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Desirable Properties of Universal Formulas for Percolation Thresholds

Percolation models are infinite random graph models which exhibit phase transition behavior at critical values called percolation thresholds. Several so-called ”universal formulas” that predict approximate values for percolation thresholds of all periodic graphs have been proposed in the physics and engineering literature. The existing universal formulas have been found to have substantial erro...

Radically Questioning the Principle of the Least Restrictive Alternative: A Reply to Nir Eyal; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

In his insightful editorial, Nir Eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. One upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. In this commentary, I maintain that Eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and I sketch ...

Ja n 20 05 Possible crossover of a non universal quantity at the upper critical dimension

We report on a possible crossover of a non universal quantity at the upper critical dimensionality in the field of percolation. Plotting recent estimates for site percolation thresholds of hypercubes in dimension 6 ≤ d ≤ 13 against corresponding predictions from the GM formula pc = p0[(d − 1)(q − 1)] d for percolation thresholds, a significant departure of pc is observed for d ≥ 6. This result ...

Comment to the Letter to the Editor: Subjective Symptoms Related to GSM Radiation from Mobile Phone Base Stations: a cross-sectional study In reply to the comments by Seyed Mohammad Javad Mortazavi

Comment on "Percolation transitions are not always sharpened by making networks interdependent".

A Comment on the Letter by S. W. Son, P. Grassberger, and M. Paczuski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 195702 (2011). The authors of the Letter offer a Reply.