Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Quality of Life of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Dengjun Guo, Bing Han, Yuqiang Lu, Chenling Lv, Xiaoling Fang, Zhenzhong Zhang, Zhenguo Liu, Xiaoping Wang

“…The quality of life for patients during the period of epidemic prevention and control was worse than that after epidemic prevention and control (P < 0.001). …”
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A Bicriteria Model to Determine Pareto Optimal Pulse Vaccination Strategies by Funda Samanlioglu, Nauman Tabassum, Tolga Kudret Karaca, Ayse Humeyra Bilge

“…The aim of this paper is to determine approximate Pareto optimal (efficient) pulse vaccination strategies for epidemics modeled by the susceptible-infected-removed (SIR) without population dynamics, characterized by a single epidemic wave. …”
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Efficient routing algorithm for opportunistic networks based on network coding by Zhi REN, Zhi-hu LIU, Yu-kun YAO, Qian-bin CHEN

“…To address the problem in opportunistic network that t existing epidemic-mechanism-based routing algorithms incur redundant communication overhead during the transmission of data packets,an efficient routing algorithm based on network coding,called NCBER (network-coding-based epidemic routing),was proposed.During the transmission of data packets,NCBER adopts an active XOR coding operation and multicast,and cancels the transmission of the Request control packets,so as to reduce the time used to transmit data packets,as well as the number of control packets.As a result,NCBER cuts down the network overhead and ortens the end-to-end delay of data packets.Theoretical analysis and extensive simulation results show that NCBER outperforms the classical epidemic routing algorithm and its improvement called MRRMR (message redundancy removal of multi-copy routing) in terms of the network overhead and the end-to-end delay,while still keeping the delivery rate at 100%.…”
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Sida : la politisation d’une épidémie [1984] by Dennis Altman

“…However, much of the response to the epidemic had to do with the strong connection the latter established between “sexual excess” and death, and above all, between homosexuality and illness. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of a Stochastic SEQIR Model and Application in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Shijie Liu, Maoxing Liu

“…Then, the extinction conditions of the epidemic and its asymptotic property around the endemic equilibrium are obtained. …”
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Consistency between the geographic distributions of overweight and obesity among children and adults in China by Yudan Liu, Hui Fan

“…We observed the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults increased from low- to middle- and high- epidemic areas. Compared with adults from low-epidemic areas, those from middle- and high-epidemic areas had a higher odds of having overweight or obesity (odds ratio [95% confidence interval]: 1.518 [1.362, 1.692] and 2.190 [1.972, 2.433], respectively). …”
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L'environnement socio-spatial comme facteur d'émergence des maladies infectieuses by François Taglioni, Jean-Sébastien Dehecq

“…This epidemic hit the states and territories in the region with 25% up to 60% prevalences. …”
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İslâm Tarihi Boyunca Görülen Salgın Hastalıklar ve Alınan Önlemler by Hüseyin Elmhemıt

“…This epidemic is known as the first epidemic in Islam, and a large number of the Companions were killed in it. …”
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Mathematical models of contact patterns between age groups for predicting the spread of infectious diseases by Sara Y. Del Valle, J. M. Hyman, Nakul Chitnis

“…We apply the analysis to the spread of a smallpox-like disease, derive the formula for the reproduction number, $\Re_{0}$, and based on this threshold parameter, show the level of human behavioral change required to control the epidemic.We analyze how different mixing patterns can affect the disease prevalence, the cumulative number of new infections, and the final epidemic size.Our analysis indicates that the combination of residual immunity and behavioral changes during a smallpox-like disease outbreak can play a key role in halting infectious disease spread; and that realistic mixing patterns must be included in the epidemic model for the predictions to accurately reflect reality.…”
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Recommendations for Control and Mitigation of Laurel Wilt and Ambrosia Beetle Vectors in Commercial Avocado Groves in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Daniel Carrillo, Edward A. Evans, Romina Gazis, Bruce A Schaffer, Fredy H Ballen Orozco, Jeff Wasielewski

“… The lethal laurel wilt epidemic affecting avocado trees in Florida is caused by a fungal pathogen-ambrosia beetle complex (LW-AB). …”
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The Spreading of Information in Online Social Networks through Cellular Automata by Yuda Wang, Gang Li

“…Epidemic dynamics in complex networks have been extensively studied. …”
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Study on Air Quality Index, Atmospheric Pollutants and Dry Deposition of PCDD/Fs in the Ambient Air near Southwest China by Xueyan Liu, Kangping Cui, Yen-Kung Hsieh, Ya-Fen Wang, Ruoxin Wang

“…The results showed that the implementation of strict epidemic prevention action led to a significant improvement in the air quality in 2020. …”
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RISK ANALYSIS OF PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS INTRODUCTION INTO THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by S. V. Scherbinin, A. K. Karaulov, V. M. Zakharov

“…Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) has never been registered in the Russian Federation, but the epidemic situation in the neighboring countries indicates that it is a typical transboundary disease. …”
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Applying a Common-Sense Approach to Fighting Obesity by Jessica Y. Breland, Ashley M. Fox, Carol R. Horowitz, Howard Leventhal

“…The obesity epidemic is a threat to the health of millions and to the economic viability of healthcare systems, governments, businesses, and nations. …”
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Recommendations for Control and Mitigation of Laurel Wilt and Ambrosia Beetle Vectors in Commercial Avocado Groves in Florida by Jonathan Henry Crane, Daniel Carrillo, Edward A. Evans, Romina Gazis, Bruce A Schaffer, Fredy H Ballen Orozco, Jeff Wasielewski

“… The lethal laurel wilt epidemic affecting avocado trees in Florida is caused by a fungal pathogen-ambrosia beetle complex (LW-AB). …”
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The Threshold of a Stochastic SIRS Model with Vertical Transmission and Saturated Incidence by Chunjuan Zhu, Guangzhao Zeng, Yufeng Sun

“…If the noise is small, it is shown that the threshold of the stochastic system determines the extinction and persistence of the epidemic. In addition, we find that if the noise is large, the epidemic still prevails. …”
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1832 : le choléra en prison, peur de l’invasion, stratégies de lutte et bilan by Céline Delétang

“…The sources contained in the National Archives provide examples of different measures implemented by local and central authorities to reduce the risk of invasion of the cholera epidemic in the french prisons in 1832. The numerous exchanges between prison governors, prefets, minister, health commissions demonstrate that particular attention was paid to improving the public health in the prisons, regarded as centers of epidemic outbreak. …”
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La politisation d’une épidémie : les mécanismes de construction d’une cause by Michael Voegtli

“…This text is a commentary on Dennis Altman’s paper “AIDS: the Politicization of an Epidemic”. Published in 1984, Altman’s article shows the political dimension of the epidemic and its impact on homosexuality, and points out how it transforms both the gay movement and the gay identity. …”
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Multi-region infectious disease prediction modeling based on spatio-temporal graph neural network and the dynamic model. by Xiaoyi Wang, Zhen Jin

“…We performed multi-wave infectious disease prediction in multiple regions based on real epidemic data. The results show that the framework is capable of performing high-dimensional parameter estimation and accurately predicting epidemic transmission dynamics in multiple regions even with low data quality. …”
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Policy and Law Assessment of COVID-19 Based on Smooth Transition Autoregressive Model by Jieqi Lei, Xuyuan Wang, Yiming Zhang, Lian Zhu, Lin Zhang

“…One of the important issues in epidemic prevention and control is the assessment of the prevention and control effectiveness. …”
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