Heard Immunity and Covid-19
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4 The article, “The False Promise of Herd Immunity for Covid-19,” by Christie Aschwanden, published by Nature, discusses herd immunity in relation to Covid-19. As a class, we learned about herd immunity during the chapter on epidemics. Herd immunity is a form of protection against an infectious disease when a sufficient proportion of the […]
Diffusion and the Use of Ski Helmets
As the winter months, approach and our first snowstorms are upon us, ski slopes are opening up around the country for what hopes to be a long season. Ever since I was a child, my family has spent many long weekends and vacations traveling all around the country, visiting various ski resorts. Something that has […]
Thresholds of Peer Pressure and the TikTok Epidemic – How is vaping spreading among the youth?
According to a study done by the CDC and the FDA in 2020, approximately one in five high school students and one in 20 middle school students currently used e-cigarettes (1). To counteract the use of vape and e-cigarettes among the youth, many initiatives have been launched such as the “Real Cost” and the “Safer […]
TikTok & It’s Domination over Social Media — Network Diffusion
In late 2019, a new social media application exploded on the United States social media scene. TikTok, a short video sharing application, became one of the most popular social media platforms among gen-z individuals. With over 2.3 billion global downloads and over 100 million users in the United States alone, TikTok has become one of […]
Diffusion and the Vaccine Public Education Campaign
Since the official rollout of COVID19 vaccine this Monday, research center has been surveying American public’s sentiment on the vaccine. So far, 71percent of the respondents said they would definitely get a vaccine, while 39 percent said they will see how it works on others before taking it themselves, and about a quarter don’t want […]
How Apple’s Ecosystem Thwarts Rival Diffusion
Despite the unpredictability of financial markets throughout 2020, Apple’s share price has soared nearly 72% year to date, making it the first ever corporation to surpass a market capitalization of two trillion dollars. Despite this incredible valuation which has grown year after year, Apple surprisingly does not have a dominant share of any of the […]
Commercially Available Hearing Aids and the FDA
“Hearing Aids Could Use Some Help”, as one could presume based on the title, is about the massive barriers to adoption of hearing aid technology in the United States. This is not for lack of a market, since a quarter of Americans in their sixties and two thirds of Americans over 70 have hearing loss. […]
The “How” and “Why” of TikTok’s Quick Spread
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktok-reveals-more-insights-into-how-its-algorithm-recommends-content/585034/ In class, we learned about clusters and how products or ideas can spread form one cluster to another due to various adoption thresholds and network structures. The global adoption of popular social media application, TikTok, as well as the spread of various trends on the app itself to different groups of people relates to […]
The American Healthcare Market as a Market for Lemons
Market for Lemons is a theory explaining how markets can deteriorate when either the buyers have more information than the sellers, or vice versa, and how this information asymmetry can lead to only lower-quality items behind in the market. In essence, an asymmetry in what the seller knows (i.e. whether or not the car is […]
Colors and Coordination Games
Color is something that I have always been interested in understanding; as a designer, I am constantly thinking of which colors pair best together or what color will best represent a brand. This can sometimes be tricky from just a purely aesthetic position, in terms of selecting colors that don’t clash and play well in […]
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