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Record W4409953475 · doi:10.1111/gean.70007

Absolute Space or Relational Space, Which Governs Spatiotemporally Extended Effects in Disease Dispersion?

2025· article· en· W4409953475 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeographical Analysis · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicCOVID-19 epidemiological studies
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNational Institutes of Health
KeywordsSpace (punctuation)Dispersion (optics)DiseaseAbsolute (philosophy)Statistical physicsPhysicsComputer scienceMedicineEpistemologyQuantum mechanicsInternal medicinePhilosophy

Abstract

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Prevailing disease models typically focus on in-situ effects, that is, the health risks of a location are affected by the transmission-driving factors of the same location. The ex-situ effects, in contrast, extend health risks from neighboring locations and earlier days to focal locations and current dates. These effects could be critical but have not received much attention. This study investigates the extended effects in absolute space and relational space. We examine whether the effects exist, whether they differ between the two spaces, and whether they vary with the order of neighbors and the number of prior dates in both spaces. Results show that extended effects are generally present. Mild effects are identified in absolute space, while greater effects are observed in relational space. The effects vary slightly with the neighbor order in absolute space, but considerably in relational space where the second-order neighbors exert the most prominent effects. In both spaces, the effects diminish at the third-order and last for up to three days. These findings advocate multiple spatializations that offer an in-depth understanding of disease dispersion in specific and dynamic geographic phenomena at large.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.152
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.008
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.313 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it