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The Vaccinee's Dilemma: Individual-level Decisions, Self- Organization & Influenza Epidemics
Raffaele Vardavas, Romulus Breban, Sally Blower
Inspired by Minority Games, we constructed a novel individual-level game of adaptive decision-making based on the dilemma of deciding whether to participate in voluntary influenza…
Inductive Reasoning Games as Influenza Vaccination Models: Mean Field Analysis
Romulus Breban, Raffaele Vardavas, Sally Blower
We define and analyze an inductive reasoning game of voluntary yearly vaccination in order to establish whether or not a population of individuals acting in their own self-interest…
The WHO surveillance threshold and the emergence of drug-resistant HIV strains in Botswana
Raffaele Vardavas, Sally Blower
Background: Approximately 40% of adults in Botswana are HIV-infected. The Botswana antiretroviral program began in 2002 and currently treats 34,000 patients with a goal of treating…
Parametric Resonance May Explain Virologic Failure to HIV Treatment Interruptions
Romulus Breban, Sally Blower
Pilot studies of structured treatment interruptions (STI) in HIV therapy have shown that patients can maintain low viral loads whilst benefiting from reduced treatment toxicity. Ho…