Recent advances in high-performance computing have resulted in massive databases of materials properties calculated with techniques such as ab initio density functional theory. In fact, some of the largest of such databases have calculations of nearly all distinct, ordered, experimentally-reported compounds. This thesis discusses the application of data in one...
Innovations are adopted by individuals and spread to other individuals. They are adopted at different rates, some are never adopted at all, some are abandoned, and some become the new norms. A very extensive evidence-based research and practice paradigm that studies how innovations spread is called diffusion of innovations. This...
The linear food chain of high school biology textbooks has been replaced by the food web, the increasingly complex network of trophic interactions in an ecosystem. This complexity, however, masks a number of robust statistical properties. Yet much research to date has concentrated upon predicting and testing the existence of...