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Modelling control strategies against Classical Swine Fever: influence of traders and markets using static and temporal networks in Ecuador
Alfredo Acosta, Nicolas Cespedes Cardenas, Cristian Imbacuan +6
Classical swine fever (CSF) in Ecuador is prevalent since 1940, pig farming represents an important economic and cultural sector. Recently, the National Veterinary Service (NVS) ha…
Estimating the Size of Aedes aegypti Populations from Dengue Incidence Data: Implications for the Risk of Yellow Fever, Zika Virus and Chikungunya Outbreaks
Eduardo Massad, Marcos Amaku, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho +4
In this paper we present a model to estimate the density of aedes mosquitoes in a community affected by dengue. The model is based on the fitting of a continuous function to the in…
Estimating the prevalence of infectious diseases from under-reported age-dependent compulsorily notification databases
Marcos Amaku, Marcelo Nascimento Burattini, Eleazar Chaib +4
Background: National or local laws, norms or regulations (sometimes and in some countries) require medical providers to report notifiable diseases to public health authorities. Rep…
The friendship paradox in scale-free networks
Marcos Amaku, Rafael I. Cipullo, José H. H. Grisi-Filho +2
Our friends have more friends than we do. That is the basis of the friendship paradox. In mathematical terms, the mean number of friends of friends is higher than the mean number o…
Modeling the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases in Different Scale-Free Networks with the Same Degree Distribution
Raul Ossada, José H. H. Grisi-Filho, Fernando Ferreira +1
The transmission dynamics of some infectious diseases is related to the contact structure between individuals in a network. We used five algorithms to generate contact networks wit…
Scale-Free Networks with the Same Degree Distribution: Different Structural Properties
José H. H. Grisi-Filho, Raul Ossada, Fernando Ferreira +1
We have analysed some structural properties of scale-free networks with the same degree distribution. Departing from a degree distribution obtained from the Barabási-Albert (BA) al…
A Comparative Analysis of the Relative Efficacy of Vector-Control Strategies against Dengue Fever
Marcos Amaku, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Silvia Martorano Raimundo +1
The model considers the human population, the adult mosquito population and the population of immature stages, which includes eggs, larvae and pupae. The model also considers the v…
Vaccination against rubella: Analysis of the temporal evolution of the age-dependent force of infection and the effects of different contact patterns
M. Amaku, F. A. B. Coutinho, R. S. Azevedo +3
In this paper, we analyze the temporal evolution of the age-dependent force of infection and incidence of rubella, after the introduction of a very specific vaccination programme i…
An efficient prescription to find the eigenfunctions of point interactions Hamiltonians
F. A. B. Coutinho, M. Amaku
A prescription invented a long time ago by Case and Danilov is used to get the wave function of point interactions in two and three dimensions.