Search Results - subject:"Temporal–spatial patterns"

Screening of social vulnerability to natural hazards in China

Yang, Saini; He, Shuai; Du, Juan; Sun, Xiaohua - In: Natural Hazards 76 (2015) 1, pp. 1-18

In recent decades, losses resulted from natural disasters have dramatically increased and combined with a significant rise in the intensity and frequency of natural hazards, and in exposure. China is prone to multiple hazards and has experienced huge changes in its social fabric during the past...

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Dynamics of human innovative behaviors

Lin, Ying-Ting; Han, Xiao-Pu; Wang, Bing-Hong - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 394 (2014) C, pp. 74-81

”, and quasi-localized dynamics. Furthermore, our model also emerges rich non-Poisson properties in the temporal–spatial … patterns of the innovative status, including the scaling law in the interval time of innovation releases and the bimodal …

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Using social media data to understand and assess disasters

Guan, Xiangyang; Chen, Cynthia - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 2, pp. 837-850

measure based on Twitter activities that can be used to quantify the evolution of disasters and thus demonstrate temporal–spatial … patterns of Twitter activities particularly near the coastline and in large urban areas during Hurricane Sandy. We also show a …

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