A "structure" emerges as a persistent pattern of interaction that can influence a multitude of behaviors, such as getting a job, income attainment, political decision making, social revolutions, organizational merges, global finance and trade markets, delinquent youth behaviors, the spread of infectious diseases, and so on.
As a would-be sociologist, the insights on behavior and the spread of ideas were intriguing.
In recent years, work at the boundary between ecology, epidemiology, and economics has shed new light on the way that economic behavior affects the spread of pests and pathogens (reviewed in Perrings 2014).
(human influence × ploidy) A growing body of research indicates that polyploidy may contribute to invasive behavior and the spread of alien plant species (Vilà and D'Antonio 1998; Ainouche et al. 2004; Soltis et al. 2004; Pandit et al. 2006), and Bennett et al. (1998) found a higher proportion of polyploids in weedy species than in other plant groups.
Industrialization often carries a cultural cost that includes more sedentary behaviors and the spread of sugary drinks and heavily processed foods.
Needle and syringe programs, as part of a comprehensive prevention approach for PWID, have been found to be an effective and cost-effective approach to reducing injection-related risk behaviors and the spread of HIV, without negative consequences [ 60, 61], and may be an important venue to reach HIV-positive PWID for linkage to HIV care and treatment.
We also reversed the direction of the hypothesis and studied whether alter's drug use influences ego's sleep behavior, via either the spread of drug use or the spread of sleep behavior.
This population shares several features, including history and social behavior, that promote the spread of founder mutations.
The agency and its supporters argue that finding more hidden infections would save lives, getting people into treatment earlier and persuading them to change their sexual behavior and reduce the spread of the virus.
