Contagion (other)
Contagion may refer to: Medicine * Contagious disease Social science * Social contagion, the spontaneous spread of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors through a group or network * Emotional contagion, a tendency to feel others' emotions * Behavioral contagion, a tendency to mimic others' behavior * Law of contagion, a folk belief related to magical thinking * Financial contagion, a scenario in which financial shocks spread to other financial sectors * Hysterical contagion, an effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause * Sacred contagion, the belief that spiritual properties pass from one entity to another * Complex contagion, a social networking phenomenon * Contagion heuristic, a psychological technique Film and television * ''Contagion'' (1987 film), directed by Karl Zwicky * ''Contagion'' (2002 film), featuring Bruce Boxleitner * ''Contagion'' (2011 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh * "Contagion" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagious Disease
A contagious disease is an infectious disease that is readily spread (that is, communicated) by transmission of a pathogen through contact (direct or indirect) with an infected person. A disease is often known to be contagious before medical science discovers its causative agent. Koch's postulates, which were published at the end of the 19th century, were the standard for the next 100 years or more, especially with diseases caused by bacteria. Microbial pathogenesis attempts to account for diseases caused by a virus. The disease itself can also be called a contagion. Historical meaning Originally, the term referred to a ''contagion'' (a derivative of 'contact') or disease transmissible only by direct physical contact. In the modern-day, the term has sometimes been broadened to encompass ''any'' communicable or infectious disease. Often the word can only be understood in context, where it is used to emphasize very infectious, easily transmitted, or especially severe communic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion (1987 Film)
''Contagion'' is a 1987 Australian horror film directed by Karl Zwicky and starring John Doyle, Nicola Bartlett and Ray Barrett.Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p30 The film was shot around Brisbane in 35 days. Plot Mark, a naive real estate agent, is asked by his boss to travel to Crompton for a job. Along the road, Mark sees a beautiful woman being sexually abused by crazies that live in the bush, and he stops to aid her. However, the crazies attack and abuse him instead. He makes an escape and in the forest finds his way to a nearby mansion where he is given a welcome by millionaire Roderick Bael and Cleo and Helen, two seductive girls who live with him. They introduce Mark to their lives of luxury and pleasure. Mark sleeps with both the girls, and Bael explains Mark the secret of his success, the Threefold Plan, which involves being ruthless with anyone in his way. He teaches Mark how to make millions on currency exchange mar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion
Contagion may refer to: Medicine * Contagious disease Social science * Emotional contagion, a tendency to feel others' emotions * Behavioral contagion, a tendency to mimic others' behavior * Law of contagion, a folk belief related to magical thinking * Financial contagion, a scenario in which financial shocks spread to other financial sectors * Hysterical contagion, an effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause * Sacred contagion, the belief that spiritual properties pass from one entity to another * Complex contagion, a social networking phenomenon * Contagion heuristic, a psychological technique Film and television * ''Contagion'' (1987 film), directed by Karl Zwicky * ''Contagion'' (2002 film), featuring Bruce Boxleitner * ''Contagion'' (2011 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh * "Contagion" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), 1989 TV episode Music * ''Contagion'' (Oceano album), 2010 * "Contagion", a song by Black Dahlia Murder on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion (novel)
The ''Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series'' is an ongoing series of New York Times Bestselling medical thrillers by Robin Cook that follows pathologist Jack Stapleton and his co-worker (and later wife) Laurie Montgomery as they attempt to solve the various mysteries that come across their path. Synopsis The series follows Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner and pathologist who spends most of his free time focusing on various medical cases in order to avoid having to think about the deaths of his wife and children. He teams up with his co-worker and fellow pathologist Laurie Montgomery in order to solve various crimes, with the two eventually falling in love and marrying. Laurie was earlier in a relationship with Lou Soldano, a police officer and Jack and Laurie's mutual friend. Bibliography #''Blindsight'' (1992) #''Contagion'' (1995) #''Chromosome 6'' (1997) #''Vector'' (1999) # ''Marker'' (2005) #''Crisis'' (2006) #''Critical'' (2008) #''Foreign Body'' (2009) #''Intervent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Unhallowed
''Unhallowed'' is the debut studio album by American melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder. It was released through Metal Blade Records on June 17, 2003. An enhanced version of the album was released that included photos and info about the band. Metal Blade released a limited edition vinyl version of ''Unhallowed'' on August 20, 2013 in honor of the album's tenth anniversary. The band performed the album in its entirety on their spring 2016 tour with Fallujah Fallujah ( ar, ٱلْفَلُّوجَة, al-Fallūjah, Iraqi pronunciation: ) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jew ... and Disentomb. The intro and outro to this record come from the guide ''Butchering the Human Carcass for Human Consumption'' by The Church of Euthanasia. The intro is a narration of the section "Gutting" and the outro is from the section titled "Beheading". Th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion (Oceano Album)
''Contagion'' is the second studio album by American deathcore band Oceano, released November 9, 2010 through Earache Records. A video for "Weaponized" was released on November 4. Track listing Personnel *Adam Warren - vocals *Devin Shidaker - lead guitars *Nick Conser - rhythm guitars *Jason Jones - bass *Daniel Terchin - drums *Alex Erian - guest vocals *Steve Marois - guest vocals *Nick Arthur - guest vocals In show business, a guest appearance is the participation of an outsider performer (such as a musician or actor) in an event such as a music record or concert, show, etc., when the performer does not belong to the regular band, cast, or other ... Production *Produced, engineered & mixed by Chris «Zeuss» Harris *Vocal engineering by Antoine Lussier *Pre-production by Chuck Macak *Cover art & illustrations by Dusty Peterson *Layout by Summer Lacy *Photo by Jimmy Kurek References {{Authority control 2010 albums Earache Records albums Oceano (band) album ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Next Generation)
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion (2011 Film)
''Contagion'' is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Marion Cotillard. The plot concerns the spread of a highly contagious virus transmitted by respiratory droplets and fomites, attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order as the virus turns into a worldwide pandemic, and the introduction of a vaccine to halt its spread. To follow several interacting plot lines, the film makes use of the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" style, popularized in several of Soderbergh's films. Following their collaboration on ''The Informant!'' (2009), Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns discussed a film depicting the rapid spread of a virus. Burns consulted with representatives of the World Health Organization as well ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce William Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950) is an American actor and science fiction and suspense writer. He is known for his leading roles in the television series '' How the West Was Won'', '' Bring 'Em Back Alive'', ''Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' (with Kate Jackson), and ''Babylon 5'' (as John Sheridan (Babylon 5), John Sheridan in seasons 2–5, 1994–98). He is also known for his dual role as the characters Alan Bradley and Tron in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film ''Tron'', a role which he reprised in the 2003 video game ''Tron 2.0'', the 2006 Square-Enix/Disney crossover game ''Kingdom Hearts II'', the 2010 film sequel, ''Tron: Legacy'' and the animated series ''Tron: Uprising''. He co-starred in most of the ''The Gambler (film series), Gambler'' films with Kenny Rogers, where his character provided comic relief. Early life Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois. He attended Prospect High School (Illinois), Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Contagion Heuristic
The contagion heuristic is a psychological heuristic which follows the law of contagion and the law of similarity, leading people to avoid contact with people or objects viewed as "contaminated" by previous contact with someone or something viewed as bad—or, less often, to seek contact with objects that have been in contact with people or things considered good. For example, people tend to view food that has touched the ground as contaminated by the ground, and therefore unfit to eat, or view a person who has touched a diseased person as likely to carry the disease (regardless of the actual contagiousness of the disease). The contagion heuristic can include "magical thinking", in which well-educated adults will think that touching an object transfers their qualities ("essence") to it: for example, a sweater worn by Adolf Hitler is thought to bear his negative essence and to be capable of transmitting it to another wearer. The perception of essence-transfer extends to rituals to p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Social Contagion
Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network. The phenomenon has been discussed by social scientists since the late 19th century, although much work on the subject was based on unclear or even contradictory conceptions of what social contagion is, so exact definitions vary. Some scholars include the unplanned spread of ideas through a population as social contagion, though others prefer to class that as memetics. Generally social contagion is understood to be separate from the collective behaviour which results from a direct attempt to exert social influence. Two broad divisions of social contagion are behavioural contagion and emotional contagion. The study of social contagion has intensified in the 21st century. Much recent work involves academics from social psychology, sociology, and network science investigating online social networks. Studies in the 20th century typically focused on negative effects such a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Complex Contagion
Complex contagion is the phenomenon in social networks in which multiple sources of exposure to an innovation are required before an individual adopts the change of behavior. It differs from simple contagion in that unlike a disease, it may not be possible for the innovation to spread after only one incident of contact with an infected neighbor. The spread of complex contagion across a network of people may depend on many social and economic factors; for instance, how many of one's friends adopt the new idea as well as how many of them cannot influence the individual, as well as their own disposition in embracing change. Mechanisms ''Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties'' by Damon Centola of University of Pennsylvania and Michael Macy of Cornell University found that information and disease spread as “simple contagions”, requiring only one contact for transmission, while behaviors typically spread as “complex contagions”, requiring multiples sources of reinforce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |