But it's also the quickest way to spread cures, positive contagions.
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PANDEMIC: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, by Sonia Shah.
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One of the things about social contagions is that we sometimes never know, right?
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Government funding fights are one of the most virulent contagions in the legislative experience.
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PANDEMIC Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond By Sonia Shah 271 pp.
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How did we prevent one of the deadliest contagions in the world from killing a single American?
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Masks used by all medical professionals to protect themselves from contagions were blocked from export by China.
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In today's economic landscape, the contagions that are infecting investors globally are negative rates and low bond yields.
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All three had to stay in quarantine for 21 days in case they'd brought home any lunar contagions.
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This living arrangement facilitated the spread of zoonotic diseases, contagions transferred from animals to humans, such as COVID-19.
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Travel-related illnesses may be an Australian obsession: foreign contagions brought into the country can spread like, well, rabbits.
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Because scientists weren't sure what kind of "lunar contagions" the astronauts might have brought back, the three were quarantined for 21 days.
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His aim, along with a scientific team, is to create a single pill that could treat the new coronavirus and future contagions.
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They were picked up by a helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet and placed in quarantine, to guard against alien contagions.
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Some funds will also target programs overseas, which in an era of rapidly spreading contagions is fundamental to preventing epidemics on our shores.
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But having a conservative, domestically focused, highly concentrated banking system meant that Australia wasn't stuck importing other countries' financial contagions when crises hit.
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There could have been seven or eight or more social contagions at play that led some of these vulnerable kids to do this. Examples?
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But that's what makes it so easy for us to catch so many emotional contagions, so many of them are programmed into us already.
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After the three astronauts returned to Earth, they were quarantined for 21 days to make sure they did not bring home any lunar contagions.
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JON PARELES Rage spews every which way in "Governed by Contagions," the first song in 16 years from the reunited At The Drive-In.
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When contagions like Zika disproportionately affect pregnant women, excluding moms-to-be may end up harming them and their babies more than it helps.
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There are these bunk beds someone made themselves and they have these mattresses that you just know are infested with scabies and other skin contagions.
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Now take this on a macro level and we can actually show that social contagions can influence political revolutions, or gun violence, or products we buy.
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Ironically, this could lead to an increased vulnerability for the segment of the population most likely to be exposed to coronavirus and other contagions: medical professionals.
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That drop is now right in line with the average at this stage of the eight postwar contagions, which go back to the Asian flu of 1957.
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Additionally, with attacks spreading like contagions, having incoming reports helps law enforcement track them and could serve as an early warning system to caution others to take steps.
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Public health and public cooperation are essential in the fight against all contagions, which have killed more than 6900 million people in the world so far in 2628.
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Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies are looking for ways to mitigate the risk in crowded lockups that have often been susceptible to contagions because of inmates' proximity to one another.
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Italians remain essentially under house arrest as the nation, the European front in the global fight against the coronavirus, has ordered extraordinary restrictions on their movement to prevent contagions.
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Over the decades, in missions overseas, she had dealt with every imaginable crisis, from security lock-downs in violent conflict zones, to battling one of the world's deadliest contagions.
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Recent global contagions going back to the SARS virus in 2003 have seen a sharp slowdown lasting about a quarter, followed by a sharp recovery over the next quarter.
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Should U.S. coronavirus cases spike, demand would probably increase drastically, forcing low-wage employees — even those who may feel sick — to report to work, subjecting them and others to contagions.
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"If there are broad contagions in financial markets, and if it leads to greater questions about the stability of the European Union, then it would have more severe consequences," he said.
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Part of the reason that people have been wearing more masks in China and Hong Kong during this outbreak has to do with their recent memories of some other deadly contagions.
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And, on Wednesday, he began his event in Nevada by saying, "Crazy time we live in, you know, when people think there's something unusual about getting the flu"—a confusion of contagions.
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Contagions from financial market volatility abroad, as well as European economies on the decline, will leave the European Central Bank with fewer and fewer options to do whatever it takes to calm the markets.
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David Brooks Anybody who spends time in the working-class parts of America (and, one presumes, Britain) notices the contagions of drug addiction and suicide, and the feelings of anomie, cynicism, pessimism and resentment.
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Maybe the less interferon gamma there is, for instance, the more our brains compensate by subtly nudging us away from other people (who might be carrying all kinds of contagions)—a cognitive immune system of sorts.
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So, comparing the traffic volume and comparing the severity of contagions, it's actually worse than a hospital because we have international travelers from all over the world, and they may be carriers of all sort of things.
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A generation which had to rebuild their country from the ashes of 30 years of conflict, and just recently won the battle against one of the world's most deadly contagions, was going to closely guard their future.
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" Cholera is the spine that runs through her tour of global contagions, and I hoped Shah would deliver the historical, biological, political and social perspectives on the disease that she brilliantly exhibited in her book on malaria, "The Fever.
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In her introduction to "Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond," Sonia Shah, a science writer whose previous books include "The Fever" and "The Body Hunters," does not seek shelter in euphemisms or shy away from scary numbers.
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Professor Jackson manages not only to present a lot of complex research engagingly but to show how the key concepts of network theory relate to a wide range of contemporary issues, from financial contagions to the spread of fake news.
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For instance, the long trains of early 1800s neoclassical-style dresses, with high waists and diaphanous fabric that were not dissimilar from nightgowns worn by the dying, were later shortened when it was thought they might drag in these contagions from the street.
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Dr. Christopher Harrisonn, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at the Children's Mercy hospital in Kansas City, told VICE that because coronavirus spreads easily through infected saliva and the contagions can last for a long time on some surfaces, sporting events could quickly become a hotspot.
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China's communist leaders know that freedom, democracy and the rule of law are political contagions that could infect the vast Chinese population — Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong, Christians aspire to the same "unalienable rights" that the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan are determined to preserve for themselves.
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Kildee, whose district encompasses the town of Flint that has long suffered from deadly contagions in its drinking water supply, said he was not among the congressmen invited to the summit, and expressed his frustration that his staff members were only allowed to attend parts of the event.
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"We are in the acute phase of the crisis, which means everyday there are reports of new contagions, new countries reporting cases... so the market will react to that and continue to adjust itself in a bearish direction," said Cristian Maggio, head of emerging markets strategy at TD Securities in London.
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In her article for us this week, she goes over cleanup for a number of childhood contagions that are easily spread in your home, so that they're less likely to infect your whole family if one kid gets sick: lice; pinkeye; hand, foot and mouth disease; and the most horrifying childhood plague of all — pinworm.
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That hundreds of emergency room physicians and medical school professors well-versed in the risk of contagions were willing to gather in large numbers as recently as last week reflects just how quickly behaviors and attitudes in the US have shifted as the country struggles to catch up with an outbreak that has spread far faster and wider than American health officials have been able to measure.
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Until last week, Wall Street was unusually blasé about the coronavirus too, and had reacted with far less alarm than it did during any of the eight global contagions since World War II. Not only had market players been lulled into complacency by easy money and the long calm of the bull market, but they also began this year in a state of unbridled optimism.
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Photo by Júnn We heard the first new music in 17 years from the sort-of reunited At the Drive-In (last we heard, former guitarist/vocalist Jim Ward was releasing solo acoustic EPs, seeing as how members of his band Sparta are now back in ATDI) in December, and while "Governed by Contagions" was an alright appetizer, today's new single "Incurably Innocent" washes away its taste thoroughly.
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Some commentators have likened the transmission of memes to the spread of contagions.; "The term 'contagion' is often associated with memetics. We may say that certain memes are contagious, or more contagious than others." Social contagions such as fads, hysteria, copycat crime, and copycat suicide exemplify memes seen as the contagious imitation of ideas.
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Centola is best known for his work on complex contagions, collective intelligence, and experimental sociology. Complex contagions was the topic of his Ph.D. dissertation in Sociology, supervised by Michael Macy at Cornell University. After completing his doctorate degree at Cornell, Damon spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Policy at Harvard University. He then joined the faculty of the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 2008.
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By spring of 1843 David Leslie had returned from Hawaii to the mission. However, by this time the mission was beginning to be closed in Salem for a lack of natives to convert due to disease that had decimated the original inhabitantsMcGregor, Michael. The Oregon History Project: Spreading Old World Contagions Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved on March 9, 2008.
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The individual needs to be in contact with two or more sources exhibiting the novel behaviour. This is when copying behaviours needs reinforcement or encouragement from multiple sources. Multiple sources, especially close friends, can make imitation legitimate, credible and worthwhile due to collective effort put in. Examples of complex contagions can be copying risky behaviour or joining social movements and riots.
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Collected Works, v. 3. New York. Lenin said that "every religious idea and every idea of God is unutterable vileness ... of the most dangerous kind, 'contagion' of the most abominable kind. Millions of sins, filthy deeds, acts of violence and physical contagions ... are far less dangerous than the subtle, spiritual idea of God decked out in the smartest ideological costumes ..."Martin Amis(2003).
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It has been alleged that Abano also wrote a grimoire called the Heptameron, a concise book of ritual magical rites concerned with conjuring specific angels for the seven days of the week (hence the title). It should not be confused with the Heptaméron of Marguerite of Navarre. He is also credited with writing De venenis eorumque remediis, which expounded on Arab theories concerning superstitions, poisons and contagions.
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By the time Wyeth established his outpost, the island was void of any human habitation due to epidemics of infectious diseases that had swept through the lower Columbia region. As the Natives did not have any immunity to the new Eurasian diseases, nearly 90% of them died from smallpox, measles and other illnesses following European contact.Oregon History Project: Spreading Old World Contagions. Oregon Historical Society.
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Health professionals recommend the use of disposable towels to minimise the risk of contamination and the spread of harmful contagions. Through the use of one-time disposable towels, we are able to minimise the unpleasant repercussions of reusing old and unsanitary towels.The advantages disposable towels presents are manifold and are applicable to a wide range of setting from medical to domestic and cosmetic uses.
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First responders must be trained to deal with a wide array of potential medical emergencies. Due to the high level of stress and uncertainty associated with the position, first responders must maintain physical and mental health.Gina Hagler, Careers as a First Responder (2012), p. 59. Even with such preparation, first responders face unique risks of being the first people to aid those with unknown contagions.
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His texts have been translated into Hungarian, French, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese and Indonesian. He has published five single authored books; in Finnish on media theory in the age of cybernetics (Koneoppi. Ihmisen, teknologian ja median kytkennät, (2004)) and in English, Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007), the award-winning Insect Media (2010), What is Media Archaeology? (2012) and A Geology of Media (2015).
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Suicide contagion can be viewed within the larger context of behavioral contagion, which has been described as a situation in which the same behavior spreads quickly and spontaneously through a group (Gould, Jamieson, & Romer, 2003). Persons most susceptible to suicide contagions are those under 25 years of age. A recent study by Dunlop et al. specifically examined possible contagion effects on suicidal behavior via the Internet and social media.
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Therefore, a better domestic financial regulation structure can improve an economy's liquidity and limit its exposure to contagion. A better understanding of financial contagion between financial intermediaries, including banking, rating agencies and hedge funds will be conducive to making financial reform in both U.S. and European Countries. For example, financial reformers study how to set up the capital ratio to balance maximizing banks' profit and shielding banks from shocks and contagions.
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During, and in the aftermath of, World War I, Wells led two Red Cross commissions to Romania, which was fighting famine as well as epidemics of typhoid, typhus, and other contagions. The first commission, in 1917, involved crossing through Russia during the Russian Revolution to reach Romania. The following year, Wells returned with a second commission, arriving after the armistice. During this second commission, Wells was the liaison with Herbert Hoover's United States Food Administration.
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As an alternative, Hoskins and Tulloch cite Sampson's discussion on herd instinct and his use of Tarde's figure of the somnambulist (the sleepwalker) to alternatively describe human users of media systems as mostly docile. Others have used and adapted Sampson's Virality thesis and work on spam cultures to support discussions on contagions of student protests, new media idiocy, alcohol and drug use, online emotion, viral memorials, Kony 2012, the politics of the selfie, "Je suis Charlie" and so on.
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Partly this is due to the academic contagions of the foreign university like not integrating contrastive rhetoric aspect, low-support for adaptation like providing opportunities to better their English in a non-competitive and meaningful way. Most foreign students encounter difficulties in language use. Such issues make it difficult for the student to make domestic friends and gain familiarity with the local culture. Sometimes, these language barriers can subject international students to ignorance or disrespect from native speakers.
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Since the second week of March all programs are filmed without audiences.La tele se queda a medio gas por el coronavirus: sin público ni tertulianos en directo in elespanol.com (in Spanish) The 11th season of music competition show Operación Triunfo went on hiatus as a precautionary measure over the ongoing pandemic. Comedy programs Late Motiv, El intermedio and El Hormiguero have decided to make low cost programs involving fewer people and with heavy use of videoconferences to avoid contagions.
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When building their colony, the ants structure it so as to inhibit the transmission of different contagions. Different communities within the colony are segregated by a limited number of connective nodes, allowing for greater protection of vulnerable hive members, such as larvae and pupae, and the queen. Additionally, individual infected ants have been observed as spending more time foraging outside of the hive, venturing farther than other ants, and limiting their interactions once within the hive again.
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Infection-related deaths fell noticeably as a result. As the British Empire expanded, Britons found themselves facing novel climates and contagions; there was active research into tropical diseases. In 1898, Ronald Ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for spreading malaria. Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it was not until 1846 when an American dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.
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The villagers complained of the new deaths to oberstleutnant Schnezzer, the Austrian military commander in charge of the administration. The latter, fearing an epidemic of pestilence, sent for Imperial Contagions-Medicus (roughly, Infectious Disease Specialist) Glaser stationed in the nearby town of Paraćin. On 12 December 1731, Glaser examined the villagers and their houses. He failed to find any signs of a contagious malady and blamed the deaths on the malnutrition common in the region as well as the unhealthy effects of the severe Eastern Orthodox fasting.
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The Natives generally welcomed the arrival of Europeans in the 19th century, for the increased trading opportunities; however, the introduction of foreign diseases would prove devastating to local populations.Robbins, William G. (2002; revised and updated 2014). "Native Cultures and the Coming of Other People: Old World Contagions" The Oregon History Project. Later, American initiatives to capture the natural resources of the west, especially along the Columbia River, would collide with the interests of natives; many tribes accepted multimillion- dollar settlements from the U.S. government in exchange for giving up traditional fishing sites, moving to reservations.
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People are naturally concerned with water reuse, and the concept of contagions in the water is difficult to overcome. Water after just one use has long been considered waste, but, as water resources decline in the face of increasing populations, this mindset will need to be changed, because water reuse will continue to be implemented on a greater scale. Education will be an important factor in addressing these social challenges. In fact, the City of San Diego Water Purification Demonstration Project spent nearly half of its budget on public outreach and education in 2005.
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As Ruddy et al. note in their scholarly article, Russia's recent penal reforms will greatly reduce the number of inmates inside prison facilities and thus increase the number of ex-convicts integrated into civilian populations. Because the incidence of MDR-TB is strongly predicted by past imprisonment, the health of Russian society will be greatly impacted by this change. Formerly incarcerated Russians will re-enter civilian life and remain within that sphere; as they live as civilians, they will infect others with the contagions they were exposed to in prison.
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Network culture enables the audience to create and spread viral content. "Audiences play an active role in "spreading" content rather than serving as passive carriers of viral media: their choices, investments, agendas, and actions determine what gets valued." Various authors have pointed to the intensification in connectivity brought about by network technologies as a possible trigger for increased chances of infection from wide-ranging social, cultural, political, and economic contagions. For example, the social scientist Jan van Dijk warns of new vulnerabilities that arise when network society encounters "too much connectivity".
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The development of sophisticated financial products, such as credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, has complicated the financial regulation. As has been shown by the U.S. financial recession, the trigger of failure of Lehman Brothers dramatically spread the shock to the whole financial system and other financial markets. Therefore, understanding the reasons and mechanisms of international financial contagion can help policy makers improve the global financial regulation system and thus make it more resistant to shocks and contagions. At domestic level, financial fragility is always associated with a short maturity of outstanding debt as well as contingent public liabilities.
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In concrete, in order to avoid more contagions, on February 25 the health authorities put a hotel in Tenerife under quarantine with around 1,000 people inside. The first mainland Spain case was recorded in Barcelona that day. Likewise, that day, the minister convene an extraordinary meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (the standing coordination organ between the regional and the national health authorities) for February 25, the second since he assumed the office. On March 3, 2020, the health authorities announced that a post-mortem test proved that the first coronavirus death in Spain occurred on February 13, 2020.
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As announced on October 2 by the Minister of Health, the phases of Intelligent Quarantine in the country are finalized, to advance to a kind of new normal known as the "covid way of living", due to the plateau reached in the contagions. Eventually, specific exceptions could be raised by zones or by a particular economic sector, if the circumstances require it, as stated by the same. From October 5, interdepartmental circulation will be allowed without restrictions, and free circulation every day between 05:00 am and 00:00 am. The operation of hotels, and social and cultural events is allowed, with a restriction of up to 50 people, among others.
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In the 2011 article "the Behavioral Immune System", the authors discuss how avoidance behaviors can also be triggered when an individual witnesses another individual violating social norms, hence a general trend toward ethnocentrism and wariness of foreigners. Especially during times of known pathogenic outbreak, this can be so extreme as to manifest itself in the form of xenophobia. Wu and Chang's 2011 study elucidated trends toward conformity that they believe may have evolved as a protective dynamic against the introduction of contagions. Although research in this area is still very new, it provides a logical and cogent connection between particulars of human sociality and disease transmission.
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Monitoring of bioresilience, beginning in the Everest ecosystem but expanding to other mountain ecologies globally is being carried out by the Biomeridian Project at Future Generations University. The concept of bioresilience has also been applied to human health to explain aging or chronic diseases decrease the ability of the body to adapt; in such cases, the system becomes rigid and unable to cross different life demands. As the human body loses robustness with age, an individual becomes unable to accommodate new life demands, be they contagions, stress, or events such as injury or even jet lag. The importance of resilience in biological systems has been widely recognized in terms of the impacts on life by anthropogenic changes.
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Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus phenomenon. The book maps the anomalies of network culture from the angles of security concerns, the biopolitics of digital systems, and the aspirations for artificial life in software. The genealogy of network culture is approached from the standpoint of accidents that are endemic to the digital media ecology. Viruses, worms, and other software objects are not, then, seen merely from the perspective of anti-virus research or practical security concerns, but as cultural and historical expressions that traverse a non- linear field from fiction to technical media, from net art to politics of software.
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Use of the term "HIV exceptionalism" implies that AIDS is a contagious disease that is or should be treated differently from other contagions or entails benefits not available to those suffering from other diseases. Genetic exceptionalism is a policy program that medicalizes genetic information. Like the exceptionalism surrounding HIV testing, genetic exceptionalism is based on the belief that the average person needs a licensed health professional for guidance and support through the discovery of information with health implications, even if this information is common knowledge, such as that the person has red hair, which is associated with a higher risk of sunburns and skin cancer. In countries with strong genetic exceptionalism laws, permission from a physician is necessary to obtain information about one's genes.
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The bafflement, outrage, and helplessness associated with the lack of information, combined with new media such as blogs, allow conspiracy theorists like Krumwiede to spread disinformation and fear, which become dangerous contagions themselves. Dr. Cheever must balance the need for full disclosure but avoid a panic and allow the time to characterize and respond to an unknown virus. The movie indirectly critiques the greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy of isolated acts in contemporary culture and the unintended consequences they can have in the context of a pandemic. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends social distancing by forcibly isolating the healthy to limit the spread of the disease, which stands in stark opposition to contemporary demands for social networking.
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