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Challenges in cybersecurity: Lessons from biological defense systems
Edward Schrom, Ann Kinzig, Stephanie Forrest +18
We explore the commonalities between methods for assuring the security of computer systems (cybersecurity) and the mechanisms that have evolved through natural selection to protect…
Staggered Release Policies for COVID-19 Control: Costs and Benefits of Sequentially Relaxing Restrictions by Age
Henry Zhao, Zhilan Feng, Carlos Castillo-Chavez +1
Strong social distancing restrictions have been crucial to controlling the COVID-19 outbreak thus far, and the next question is when and how to relax these restrictions. A sequenti…
The Estimation of the Effective Reproductive Number from Disease Outbreak Data
Ariel Cintrón-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chávez, Luís M. A. Bettencourt +2
We consider a single outbreak susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model and corresponding estimation procedures for the effective reproductive number . We discuss…
The Role of Nonlinear Relapse on Contagion Amongst Drinking Communities
Ariel Cintrón-Arias, Fabio Sánchez, Xiaohong Wang +3
Relapse, the recurrence of a disorder following a symptomatic remission, is a frequent outcome in substance abuse disorders. Some of our prior results suggested that relapse, in th…
Mobility restrictions for the control of epidemics: When do they work?
Baltazar Espinoza, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Charles Perrings
Mobility restrictions - travel advisories, trade and travel bans, border closures and, in extreme cases, area quarantines or cordons sanitaires - are among the most widely used mea…
Epidemics on Networks: Reducing Disease Transmission Using Health Emergency Declarations and Peer Communication
Asma Azizi, Cesar Montalvo, Baltazar Espinoza +2
Understanding individual decisions in a world where communications and information move instantly via cell phones and the internet, contributes to the development and implementatio…