As an immigrant himself – he moved to the UK from Ghana aged four – Akomfrah says he felt a "moral obligation" to make works that wade into the potent debate around migration and offset the "rhetoric of contagion" used by many to describe the flow of refugees into Europe.
For example, the famous Facebook experiment [10] which manipulated users feeds to study emotional contagion, used LIWC [7].
A large amount of Facebook data was processed with psycholinguistic methods to detect emotional contagion, by using weather as an instrumental variable [62].
'Contagion' was used to refer to the risks of learning unhelpful behaviour and making unhelpful friendships.
Throughout, the scone of this study paper attempts have been made to test whether the Ebola virus can stand as an origin source of contagion during 2014 transmission process using the number of deaths data available from the World Health Organization.
The latter are modeled using a contagion credit risk model with interacting default intensities, see also Jarrow and Yu (2001) for more explicit examples and Frey and Backhaus (2008) for a theoretical illustration.
The project team reviewed all citations retrieved and manually identified those addressing the risks of dislocation and contagion, and extracted data using an abstraction document designed for the study.
If you look at Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, or more recent American and British documentaries, the way he used contagion shows.
They attacked simplistic interpretations of and conclusions from Edward Jenner's work (16 ) and demonstrated how difficult it is to determine vaccination success and vaccination status and to know what kind of contagion was actually used in an inoculation or vaccination.
We evaluated the efficacy of recommended tuberculosis (TB) infection control measures by using a deterministic mathematical model for airborne contagion.
In men the most affected aspects were sexual relationships (continuity of sexual relationships, fear to contagion and use of condom).
