3 papers
Correlation-Weighted Communicability Curvature as a Structural Driver of Dengue Spread: A Bayesian Spatial Analysis of Recife (2015-2024)
Marcílio Ferreira dos Santos, Cleiton de Lima Ricardo, Andreza dos Santos Rodrigues de Melo
We investigate whether the structural connectivity of urban road networks helps explain dengue incidence in Recife, Brazil (2015--2024). For each neighborhood, we compute the avera…
Urban Dengue and Spatial Dependence: A SAR Model Incorporating Favela Data in Recife, Brazil
Marcílio Ferreira dos Santos, Andreza dos Santos Rodrigues de Melo
In this study, we used a dataset of approximately 96,000 reported dengue cases from 2015 to 2024 in Recife, the capital of northeastern Brazil, all geocoded by neighborhood. The da…
Urban Structure Predicts a Persistent Place-Based Spatial Signature of Dengue Susceptibility Across Epidemic Conditions
Marcílio Ferreira dos Santos, Cleiton de Lima Ricardo, Andreza dos Santos Rodrigues de Melo +2
Urban structure alone consistently recovered the relative spatial distribution of dengue susceptibility in unseen years, with year-specific Spearman correlations ranging from 0.49…