Abstract At the end of December 2019, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, revealed several cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology. Later, this etiology was called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 disease is rapidly spreading around the globe, affecte...

Quantitative studies of art and aesthetics are representative of interdisciplinary research. In this work, we conducted a large-scale quantitative study of 36,000 paintings covering both Eastern and Western paintings. The information entropy and wavelet entropy of the i...

AbstractIn this work, we analyze in detail the topology of the written language network using co-occurrence of words to recognize authorship. The Latin texts object of this study are excerpts from Historia Augusta, a collection of biographies of Roman emperors extending...

We are interested in the widespread problem of clustering documents and finding topics in large collections of written documents in the presence of metadata and hyperlinks. To tackle the challenge of accounting for these different types of datasets, we propose a novel f...

The article is dedicated to the construction mix technology development and the study intended for the bridgework damaged structures repair. It presents the results of a study of composites made on the concrete and polymer binders basis. It is shown that the main factor...

AbstractOtto Stern’s scientific legacy continues to animate discoveries on a rapidly advancing research frontier.

We study the language of legal codes from different countries and legal traditions, using concepts from physics, algorithmic complexity theory and information theory. We show that vocabulary entropy, which measures the diversity of the author’s choice of words, in combi...

AbstractThis work regards the analysis of a copper-based door (dated 1076 AD) located at the entrance to the sanctuary of Monte Sant’Angelo (Southern Italy) by using a non-destructive technique and in situ chemical analysis. The door does not show serious corrosive phen...

Moving averages and other functional forecasting models are used to inform policy in pandemic response. In this paper, we analyze an infectious disease model in which the contact rate switches betw...

I present a new perspective on the meaning of indistinguishability of classical particles. This leads to a solution to the problem in statistical mechanics of justifying the inclusion of a factor N! in a probability distribution over the phase space of N indistinguishab...