There's emotional contagion that takes place in human populations.

And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still.

And in humans, of course, we can study that with yawn contagion.

One might even say that today s global economy suffers from too much, rather than too little, cross border finance.

Also, we know that people who have a lot of yawn contagion are highly empathic.

People who have problems with empathy, such as autistic children, they don't have yawn contagion.

Fortunately, there is no evidence of transmission, but we may not be so lucky in the future.

On the Y axis is the cumulative instances of contagion, and on the X axis is the time.

That actually is the true nature of the distribution of humor when you don't have the contagion of humor.

Of the various topics addressed , particular mention should be made of the exposure of banks to cross border contagion risks .

Because of its relatively poor capacity for transmission, HIV 2 is largely confined to West Africa.

Source ECB . Note An increase ( decrease ) indicates a depreciation ( appreciation ) of the currency .

And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them, but they have these great contagion benefits.

In the first few months of 1998 the drachma came under pressure owing to contagion from the Asian crisis .

At the same time , a more integrated financial system increases the scope for spillover effects and contagion across borders .

At stake was the management of nationalized lands on an area bordering on the cross border Limpopo National Park where 38,000 people live.

Regular hand washing appears to be effective in reducing the transmission of cold viruses, especially among children.

Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin drafted the act for the Targowica Confederation, referring to the constitution as the contagion of democratic ideas .

The proposed banking directive currently does not refer to this issue , and the ECB suggests referring to it in a recital to the proposed banking directive , indicating that supervisors should expect banks to operate with capital buffers so that they can comply with minimum capital levels , even under conditions of stress .

ECB Opinion on two proposals for Regulations on the professional cross border transportation of euro cash by road between euro area Member States

If half of a community sleeps under a net, the other half also benefits because the contagion of the disease spread.

It is spread through the air when people who have an active TB infection cough, sneeze, or otherwise transmit respiratory fluids through the air.

If another person then eats or drinks food or water that has been contaminated with feces containing the cyst, that person will also become infected with the amoeba.

Martin continued to transport the sick to the convent until the provincial superior, alarmed by the contagion threatening the friars, forbade him to continue to do so.

In the south and east the Amazon rainforest region has limited cross border transport in the west, there is a mountainous border of over shared with Colombia.

A growing centralisation of intra group liquidity management has also been observed , which has clear advantages in terms of the efficiency of internal capital flows , but can also result in higher intra group and cross border contagion risks .

The cause of transmission remains unknown in 20 of cases however, many of these are believed to be accounted for by IDU.

A system based on sharia (Islamic law) has been imposed, human rights abuses are legion, and cross border movement of weapons and militants has undermined the security of Libya s neighbors.

And we see this when lovers walk down the street, when a crowd in Egypt or Tunisia gets caught up in an emotional contagion, the deep interpenetration.

Financial contagion effects on Brazil decreased significantly in the last quarter of 2001 , even though conditions in Argentina continued to deteriorate .

The data are compared across economies and over time to rank 185 countries in ten categories of business regulation, such as Resolving Insolvency and Trading Across Borders.

Societies should be willing to go out and subsidize the net, give them for free, or, for that matter, pay people to use them because of those contagion benefits.

So yawn contagion that you're probably all familiar with and maybe you're going to start yawning soon now is something that we share with other animals.

A similar assessment can be made as regards Turkey , where financial instability , while remaining a concern , did not result in widespread contagion to other countries .

These instruments could also increase contagion risks to banks from insurance companies , as well as exposing banks to significant legal and operational risks .

This decreased the risk from one in 200 units to between one in 10,000 to one in 10,000,000 per unit of blood.

So one of the things I've been doing over the last few years is really compiling data on things that could either happen within national borders or across national borders, and I've looked at the cross border component as a percentage of the total.

But cross border investment from countries such as Brazil, India, and China is now flowing not just to other emerging and transitional economies, but also to the old FDI exporting states.

During the first 2.5 months of an HIV infection a person's infectiousness is twelve times higher due to this high viral load.

Moreover, a contagion of social and economic breakdown would spread worldwide via computer networks and digital wildfire literally at the speed of light.

Contagion Folkloric vampirism has been associated with clusters of deaths from unidentifiable or mysterious illnesses, usually within the same family or the same small community.

When the prospectus is supplemented , harmonization at Community level of the time frame for the exercise by investors of the right of withdrawal of their previous acceptances would provide certainty to issuers making cross border offers of securities .

The amalgamation of infrastructures for large value payments and the restructuring of interbank activities have already altered the traditional channels for contagion at the liquid end of the market . Page 7 of 10

Infectious areas of the genitals, especially when symptoms are present, may not be covered by a condom, and as a result, some diseases like HPV and herpes may be transmitted by direct contact.

Twenty five and a quarter years ago I read a newspaper article which said that one day syringes would be one of the major causes of the spread of AIDS, the transmission of AIDS.