The Super Bowl offered a perfect natural experiment to test the researchers' central question: how does a change in people's daily interactions – such as increased travel and social gatherings – affect the way a disease spreads?
Some negotiations are best approached by gathering all affected parties together, fully sharing information, and brainstorming a solution to the shared problem.
Unemployment is a consistent political issue, as well as an economic one, but it's not clear how the new data gathering might affect the debate or the presidential election.
Any sign of popular public anger is a threat to the Vietnamese Communist party and, over loudspeakers, authorities told protesters "Your gathering causes disorder and affects the party's and government's foreign policy".
Nearly 1,700 people came to the event, 150 of whom were patients, breaking the world record for the largest gathering of those affected by Huntington's Disease.
This article seeks to understand how proficiency in a local language affects disaster information gathering behavior by using the results of a questionnaire survey conducted after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Although a lack of language proficiency can contribute to increased disaster vulnerability due to inability to acquire relevant information in a timely manner, it is not clear how language proficiency affects disaster information gathering, especially among nonnative populations.
By having information on the directions, we can distinguish an individual's influence within their locale, and how their network position affects their information-gathering mechanisms.
Although guidelines in Japan acknowledge language proficiency as a problem for disaster support and mitigation planning, it is not clear how proficiency in a local language, or lack thereof, affects disaster information-gathering behavior and how this should be addressed in disaster prevention planning.
A member of student government, Woodward and her peers started planning vigils and gatherings for those affected by the shooting almost immediately.
