Power law signature of media exposure in human response waiting time distributions
We study the humanitarian response to the destruction brought by the tsunami generated by the Sumatra earthquake of December 26, 2004, as measured by donations, and find that it decays in time as a power law ∼1/tα with α=2.5±0.1. This behavior is suggested to be the rare outcome of a priority queuin...
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American Physical Society
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58603 |