Opinion leaders play a brokering role to accelerate diffusion and transmit information 'by contagion' across boundaries between groups and networks [ 43, 44].
The markets suspected that the amount was large one reason they were willing to bet, correctly, that the Thais would be forced to abandon the link between the baht and the dollar.Nor has better information eliminated the "contagion" of speculative attacks on one currency spreading to others.
Our study has theoretical implications regarding the diffusion of information and emotional contagion as well as practical implications for understanding how important information and social support can be effectively collected and distributed to populations in need.
Alternatively, frequent dental service attendees may have been exposed to inaccurate infection control procedures and inaccurate information about transmission risk more extensively than their infrequent dental service attendee counterparts, thus strengthening their fear of contagion and oral impacts.
Further investigation of such connections, including the characterization of the shared fears at multiple scales of time and space, may prove fruitful in a number of areas including crisis management, information diffusion, and social contagion.
Inside each kernel, we loop over all the set of locations that are being processed by the current node, and calculate the contagion spread information for each location for a simulation iteration.
The Ebola Community Action Platform (eCAP) did not aim only to connect response organizations and extension workers, but more accurate information on the state of contagion and response was quickly leveraged towards public health messaging via billboards, radio, posters, handouts, and "person-to-person drama activities at the community level" (70).
Incorporating Roger's diffusion theory and measuring the number of adopters into his model, Bass found that the spread of new product information resembled the spread of contagion as described in epidemiology and that was distributed through social forces to potential buyers who adopt the new product over time [ 9, 10].
So market correlation data cannot predict contagion.
This difference might be attributed to the accuracy of information provided in the context of contagion risk and poor compliance with infection control procedures in the clinical settings [ 33].
