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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… encounters. While this process detects many clusters, the lack of a true corpus of authorship-linked ads makes it … encounters. While this process detects many clusters, the lack of a true corpus of authorship-linked ads makes it … -
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 computing the …