Nature Human Behaviour volume 8, pages 1044–1052 (2024)
The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of …
PLOS Computational Biology 20 (1), e1011775 (2024)
Disease propagation between countries strongly depends on their effective distance, a measure derived from the world air transportation network (WAN). …
Biology Methods and Protocols 8 (1), bpad005 (2023)
In November 2021, the first infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant of concern (VOC) B.1.1.529 (‘Omicron’) …
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 151, e38 (2023)
After the winter of 2021/2022, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had reached a phase where a considerable number of people in Germany …
International Journal of Infectious Diseases 130, S65 (2023)
Intro Controlling the spread of infectious diseases requires correctly targeting preventative resources. When poorly deployed, these resources are …
Social Science & Medicine 317 (2023) 115633
As SARS-CoV-2 spreads especially when larger groups gather (e.g., at the workplace), it is crucial to understand compliance with regulations and …
Nature Human Behaviour volume 7, pages 74–101 (2023)
One of today’s most controversial and consequential issues is whether the global uptake of digital media is causally related to a decline in …
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.19.22278981v1
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread globally, emerging variants such as B.1.1.529 quickly became dominant worldwide. Sustained community …
medRxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.07.22277391v1
In November 2021, the first case of SARS-CoV-2 “variant of concern” (VOC) B.1.1.529 (“Omicron”) was reported in Germany, alongside global reports of …
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.19.22274030v1
After having affected the population for two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a phase where a considerable number of people in Germany have …
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.11.483964v1
Animals are expected to adjust their social behaviour to cope with challenges in their environment. Therefore, for fish populations, in temperate …
Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 15541 (2021)
Online platforms’ data give advertisers the ability to “microtarget” recipients’ personal vulnerabilities by tailoring different messages for the same …
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259258v1
Digital contact tracing applications have been introduced in many countries to aid in the containment of COVID-19 outbreaks. Initially, enthusiasm was …
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (52), 32883-32890
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many countries implemented containment measures toreduce disease transmission. Studies using digital data sources …
Nature Human Behaviour volume 4, pages 1102–1109 (2020)
Public opinion is shaped in significant part by online content, spread via social media and curated algorithmically. The current online ecosystem has …
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Big Bayes is the computationally intensive co-application of big data and large, expressive Bayesian models for the analysis of complex phenomena in …
Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 1759 (2019)
With news pushed to smart phones in real time and social media reactions spreading across the globe in seconds, the public discussion can appear …
Journal of Complex Networks 7 (6), 865-895
Networks that are organized as a hierarchy of modules have been the subject of much research, mainly focusing on algorithms that can extract this …
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Disease dynamics is a complex phenomenon and in order to address these questions expertises from many disciplines need to be integrated. One method …
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The WHO European Region (EUR) has adopted the goal of eliminating measles and rubella but individual countries perform differently in achieving this …
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 20 (8), pp. 999-1003
In regard to tuberculosis (TB) and other major global epidemics, the use of new diagnostic tests is increasing dramatically, including in …
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The rapid worldwide spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome demonstrated the potential threat an infectious disease poses in a closely …
