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20202024
most citedPreventing epidemics by wearing masks: An application to COVID-19

34 citations · 43 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

math.OC2024

Optimal vaccination strategies in the control of an infectious disease: a SEIRV model for administration of two vaccines

Nelson L. Santos Junior, João A. M. Gondim

In this paper, we study the optimal control for an SEIR model adapted to the vaccination strategy of susceptible individuals. There are factors associated with a vaccination campai…

math.OC2024

Optimal screening strategies in the control of an infectious disease: a case of the COVID-19 in a population with age structure

Nelson L. Santos Junior, João A. M. Gondim

After the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw an increase in demand for epidemiological mathematical models. The goal of this work is to study the optimal control for an age-structured model…

math.CO2021

The number of perpendicularly inscribed polygons that intersect a given side in an odd sided regular polygon

João A. M. Gondim

The goal of this paper is to determine the number of perpendicularly inscribed polygons that intersect a given side of a regular polygon with an odd number of sides. This is done u…

q-bio.PE2020★ 34 cited

Preventing epidemics by wearing masks: An application to COVID-19

João A. M. Gondim

The goal of this work is to consider widespread use of face masks as a non-pharmaceutical control strategy for the Covid-19 pandemic. A SEIR model that divides the population into…

q-bio.PE2020★ 1 cited

SEIRD model in heterogenous populations: The role of commuting and social inequalities in the COVID-19 dynamics

João A. M. Gondim, Thiago Yukio Tanaka

In this paper we analyze the effects of commuting and social inequalities for the epidemic development of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). With this aim we consider a SEIRD (susce…

q-bio.PE2020

Optimal quarantine strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic in a population with a discrete age structure

João A. M. Gondim, Larissa Machado

The goal of this work is to study the optimal controls for the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil. We consider an age-structured SEIRQ model with quarantine compartment, where the control…

q-bio.PE2020★ 8 cited

Assessing the Efficiency of Different Control Strategies for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Epidemic

César Castilho, João A. M. Gondim, Marcelo Marchesin +1

The goal of this work is to analyse the effects of control policies for the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Brazil. This is done by considering an age-structured SEIR model with…