Sentences with phrase «mathematical models of disease»

Infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in the intersection between mathematical models of disease transmission and observational methods.

Using data from the outbreak of cholera that started in 2010 in the region, they developed a mathematical model of the disease's epidemiology.

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The combination of mathematical modeling and high - performance computing may be the only way to overcome the complexity of cancer, which is not one disease but more than a hundred, each with numerous sub-types.

Benjamin «Benjy» Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for developing a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather patterns could spread spores of late blight fungus, which caused the Irish Potato Famine.

«It started to become quite evident to me that a research career in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling would be a fairly perfect combination of my longstanding interests in math and biology and medicine, as well as my emerging interest in infectious disease transmission and public health more generally,» she says.

The team fit a mathematical contagion model for the spread of disease to the data and was able to show that the trends in the news media stories explained nearly all of the variation in the social media.

Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.

In a further step, the researchers used mathematical models to predict how an infectious disease would spread considering the changes in behaviour of the sick animals.

But Majumder, a scientist who specializes in mathematical modeling, saw something different in the splotches of light pink: a disaster for infectious disease surveillance.

Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

«Dengue strains differ in rates of viral replication: New research works to decipher the relationship between dengue viral load patterns and disease severity using mathematical models.»

The authors developed a mathematical model accounting for disease progression, mortality, morbidity and the heterosexual transmission of HIV to help forecast future trends in the disease.

I also give talks in schools on infectious diseases and the use of mathematical models.

By incorporating social norms into predictive mathematical modelling, a research team from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo found that they can foresee the observed patterns of population behavior and disease spread during vaccine scares — times when anti-vaccine sentiment is strong.

My research combines the use of mathematical models and statistical methods to understand the transmission dynamics and control of a range of infectious diseases of humans and animals.

Benjy Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for his development of a mathematical model which predicts how disease data and weather patterns could spread spores of the «late blight» fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars in crop damages annually.

Our aim is to develop a multi-scale mathematical model (ranging from the molecular to the organ scale) of the liver tissue that can predict alterations of organ function consequent to molecular perturbations and disease states.

This workshop explored mathematical tools and problems in describing the life cycle, stage conversion, and clonal expansion of T. gondii by bringing together expertise in parasitic diseases, epidemiology, population genetics, disease modeling, network dynamics, evolutionary dynamics, and nonlinear analysis.

His mathematical model showed that vaccinations do NOT lower disease mortality and DO increase disease morbility — the frequency of the disease within the population.