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Modeling the influence of social networks and environment on energy balance and obesity
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A factorial analysis found that the environment was a key component behind changes in weight but its contribution was mitigated by structural properties of the population, which suggests that particular patterns of social ties at the micro-level are involved in making populations more resilient to change and less influenced by the environment.About:
This article is published in Journal of Computational Science.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 51 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interpersonal ties & Population.read more
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A fuzzy cognitive map of the psychosocial determinants of obesity
TL;DR: This work proposes the first fuzzy cognitive map for the diagnosis of obesity based on psychosocial features and shows that small descriptions of patients' cases can be used for diagnosis.
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Impact of Different Policies on Unhealthy Dietary Behaviors in an Urban Adult Population: An Agent-Based Simulation Model
TL;DR: Interventions emphasizing healthy eating norms may be more effective than directly targeting food prices or regulating local food outlets and agent-based modeling may be a useful tool for testing the population-level effects of various policies within complex systems.
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Fuzzy cognitive maps and cellular automata: An evolutionary approach for social systems modelling
Vijay Mago,Laurens Bakker,Elpiniki I. Papageorgiou,Azadeh Alimadad,Peter Borwein,Vahid Dabbaghian +5 more
TL;DR: This paper explores how two modelling approaches that are 'at home' at opposite ends of the abstraction spectrum can be combined to yield an evolutionary modelling approach that is especially apt for phenomena that cover a wide range in this spectrum.
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A social contagious model of the obesity epidemic.
TL;DR: A novel belief decision model based on the famous Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence is proposed to model obesity epidemic as the competing spread of two obesity-related behaviors: physical inactivity and physical activity.
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Creating groups with similar expected behavioural response in randomized controlled trials: a fuzzy cognitive map approach
TL;DR: A novel computational approach for allocating participants to different groups that automatically uses participants’ experiences to model (the interactions among) their prognostic factors and infer how their behaviour is expected to change under a given intervention.
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Collective dynamics of small-world networks
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Human energy requirements : report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation : Rome, 17-24 October 2001
TL;DR: This publication contains information on the expert consultation which took place in October 2001 in Rome, Italy, organised by the FAO in conjunction with the WHO and the United Nations University, to consider human energy requirements of populations throughout the life cycle and to make dietary energy recommendations.