Preface by Peter Hinow, Pierre Magal, Shigui Ruan

“…Webb.The topics of the 12 articles appearing in this special issue includeevolutionary dynamics of population growth, spatio-temporal dynamicsin reaction-diffusion biological models, transmission dynamics ofinfectious diseases, modeling of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals,analysis of Prion models, age-structured models in ecology and epidemiology,modeling of immune response to infections, modeling of cancer growth, etc.These topics partially represent the broad areas of Glenn's research interest.For more information please click the “Full Text” above.…”
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Modeling the spread of bed bug infestation and optimal resource allocation for disinfestation by Ali Gharouni, Lin Wang

“…A patch-structured multigroup-like $SIS$ epidemiological model is proposed to study the spread of the common bed bug infestation.It is shown that the model exhibits global threshold dynamics with the basic reproduction number as the threshold parameter.Costs associated with the disinfestation process are incorporated into setting up the optimization problems.Procedures are proposed and simulated for finding optimal resource allocation strategies to achieve the infestation free state.Our analysis and simulations provide useful insights on how to efficiently distribute the available exterminators among the infested patches for optimal disinfestation management.…”
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Global stability of infectious disease models with contact rate as a function of prevalence index by Cruz Vargas-De-León, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…In this paper, we consider a SEIR epidemiological model with information-related changes in contact patterns. …”
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An Existence Theorem for a Nonlocal Global Pandemic Model for Insect-Borne Diseases by John R. Cannon, Daniel J. Galiffa

“…This model was constructed by considering a spherical coordinate transformation of a previously established epidemiology model that can be applied to insect-borne diseases, like yellow fever. …”
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Global stability of the steady states of an epidemic model incorporating intervention strategies by Yongli Cai, Yun Kang, Weiming Wang

“…In this paper, we investigate the global stability of the steady states of a general reaction-diffusion epidemiological model with infection force under intervention strategies in a spatially heterogeneous environment. …”
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MalSEIRS: Forecasting Malware Spread Based on Compartmental Models in Epidemiology by Isabella Martínez Martínez, Andrés Florián Quitián, Daniel Díaz-López, Pantaleone Nespoli, Félix Gómez Mármol

“…In this context, the paper at hand proposes MalSEIRS, a novel dynamic model, to predict malware distribution in a network based on the SEIRS epidemiological model. As a result, the time-dependent rates of infection, recovery, and loss of immunity enable us to capture the complex dynamism of malware spreading behavior, which is influenced by a variety of external circumstances. …”
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Fractional-Order Epidemic Model for Measles Infection by Philip N. A. Akuka, Baba Seidu, Eric Okyere, Stephen Abagna

“…In addition, the model equilibria are determined, and the novel Jacobian determinant method recently constructed in the literature of epidemiological modeling of infectious diseases is applied to determine the threshold quantity, R0. …”
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An example from the world of tsetse flies by John Hargrove

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Influence of backward bifurcation on interpretation of $R_0$ in a model of epidemic tuberculosis with reinfection by Benjamin H. Singer, Denise E. Kirschner

“…In this study wepresent an epidemiological model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection thatincludes the process of reinfection. …”
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Dynamics of Feline Coronavirus and FIP: A Compartmental Modeling Approach by Ayse Peker Dobie, Alper Bayrakal, Mehmet Erman Or, Ayse Humeyra Bilge

“…In this work, we examine the endemic equilibrium of feline coronavirus and feline infectious peritonitis by using a modified susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemiological model. We incorporate the concept of mutations from FCoV to FIP to enrich our analysis. …”
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Artificial neural networks for stability analysis and simulation of delayed rabies spread models by Ramsha Shafqat, Ateq Alsaadi

“…This approach aimed to expand our understanding of rabies transmission, illustrating the potential of advanced mathematical tools and machine learning in epidemiological modeling.…”
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Insights from epidemiological game theory into gender-specific vaccination against rubella by Eunha Shim, Beth Kochin, Alison Galvani

“…To evaluate how the balance among thesefactors results in optimal coverage of vaccination, we developed agame theoretic age-structured epidemiological model of rubellatransmission and vaccination. …”
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Population-Level SARS-CoV-2 RT–PCR Cycle Threshold Values and Their Relationships with COVID-19 Transmission and Outcome Metrics: A Time Series Analysis Across Pandemic Years by Judith Carolina De Arcos-Jiménez, Ernestina Quintero-Salgado, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Gustavo Rosales-Chávez, Roberto Miguel Damian-Negrete, Oscar Francisco Fernández-Diaz, Mariana del Rocio Ruiz-Briseño, Rosendo López-Romo, Patricia Noemi Vargas-Becerra, Ruth Rodríguez-Montaño, Ana María López-Yáñez, Jaime Briseno-Ramirez

“…Integrating Ct monitoring into surveillance systems could enhance pandemic preparedness, improve outbreak forecasting, and strengthen epidemiological modeling.…”
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Effects of the Awareness-Driven Individual Resource Allocation on the Epidemic Dynamics by Xiaolong Chen, Ruijie Wang, Dan Yang, Jiajun Xian, Qing Li

“…To this end, a resource-based epidemiological model and a self-awareness-based resource allocation model in complex networks are proposed, respectively. …”
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Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Dual Application of Susceptible-Infective-Recovered (SIR) and Machine Learning Approach by Iqramul Haq, Md. Ismail Hossain, Ahmed Abdus Saleh Saleheen, Md. Iqbal Hossain Nayan, Mafruha Sultana Mila

“…To identify the hotspot for COVID-19 in Bangladesh, we performed a cluster analysis based on the hierarchical k-means approach. A well-known epidemiological model named “susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR)” and an additive regression model named “Facebook PROPHET Procedure” were used to predict the future direction of COVID-19 using data from IEDCR. …”
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A Mathematical Model for the Within-Host Dynamics of Malaria Parasite with Adaptive Immune Responses by Jemal Muhammed Ahmed, Getachew Tashome Tilahun, Shambel Tadesse Degefa

“…The most important threshold value in the epidemiological model known as the basic reproduction number, R0, which is used to determine the stability of the steady state, is investigated. …”
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A Bayesian analysis of birth pulse effects on the probability of detecting Ebola virus in fruit bats by Pleydell, David R.J., Ndong Bass, Innocent, Mba Djondzo, Flaubert Auguste, Meta Djomsi, Dowbiss, Kouanfack, Charles, Peeters, Martine, Cappelle, Julien

“…The current study presents an age-structured epidemiological model that characterises the effects of seasonal birth pulses on ebolavirus transmission within a colony of African straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum). …”
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Combined impact of fear and Allee effect in predator-prey interaction models on their growth by Kawkab Al Amri, Qamar J. A Khan, David Greenhalgh

“…Finally, we looked at an eco-epidemiological model that took into account the same cost of fear and the Allee effect. …”
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Forecasting stroke and stroke-driven dementia in a rapidly ageing population: a model-based analysis of alternative projection scenarios for Ireland by Anne Hickey, Eithne Sexton, Frances Horgan, Kathleen E Bennett, Ronan Collins, Martin O'Flaherty, Suzanne Timmons, Chris Macey, David J. Williams

“…This study aims to evaluate scenarios for future trends in stroke age-specific incidence and case fatality, and estimate their impact on projected stroke and poststroke dementia prevalence in Ireland.Design This is an epidemiological modelling study based on a probabilistic Markov model. …”
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Early onset neonatal bloodstream infections in South African hospitals by Genevieve Theron, Adrie Bekker, Larisse Bolton, Andrew Whitelaw, Arnoldus Engelbrecht, Louisa Erasmus, Aaqilah Fataar, Chandre Geldenhuys, Marlize Kunneke, Dave Le Roux, Natasha O’Connell, Kessendri Reddy, Natasha Rhoda, Lloyd Tooke, Mark Wates, Thandi Wessels, Angela Dramowski

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