A group of 50 scientists, artists, engineers, technologists, and entrepreneurs brainstorms twice a year to come up with themes and ideas, which have included contagion, water, and the future of fashion.
The widening ripples induced in the community by unexpected job losses include contagion-like increases in the stress of feared job loss (Leigh 1985; Liem and Liem 1988; Rook et al. 1991; Dua and Smyth 1993; Larson et al. 1994; Minchin 2009).
In short, there are tremendous risks to this law, including suicide contagion, elder and disability abuse, and the inevitable expanse to broader groups of people to reduce their choice.
It is compared to interactional synchrony and other social contagion effects, including verbal, goal, and emotional contagion and attitudinal convergence.
Shares in European banks with sizeable operations in Turkey fell amid fears of contagion, including Spain's BBVA, Italy's Unicredit and France's BNP Paribas.
"If that taboo is broken, I think there will be considerable contagion," including unsustainable spikes in the bond market; further runs on the banks in Spain, Portugal and Italy; and social and political unrest beyond Greece.
And yet Congress, spurred by the public's aversion to bailouts, has dramatically weakened the power of the government to respond to contagion, including limitations on the Fed's powers as a lender of last resort.
The simulated maps were compared with land-use and land-cover maps, obtained from digital classification of remote sensing images, using the multiple resolution fitting procedure and a set of landscape structure measures, including fractal dimension, contagion index, and the number of patches for each type of land-use and land-cover class.
Diffusion researchers have struggled to adjudicate between competing mechanisms of social contagion, including imitation and learning.
In recent weeks, investors have become wary of holding anything with a whiff of subprime contagion, including commercial paper investments.
