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SUBMITTER: Gao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3915310 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Scientific reports 20140206
Recent advances on human dynamics have focused on the normal patterns of human activities, with the quantitative understanding of human behavior under extreme events remaining a crucial missing chapter. This has a wide array of potential applications, ranging from emergency response and detection to traffic control and management. Previous studies have shown that human communications are both temporally and spatially localized following the onset of emergencies, indicating that social propagatio ...[more]