On a Contagious Distribution

A complex, contagious, evolutionary habit.

Yawning is often noted in medical seminars and conferences – be they surgical, orthopaedic, gastroenterological, endocrinological or neurological. Yet, this condition receives little coverage by professors in medical schools. On the contrary, most lecturers have an adverse reaction to it – when the overworked medical student opens his mouth to raise the topic, the fierce pathology lecturer dema...

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Contagious Cancer

Although cancer can on occasion be caused by infectious agents such as specific bacteria, parasites, and viruses, it is not generally considered a transmissible disease. In rare circumstances, however, direct communication from one host to another has been documented. The Tasmanian devil is now threatened with extinction in the wild because of a fatal transmissible cancer, devil facial tumor di...

Clinicopathological Features of Contagious Ecthyma-Like Lesions in a Dog

Background: Contagious ecthyma or orf is a poxviral disease of goat and sheep, with incidental infection appearing in humans, cows, camels, and many wild ruminants, and very rarely in dogs. Case description: In the present paper was described gross morphology and histopathology of contagious ecthyma in a dog with a large ulcerated cutaneous mass in the neck (under the collar) which was ma...

Contagious Sets in Expanders

We consider the following activation process in d-regular undirected graphs: a vertex is active either if it belongs to a set of initially activated vertices or if at some point it has at least r active neighbors, where 1 < r ≤ d is the activation threshold. Such processes have been studied extensively in several fields such as combinatorics, computer science, probability and statistical physic...