Knowledge Lab

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is primarily transmitted through in-person interactions, and so its growth in urban space is a complex function of human mobility behaviors that cann [...]

This thesis examines the concept of happiness in America through a multidisciplinary lens, integrating insights from psychology, sociology, political science, and computa [...]

Understanding and predicting the emergence and evolution of cultural tastes manifested in consumption patterns is of central interest to social scientists, analysts of cu [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated social distancing at every level of society, including universities and research institutes, raising essential questions concerning the [...]

Changing relationships between government and the higher education system have created a wide range of new tasks within universities. Many have been adopted by an emergin [...]

Pharmacovigilance databases contain larger numbers of adverse drug events (ADEs) that occurred in women compared to men. The cause of this disparity is frequently attribu [...]

Machine reading (MR) is essential for unlocking valuable knowledge contained in millions of existing biomedical documents. Over the last two decades, the most dramatic ad [...]

Information lattice learning (ILL) is a novel framework for knowledge discovery based on group-theoretic and information-theoretic foundations, which can rediscover the r [...]

The knowledge economy is a complex and dynamical system, where knowledge and skills are discovered through research, diffused via education, and deployed by industry. Dyn [...]

We investigate the degree to which impact in science and technology is associated with surprising breakthroughs, and how those breakthroughs arise. Identifying breakthrou [...]

With teams growing in all areas of scientific and scholarly research, we explore the relationship between team structure and the character of knowledge they produce. Draw [...]

In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quantity of scientists, resea [...]

Although citations are widely used to measure the influence of scientific works, research shows that many citations serve rhetorical functions and reflect little-to-no in [...]