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Competing contagion processes: Complex contagion triggered by simple contagion [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2018
AbstractEmpirical evidence reveals that contagion processes often occur with competition of simple and complex contagion, meaning that while some agents follow simple contagion, others follow complex contagion. Simple contagion refers to spreading processes induced by a single exposure to a contagious entity while complex contagion demands multiple ...
Min, Byungjoon, San Miguel, Maxi
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Living the death of others: the disruption of death in the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2021
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization classified the COVID-19 emergency as a pandemic, a decision that was taken following the perception that the virus was both lethal and rapidly spreading.
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves
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Contamination without contact: An examination of intention-based contagion [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2016
Contagion refers to the belief that individuals or objects can acquire the essence of a particular source, such as a disgusting product or an immoral person, through physical contact.
Olga Stavrova   +3 more
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Suicide Contagion [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Trauma Reports, 2021
Suicide is a serious healthcare concern worldwide. In the USA, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death prior to 2020 when it was displaced as a result of the death toll from COVID-19.Suicide behavior is the result of the interaction between the individual's predisposing factors and precipitating factors.
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Hearing Someone Laugh and Seeing Someone Yawn: Modality-Specific Contagion of Laughter and Yawning in the Absence of Others

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Laughter and yawning can both occur spontaneously and are highly contagious forms of social behavior. When occurring contagiously, laughter and yawning are usually confounded with a social situation and it is difficult to determine to which degree the ...
Micaela De Weck   +4 more
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How Have Particulate Matter, Weather Conditions and Smoking Contributed to the Transmission and Aggravation of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

open access: yesBrazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2023
One of the most important issues, according to the World Health Organization, to be addressed during the COVID-19 pandemic is understanding the risk factors for the severity of the disease. Some studies show a possible association of SARS-CoV-2 with risk
Eduarda Santa-Helena   +2 more
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Migration–contagion processes

open access: yesAdvances in Applied Probability, 2023
AbstractConsider the following migration process based on a closed network of N queues with $K_N$ customers. Each station is a $\cdot$ /M/ $\infty$ queue with service (or migration) rate $\mu$ . Upon departure, a customer is routed independently and uniformly at random to another station.
Baccelli, François   +2 more
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Interferon-independent processes constrain measles virus cell-to-cell spread in primary human airway epithelial cells

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2023
Amplification of measles virus (MeV) in human airway epithelia may contribute to its extremely high contagious nature. We use well-differentiated primary cultures of human airway epithelial cells (HAE) to model ex vivo how MeV spreads in human airways ...
Lorellin A. Durnell   +5 more
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Modeling the propagation of riots, collective behaviors and epidemics

open access: yesMathematics in Engineering, 2022
This paper is concerned with a family of Reaction-Diffusion systems that we introduced in [15], and that generalizes the SIR type models from epidemiology. Such systems are now also used to describe collective behaviors.
Henri Berestycki   +2 more
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INTERBANK CONTAGIOUS: SISTEMIK MARKET RISK KASUS PADA PERBANKAN INDONESIA 2002-2012

open access: yesJurnal Studi Manajemen Organisasi, 2013
Every bank has their eternal risk, which is maturity mismatch. Those risk caused by bank’s business core. The maturity mismatch can cause the bank failure and also can trigger the contagion effect.
Nicolaus Gerry Christiawan   +1 more
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