Memory-endowed US cities and their demographic interactions

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 102, 2014, Pages

  Hernando, A ^a   Hernando, R ^b   Plastino, A ^c,d   Zambrano, E ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Social Thermodynamics Applied Research (SThAR)   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Social dynamics; Space time correlations; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHIC DYNAMICS; ECONOMIC CRISIS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SPACE CORRELATION; SPACE-TIME CORRELATION; STOCK MARKET CRASHES; SUSTAINABLE GROWTH;

URBAN GROWTH;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WAR; GEOGRAPHY; MARKOV CHAIN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84989187434     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.1185     Document Type: Article

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