Month: February 2022
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Epidemic oscillations induced by social network control: the discontinuous case
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Since the early days of control theory, engineers have understood that feedback can give rise to spontaneous and sustained oscillations. Examples abound in engineering systems such as thermostats and steering devices, as well as in natural and biological systems – for example, […]
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The Long Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility
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In the mid-20th century, many developed economies experienced several generations of high prosperity, with children generally earning higher incomes than their parents had at the same age. In economics, this is technically known as increasing absolute intergenerational mobility. For the United States, […]
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Choice history effects in mice and humans improve reward harvesting efficiency
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In foraging for food and other resources, animals have to make repeated choices about where best to search. Experimental studies of such decisions typically work with the simplifying assumption that animals’ past decisions should have no impact on the distribution of actual […]