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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Epidemiological model"”.
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Epidemiological model of the transmission and spread of Hepatitis B pandemic in Ghana
… employed a SEIR deterministic compartmental model, which incorporates latent period and vertical transmission, to examine the transmission and spread of hepatitis B in the context of the Sub-Saharan Africa with incidence data obtained from Ghana. The SEIR deterministic compartmental modelling …
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Application of the Traditional Epidemiological Model to Predict Occupational Injury Rates in Manufacturing Industries
… to test the usefulness of the Traditional Epidemiological Model of disease causation in modeling occupational injury rates and the presence of occupational illness in the manufacturing industry. More specifically, this research involved use of the agent, host, and environment constructs of …
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Stability Analysis of Positive Systems with Applications to Epidemiology
… work on positive systems, we study a class of epidemiological systems with time-varying parameters. Most of the work done so far in epidemiology has been focused on models with timeindependent parameters. Based on some of the recent results in this area, we describe the epidemiological model as …
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The Ethical Balance Between Individual and Population Health Interests To Effectively Manage Pandemics and Epidemics
… of pandemics and epidemics. The libertarian model focuses on advancing individual rights. The epidemiological model focuses upon population health. The social justice model focuses on a broader perspective than individual rights and population health to include universal human rights.</p><p> …
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Computationally Efficient Specifications of Spatial Point Process Models and Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Models: Combining Remote Sensing Drivers with Geospatial Disease Case Data to Enhance Geographic Epidemiology
… the flexibility of Bayesian hierarchical models specified using a latent Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) are evaluated for use in analyzing large complex spatial and spatio-temporal data with the goal of contributing to an interdisciplinary effort of developing an eco-epidemiological …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
… are particularly pronounced when conventional modeling tools fall short, for instance, in settings where health risks arise from infection propagation in intricate supply chains, rapidly mutating pathogens, or delayed and fragmented surveillance systems. This thesis introduces a suite of novel …
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International Externalities in Pandemic Influenza Mitigation
… of antiviral treatment externalities in simple epidemiological SIR models, and then in a descriptively realistic Global Epidemiological Model (GEM). This GEM simulates pandemic spread between cities through the international airline network, and between cities and rural areas through ground …
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Graph-theoretic Approach To Modeling Propagation And Control Of Network Worms
… (1) Developing an accurate combinatorial model of worm propagation that can facilitate the analysis of worm control strategies, (2) Building an accurate epidemiological model for the propagation of a worm employing local strategies, (3) Devising distributed architecture and algorithms for …
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Algorithms for Large-scale Data Analytics and Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic
… In Chapter 4, we introduce a novel policy-driven epidemiological model, DELPHI. We show that DELPHI compares favorably with other top epidemiology models and predicted the large-scale epidemics in US, UK and Russia months before. We demonstrate how the explicit modeling of governmental …
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Hybrid modeling techniques to support drug-development and post-market analysis of anti-infectives
… therapeutic options. The thesis exemplifies this model-based contribution by addressing two practical open questions within the anti-infective pipeline. The first case-study regards the support of a novel granuloma-centric approach to anti-tuberculosis (TB) regimen design through the …
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Mathematical modeling for epidemiological inference and public health support
… have been increasingly turning to mathematical modeling to support their decisions. This trend has been calling for the introduction of a new class of models that not only are capable to explain qualitatively the dynamics of infectious diseases, but also have the capability to provide …
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An investigation of mechanisms to mitigate zero-day computer worms within computer networks
… these results are compared with a biological epidemiological model (SI model) in order to explore the applicability of SI model to cyber malware infections in general, as well as to assess its usefulness in characterising the virulence of cyber malware. From base comparison of Pseudo-Slammer …
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Drivers of Dengue Within-Host Dynamics and Virulence Evolution
… outcomes. It has been well-documented through epidemiological studies that DHF is most likely to result from a secondary heterologous infection, and that individuals experiencing a DENV-2 or DENV-3 infection typically are more likely to present with more severe dengue disease than those …
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Equilibria in epidemiology and in finance
… attention on two applications of mathematical modeling to epidemiology and finance. In particular, we want to model two real situations: the spread of anorexia and bulimia among society and a financial network. The choice to model these two phenomena is that we want to model them using two …
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Violence Interruption And The Epidemiological Approach: A Systematic Review Of Cure Violence
… gap in research about the effectiveness of the epidemiological violence prevention approach adopted by the Cure Violence Global. This approach in particular aims to interrupt gun violence around the world by changing the norms and behaviors of violent individuals. The primary goal of this study …
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Modelling the impact of prevention strategies on cervical cancer incidence in South Africa
… out to quantify this impact using a mathematical model, and will estimate the impact of scaling up current cancer prevention strategies, as well as proposed alternative strategies. Methods: This research extends a previously developed individual-based model for HIV to include infection with 13 …
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From traffic to transmission: adapting an agent-based transport model to simulate the spreading of infectious diseases
… in 2020, driven by the need for computer models to assist policymakers in making decisions about mitigation strategies. The thesis presents an approach to simulate the spreading of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, by integrating transport modeling with epidemiological methods. The …
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Epidemiological Models to Inform the Design And Evaluation of Official Plans for Risk-Based Surveillance of Foreign Hemorrhagic Fevers of Swine
… level perspective. We used Kazakhstan as a model because it is an ASF free country, surrounded by an infected neighborhood. To develop our model, we used conjoint analysis, which is a marketing tool for assessing and scoring clients preferences, linked to ordinal logistic regression to …
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Large-scale Optimization for Robust Multi-Class Prediction and Resource Allocation
… To develop a principled data-driven approach to model and estimate uncertainty in the parameters of a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) based compartmentalized epidemiological model. (2) To develop tools to solve a large-scale, non-linear optimization problem which is constrained by …
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Essays in Economic Epidemiology and Industrial Organisation
… decision making and disease spread in a spatial epidemiological model. The latter two chapters focus on industrial organisation. Both of these chapters analyse opaque selling, which is when a firm sells their products through a lottery mechanism that randomly rewards consumers with a product that …
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