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View article: Rural-to-Urban Migrant Worker Mobility Shaped Measles Epidemics in China
Rural-to-Urban Migrant Worker Mobility Shaped Measles Epidemics in China Open
Despite sustained high routine childhood vaccination coverage, measles outbreaks have persisted across Provincial-Level Administrative Divisions (PLADs) in China. Epidemiological evidence suggests that migrant workers substantially contrib…
View article: THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF A PANDEMIC ON LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMICS' PERSPECTIVE
THE CONTINUING IMPACT OF A PANDEMIC ON LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMICS' PERSPECTIVE Open
The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 led to an unprecedented shift in higher education (HE), forcing institutions to rapidly transition to online delivery due to lockdowns. Since 2022, universities worldwide have largely returned to on-campus tea…
View article: Impact Analysis of Inter-network Degree Correlation on Cascading Failures in Cyber-Physical Systems
Impact Analysis of Inter-network Degree Correlation on Cascading Failures in Cyber-Physical Systems Open
Inter-network degree correlation (IDC) has been widely proven to be important to the performance of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) facing cascading failures by comparing the limited extreme cases, such as maximally positive, maximally negat…
View article: The preparation of amphiphilic carbonaceous particle-derived membranes as a potent sterilant and anticoagulant
The preparation of amphiphilic carbonaceous particle-derived membranes as a potent sterilant and anticoagulant Open
We synthesize ACP derived TPU/ACPs-CS-PVS-Ag/ACPs-CS-Hep membranes with good mechanical properties, strong antiagglutinating and antibacterial effects to help prevent thrombosis and bacterial infection from catheters.
View article: Information propagation dynamics on heterogeneous-homogeneous coupling bi-layer networks
Information propagation dynamics on heterogeneous-homogeneous coupling bi-layer networks Open
The proliferation of multi-platform network information has expanded communication channels for users, enabling the integration and dissemination of information across both Social Networking Services (SNS)-type app and Instant Message (IM)…
View article: Insights into COVID-19 epidemiology and control from temporal changes in serial interval distributions in Hong Kong
Insights into COVID-19 epidemiology and control from temporal changes in serial interval distributions in Hong Kong Open
The serial interval (SI) distribution of an epidemic is used to approximate the generation time distribution, an essential parameter for inferring the transmissibility (${R}_t$) of an infectious disease. However, SI distributions may chang…
View article: Higher-order Fuzzy Membership in Motif Modularity Optimization
Higher-order Fuzzy Membership in Motif Modularity Optimization Open
Higher-order community detection (HCD) reveals both mesoscale structures and functional characteristics of real-life networks. Although many methods have been developed from diverse perspectives, to our knowledge, none can provide fine-gra…
View article: Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks via Cross-Network Embedding
Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks via Cross-Network Embedding Open
Link prediction is a fundamental task in network analysis, with the objective of predicting missing or potential links. While existing studies have mainly concentrated on single networks, it is worth noting that numerous real-world network…
View article: The maximum capability of a topological feature in link prediction
The maximum capability of a topological feature in link prediction Open
Networks offer a powerful approach to modeling complex systems by representing the underlying set of pairwise interactions. Link prediction is the task that predicts links of a network that are not directly visible, with profound applicati…
View article: COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China
COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China Open
Understanding different gender roles forms part of the efforts to reduce gender inequality. This paper analyses COVID-19 family clusters outside Hubei Province in mainland China during the 2020 outbreak, revealing significant differences i…
View article: Community detection from fuzzy and higher-order perspectives
Community detection from fuzzy and higher-order perspectives Open
Our ability to observe the mesoscale topology of complex networks through community detection has significantly advanced in the past decades. This progress has opened up new frontiers in discovering more sophisticated and meaningful commun…
View article: Perspective on the spatio-temporal spread of epidemics in metapopulation networks
Perspective on the spatio-temporal spread of epidemics in metapopulation networks Open
We review the recent progress of epidemic dynamics in metapopulation networks. Firstly, we give an introduction of the concepts about epidemic models and metapopulation network. Then, the theoretical characterization of epidemics spread in…
View article: The Impact of Spring Festival Travel on Epidemic Spreading in China
The Impact of Spring Festival Travel on Epidemic Spreading in China Open
The large population movement during the Spring Festival travel in China can considerably accelerate the spread of epidemics, especially after the relaxation of strict control measures against COVID-19. This study aims to assess the impact…
View article: Protocol for the automatic extraction of epidemiological information via a pre-trained language model
Protocol for the automatic extraction of epidemiological information via a pre-trained language model Open
The lack of systems to automatically extract epidemiological fields from open-access COVID-19 cases restricts the timeliness of formulating prevention measures. Here we present a protocol for using CCIE, a COVID-19 Cases Information Extrac…
View article: The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors
The shock, the coping, the resilience: smartphone application use reveals Covid-19 lockdown effects on human behaviors Open
Human mobility restriction policies have been widely used to contain the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). However, a critical question is how these policies affect individuals’ behavioral and psychological well-being during and after con…
View article: COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China
COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China Open
Unfolding different gender roles is preceding the efforts to reduce gender inequality. This paper analyzes COVID-19 family clusters outside Hubei Province in mainland China during the 2020 outbreak, revealing significant differences in spr…
View article: DPCIPI: A pre-trained deep learning model for predicting cross-immunity between drifted strains of Influenza A/H3N2
DPCIPI: A pre-trained deep learning model for predicting cross-immunity between drifted strains of Influenza A/H3N2 Open
Predicting cross-immunity between viral strains is vital for public health surveillance and vaccine development. Traditional neural network methods, such as BiLSTM, could be ineffective due to the lack of lab data for model training and th…
View article: Feature Drift in Fake News Detection: An Interpretable Analysis
Feature Drift in Fake News Detection: An Interpretable Analysis Open
In recent years, fake news detection and its characteristics have attracted a number of researchers. However, most detection algorithms are driven by data rather than theories, which causes the existing approaches to only perform well on s…
View article: Characterizing Human Collective Behaviors During COVID-19 — Hong Kong SAR, China, 2020
Characterizing Human Collective Behaviors During COVID-19 — Hong Kong SAR, China, 2020 Open
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC?: People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, to express awareness, take action, and work through concerns…
View article: Bilayer network spreading dynamics driven by community structure and activity
Bilayer network spreading dynamics driven by community structure and activity Open
Epidemic outbreaks in the real world are often accompanied by rapid information diffusion, which will change individual behavior patterns and affect the spread of epidemics. The community phenomenon in human society will also have an impor…
View article: Data from COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China
Data from COVID-19 spreading patterns in family clusters reveal gender roles in China Open
The used data set in this study.
View article: Characterizing human collective behaviours of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Characterizing human collective behaviours of COVID-19 in Hong Kong Open
People are likely to engage in collective behaviour online during extreme events, such as the COVID-19 crisis, to express their awareness, actions and concerns. Hong Kong has implemented stringent public health and social measures (PHSMs) …
View article: The Impact of Two-Way FDI on the urban-rural Income Gap Based on Broad Least-Squares Analysis
The Impact of Two-Way FDI on the urban-rural Income Gap Based on Broad Least-Squares Analysis Open
With the continuous promotion of China's opening up to the outside world, the gap between the urban and rural residents in China has been greatly affected. To study the influence mechanism of two-way FDI on the income gap between the urban…