriad of scientific investigations focused on …
Despite significant efforts devoted to understanding the underlying complexity and emergence of collective movement in animal groups, the role of different external settings on this type of movement remains largely unexplored. Here, by combining time …
Recent research has shown that criminal networks have complex organizational structures, but whether this can be used to predict static and dynamic properties of criminal networks remains little explored. Here, by combining graph representation …
We investigate the solutions of the Schrödinger equation in the presence of geometric constraints represented by a backbone structure and by taking into account a position-dependent effective mass. The new solutions are obtained by using Green’s …
Humans are facilitating the introduction and range expansion of invasive alien species (IAS), which have negatively impacted ecological and socio-economic systems worldwide. Understanding the global diffusion of IAS is important for developing …
The word "physics" can be understood in at least two ways. First, based on the Greek origin of the word, physics means nature. Accordingly, when we state our intention to understand the physics of a phenomenon, we want to know how and why it behaves …
Center of pressure (COP) signals have been widely used to investigate various aspects of human balance during quiet standing. Here, we compute a set of measures - including burstiness, memory and local variation - to quantify temporal patterns in COP …
There are a growing number of large databases online. In this study, we used data from 80,332 cases of UFO sightings reported from 1906 to 2014 as a tool for investigating the human behavior in reporting events and how a time lag influences the …
Describing the permanence of cultural objects is an important step in understanding societal trends. A relatively novel cultural object is the video game, which is an interactive media, that is, the player is an active contributor to the overall …
Many simple natural phenomena are characterized by complex motion that appears random at first glance, but that often displays underlying patterns and behavior that can be clustered in groups. The movement of small pieces of paper falling through the …