The influence of farm connectedness on foot‐and‐mouth disease outbreaks in livestock by Jean B. Contina, Rachel L. Seibel, Bhim Chaulagain, Karasi B. Mills, Michael J. Tildesley, Christopher C. Mundt

“…We used a spatially explicit stochastic model to simulate FMD outbreaks on livestock farm operations in four UK counties. …”
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A new hybrid distance and similarity based scenario reduction approach for stochastic economic operation of microgrid by Gaurav Gangil, Amit Saraswat, Sunil Kumar Goyal

“…This paper attempts to develop a multi-time period stochastic optimization model for economic operations of a typical microgrid by employing a scenario-based analysis approach to exploit various uncertainties associated with variable renewable energy (VRE) generations, electricity prices, and load demand. This stochastic model is aimed at generating the optimum schedules for various dispatchable generating resources such as micro-turbines, fuel cells, utility grid, energy storage devices as per the availability of the various VRE resources to meet the uncertain demand for a day-to-day microgrid operation. …”
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Outbreak of carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neurorehabilitation unit: Genomic epidemiology reveals complex transmission pattern in a tertiary care hospital by Maria Grazia Silvotti, Erika Scaltriti, Luca Bolzoni, Beatrice Zerbi, Gabriella Tocci, Andrea Zappavigna, Gianfranco Lamberti, Federico Donati, Franco Federici, Stefano Pongolini, Giuliana Lo Cascio

“…The most likely transmission networks of KPC-Kp were reconstructed with Bayesian discrete-time stochastic models. Results: Nineteen patients were colonized by KPC-Kp. …”
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