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View article: The Peculiar Emergence of Mpox (Monkeypox): Directions for the Search for the Natural Reservoir and Vaccination Strategies
The Peculiar Emergence of Mpox (Monkeypox): Directions for the Search for the Natural Reservoir and Vaccination Strategies Open
Background/Objectives: Mpox (monkeypox) is a zoonosis with origins in a currently unknown African reservoir. The first epidemiological accounts of mpox date back to the early 1980s, yet mpox only emerged as a pandemic threat in 2022–2023, …
View article: Emergence failure of early epidemics: A mathematical modeling approach
Emergence failure of early epidemics: A mathematical modeling approach Open
Epidemic or pathogen emergence is the phenomenon by which a poorly transmissible pathogen finds its evolutionary pathway to become a mutant that can cause an epidemic. Many mathematical models of pathogen emergence rely on branching proces…
View article: Review of: "Some New Aspects of Quantum Gravity"
Review of: "Some New Aspects of Quantum Gravity" Open
Potential competing interests: No potential competing
View article: Review of: "On n-Dimensional Maxwell and Dirac Equations in Curved Space-Time and Its Applications in SO(p,q) Group Theoretic Image Processing"
Review of: "On n-Dimensional Maxwell and Dirac Equations in Curved Space-Time and Its Applications in SO(p,q) Group Theoretic Image Processing" Open
View article: Review of: "New Ideas About the Structure of Reality, or How to Connect Relative Motion With an Absolute Reference Frame and Describe Relativistic Effects Without Einstein’s Postulates"
Review of: "New Ideas About the Structure of Reality, or How to Connect Relative Motion With an Absolute Reference Frame and Describe Relativistic Effects Without Einstein’s Postulates" Open
Potential competing interests: No potential competing interests to declare.I found the paper very long and hard to read.Still, the author makes the effort to insert many figures.However, rigorous, abstract mathematical definitions are also…
View article: Review of: "The quantum origins of gravity"
Review of: "The quantum origins of gravity" Open
In my view, a manuscript titled "The Quantum Origins of Gravity" must start with quantum principles and end with the Einstein equations.
View article: Review of: "A Discussion on Our Universe Boundaries"
Review of: "A Discussion on Our Universe Boundaries" Open
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View article: Review of: "Why a uniformly accelerated classical charge must radiate"
Review of: "Why a uniformly accelerated classical charge must radiate" Open
Review of: "Why a uniformly accelerated classical charge must radiate" Romulus BrebanPotential competing interests: No potential competing interests to
View article: Impact of voluntary testing on infectious disease epidemiology: A game theoretic approach
Impact of voluntary testing on infectious disease epidemiology: A game theoretic approach Open
The World Health Organization recommends test-and-treat interventions to curb and even eliminate epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (e.g., chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis). Epidemic mod…
View article: Impact of voluntary testing on infectious disease epidemiology: A game theoretic approach
Impact of voluntary testing on infectious disease epidemiology: A game theoretic approach Open
The World Health Organization recommends test-and-treat interventions to curb and even eliminate epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (e.g., chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis). Epidemic mod…
View article: Emergence failure of early epidemics: A mathematical modeling approach
Emergence failure of early epidemics: A mathematical modeling approach Open
Epidemic or pathogen emergence is the phenomenon by which a poorly transmissible pathogen finds its evolutionary pathway to become a mutant which can cause an epidemic. Many mathematical models of pathogen emergence rely on branching proce…
View article: Impact of Voluntary Testing on Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Game Theoretic Approach
Impact of Voluntary Testing on Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Game Theoretic Approach Open
View article: Can HIV epidemics among MSM be eliminated through participation in preexposure prophylaxis rollouts?
Can HIV epidemics among MSM be eliminated through participation in preexposure prophylaxis rollouts? Open
Objective: To study the conditions under which preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) coverage can eliminate HIV among MSM in the Paris region. Design: Mathematical modeling. Methods: We propose an innovative approach, combining a transmission mod…
View article: Modelling human-to-human transmission of monkeypox
Modelling human-to-human transmission of monkeypox Open
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View article: Electromagnetism from 5D gravity: Beyond the Maxwell equations
Electromagnetism from 5D gravity: Beyond the Maxwell equations Open
Ever with the work of Kaluza, it has been known that 4D Einstein-and Maxwell-type equations can emerge from the field equations of 5D gravity in Ricci-flat space-times having a space-like Killing vector. We revisit these equations and comp…
View article: Quantifying the treatment efficacy of reverse transcriptase inhibitors: new analyses of clinical data based on within-host modeling
Quantifying the treatment efficacy of reverse transcriptase inhibitors: new analyses of clinical data based on within-host modeling Open
Background Current measures of the clinical efficacy of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the treatment of HIV include the change in HIV RNA in the plasma and the gain in CD4 cells. Methods We propose new measures for evaluating the efficacy…
View article: Classification of Spatiotemporal Data for Epidemic Alert Systems: Monitoring Influenza-Like Illness in France
Classification of Spatiotemporal Data for Epidemic Alert Systems: Monitoring Influenza-Like Illness in France Open
Surveillance data used by epidemic alert systems are typically fully aggregated in space at the national level. However, epidemics may be spatially heterogeneous, undergoing distinct dynamics in distinct regions of the surveillance area. W…
View article: Prevention of treatable infectious diseases: A game-theoretic approach
Prevention of treatable infectious diseases: A game-theoretic approach Open
View article: Spatial heterogeneity analyses identify limitations of epidemic alert systems: Monitoring influenza-like illness in France
Spatial heterogeneity analyses identify limitations of epidemic alert systems: Monitoring influenza-like illness in France Open
Surveillance data serving for epidemic alert systems are typically fully aggregated in space. However, epidemics may be spatially heterogeneous, undergoing distinct dynamics in distinct regions of the surveillance area. We unveil this in r…
View article: Spatial heterogeneity analyses identify limitations of epidemic alert\n systems: Monitoring influenza-like illness in France
Spatial heterogeneity analyses identify limitations of epidemic alert\n systems: Monitoring influenza-like illness in France Open
Surveillance data serving for epidemic alert systems are typically fully\naggregated in space. However, epidemics may be spatially heterogeneous,\nundergoing distinct dynamics in distinct regions of the surveillance area. We\nunveil this i…
View article: Risk of HIV transmission during combined ART initiation for HIV-infected persons with severe immunosuppression
Risk of HIV transmission during combined ART initiation for HIV-infected persons with severe immunosuppression Open
Risk of onward transmission for severely immunosuppressed individuals is high before and within the first weeks of cART, and persists, at a substantially reduced level, beyond 24 weeks of cART for some individuals. Earlier cART and protect…
View article: A mathematical model for a gaming community
A mathematical model for a gaming community Open
We consider a large community of individuals who mix strongly and meet in pairs to bet on a coin toss. We investigate the asset distribution of the players involved in this zero-sum repeated game. Our main result is that the asset distribu…
View article: Bayesian Monitoring of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Bayesian Monitoring of Emerging Infectious Diseases Open
We define data analyses to monitor a change in R, the average number of secondary cases caused by a typical infected individual. The input dataset consists of incident cases partitioned into outbreaks, each initiated from a single index ca…
View article: Prevention versus treatment: A game-theoretic approach
Prevention versus treatment: A game-theoretic approach Open
Empirical studies show that preference for prevention versus treatment remains a subject of debate. We build a paradigm model combining a utility game for the individual-level dilemma of prevention versus treatment, and a compartmental mod…
View article: The diffusion dynamics of choice: From durable goods markets to fashion first names
The diffusion dynamics of choice: From durable goods markets to fashion first names Open
Goods, styles, ideologies are adopted by society through various mechanisms. In particular, adoption driven by innovation is extensively studied by marketing economics. Mathematical models are currently used to forecast sales of innovative…
View article: Role of word-of-mouth for programs of voluntary vaccination: A game-theoretic approach
Role of word-of-mouth for programs of voluntary vaccination: A game-theoretic approach Open
View article: A five-dimensional perspective on the Klein–Gordon equation
A five-dimensional perspective on the Klein–Gordon equation Open
View article: Role of word-of-mouth for programs of voluntary vaccination: A\n game-theoretic approach
Role of word-of-mouth for programs of voluntary vaccination: A\n game-theoretic approach Open
We propose a model describing the synergetic feedback between word-of-mouth\n(WoM) and epidemic dynamics controlled by voluntary vaccination. We combine a\ngame-theoretic model for the spread of WoM and a compartmental model describing\n$S…