Migraine aura is the cortical phenomenon for which spreading depression is suggested to be the underlying pathophysiological process.
Sobhany became something of an internet sensation back in April after social media powerhouse Robert Scoble recorded an early video of her DJing for his podcast (above), which spread like wildfire throughout the blogosphere.
So, we study transport processes on fractal networks modeling river basins, a case which may have a great ecological relevance for the study of hydrochory, and in general for species which spread along corridors.
The city of Oran is associated with raï (Arabic for opinion), which spread from there to the rest of Algeria in the 1960s.
But these can run into the kind of special-interest problems detailed by Mancur Olson; those with most to gain (or lose) will campaign hardest (and spend more) for measures which spread the cost widely among voters.
The rise of "fake news," a term largely attributed to Donald Trump — then a candidate for president — which spread like wildfire — and across borders — was a way to reject reported information or factual current events that were derogatory to a person's views.
It's all a disaster waiting to happen, since the vegetation can later dry out and become fuel for fires which spread rapidly throughout the arid marsh.
A peaceful demonstration outside Tottenham police station a few days after the shooting was superseded by the most destructive riots in the UK for years, which spread from London to a host of major cities.
The extra effort is part of an annual global initiative called 40 Days for Life, which spread from Texas in 2004 in a co-ordinated effort in dozens of locations around the world.
The 1991 cholera outbreak in Peru, for example, which spread via unsafe water in slums and squatter settlements, cost the national economy $1 billion in just 10 weeks – more than three times Peru's total investment in water and sanitation improvements during the 1980s.
Large Creole bands that played for funerals and parades became a major basis for early jazz, which spread from New Orleans to Chicago and other northern urban centers.
