Sentence examples for studying the spread of from inspiring English sources

As an epidemiologist, I spent a lot of my time studying the spread of diseases.

Virologists studying the spread of subtropical diseases say it's unclear why the virus, which was recently rare, spread around the world in just a couple of years.

The answers are of interest both to computer scientists studying the ebb and flow of information on the Internet and sociologists studying the spread of gossip and cultural trends.

"Migration leads to conditions and experiences that increase risks," said George Lemp, an epidemiologist who directs the University of California's AIDS research program and is studying the spread of the disease among migrants.

"If I allowed myself to go down that path, I thought, where would it all end?" The path Hillier took led her to a successful career as a medical sociologist: she is an emeritus professor at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and has spent her life studying the spread of infectious disease.

Yet there could be an indirect way to find out – by studying the spread of disease.

Campanella, who has studied the spread of gentrification in New Orleans, said there are two main predictors of it in any given neighborhood: the closeness of the neighborhood to other gentrified areas and its historical architecture.

Sunstein has studied the spread of information since the mid-nineties, when he co-wrote a series of law-review articles about "cascade theory" — a model describing how opinions travel across juries, markets, and subcultures.

"What you end up with at best is replacement of one introduced species with another," said Dr. Richard Mack, a professor of biological sciences at Washington State University, who has studied the spread of cheatgrass across the West.

That could be a challenge if it proves to be deadly on a mass scale, say epidemiologists who have studied the spread of disease and the influenza pandemic of 1918.

"There is a cottage industry of websites that just fabricate fake news designed to make one group or another group particularly riled up," said Fil Menczer, a professor at Indiana University who studies the spread of misinformation.