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Analyzing the Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak using Epidemic Models

https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulators-urge-consumers-to-avoid-romaine-lettuce-as-they-probe-e-coli-outbreak-1542748403 Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans to stop eating and throw out all romaine lettuce due to an outbreak of E. Coli.  This warning was issued after 32 people in 11 states were sickened by the lettuce. At the time, they were not able to determine where the infected lettuce […]

The Opioid Epidemic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prescription-drug-abuse/in-depth/how-opioid-addiction-occurs/art-20360372 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/health/opioid-overdose-deaths-dayton.html https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/08/the-making-of-an-opioid-epidemic   In the United States today, the opioid epidemic has taken hold of every city and neighborhood. The epidemic began in the 1980s, and all throughout the 1990s and 2000s, pharmacological companies were pushing hospitals to administer drugs like OxyContin to provide instant pain relief. What ended up happening was the patients […]

Twitter and Information Cascade

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html Information cascade exist when people are making decisions based on other people’s decision, which they think is right, instead of using the information that they have. Theoretically, when the threshold for Information Cascade is reached, the other players, later on, would follow the trend no matter what information themselves get.   In the […]

Optimizing Chemotherapy Treatments Using Evolutionary Game Theory

https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2018/03/optimizing-chemotherapy-schedules-using-evolutionary-game-theory-cancer-treatment-research/ Professor Paul Newton and Dr. Jeffrey West, two researchers at USC Viterbi, have developed a tool that uses evolutionary game theory to predict how certain cancer and non-cancer cells will respond to different chemotherapy schedules and dosages. Through using the mathematical payoffs associated with evolutionary game theory, the researchers have discovered a method which […]

The Overdose Epidemic in 3 Pictures

article source: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/09/20/overdose-epidemic-3-pictures-13424 This article studies the “overdose epidemic” through a series of graphs and diagrams analyzing drug use. The article argues that the “overdose crisis” is not a new occurrence and is only appearing in recent news due to recent political attention. This article provides a view of the crisis through graphs to prevent […]

Instagram influencers are using hashtags about the devastating California wildfires to promote products (and it probably wasn’t a good idea)

https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-influencers-hashtag-california-wildfires-to-promote-products-2018-11 Business Insider reports that Instagram influencers are using #malibufire and #malibulove in their promotions. For example, jaydenicole captioned “Malibu, we love you and we will heal 💙🌍 Wearing: @ymijeans Location: Malibu #californiagirl #malibulove #strongwomen” posing in a picture promoting a clothing company. @_earn_with_emily advertised bitcoin and threw in 19 hashtags about the fires. Business […]

The Network Diffusion behind “Mo Bamba”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/arts/music/sheck-wes-mo-bamba.html It seems impossible. A single-take song with a simple beat and keyboard loop has recently reached the top of the Billboard Charts. The pretty explicit song, Mo Bamba, took all of 20 minutes to record and now has almost 200 million plays on Spotify and 41 million plays on Soundcloud. Many people have been […]

Ants Change Behavioral Patterns to Minimize the Effect of the SIR Epidemic Model

A study from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria reveals that ants change their routines and behavioral patterns to protect the queen and other workers from becoming ill. The societal structure of ants is organized based on age and their roles in the colony. The younger ants are nurses to the broods in the […]

How is Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Revolutionizing Predictive Markets?

Prediction markets help individuals analyze the outcome of events such as a political election, weather, or economic forecasting. One area of interest for the use of prediction markets is the cryptocurrency world. This article delves into the differences amongst prediction markets for cryptocurrency and other areas in the real world. The predicted price in the […]

Can Human Disease Networks Help Us Cure Multiple Diseases With One Gene?

This article focuses on the “human disease network” (HDN) and the “disease gene network”(DGN). Both of these networks were designed by scientists from the United States and South Korea, with the HDN showing all of the human diseases that have known genetic associations, and the genetic connections between these diseases, and the DGN showing how […]

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