A perspective on blockchain smart contracts: Reducing uncertainty and complexity in value exchange

H Kim, M Laskowski - 2017 26th International conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The blockchain constitutes a technology-based, rather than social or regulation based,
means to lower uncertainty about one another in order to exchange value. However, its use …

[HTML][HTML] Metapopulation dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in a small-scale Amazonian society

TS Kraft, E Seabright, S Alami, SM Jenness… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The severity of infectious disease outbreaks is governed by patterns of human contact,
which vary by geography, social organization, mobility, access to technology and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of epidemiological determinants of COVID-19 pandemic related to social and economic factors globally

MM Hassan, MA Kalam, S Shano, MRK Nayem… - Journal of Risk and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has manifested more than a health crisis and has severely
impacted on social, economic, and development crises in the world. The relationship of …

An ACP approach to public health emergency management: using a campus outbreak of H1N1 influenza as a case study

W Duan, Z Cao, Y Wang, B Zhu, D Zeng… - … on Systems, Man …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to tackle the infeasibility of building mathematical models and conducting physical
experiments for public health emergencies in the real world, we apply the Artificial societies …

Increased virulence due to multiple infection in Daphnia leads to limited growth in 1 of 2 co-infecting microsporidian parasites

FE O'Keeffe, RC Pendleton, CV Holland, P Luijckx - Parasitology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Recent outbreaks of various infectious diseases have highlighted the ever-present need to
understand the drivers of the outbreak and spread of disease. Although much of the …

Information spreading forensics via sequential dependent snapshots

K Cai, H Xie, JCS Lui - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mining the characteristics of information spreading in networks is crucial in communication
studies, network security management, epidemic investigations, etc. Previous works are …

An LSTM+ Model for Managing Epidemics: Using Population Mobility and Vulnerability for Forecasting COVID-19 Hospital Admissions

A Ray, W Jank, K Dutta… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Worldwide epidemics, such as corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), cause
unprecedented challenges for society and its healthcare systems. Governments attempt to …

Pairwise approximation for SIR-type network epidemics with non-Markovian recovery

G Röst, Z Vizi, IZ Kiss - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present the generalized mean-field and pairwise models for non-Markovian epidemics
on networks with arbitrary recovery time distributions. First we consider a hyperbolic partial …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge, attitudes and practices about human African trypanosomiasis and their implications in designing intervention strategies for Yei county, South …

SA Bukachi, AA Mumbo, ACD Alak… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background A clear understanding of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of a
particular community is necessary in order to improve control of human African …

Demographic distribution and transmission potential of influenza A and 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 in pilgrims

A Ashshi, E Azhar, A Johargy, A Asghar… - The Journal of Infection …, 2014 - jidc.org
Abstract Introduction: The World Health Organization's persistent reporting of global
outbreaks of influenza A viruses, including the 2009 pandemic swine A H1N1 strain …