The Return of D.A.R.E. | D.A.R.E. America
Nov 16, 2025 · The opioid epidemic, legalization concerns, and need for improved community-police relations make D.A.R.E. curricula a high priority.
What factors have caused Japanese prefectures to attract a larger population influx?
Regional promotion and centralized correction in Tokyo have long been the goals of the Government of Japan. Furthermore, in the wake of the recent new coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the momentum for rural migration is increasing, to prevent the ris...
What does "based" mean? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
The term “based” was actually derived from the term “basehead” which was used during the 1980s crack epidemic. It was used to refer to individuals who were addicted to freebasing cocaine, the base form …
Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youths, Surgeon General fact sheet
Jun 6, 2017 · Fact Sheet This is the 31st tobacco-related Surgeon General’s report issued since 1964. It describes the epidemic of tobacco use among youth ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 …
Intrinsic Randomness in Epidemic Modelling Beyond Statistical Uncertainty
Uncertainty can be classified as either aleatoric (intrinsic randomness) or epistemic (imperfect knowledge of parameters). The majority of frameworks assessing infectious disease risk consider only epistemic uncertainty. We only ever observe a single...
What does "based" mean? : r/NoStupidQuestions - Reddit
The term “based” was actually derived from the term “basehead” which was used during the 1980s crack epidemic. It was used to refer to individuals who were addicted to freebasing cocaine, the base form …
Gunnar Kaasen, a Norwegian musher and his lead dog Balto, who delivered diphtheria antitox…
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CodeForPhilly/chime
COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics (⭐ 211)
On Persistence and Stability of some Biological Systems with Cross Diffusion
The concept of cross diffusion is applied to some biological systems. The conditions for persistence and Turing instability in the presence of cross diffusion are derived. Many examples including: predator-prey, epidemics (with and without delay),...
Fantasy football has a trading problem and I’m here to fix it.
Fantasy football has a problem. The vast majority of players have no idea how to trade. It’s an epidemic that runs from the smartest of expert leagues down to the homiest of home leagues. Whether ...
A note on a paper by Erik Volz [arXiv:0705.2092]: SIR dynamics in random networks
Recent work by Erik Volz [arXiv:0705.2092] has shown how to calculate the growth and eventual decay of an SIR epidemic on a static random network, assuming infection and recovery each happen at constant rates. This calculation allows us to account...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Author warns about 'epidemic of self-censorship'
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Stability and bifurcations of a minimal model for the effect of PrEP-related risk compensa…
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drastically reduces the risk of HIV infection if taken as prescribed, providing almost perfect protection even during unprotected sexual intercourse. Although this has been transformative in reducing new HIV infect...
Ozempic addiction epidemic
Social media has made women believe their natural bodies are not beautiful and left them addicted to the jab and mutating their bodies....
Identifying Risk of Opioid Use Disorder for Patients Taking Opioid Medications with Deep L…
The United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic, and there were more than 10 million opioid misusers aged 12 or older each year. Identifying patients at high risk of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) can help to make early clinical interventions to redu...
TIL that in the early days of crossword puzzles, the game became an object of cultural hys…
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Doctors and Nurses Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 infections: A clus…
During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses developed and r...
Fair treatment allocations in social networks
Simulations of infectious disease spread have long been used to understand how epidemics evolve and how to effectively treat them. However, comparatively little attention has been paid to understanding the fairness implications of different treatment...
The English Sweat - A very deadly sickness that spread mostly in England during the 15th/1…
**Overview:** The English Sweat (also called the Sweating Sickness) was a mysterious sickness that struck England (and to a lesser degree continental Europe) in several epidemics from 1485 to 1551. ...
Multi-layer network approach in modeling epidemics in an urban town
The last three years have been an extraordinary time with the Covid-19 pandemic killing millions, affecting and distressing billions of people worldwide. Authorities took various measures such as turning school and work to remote and prohibiting soci...
Multiple outbreaks in epidemic spreading with local vaccination and limited vaccines
How to prevent the spread of human diseases is a great challenge for the scientific community and so far there are many studies in which immunization strategies have been developed. However, these kind of strategies usually do not consider that medic...
The Western Africa Ebola virus disease epidemic exhibits both global exponential and local…
Background: While many infectious disease epidemics are initially characterized by an exponential growth in time, we show that district-level Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks in West Africa follow slower polynomial-based growth kinetics over sever...
Disease outbreak - Wikipedia
are near-global disease outbreaks when multiple and various countries around the Earth are soon infected. The terms "outbreak" and "epidemic" have often
Investigating the HIV Epidemic in Miami Using a Novel Approach for Bayesian Inference on P…
Molecular HIV Surveillance (MHS) has been described as key to enabling rapid responses to HIV outbreaks. It operates by linking individuals with genetically similar viral sequences, which forms a network. A major limitation of MHS is that it depends...
From Public Outrage to the Burst of Public Violence: An Epidemic-Like Model
This study extends classical models of spreading epidemics to describe the phenomenon of contagious public outrage, which eventually leads to the spread of violence following a disclosure of some unpopular political decisions and/or activity. Accordi...
Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia
field studies among the Fore. Their historical research suggested the epidemic may have originated at the beginning of the 1900s from a single individual
VIP-club phenomenon: emergence of elites and masterminds in social networks
Hubs, or vertices with large degrees, play massive roles in, for example, epidemic dynamics, innovation diffusion, and synchronization on networks. However, costs of owning edges can motivate agents to decrease their degrees and avoid becoming hubs...
1998 Winter Olympics flu epidemic - Wikipedia
the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Several athletes blamed poor or disappointing results on this flu. During the winters of 1998 and 1999, there was
Social media is a cause, not a correlate, of mental illness in teen girls
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Learn to edge properly
This “horseshoe epidemic” is happening cause people standing at the edge of the pit don’t realize that being an edger is an important part of the hardcore ecosystem. You aren’t supposed to kee...
WARNING: DO NOT EDGE.
DO NOT EDGE. Edging is the silent killer, an almost unspoken epidemic. It will hinder your growth, screw up your mental, pause your gains and affect your health long term. Don’t believe me? Searc...
Likelihood-based estimation and prediction for a measles outbreak in Samoa
Prediction of the progression of an infectious disease outbreak is important for planning and coordinating a response. Differential equations are often used to model an epidemic outbreak's behaviour but are challenging to parameterise. Furthermore, t...
Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youths, Surgeon General fact sheet
Jun 6, 2017 · Fact Sheet This is the 31st tobacco-related Surgeon General’s report issued since 1964. It describes the epidemic of tobacco use among youth ages 12 through 17 and young adults ages 18 …
Analysis of SIR epidemic models with sociological phenomenon
We propose two SIR models which incorporate sociological behavior of groups of individuals. It is these differences in behaviors which impose different infection rates on the individual susceptible populations, rather than biological differences. We...
Growth patterns and scaling laws governing AIDS epidemic in Brazilian cities
Brazil holds approximately 1/3 of population living infected with AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in Central and South Americas, and it was also the first developing country to implement a large-scale control and intervention program agains...
Second wave COVID-19 pandemics in Europe: A Temporal Playbook
A second wave pandemic constitutes an imminent threat to society, with a potentially immense toll in terms of human lives and a devastating economic impact. We employ the epidemic renormalisation group approach to pandemics, together with the first w...
You better watch out: US COVID-19 wave dynamics versus vaccination strategy
We employ the epidemic Renormalization Group (eRG) framework to understand, reproduce and predict the COVID-19 pandemic diffusion across the US. The human mobility across different geographical US divisions is modelled via open source flight data alo...
Bayesian Inference of Reproduction Number from Epidemiological and Genetic Data Using Part…
Inference of the reproduction number through time is of vital importance during an epidemic outbreak. Typically, epidemiologists tackle this using observed prevalence or incidence data. However, prevalence and incidence data alone is often noisy or p...
Arnold Klein - Wikipedia
William Klein (February 27, 1945 – October 22, 2015) was an American dermatologist. In the infancy of the AIDS epidemic, Klein became one of the first
The horrendous state of New York City in the 1970s-1980s
The cities budget had completely collapsed, it was the height of the crack epidemic, gang activity was at an all time high, there was basically no control on pollution. Basically everything bad was ha...