Community replacement, ecological shift and early warning signals prior to the end-Permian mass extinction: A case study from a nearshore clastic-shelf section in South China

2017 ◽  
Vol 487 ◽  
pp. 118-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhang ◽  
G.R. Shi ◽  
Hui-ting Wu ◽  
Ting-lu Yang ◽  
Wei-hong He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Early Warning Signals ◽  
Permian Mass Extinction

scholarly journals Performance of early warning signals for disease emergence: a case study on COVID-19 data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Proverbio ◽  
Françoise Kemp ◽  
Stefano Magni ◽  
Jorge Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Disease Emergence ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Active Monitoring ◽  
Prevalence Data ◽  
Early Warning Signals ◽  
Epidemic Dynamics ◽  
Critical Transitions ◽  
Parameter Values

AbstractThe sudden emergence of infectious diseases pose threats to societies worldwide and it is notably difficult to detect. In the past few years, several early warning signals (EWS) were introduced, to alert to impending critical transitions and extend the set of indicators for risk assessment. While they were originally thought to be generic, recent works demonstrated their sensitivity to some dynamical characteristics such as system noise and rates of approach to critical parameter values. Moreover, testing on empirical data is so far limited. Hence, validating their performance remains a challenge. In this study, we analyse the performance of common EWS such as increasing variance and autocorrelation in detecting the emergence of COVID-19 outbreaks in various countries, based on prevalence data. We show that EWS are successful in detecting disease emergence provided that some basic assumptions are satisfied: a slow forcing through the transitions and not fat-tailed noise. We also show cases where EWS fail, thus providing a verification analysis of their potential and limitations. Overall, this suggests that EWS can be useful for active monitoring of epidemic dynamics, but that their performance is sensitive to surveillance procedures. Our results thus represent a further step towards the application of EWS indicators for informing public health policies.

scholarly journals Early Warning Signals of Social Transformation: A Case Study from the US Southwest

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. e0163685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine A. Spielmann ◽  
Matthew A. Peeples ◽  
Donna M. Glowacki ◽  
Andrew Dugmore
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Early Warning Signals ◽  
Us Southwest ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Efficacy of early warning signals and spectral periodicity for predicting transitions in bipolar patients: An actigraphy study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoram K. Kunkels ◽  
Harriëtte Riese ◽  
Stefan E. Knapen ◽  
Rixt F. Riemersma - van der Lek ◽  
Sandip V. George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Analysis ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Type I ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Early Warning Signals ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Mood Episode ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Bipolar Patients ◽  
Direction Opposite

AbstractEarly-warning signals (EWS) have been successfully employed to predict transitions in research fields such as biology, ecology, and psychiatry. The predictive properties of EWS might aid in foreseeing transitions in mood episodes (i.e. recurrent episodes of mania and depression) in bipolar disorder (BD) patients. We analyzed actigraphy data assessed during normal daily life to investigate the feasibility of using EWS to predict mood transitions in bipolar patients. Actigraphy data of 15 patients diagnosed with BD Type I collected continuously for 180 days were used. Our final sample included eight patients that experienced a mood episode, three manic episodes and five depressed episodes. Actigraphy data derived generic EWS (variance and kurtosis) and context-driven EWS (autocorrelation at lag-720) were used to determine if these were associated to upcoming bipolar episodes. Spectral analysis was used to predict changes in the periodicity of the sleep/wake cycle. The study procedures were pre-registered. Results indicated that in seven out of eight patients at least one of the EWS did show a significant change-up till four weeks before episode onset. For the generic EWS the direction of change was always in the expected direction, whereas for the context-driven EWS the observed effect was often in the direction opposite of what was expected. The actigraphy data derived EWS and spectral analysis showed promise for the prediction of upcoming transitions in mood episodes in bipolar patients. Further studies into false positive rates are suggested to improve effectiveness for EWS to identify upcoming bipolar episode onsets.

Early warning signals using AVaRs of infinitely divisible GARCH models — evidence from stock index markets

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (43) ◽  
pp. 4630-4652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Chien Chang ◽  
Te-Chung Hu ◽  
Chiu-Fen Kao ◽  
Ya-Chi Chang
Keyword(s):  
Early Warning ◽  
Stock Index ◽  
Garch Models ◽  
Infinitely Divisible ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Early Warning Signals

Carbonate associated sulfate (CAS) δ34S heterogeneity across the End-Permian Mass Extinction in South China

2021 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 117172
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Johnson ◽  
Theodore M. Present ◽  
Menghan Li ◽  
Yanan Shen ◽  
Jess F. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Carbonate Associated Sulfate ◽  
Permian Mass Extinction
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