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(Medical Xpress) -- Computer models that provide accurate simulations of how crowds behave can be used to identify health and safety issues at MGs, and could be adapted to simulate the spread of infections and to test the potential of public health... 
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By studying how pedestrians behave in crowds, European scientists are learning surprising things about human behavior. Westerners, for example, will usually step to the right to avoid an oncoming pedestrian. Individuals in Asia, however, tend to step to the left. Another tendency scientists have noticed is that clusters of three and four people naturally organize themselves into concave 'V' and 'U' shapes, with middle members falling back slightly. The formation makes it easier for individuals to talk with each other.
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Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say.
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Want to get out of a burning building but can't see an exit? Don't follow the crowd, say complexity scientists who have modeled the behavior of mass evacuations.
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It’s not your father’s galaxy.With breathtaking speed, astronomers are rewriting our understanding of the universe in which we live.
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IMAGINE that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other’s way. Which way do you step? The answer is almost certainly to the right. Replay the same scene in many parts of Asia, however, and you would probably move to the left. It is not obvious why. There is no instruction to head in a specific direction (South Korea, where there is a campaign to get people to walk on the right, is an exception). There is no simple correlation with the side of the road on which people drive: Londoners funnel to the right on pavements, for example.
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The Director of UTS's Australian Centre for Event Management Rob Harris and Senior Research Fellow Dr.
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