Today the guys behind Fast Society have taken the concept one step further and expanded the original vision behind the app — i.e. the ability to coordinate friends at a rock concert — hooking up with New York's revered CMJ Music Festival as its official mobile partner, definitely experimenting with the app's capability to handle larger scale crowds.
Mosh pits are good places to study crowd dynamics, because they reproduce in miniature the shock waves of large-scale crowd disasters.
While police have been closely studying the lessons of Seattle and preparing large-scale crowd control measures, Kenneth Trujillo, the city solicitor, has emphasized that protest permits are decided on the basis of traffic and safety considerations, not on the politics of the demonstrators.
Since the riots in several English towns and cities over the summer there has been extensive examination of the tools and tactics police use for large-scale crowd trouble.
Meyerbeer's large choral 'tableaux' also made a major contribution to the overall dramatic effect; the composer particularly sought opportunities to write such large-scale crowd scenes, and preferred libretti which offered such possibilities.
In the current approach, we describe a unique paradigm for biological network construction that combines a predictive computational methodology with a large-scale crowd sourcing approach to generate very comprehensive network models describing COPD pathogenesis.
This work can be helpful for the design of multiple exits and the management of large-scale crowds.
The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards announced Thursday morning included lots of love for the kind of large-scale, crowd-pleasing studio fare that, even with the expansion of the best picture category to include as many as 10 nominees, has often been shunned in the Oscar race.
The goal is to establish a platform that will enable research groups to run large scale experiments using crowd sourced data from participating students.
Crucially, the fact that in this project, crowd sourced citizen scientists were only involved in taking the photographs, and not identification, also avoided mistaken identification [1], [6], such that the resultant data were scientifically much more robust than other large scale participation or crowd sourcing projects.
