Configuring Contagion
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Configuring Contagion
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Author : Lotte Meinert
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Configuring Contagion written by Lotte Meinert and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with Social Science categories.
Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the concept of biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about epidemics and their contagious potential for specific infections and non-infectious conditions. Together they explore how inseparable social and biological processes configure co-existing influences, which create epidemics, and in doing so stress the role of social inequality in these processes. The authors compellingly show that epidemics do not spread evenly in populations or through simple coincidental biological contagion: they are biosocially structured and selective, and happen under specific economic, political and environmental conditions. This volume illustrates that an understanding of biosocial factors is vital for ensuring effective strategies for the containment of epidemics.
The Rules Of Contagion
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Author : Adam Kucharski
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2020-02-13
The Rules Of Contagion written by Adam Kucharski and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Medical categories.
An Observer Book of the Year A Times Science Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Science Book of the Year 'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed. To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or bring down a financial system to the social dynamics that make loneliness catch on, The Rules of Contagion offers compelling insights into human behaviour and explains how we can get better at predicting what happens next. Along the way, Adam Kucharski explores how innovations spread through friendship networks, what links computer viruses with folk stories - and why the most useful predictions aren't necessarily the ones that come true. Now revised and updated with content on Covid-19.
Learning Landscape Ecology
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Author : Sarah E. Gergel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-03-30
Learning Landscape Ecology written by Sarah E. Gergel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-30 with Science categories.
This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address challenges over large areas, over spatial and temporal scales at which decision-making often occurs. As the world tackles issues related to sustainability and global change, the need for this broad perspective has only increased. Furthermore, spatial data and spatial analysis (core methods in landscape ecology) are critical for analyzing land-cover changes world-wide. While spatial dynamics have long been fundamental to terrestrial conservation strategies, land management and reserve design, mapping and spatial themes are increasingly recognized as important for ecosystem management in aquatic, coastal and marine systems. This second edition is purposefully more applied and international in its examples, approaches, perspectives and contributors. It includes new advances in quantifying landscape structure and connectivity (such as graph theory), as well as labs that incorporate the latest scientific understanding of ecosystem services, resilience, social-ecological landscapes, and even seascapes. Of course, as before, the exercises emphasize easy-to-use, widely available software. http://sarahgergel.net/lel/learning-landscape-ecology/
Contagionism And Contagious Diseases
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Author : Thomas Rütten
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-11-27
Contagionism And Contagious Diseases written by Thomas Rütten and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-27 with Medical categories.
The idea of contagious transmission, either by material particles or by infectious ideas, has played a powerful role in the development of the Western World since antiquity. Yet it acquired quite a precise signature during the process of scientific and cultural differentiation in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume explores the significance and cultural functions of contagionism in this period, from notions of infectious homosexuality and the concept of social contagion to the political implications of bacteriological fieldwork. The history of the concept ‘microbe’ in aesthetic modernism is adressed as well as bacteriological metaphors in American literary historiography. Within this broad framework, contagionism as a literary narrative is approached in more focussed contributions: from its emotional impact in literary modernism to the idea of physical or psychic contagion in authors such as H.G. Wells, Kurt Lasswitz, Gustav Meyrinck, Ernst Weiss, Thomas Mann and Max Frisch. This twofold approach of general topics and individual literary case studies produces a deeper understanding of the symbolic implications of contagionism marking the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure.
Interpersonal Communication
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Author : Charles R. Berger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-07-28
Interpersonal Communication written by Charles R. Berger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Interpersonal communication has been studied in terms of both communication functions and specialized contexts. This handbook comprehensively covers the field including research on processes of social influence, the role of communication in the development, maintenance and decline of close personal relationships, nonverbal communication, cognitive approaches, communication and conflict, bargaining and negotiation, health communication, organizational socialization and supervisor-subordinate communication, social networks, and technologically-mediated interpersonal communication. Two chapters are dedicated to research methods in the field. The handbook includes chapters by widely recognized and respected scholars in the field.
The Systemic Impact Of Debt Default In A Multilayered Global Network Model
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Author : Mr. Nathan Porter
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2022-09-02
The Systemic Impact Of Debt Default In A Multilayered Global Network Model written by Mr. Nathan Porter and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with Business & Economics categories.
The world has become more interconnected over the past few decades. Against this backdrop, economic and financial contagion following adverse shocks can have a severe impact on the global economy. How systemic can the effects of contagion be? What specific transmission channels are involved? What is their relative importance? We address these questions using a multilayered global network model of contagion that simulates the impact of sovereign debt default on the global economy. We also develop a measure of global systemic risk and use bank stress testing techniques to quantify the systemic impact of the shock and the extent of contagion on the global economy. Our model shows that economic and financial contagion are highly non-linear, and many bystander economies can experience significant negative effects as the initial default is spread through the network. This suggests that many economies might be systemically more important than what conventional measures of size or openness might suggest.
General Technical Report Pnw Gtr
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
General Technical Report Pnw Gtr written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Forests and forestry categories.
Fragstats
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Author : Kevin McGarigal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Fragstats written by Kevin McGarigal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with FRAGSTATS. categories.
The Configuration Of The Spanish Public Sphere
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Author : David Jiménez Torres
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-06-06
The Configuration Of The Spanish Public Sphere written by David Jiménez Torres and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-06 with History categories.
Since the explosion of the indignados movement beginning in 2011, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the “public sphere” in a Spanish context: how it relates to society and to political power, and how it has evolved over the centuries. The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere brings together contributions from leading scholars in Hispanic studies, across a wide range of disciplines, to investigate various aspects of these processes, offering a long-term, panoramic view that touches on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.
Marriage Matters
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Author : Lotte Meinert
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2025-07-21
Marriage Matters written by Lotte Meinert and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-21 with Social Science categories.
Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society. What does it mean to be married or not married in contemporary Uganda? Marriage Matters engages with new and classic anthropological theory, gender studies, marriage, relatedness and temporality. Through rich empirical cases, the book examines how partnership, kinship, child filiation and friendship are changing in Uganda, as are ideas about love and commitment, and in doing so contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on marriage and partnership structures in anthropology and beyond. This volume presents collaborative ethnographies that brings together the voices of scholars from Uganda and Europe to discuss how Ugandan realities are changing and how anthropology has changed as well. Geographically, the volume covers Northern Uganda, affected by long years of civil conflict, and relatively peaceful Eastern Uganda that nevertheless shares many similar social and economic conditions with Northern Uganda. These two different contexts provide a special opportunity to consider the dynamics between marriage, violence, love, commitment, economics and politics.