Mitigating the charging rush hour.

Great effort is put into making our mobility system more sustainable in order to mitigate climate change. One corner stone of this endeavour is the transition from internal combustion engines to electric engines for private cars. This transition, however, introduces new challenges, especially regarding the demand for electrical energy from renewable sources.

Euclide, the crow, the wolf and the pedestrian: distance metrics for linguistic typology.

It is common for people working on linguistic geography, language contact and typology to make use of some type of distance metric between lects. However, most work so far has either used Euclidean distances, or geodesic distance, both of which do not represent the real separation between communities very accurately. This paper presents two datasets: one on walking distances and one on topographic distances between over 8700 lects across all macro-areas.

Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees.

Geographical confounding in phylogenetic inference models has long been an issue. Often models have great difficulty detecting whether congruences or similarities between languages in phylogenetic datasets stem from common genetic descent or geographical proximity effects such as language contact. In this study, we introduce a distance-based Gaussian process approach with latent phylogenetic distances that can detect potential geographic contact zones and subsequently account for geospatial biases in the resulting tree topologies.

Stochastic modeling of cascade dynamics: A unified approach for simple and complex contagions across homogeneous and heterogeneous threshold distributions on networks.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of understanding, forecasting, and avoiding infectious processes, as well as the necessity for understanding the diffusion and acceptance of preventative measures. Simple contagions, like virus transmission, can spread with a single encounter, while complex contagions, such as preventive social measures (e.g.