The political ideas fostered by the Romantic movement influenced the outbreak of the 1863 January Insurrection against the Russians, which resulted in further curtailment of national and personal freedom in occupied Poland.
The goal of this study was to assess the importance of the 2007 sea ice retreat for hydrologic conditions on the Alaskan North Slope, and how this may have influenced the outbreak of tundra fires in this region.
Have attitudes changed as the disease has spread, and are there other cultural factors that may have influenced the outbreak?Bushmeat consumption has generally decreased as awareness of the disease has spread.
It also shows that immunizing some of these susceptible individuals as well as boosting individuals with waned immunity in this age group provides sufficient added population immunity to poliovirus transmission to significantly influence the outbreak size and dynamics if any importation occurs the following year.
It should be noted that non-climate factors that were undocumented in this study (e.g., population immunity, vector control interventions) are also key drivers of interannual variability in dengue [ 26, 74, 75] and most likely influenced the 2010 outbreak.
One potential factor that may have influenced the 1995 outbreaks was the increase in internal human migration that began in 1994 in association with the opening up of new agricultural and industrial areas in enzootic areas (33 ).
It is unclear why some outbreaks reached clinical awareness and prompted targeted interventions and, given that numerous outbreaks did self-terminate, to what extent such interventions influenced the time to outbreak termination.
While the perceived severity of the outbreak influenced the adoption of preventive measures to some degree, increased general kitchen hygiene during the outbreak appeared to be the most important antecedent.
Using a stepped approach to a set of long historical time-series data, including climatic, pandemic, epidemic and social-political variables, a study by Kausrud and colleagues [ 1] published in BMC Biology concludes that naturally occurring climatic fluctuations, acting through their environmental, ecological and political impacts, may have influenced the human pandemic outbreaks.
The idea of depicting an apocalyptic scenario as being the result of a virus came from Morgan's research into possible end-of-the-world scenarios, and was influenced by the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the United Kingdom.
(2) How has the occurrence and duration of bark beetle outbreak influenced the likelihood of subsequent burning in these two landscapes?
