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Why crowding matters in the time of COVID-19 pandemic? - a lesson from the carnival effect on the 2017/2018 influenza epidemic in the Netherlands

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background To evaluate the association between crowding and transmission of viral respiratory infectious diseases, we investigated the change in transmission patterns of influenza and COVID-19 before and after a mass gathering event (i.e., carnival) in ...
LUMC-COVID-19 Research Group   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Exploring Determinants of Consumers’ Platform Usage in “Double Eleven” Shopping Carnival in China: Cognition and Emotion from an Integrated Perspective

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
There is a great deal of interest concerning how e-commerce in China can be developed in sustainable ways. Answering this question requires not only the strategic management at the aggregate level, but also developing a micro framework that can ...
Kai Zhao
exaly   +2 more sources

Carnival against the Capital of Capital

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2020
The medieval carnival, according to Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin, was a public festivity of excess in which people were free to violate social norms and subvert prevailing authority.
John L. Hammond
doaj   +2 more sources

From expression footprints to causal pathways: contextualizing large signaling networks with CARNIVAL

open access: yesNpj Systems Biology and Applications, 2019
While gene expression profiling is commonly used to gain an overview of cellular processes, the identification of upstream processes that drive expression changes remains a challenge.
Anika Liu   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Impact of a large-scale event on SARS-CoV-2 cases and hospitalizations in the Netherlands, carnival seasons 2022 and 2023 [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of understanding facilitators for disease transmission. Events such as Carnival, characterized by large gatherings and extensive social interactions, have the potential to become ‘super ...
Koen M.F. Gorgels   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Early different cognitive processes evoked by carnival vs. general promotions when shopping online: An ERPs study [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2023
IntroductionThe booming development of online shopping has intensified market competition. In addition to general sales promotions, online shopping has introduced new changes including artificial carnival promotions.MethodThis study aims to investigate ...
Wei Han, Xuefeng Zhang
doaj   +2 more sources

The Impact of the Patras Carnival on the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Outbreak of Influenza A: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
Background: We investigated the impact of the indoor mass gathering of young people during the Patras Carnival in Greece on the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the influenza A epidemic.
Christos Sotiropoulos   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Venice Carnival from the Middle Ages to the Twenty- First Century

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2020
As with other carnivals around the world, the history of the Venetian Carnival sheds light on the complex dialectic between festivity and politics and more particularly on the growing need for political authorities to control the urban environment.
Gilles Bertrand
doaj   +2 more sources

PERFORMING BRITISH VIOLENCE IN THE NIGERIAN MIDWEST: ABMED YERIMA’S THE TRIALS OF OBA OVONRAMWEN AND THE “NARRATIVES” OF HISTORY

open access: yesSocial Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal, 2021
Theatre and its appurtenances can project events, problems and issues of society. Its hegemony consists in performances and varied possibilities of expression with great propensity to awaken social consciousness stimulate emotions, and provide certain ...
Affiong Effiom
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Illicit Drug Use Trends During the Carnival Holiday in the Brazilian Capital Through Wastewater Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Analytical Science, 2022
Cocaine and cannabis consumption during and after the 2019 Carnival holiday were assessed using the wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. The substances 11-nor-9-carboxy-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC-COOH), cocaine (COC),
F. Sodré   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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