Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

The study of human mobility is crucial due to its impact on several aspects of our society,
such as disease spreading, urban planning, well-being, pollution, and more. The …

The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges around the world. Many studies
have applied mobility data to explore spatiotemporal trends over time, investigate …

Zeta potential (ZP) is a parameter that expresses the electrochemical equilibrium between
particles and liquids like in nanoparticle (NP) colloidal solutions with applications in …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Influential research on the negative effects of living in a disadvantaged neighborhood
assumes that its residents are socially isolated from nonpoor or “mainstream” …

Urban vibrancy describes the attraction, diversity and accessibility of a place and exhibits
spatio-temporal variability. The relationships between urban vibrancy and land-use …

In the past few years, the social science literature has shown significance attention to
extracting information from social media to track and analyse human movements. In this …

Cameras are deployed at scale with the purpose of searching and tracking objects of
interest (eg, a suspected person) through the camera network on live videos. Such cross …

In the past few decades, extensive epidemiological studies have focused on exploring the
adverse effects of PM 2.5 (particulate matters with aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 μm) …