Social activities have a significant impact on the rainstorm flood disaster risk. It is crucial to explore the dynamic changes of urban rainstorm flood disaster risk caused by crowd activities. In this study, a risk simulation method of urban rainsto...
Crowd activity is an important indicator of commercial streets’ attractiveness and developmental potential. The development of positioning technologies such as GPS and mobile signal tracking has provided a large amount of trajectory data for st...
This study examines whether pro-environmental behavior crowds-in (associates positively with) or crowds-out (displaces) political activism. This research is part of a broader debate on the nature of individual pro-environmental behavior and whether i...
The behavior of a polymer in a passive crowded medium or in a very dilute active bath has been well studied, while a polymer immersed in an environment featured by both crowding and activity remains an open problem. In this paper, a systematic Langev...
Small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) are ATP-independent molecular chaperones that interact with partially unfolded proteins, preventing their aberrant aggregation, thereby exhibiting a chaperone-like activity. Dynamics of the quaternary structure plays...
In this article, we address the question whether political activism can be triggered by sustainable consumption. Specific attention is given to the crowding-out and crowding-in hypotheses. The first hypothesis is driven by a conflict view as it assum...
16 November 2022
People-oriented planning has become the mainstream of urban space design. As an important research object of urban space, the accessibility and service level of accessibility and service level of green space as important indicators to evaluate the le...
8 January 2021
This study aimed to investigate the difference in people’s perceived crowding and risk perception during leisure activities using the criteria of spatial proximity during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is a viral respiratory tract disease that...
The aggregation of intracellular proteins may be enhanced under stress. The expression of heat-shock proteins (HSPs) and the accumulation of osmolytes are among the cellular protective mechanisms in these conditions. In addition, one should remember...
10 February 2021
The influence of household crowding on physical and mental health has been well documented. However, research on the influence of household crowding on violent discipline and neglect of children is scarce. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether h...
Knowing how people interact with urban environments is fundamental for a variety of fields, ranging from transportation to social science. Despite the fact that human mobility patterns have been a major topic of study in recent years, a challenge to...
Automated detection of suspicious human activities in complex and crowded environments remains a critical challenge in modern surveillance systems due to high false-positive rates, poor contrast and generalization across diverse scenes. We propose a...
Background and motivation: Every year, millions of Muslims worldwide come to Mecca to perform the Hajj. In order to maintain the security of the pilgrims, the Saudi government has installed about 5000 closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to monit...
A complex heterogeneous intracellular environment seems to affect enzymatic catalysis by changing the mobility of biomolecules, their stability, and their conformational states, as well as by facilitating or hindering continuously occurring interacti...
Plastics pervade our environment and potentially release important quantities of plastic nanoparticles (NPs) from degradation in the environment. The purpose of this study was to examine the crowding effects of polystyrene NPs on lactate dehydrogenas...
The neuroglial extracellular matrix (ECM) provides critical support and physiological cues for the proper growth, differentiation, and function of neuronal cells in the brain. However, in most in vitro settings that study neural physiology, cells are...
Nowadays, wearables-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems represent a modern, robust, and lightweight solution to monitor athlete performance. However, user data variability is a problem that may hinder the performance of HAR systems, especi...
Noise levels of anthropogenic origin in urban environments have reached thresholds that pose serious public health and quality of life problems. This paper/work aims to examine these noise levels, the underlying causes of their increase and possible...
The lateral pressure profile constitutes an important physical property of lipid bilayers, influencing the binding, insertion, and function of membrane-active peptides, such as antimicrobial peptides. In this study, we demonstrate that the lateral pr...
We propose that active metabolic processes may regulate structural changes in biological membranes via the physical state of cell water. This proposition is based on recent results obtained from our group in yeast cells displaying glycolytic oscillat...
Confined systems exhibit a large variety of nonequilibrium phenomena. In this special issue, we have collected a limited number of papers that were presented during the XXV Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, devoted to “Nonequilibrium phenom...
Land use types other than specialized athletic fields provide a variety of jogging environments, addressing the shortage of urban fitness facilities and promoting urban health as well as sustainability. Currently, there is limited research comparing...
Confinement and crowding have been shown to affect protein fates, including folding, functional stability, and their interactions with self and other proteins. Using both theoretical and experimental studies, researchers have established the independ...
A brief summary of the effect of nonspecific interactions upon chemical equilibria in solutions containing a high total concentration of macromolecular solutes comparable to that found in biological fluid media is presented. Analyses of experimental...
Recognizing the emotions of faces in a crowd is crucial for understanding overall behavior and intention as well as for smooth and friendly social interactions. However, it is unclear whether the spatial frequency of faces affects the discrimination...
Forest parks are important for ecological conservation, recreation, and the health and well-being of the people who use them. However, forest parks located in urban areas often face the problem of crowding. To better understand perceived crowding in...
With crowd logistics becoming a crucial part of the last-mile delivery challenge in many cities, continued participation of crowd workers has become an essential issue affecting the growth of the crowd logistics platform. Understanding how people are...
Crowd counting is an active research area within scene analysis. Over the last 20 years, researchers proposed various algorithms for crowd counting in real-time scenarios due to many applications in disaster management systems, public events, safety...
Tourism activities essentially represent the interaction between crowds and attractions. Thus, crowd dynamics are critical to the quality of the tourism experience in personalized tour recommendations. In order to generate dynamic, personalized tour...
Macromolecular crowding is known to affect protein folding, binding of small molecules, interaction with nucleic acids, enzymatic activity, protein-protein interactions, and protein aggregation. Although for a long time it was believed that the major...
Managing citizen and community safety is one of the most essential services that future cities will require. Crowd analysis and monitoring are also a high priority in the current COVID-19 pandemic scenario, especially because large-scale gatherings c...
Bouncing is one of the most common human crowd activities on civil infrastructures such as sports stadiums and concert halls, where the audience tends to make their bodies jump up and down to celebrate or participate in sport and musical events. Dyna...
With the development of civil engineering, lightweight and high-strength materials, as well as large-span, low-frequency structural systems, are increasingly used. However, its self-oscillation frequency is often close to the stride frequency of pede...
The possibility of sensing and predicting the movements of crowds in modern cities is of fundamental importance for improving urban planning, urban mobility, urban safety, and tourism activities. However, it also introduces several challenges at the...
The intracellular environment represents an extremely crowded milieu, with a limited amount of free water and an almost complete lack of unoccupied space. Obviously, slightly salted aqueous solutions containing low concentrations of a biomolecule of...
There are a large number of biomolecules that are accountable for the extremely crowded intracellular environment, which is totally different from the dilute solutions, i.e., the idealized conditions. Such crowded environment due to the presence of m...
Modern civil engineering structures, such as footbridges, are increasingly susceptible to vibrations induced by human activities, emphasizing the importance of accurately assessing crowd-induced loading. Developing realistic load models requires deta...
Natural anthraquinones possess a wide range of biological activities, including antibacterial, antiviral, antitumor, and antioxidant effects. However, studies on their ability to inhibit amyloid protein aggregation remain relatively limited. In this...
Real time crowd analysis represents an active area of research within the computer vision community in general and scene analysis in particular. Over the last 10 years, various methods for crowd management in real time scenario have received immense...
This study reveals that a primarily ignored but crucial environmental situation—social crowding—can affect consumers’ sustainable behavior. The present research proposes a causal relationship between social crowding and consumer rec...
With the widespread availability and pervasiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) in many application areas across the globe, the role of crowdsourcing has seen an upsurge in terms of importance for scaling up data-driven algorithms in rapid cycles...
The sustainability of cruise tourism has been questioned in relation to its negative effects on ports of call, among which crowding has recently become more pronounced. However, an understanding of how crowdedness influences cruise tourists’ ex...
26 February 2019
Bruxism is a parafunctional activity that can seriously affect quality of life. Although bruxism induces many problems in the oral and maxillofacial area, whether it contributes to the onset of malocclusion remains unclear. The purpose of this prospe...
Mobile apps have revolutionized almost every aspect of our daily lives, shaping the way we shop, learn and work. The transformative and unprecedented impact they have made on our lifestyle and the convenience they have offered have increased their ad...
Internet of Things (IoT) seems a viable way to enable the Smart Cities of the future. iNUIT (Internet of Things for Urban Innovation) is a multi-year research program that aims to create an ecosystem that exploits the variety of data coming from mult...
Urban footbridges are critical infrastructure increasingly challenged by vibration issues induced by crowd activity. Real-time monitoring of pedestrian dynamics is essential for evaluating structural safety, ensuring pedestrian comfort, and enabling...
As urbanization accelerates in China, the protection and renewal of historical and cultural districts have become key issues. The Beiyuanmen Historical and Cultural District in Xi’an, with its long history and cultural significance, is a prime...
The absence of a native extracellular matrix and the use of xenogeneic sera are often associated with rapid tenocyte function losses during in vitro culture. Herein, we assessed the influence of different sera (equine serum and foetal bovine serum) o...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and related technologies have played an active role in the prevention and control of novel coronaviruses at home and abroad, especially in epidemic prevention, surveillance, and elimination. However, the existing UAVs h...
With the extensive application of data analysis in various parts of the landscape design process, Building Information Modeling (BIM), City Information Modeling (CIM), and Landscape Information Modeling (LIM) all aim to achieve key data sharing and c...
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