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Labour Market and Social Policy in Italy: Challenges and Changes. Bertelsmann Policy Brief #2016/02 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
vEight years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, Italy has still to cope with and overcome a plethora of economic and social challenges. On top of this, it faces an unfavourable demographic structure and severe disparities between its northern ...
A Platzer   +25 more
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Social network and genomic analysis of an OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales hospital ward outbreak in Ireland, 2018–2019

open access: yesInfection Prevention in Practice, 2023
Summary: Background: Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) represent a challenge to healthcare systems. In July 2018, a CPE hospital ward outbreak was declared.
Lisa Domegan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Get the news out loudly and quickly: the influence of the media on limiting emerging infectious disease outbreaks. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
During outbreaks of infectious diseases with high morbidity and mortality, individuals closely follow media reports of the outbreak. Many will attempt to minimize contacts with other individuals in order to protect themselves from infection and possibly ...
Anna Mummert, Howard Weiss
doaj   +1 more source

Conflict and the Social Contract [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We consider social contracts for resolving conflicts between two agents who are uncertain about each other's fighting potential. Applications include international conflict, litigation, and elections.
Bester, Helmut, Wärneryd, Karl
core   +5 more sources

Providing laypeople with results from dynamic infectious disease modelling studies affects their allocation preference for scarce medical resources—a factorial experiment

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Allocation of scarce medical resources can be based on different principles. It has not yet been investigated which allocation schemes are preferred by medical laypeople in a particular situation of medical scarcity like an emerging infectious
Nicole Rübsamen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the COVID-19 Infodemic: Analyzing User-Generated Online Information During a COVID-19 Outbreak in Vietnam [PDF]

open access: yesHealthcare Informatics Research, 2022
Objectives Online misinformation has reached unprecedented levels during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study analyzed the magnitude and sentiment dynamics of misinformation and unverified information about public health ...
Ha-Linh Quach   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Non-lockdown Social Distancing and Testing-Contact Tracing During a COVID-19 Outbreak in Daegu, South Korea, February to April 2020: A Modeling Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objective: In Spring 2020, South Korea applied non-lockdown social distancing (avoiding mass gathering and non-essential social engagement, without restricting the movement of people who were not patients or contacts), testing-and-isolation (testing ...
Yi-Hsuan Chen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How to improve outbreak response: a case study of integrated outbreak analytics from Ebola in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2021
The emerging field of outbreak analytics calls attention to the need for data from multiple sources to inform evidence-based decision making in managing infectious diseases outbreaks.
Mathias Mossoko   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inferring Social Networks from Outbreaks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We consider the problem of inferring the most likely social network given connectivity constraints imposed by observations of outbreaks within the network. Given a set of vertices (or agents) V and constraints (or observations) Si ⊆ V we seek to find a minimum log-likelihood cost (or maximum likelihood) set of edges (or connections) E such that each Si
Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Lev Reyzin
openaire   +1 more source

Detecting rumor outbreaks in online social networks

open access: yesSocial Network Analysis and Mining, 2023
AbstractSocial media platforms are broadly used to exchange information by milliards of people worldwide. Each day people share a lot of their updates and opinions on various types of topics. Moreover, politicians also use it to share their postulates and programs, shops to advertise their products, etc.
openaire   +2 more sources

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