In this article, we show that the block size distribution function in the weighted planar stochastic lattice (WPSL), which is a multifractal and whose dual is a scale-free network, exhibits dynamic scaling. We verify it numerically using the idea of data-collapse. As the WPSL is a space-filling cellular structure, we thought it was worth checking if the Lewis and the Aboav-Weaire laws are obeyed in the WPSL. To this end, we find that the mean area < A > k of blocks with k neighbours grow linearly up to k = 8, and hence the Lewis law is obeyed. However, beyond k > 8 we find that < A > k grows exponentially to a constant value violating the Lewis law. On the other hand, we show that the Aboav-Weaire law is violated for the entire range of k. Instead, we find that the mean number of neighbours of a block adjacent to a block with k neighbours is approximately equal to six, independent of k.
The literature on climate change research has evolved tremendously since the 1990s. The goal of this study is to use text mining to review the climate change literature and study the evolution of the main trends over time. Specific keywords from articles published in the special issue “ Industrial Ecology for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience” in the Journal of Industrial Ecology are first selected. Details of over 35,000 publications containing these keywords are downloaded from the Web of Science from 1990 to 2018. The number of publications and co‐occurrence of keywords are analyzed. Moreover, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA)—a probabilistic approach that can retrieve topics from large and unstructured text documents—is applied on the abstracts to uncover the main topics (consisting of new terms) that naturally emerge from them. The evolution in time of the importance of some emerging topics is then analyzed on the basis of their relative frequency. Overall, a rapid growth in climate change publications is observed. Terms such as “climate change adaptation” appear on the rise, whereas other terms are declining such as “pollution.” Moreover, several terms tend to co‐occur frequently, such as “climate change adaptation” and “resilience.” The database collected and the LiTCoF (Literature Topic Co‐occurrence and Frequency) Python‐based tool developed for this study are also made openly accessible. This article met the requirements for a gold – gold JIE data openness badge described http://jie.click/badges.
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