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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"Contagion"”.
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The Politics of Contagion
<p>Contagion events have occurred throughout history leaving death and destruction in their wake. Often sensationalized in movies and shows such as Contagion and The Walking Dead, contagion events are life-altering events filled with gory symptoms and elevated mortality rates. The dangers of …
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Channels of financial contagion
The current contagion literature does not definitely conclude which channels of financial contagion are the most significant in transmitting crises between countries. This paper sets out to fill this gap empirically by determining which contagion channels significantly increase the probability of …
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Emotional contagion in leader-follower interactions
… research. The current studies examine emotional contagion as one means by which leader affect influences follower outcomes. Emotional contagion is the transfer of affect between persons that is thought to occur through unconscious and automatic mechanisms (Hatfield, Cacioppo, & Rapson, 1992). If …
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The structural determinants of media contagion
… and incidentally engender this process of media contagion; because weblog authors are tied by social networks of readership, contagious media events happen frequently, and in a form that is immediately measurable. The generally accepted notion of media diffusion is that it occurs through two …
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Contagion and Systemic Risk in Financial Networks
… crisis has shed light on the importance of contagion and systemic risk, and revealed the lack of adequate indicators for measuring and monitoring them. This dissertation addresses these issues and leads to several recommendations for the design of an improved assessment of systemic …
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Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics
Contagion models are ubiquitous in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and management. This thesis formalizes prescriptive contagion analytics problems where a centralized decision-maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by contagion …
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Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature
<p>Metaphors of epidemic and contagion have played a powerful role in shaping American identity by using disease to symbolically mark out certain raced and classed populations as outsiders to the social body. In the twentieth century, epidemics and epidemiological reading came to dominate not only …
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Affect, Affective Contagion and Decisions in Agile Development
… the influence of positive or negative affective contagion on software teams’ cooperation or level of conflict. Therefore, this thesis develops an improved understanding and theorizes the role of affects and their contagion in Agile decision-making processes. This thesis contributes by answering …
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The contagion effect of office-level audit failures
… a given fiscal year indicates the presence of a contagion effect on the quality of other concurrent audits conducted by the office. Audit quality is inferred by cross-sectional differences in clients' audited earnings, specifically, abnormal accruals. I find that the presence of at least one …
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Essays on elections, economic performance, and ideological contagion
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Integration, growth and contagion in African equity markets
… suffering the consequences of crisis and contagion. In light of this, policymakers are now concerned about how best to approach future capital account policy. Should they actively proceed to encourage foreign investment, for instance by listing a country fund? Alternatively, should …
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Analysis and control of contagion processes on networks
We consider the propagation of a contagion process ("epidemic") on a network and study the problem of dynamically allocating a fixed curing budget to the nodes of the graph, at each time instant. We provide a dynamic policy for the rapid containment of a contagion process modeled as an SIS epidemic …
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Interdependent diffusion : the social contagion of interacting beliefs
… simplifying assumption in theories of social contagion is that ideas or beliefs spread from person to person in a social network without regard to other ideas or beliefs that spread concurrently. This assumption is both useful and generative, as it allows researchers to produce tractable …
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Modeling and Twitter-based Surveillance of Smoking Contagion
… interventions for controlling the smoking contagion. In order to develop such an environment we essentially need: an operationalized model of smoking that can be simulated, to determine the role of online social networks on smoking behavior, and actual methods to perform network-centric …
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Financial contagion in emerging markets evidence from BRICS countries
The present study examines the pure form of contagions in the BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The pure form of contagion refers to the propagations of shocks due to reasons that are not related macroeconomic fundamentals, and are solely the result of …
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Contagion of a Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Credit Rating
… critical issues confronting the financial world: contagion of a crisis, corporate governance, and credit rating. It contains four chapters. Through examining the contagion of a crisis, Chapter 1 presents a model in which the contagion of a liquidity crisis between two non-financial institutions …
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Empathy as a Predicting Factor of Stress Contagion Susceptibility
… and resonate with others’ emotions, while stress contagion occurs when one person’s stress triggers a stress response in another. Although each construct has been studied independently, little research has examined their potential interaction. This study sought to investigate whether trait empathy …
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The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion
… and negative affect are evidence of a stress contagion process that may occur through empathy. The current study addressed this idea by testing whether the positive relationship that exists between network stress and depressive symptoms varied dependent upon (ie. was moderated by) an …
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The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion
… and negative affect are evidence of a stress contagion process that may occur through empathy. The current study addressed this idea by testing whether the positive relationship that exists between network stress and depressive symptoms varied dependent upon (ie. was moderated by) an …
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Mathematical and computational approaches to contagion dynamics on networks
In this thesis, we firstly introduce the basic terminology and concepts needed for the the following chapters. In particular we introduce the basics of graph/network theory, epidemiological models (both well mixed and on networks), and mobility models (the gravity and radiation models). After the …
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