Corruptive behaviour in politics limits economic growth, embezzles public funds, and promotes socio-economic inequality in modern democracies. We analyse well-documented […]

The search for patterns in time series is a very common task when dealing with complex systems. This is usually […]

Statistical similarities between earthquakes and other systems that emit cracking noises have been explored in diverse contexts, ranging from materials […]

We report on a large-scale characterization of river discharges by employing the network framework of the horizontal visibility graph. By […]

We report on the existing connection between power-law distributions and allometries. As it was first reported in Gomez-Lievano et al. […]

Understanding the mechanisms and processes underlying the dynamics of collective violence is of considerable current interest. Recent studies indicated the […]

We report on a statistical analysis of the lightning activity rates in all Brazilian cities. We find out that the […]

We report on a statistical analysis of the engagement in the electoral processes of all Brazilian cities by considering the […]

We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides, population size and ten other urban metrics. […]

We report on the dynamical behavior of defects of strength s = ±1/2 in a lyotropic liquid crystal during the […]