Predicting where we walk: models than link human behaviour to the way paths are formed provide excellent predictions of path geometry
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Classical physics applied to human affairs became popular in the early 20th century, reaching a peak in the 1950s and the 1960s when gravitation and potential theory was used to predict traffic flows, population distribution and migration patterns. Helbing, Keltsch and Molnar have developed a model of the way walkers organize their paths based on standard notions of walking potential, but where the geometrical structure of the system is a consequence of the model.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Econophysicists matter
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Potential econophysicists might find it hard to pursue their field since physicists do not believe economics as a field of physics and economists do not recognize physics as their discipline either. Hence a body of respected economists is established who acknowledge the potential value of ideas and tools taken from other sciences, including physics, and who are receptive to the efforts of physicists.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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To put it simply...
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The question of why cognitive science struggled to find an explanation for the terms that we use everyday is raised.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2003
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