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Rates of Change of the Reproduction factors.
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We investigate the spreading of information through Twitter messaging related
to the spread of Ebola in western Africa using epidemic based dynamic models.
Diffusive spreading leads to NLPDE models and fixed point analysis yields
systems of NLODE models. When tweets are mapped as connected nodes in a graph
and are treated as a time sequenced Markov...
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