Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...

results a low adc value was associated with lymph node metastasis (p < 0.01) and with high ki-67 protein levels (p = 0.03). there were no significant differences in the adc values among the histological grade (p = 0.48), molecular subtype (p = 0.51), tumor size (p = 0.46), and p53 protein level (p = 0.62). conclusion the pre-operative use of the 3.0 tesla dwi could provide information about the...

In this note, we present an information diffusion inequality derived from an elementary argument, which gives rise to a very general Fano-type inequality. The latter unifies and generalizes the distance-based Fano inequality and the continuous Fano inequality established in [DW13, Corollary 1, Propositions 1 and 2], as well as the generalized Fano inequality in [HV94, Equation following (10)].

Les modèles de diffusion d’information mettent traditionnellement en jeu un réseau sous-jacent dont la topologie reproduit certaines propriétés observées dans les réseaux réels. Toutefois, la comparaison des phénomènes de diffusion observés sur des réseaux générés par des modèles classiques avec ceux se produisant au sein de réseaux réels reste peu étudiée. Dans une démarche empiriste, nous pro...

This paper explores how social interactions among consumers shape markets. In a two-country model, meet and exchange information about the quality of goods. As spreads, demand evolves, affecting prices quantities manufactured by profit-maximizing firms. We show that market with informational frictions reach duopoly price full at limit. However, this convergence can take different paths dependin...