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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"infectious disease dynamics"”.
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Exploring the Multi-scale character of infectious disease dynamics
… study characterised multiscale models of infectious disease dynamics. This was achieved by establishing when it is appropriate to implement particular mathematical methods for different multiscale models. The study of infectious disease systems has been elucidated ever since the discovery …
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Study of Behaviour Change and Impact on Infectious Disease Dynamics by Mathematical Models
… to study human behaviour changes' effects on infectious disease transmission dynamics. It centers on two main topics. The first concerns how behaviour response evolves during epidemics and the effects of adaptive precaution behaviour on epidemics. The second topic is how to build general …
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On the Effect of Ignoring Within-Unit Infectious Disease Dynamics When Modelling Spatial Transmission
… a class of models that can be used to analyze infectious epidemic data to assist in the understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious diseases in discrete time (Deardon et al., 2010). ILMs are generally fitted to epidemic data through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods in a …
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Host heterogeneity and respiratory disease dynamics: From structural inequity to immune history
Host heterogeneity is a core driver of infectious disease dynamics and has been widely explored in ecology and evolution. However, in human populations, social inequity remains underexplored as a source of heterogeneity despite having long been identified as a threat to global health and infectious …
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Behavioral Heterogeneity and Disease Dynamics in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
Infectious disease is a ubiquitous aspect of life on earth; however, parasites and pathogens are not distributed equally among individual hosts. Due to its ability to shape the way that individuals interact with other potential hosts and the environment, behavior is one of the most salient ways …
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Developing Transcriptional Markers for Detecting Infection with the Novel Tuberculosis Pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, in Free-Ranging Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
… robust predictive models for forecasting infectious disease dynamics over space and time relies on successful surveillance strategies to accurately assess host infection status. We are constantly refining these models to improve our understanding of transmission and persistence dynamics in …
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Stochastic and Renewal Methods Applied to Epidemic Models
… is made up of three chapters, which analyse the disease spreads within the population in three different settings. The first chapter analyses the effects of the adaptive vaccination strategy on the infectious disease dynamics in a closed population and a demographically open population. The …
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Trematode Communities of the Appalachian Stream Snail, Elimia proxima: the Importance of Scale in Parasite Ecology Research
… important for epidemiology and predicting how infectious disease dynamics may respond to future disturbance. Digenean trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) are parasitic flatworms with complex, multi-host life cycles that include snail first-intermediate hosts and vertebrate definitive hosts. …
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Quantifying the effect of climate on respiratory viruses: From seasonality to interannual variability
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Neural parameter inference for large-scale multi-agent systems
… data is reduced, as the underlying system dynamics are explicitly modelled and can be leveraged for extrapolation. Second, the outputs of the neural network remain interpretable within the broader context of the mechanistic model. Third, the need for ad-hoc parametrisation—whether through …
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Spillover and emergence of bat-origin viral infections
… research to quantify and characterise the system dynamics of bat-origin viral emergence events. Chapters 2–5 are comprised of four quantitative analyses: a compartmental model comparison of stochastic henipavirus serological dynamics in captive bats (Eidolon helvum in Ghana), a quantitative …
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Statistical inference in stochastic/deterministic epidemic models to jointly estimate transmission and severity
… joint estimation of transmission and severity of infectious diseases, focussing on the specific case of influenza. Transmission governs the speed and magnitude of viral spread in a population, while severity determines morbidity and mortality and the resulting effect on health care facilities. …