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MIT study: people globally follow a “visitation law”; inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits

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A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. —Paolo Santi, a research scientist at the Senseable City Lab at MIT and co-author.

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Video Friday: Spot Levels Up

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And we are proud that we have succeeded.” [ VUB ] Based in Italy, Comau is a leading robot manufacturer and global systems integrator. Wing ] MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world.

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Team shows crowdsourced data from smartphones in cars can help monitor structural integrity of bridges

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Researchers from the Senseable City Laboratory at MIT report that crowdsourced data from the smartphones of vehicle passengers crossing bridges may help monitor bridge structural integrity. The researchers also successfully applied the method to partially-controlled crowdsourced data collected on a short-span highway bridge in Italy.