(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new model for the behavior of pedestrians and crowds. It can help to understand and prevent tragic crowd disasters, to develop better architectural designs and new navigation ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 19, 2011
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Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that – in a test of its response to sugar in its environment – accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2011
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"Am I just a face in the crowd? Is that all I'll ever be? ... Do you think I stand out?" —The Kinks, "A Face in the Crowd"
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2011
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The rise of the Internet has sparked a fascination with what The New Yorker’s financial writer James Surowiecki called, in a book of the same name, "The wisdom of crowds": The idea that aggregating or averaging the imperfect, ...
Economics & Business
Nov 17, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows that consumers have a herding instinct to follow the crowd. However, this instinct appears to switch off if the product fails to achieve a certain popularity threshold.
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Love Parade in Duisburg in western Germany on 24th July was supposed to be a night of music and celebration for the estimated 1.4 million revelers, but it became a catastrophe, with 21 dead and over 300 ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do pedestrians move in the street? How do they interact? French researchers from the Université Toulouse, in partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, have carried out ...
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2010
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A catastrophe involving large crowds at a religious gathering in northern India July 2 resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people, with many more injured.
Social Sciences
Jul 3, 2024
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More than 10 million tons of food is wasted in the UK each year. Leftovers perish in their plastic Tupperware tombs, supermarket bins heave with damaged but perfectly edible produce, and fields are littered with spoiled harvests. ...
Archaeology
Mar 16, 2024
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Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighborhood model, based on the visual fields of each person in the crowd. Birds flock, fish school, and human crowds, too, move in a collective motion pattern. Understanding ...
Mathematics
May 17, 2023
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