Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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On the emergence of a power law in the distribution of COVID-19 cases
Published 2020The first confirmed case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US was reported on January 21, 2020. By the end of March, 2020, there were more than 180,000 confirmed cases in the US, distributed across more than ...Article -
Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic
Published 2020On 3 April 2020, the Director-General of the WHO stated: “[COVID-19] is much more than a health crisis. We are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic (WHO, 2020)”. Such consequences are ...Article -
Novel semi-metrics for multivariate change point analysis and anomaly detection
Published 2020This paper proposes a new method for determining similarity and anomalies between time series, most practically effective in large collections of (likely related) time series, by measuring distances between structural ...Article -
Towards an Ontology and Ethics of Virtual Influencers
Published 2020In 2018, TIME magazine named Miquela Souza one of the 25 most influential people on the internet, despite the fact she is not a person at all. Miquela is the first digitally created virtual influencer. This paper provides ...Article -
The Inter-α-Trypsin Inhibitor Family: Versatile Molecules in Biology and Pathology
Published 2020Inter-α-trypsin inhibitor (IαI) family members are ancient and unique molecules that have evolved over several hundred million years of vertebrate evolution. IαI is a complex containing the proteoglycan bikunin to which ...Article