Sentences with phrase «spread of epidemics»

It has been mentioned [17] that patterns of decline could indicate simple wave - like spread of epidemic disease — apparently to reconcile the evidence of such in Central America [6].

Computational work conducted at Northwestern University has led to a new mathematical theory for understanding the global spread of epidemics.

«Study of social contact patterns in Hong Kong will give insight into spread of epidemic: Hong Kong was where Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) emerged in 2002 - 2003.»

A nurse and midwife who routinely deals with AIDS in families lamented the effect of anarchic sexual practices on the spread of the epidemic.

By integrating methods of statistical physics, computational science, and geographic information systems with classical network theory, the researchers have been able to find patterns that could help address problems as diverse as urban traffic congestion and the spread of epidemics.

By limiting movements, the authorities create greater risks: «Preliminary studies showed that there is a critical value for the reduction in movements — around 80 - 90 % — that prevents the spread of an epidemic across a population.

It's important to understand how networks function because, as Watts puts it, «that has relevance to just about every question we're interested in, whether we're talking about the spread of epidemics, or changes in social norms, or fashions, or the expression of the genome.»

But were multitudes of infected rats and fleas the crucial element in the spread of these epidemics?

For example, the spread of an epidemic might be simulated on a spin model with spins having three states corresponding to well, sick, and recovered.

With the NIH's help, he has been pursuing a cutting - edge question about human behavior: How do networks of people — in particular, long - haul truck drivers — work together to accelerate the spread of an epidemic, even when some of them don't know one another?

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

New approaches are needed to control the spread of epidemic diseases, according to the developers of a new model of the way pathogens can «cooperate».

The momentum built as of now will need to be maintained to ensure that the spread of the epidemic is reversed.

The efforts of Dr. Suniti Solomon and her team at the Y.R.G. Centre for AIDS Research and Education have taken care of 11,000 patients and are helping to slow the spread of the epidemic.

Investigating Epidemics: maths and biology This project contains three simple mathematical models for the spread of an epidemic: Standing Disease, Network Disease and Counter Plague.

The questions put students in the role of a medical professional tasked with helping to curtail the spread of the epidemic.

One such is Nicholas Christakis, a medical researcher, who has figured out that using the friendship paradox can help predict the spread of epidemics.

The Ebola crisis has mobilised a global effort to develop one or more vaccines to stem the spread of the epidemic.