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P2P Lending Risk Contagion Analysis Based on a Complex Network Model
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2016 This paper analyzes two major channels of P2P lending risk contagion in China—direct risk contagion between platforms and indirect risk contagion with other financial organizations as the contagion medium.
Qi Wei, Qiang Zhang
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Complex contagion leads to complex dynamics in models coupling behaviour and disease
Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018 Models coupling behaviour and disease as two unique but interacting contagions have existed since the mid 2000s. In these coupled contagion models, behaviour is typically treated as a ‘simple contagion’. However, the means of behaviour spread may in fact
Matthew Osborne +2 more
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Microbiology 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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Suicide contagion: a systematic review of definitions and research utility.
PLoS ONE, 2014 ObjectivesDespite the common use of contagion to analogize the spread of suicide, there is a lack of rigorous assessment of the underlying concept or theory supporting the use of this term.
Qijin Cheng +3 more
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 1997 Este artigo situa os diferentes discursos que buscaram explicar as epidemias através da constituição de noções, conceitos e teorias. Procura assinalar suas condições de aparecimento a transformação, articulando-as ao conhecimento vigente em cada época ...
Dina Czeresnia
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Brazilian 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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Judgment and Decision Making, 2008 This is a first study on attachment to national and sacred land and land as a protected value. A measure of attachment to the land of Israel is developed and administered to two groups, Jewish college students in Israel and the United States.
Paul Rozin, Sharon Wolf
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Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China
Frontiers in Social PsychologyThree studies explored how TikTok, a China-owned social media platform, may be manipulated to conceal content critical of China while amplifying narratives that align with Chinese Communist Party objectives.
Danit Finkelstein +7 more
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Modeling the propagation of riots, collective behaviors and epidemics
Mathematics 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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Foreign funding of U.S. higher education relates to sanctioning of scholars and antisemitism
Frontiers in Social PsychologyWe examined relations between foreign funding of U.S. colleges and universities and campus political developments. Seven studies investigated associations between foreign funding and campus liberal democratic norms, specifically, deterioration of free ...
Michael Bass +12 more
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