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Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads
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The increasing use of the Internet to arrange sexual encounters presents challenges to public health agencies formulating STD interventions, particularly in the context of anonymous encounters. These encounters complicate or break traditional… read more… to bypass Craigslist filters, which prohibit including phone numbers in personal ads. By matching phone numbers of this type across all ads, we can create a … to bypass Craigslist filters, which prohibit including phone numbers in personal ads. By matching phone numbers of … -
Inferring Travel from Social Media
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The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more… of currency and movement of individuals using cell phone data. Although these data are finer grained, they have … methods (e.g., tracking currency movements or cell phone signals) have been suggested to measure how people … of currency and movement of individuals using cell phone data. Although these data are finer grained, they have … -
Evaluating the performance of two alternative geographic surveillance schemes
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Influenza-like illness (ILI) data is collected by an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state (Iowa, USA) level. Historically, the Iowa Department of Public Health has maintained 19 different influenza sentinel… read more… ‘noticed’ by a surveillance site (and thus having their visit reported back to the IDPH). The Huff model operates by … using two different probabilistic models for patient visits. To generate the best results from a disease …