Do people in different states in the U.S. purchase firearms at the same time? This was the question that the new paper by Prof. Maurizio Porfiri, together with Xu Wang […]
Firearm ownership in the U.S. – a spatiotemporal model
Firearm violence is a major public health crisis in the United States. Despite this, scientific research on firearm-related harms is not advanced, as spatially and temporally resolved data on firearm […]
The illustration to our study on the cover of Advanced Theory and Simulations
The recent study conducted by a team of collaborators led by our postdoc Agnieszka Truszkowska and Lorenzo Zino, supervised by Profs. Maurizio Porfiri, Sachit Butail, Emanuele Caroppo, Zhong-Ping Jiang, and […]
What factors drive state firearm law adoption?
Each of the states in the U.S. has its own legislation about firearms. What are the factors that drive the adoption of specific laws in a state? In their new […]
Urban Determinants of COVID-19 Spread: a Study of Three Cities in NY
Spreading of COVID-19 and its effects on the population are remarkably affected by the socio-economic conditions of cities, along with other urban determinants, such as the number of hospitals per […]