Article
Engineering, Mechanical
Massimo A. Achterberg, Mattia Sensi
Summary: The interplay between disease spreading and personal risk perception is crucial for modeling the spread of infectious diseases. A planar system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is proposed to describe the co-evolution of disease spreading and the average link density in personal contact networks. The model considers the adaptability of the contact network based on the current prevalence of the disease. The study derives the basic reproduction number and proves the existence of at least one endemic equilibrium, as well as the absence of limit cycles for all possible functional responses.
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
(2023)
Article
Biology
U. J. Gimenez-Mujica, A. Anzo-Hernandez, J. Velazquez-Castro
Summary: Designing epidemic control strategies is limited by their economic and social costs. A regional index based on a metapopulation model was proposed to identify optimal control measures locations. The index serves as an easy and fast criterion to guide simple control strategies.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Juan Sereno, Alejandro Anderson, Antonio Ferramosca, Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas, Alejandro Hernan Gonzalez
Summary: Mathematical models are crucial for understanding the spread of pathogens in a population and evaluating the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions. This study proposes a method to minimize the epidemic final size while controlling the infected peak prevalence in SIR-type models.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Taishi Nakase, Marta Giovanetti, Uri Obolski, Jose Lourenco
Summary: Mosquito-borne viruses pose an increasing threat to human populations due to climate changes, migration patterns, and land use. Dengue, in particular, has rapidly spread globally in the past three decades, causing significant health and economic problems. To address this, mapping the transmission potential of dengue is essential. Using the Index P measure, we have created maps of the climate-driven transmission potential of dengue virus transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from 1981 to 2019. These resources can aid public health professionals in identifying past, current, and future transmission hotspots and planning disease control strategies in areas with limited surveillance.
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Pierre-Alexandre Bliman, Michel Duprez, Yannick Privat, Nicolas Vauchelet
Summary: This article explores how to apply partial or total containment to the SIR epidemic model during a given finite time interval in order to minimize the epidemic final size. The existence and uniqueness of an optimal strategy are proven, with the best policy being to apply maximal social distancing effort until the end of the interval. Theoretical results and numerical simulations demonstrate a significant decrease in the epidemic final size.
JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Ayoub Bouissa, Mostafa Tahiri, Najib Tsouli, Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi
Summary: This paper focuses on a diffusive SIR epidemic model with reaction-diffusion equations enriched by a fractional derivative in the Caputo framework. It investigates the effects of mask-wearing and adherence to physical distancing protocols on the dynamics of susceptible and infected individuals. The study establishes the existence and uniqueness of a bounded solution, analyzes the equilibrium points, and examines the stability based on the reproduction number. The findings are supported by numerical simulations.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Joan Garcia-Porta, Daniel Sol, Matt Pennell, Ferran Sayol, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Carlos A. Botero
Summary: This study investigates the diversification dynamics of crows, finding that their global radiation is associated with the evolution of phenotypic and climatic niche.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Lianzheng Cheng, Jia-Xi Zhou, Xing Hu, Ali Wagdy Mohamed, Yun Liu
Summary: Differential evolution (DE) is an efficient algorithm for global optimization problems. This paper introduces a novel crossover rate (CR) generation scheme called fcr, adjusts control parameters using unused bimodal settings based on individual evolution status, and updates the mean value of crossover rate and scale factor using L1 norm distance. These modifications are integrated with JADE mutation strategy to propose JADEfcr and LJADEfcr. Experimental results show that JADEfcr outperforms twelve state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of robustness, stability and solution quality, while LJADEfcr is statistically competitive with nine powerful algorithms in the competition.
COMPLEX & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tahneal Hawke, Gilad Bino, Richard T. Kingsford, Dion Iervasi, Kylie Iervasi, Matthew D. Taylor
Summary: Tracking of platypuses in river systems revealed that males moved further distances, with larger males showing higher cumulative movements. Additionally, increased movements and diurnal activity during winter were primarily driven by males, possibly due to breeding behaviors.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Fufang Li, Guosheng Huang, Quan Yang, Mande Xie
Summary: This paper presents an optimization algorithm for the energy capacity limitation of sensor nodes, and proposes a global view based adaptive contention window (GV-ACW) MAC protocol, which can achieve more effective alternative energy harvesting and improve network performance.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Iztok Fister, Andres Iglesias, Akemi Galvez, Dusan Fister, Iztok Fister
Summary: This study focuses on mechanisms to avoid local optima in evolutionary algorithms by decomposing the population into sub-populations and combining evolutionary multi-agent system characteristics. The proposed algorithm operates with individuals acting autonomously like agents and incorporates additional mechanisms such as ageing and adaptive population growth.
LOGIC JOURNAL OF THE IGPL
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Fule Zhang, Jinlong Wang, Mark Baskaran, Qiangqiang Zhong, Yali Wang, Jussi Paatero, Jinzhou Du
Summary: The study presents a global dataset of air concentration and depositional flux measurements of Be-7 and Pb-210, collected from research communities worldwide, which can be used to trace the behavior of atmospheric aerosols and soil redistribution processes on Earth’s surface. The dataset, archived and freely available for the scientific community, serves as baseline data for future research.
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
(2021)
Review
Plant Sciences
Anne M. Visscher, Filip Vandelook, Eduardo Fernandez-Pascual, Laura Victoria Perez-Martinez, Tiziana Ulian, Mauricio Diazgranados, Efisio Mattana
Summary: This study explores differences in seed traits between tropical and temperate regions, highlighting larger relative embryo size and limited embryo growth in tropical species. The lack of data on tropical species poses challenges for global models and plant conservation applications.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Ritu Priya, Amitabha Sarkar, Sayan Das, Rakhal Gaitonde, Prachinkumar Ghodajkar, Mohit P. Gandhi
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rethinking of current health policy formulation and planning, particularly in terms of knowledge translation. The failure of global health governance and national health systems has highlighted the need to revive the Primary Health Care (PHC) agenda for post-COVID health systems development. However, this paper argues that simply rethinking PHC is not enough without considering the politics of knowledge underlying global health policy and planning. The dominant knowledge paradigm in PHC needs to be analyzed and addressed for effective implementation.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Gerardo L. Blanco
Summary: The concept of global citizenship education is complex and fraught with tensions. This article highlights the importance of examining the practices at the course and individual instructor level when implementing global citizenship education. The author explores the shortcomings of implementing global citizenship education in universities through the practice of internationalisation at home, and suggests a pedagogy of dwelling as a possible way forward.
GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Lisha Wang, Zhipeng Qiu, Tao Feng, Yun Kang
Summary: The paper introduces an eco-epidemiological model to study the combined effects of cooperative behavior, mating limitation, and disease in predators. Results show that increasing mate limitation stabilizes the system, but excessive limitation can lead to extinction of the coexistence equilibrium.
APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
(2022)
Article
Biology
Xiaohui Guo, Michael R. Lin, Asma Azizi, Lucas P. Saldyt, Yun Kang, Theodore P. Pavlic, Jennifer H. Fewell
Summary: Alarm signal propagation in ant colonies provides insights for analyzing information flow in natural systems and other social animals. Researchers developed a method to track alarm spread in a group of harvester ants and used a random forest regression model to assess individual alarm behavior. This approach allows analysis of spatio-temporal patterns in alarm signal propagation and integration of individual and collective alarm response.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Amita Tripathi, Pankaj Kumar Tiwari, Arvind Kumar Misra, Yun Kang
Summary: This study explores the importance of transpiration from agricultural crops and aerosols on the pattern of rainfall, using a mathematical model. The results show that transpiration through agricultural crops plays a significant role in cloud formation and the combined actions of transpiration and seeding are more beneficial in producing rain.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMATHEMATICS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Jia Liu, Yun Kang
Summary: This paper discusses a diffusive predator-prey model with fear effect. By mathematical and numerical analyses, the author finds that fear can prevent the occurrence of limit cycle oscillation and increase the stability of the system, while diffusion can induce chaos in the system.
NONLINEAR ANALYSIS-MODELLING AND CONTROL
(2022)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Anil Kumar, Muslim Malik, Yun Kang
Summary: In this paper, the dynamical behavior of a hybrid non-autonomous predator-prey system with Holling Type II functional response, impulsive effects, and generalist predator is investigated. Our proposed model can commute between continuous-time and discrete-time dynamical systems on different time scales. By using comparison theorems, we first study the permanence results of the proposed model and establish the uniformly asymptotic stability for the almost periodic solution. Finally, some examples with numerical simulation are provided in the last section.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMATHEMATICS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Carlos Bustamante-Orellana, Dingyong Bai, Jordy Cevallos-Chavez, Yun Kang, Benjamin Pyenson, Congbo Xie
Summary: By using simple compartmental nonlinear differential equations, we explored the factors that determine the colony size and length of shared hierarchy in the ant species with the reproductive hierarchy. The results showed that life-history and metabolic rate parameters have an impact on the colony size and structure of the shared hierarchy.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Biology
Tao Feng, Hongjuan Zhou, Zhipeng Qiu, Yun Kang
Summary: This paper presents a novel approach to study the impacts of stochasticity on population dynamics. The theoretical and numerical results show that stochasticity can affect the population system in various ways, including its effects on population size and survival.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Lisha Wang, Zhipeng Qiu, Yun Kang
Summary: This paper proposes a general colony migration model with Hill functions in recruitment to study the decision-making mechanism and dynamical behaviors. The analysis shows that the migration system with Hill functions differs from the one with piecewise functions in terms of persistence of population components and bifurcation behavior. The shape of Hill functions greatly impacts the dynamics, with flatter functions less likely to exhibit bistability and steeper ones prone to exhibit bistability.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS
(2022)
Article
Biology
Rongping Zhang, Boli Xie, Yun Kang, Maoxing Liu
Summary: This article proposes a two-layer network model combining infectious disease transmission and human behavior dynamics based on game theory. The basic reproduction number of the infectious disease in our model is obtained using the next-generation matrix method, and the stability of the disease-free equilibrium is analyzed. Theoretical results show that the spread of infectious diseases can be controlled when a certain proportion of individuals voluntarily quarantine. Sensitivity analysis of the parameters through simulations reveals that increasing propaganda can directly accelerate quarantine, and reducing the relative cost of quarantine significantly prevents infectious diseases. Increasing the detection rate leads to an overestimation of the proportion of undiagnosed infected individuals while also promoting individuals to quarantine.
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Biology
Edward Schrom, Ann Kinzig, Stephanie Forrest, Andrea L. Graham, Simon A. Levin, Carl T. Bergstrom, Carlos Castillo -Chavez, James P. Collins, Rob J. de Boer, Adam Doupe, Roya Ensafi, Stuart Feldman, Bryan T. Grenfell, Alex Halderman, Silvie Huijben, Carlo Maley, Melanie Moses, Alan S. Perelson, Charles Perrings, Joshua Plotkin, Jennifer Rexford, Mohit Tiwari
Summary: Defending against various types of attacks and avoiding self-attacks are the common challenges faced by mammalian immune systems and computer systems. Despite extensive research, there has been limited exchange of information between the fields of biological immunity and cybersecurity. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to compare and evaluate different defensive strategies in both fields, aiming to identify general principles of optimal defense applicable to various defensive realms.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Feng Rao, Yun Kang
Summary: This paper proposes and studies the dynamics of a Holling-type II predator-prey interaction system that incorporates a prey refuge, predation fear and its carry-over effects, and environmental noise. The impacts of these components are analyzed through rigorous analysis and numerical simulations. The results show that the introduction of prey refuge and predation fear can generate Hopf bifurcation in the system, and increasing prey refuge and predation fear in a reasonable range can stabilize the system. The theoretical results also show that small environmental noise can save the prey and predator from extinction, while large environmental noise can drive the species to extinction.
CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS
(2023)
Article
Biology
Jun Chen, Jordy O. Rodriguez Rincon, Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Jennifer Fewell, Jon Harrison, Yun Kang
Summary: Honeybees play a crucial role in ecosystem stability, diversity, and crop production. Parasitism and seasonality can negatively impact honeybee colonies, leading to decreased population size, destabilized dynamics, and potential collapse. The interaction between climate change and parasites can have complicated effects on honeybee survival.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Lidan Liu, Meng Fan, Yun Kang
Summary: The variation of nutrient supply affects the biomass, productivity, and evolutionary dynamics of phytoplankton. Nutrient supply, rather than temperature, is considered a dominant factor in reducing phytoplankton cell size. A size-dependent nutrient-phytoplankton model is used to study the effects of nutrient supply on phytoplankton size and functional trait evolution. Results show that nutrient concentration and vertical mixing rate significantly influence cell size evolution, and reduced nutrient input due to climate warming will lead to smaller cell size and reduced phytoplankton diversity.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Sunmi Lee, Chang Yong Han, Minseok Kim, Yun Kang
Summary: Motivated by the regulation/elimination of herbivorous pests, this study investigates a discrete-time plant-herbivore model with different control strategies under various dynamics and fluctuating environments. The results show that optimal control is easier to achieve when the model has simple dynamics or exhibits chaotic dynamics. The initial conditions and control upper bound play critical roles in determining the effectiveness of the control measures. Overall, the control of pests is challenging without a sufficiently large control upper bound, but can be manageable with higher control upper bound or appropriate initial conditions near the boundary of the basin of attractions.
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Ozgur Aydogmus, Yun Kang
Summary: The paper studies the pattern formation dynamics of a discrete model with nonlocal resource competition and dispersal, using symmetric discrete probability kernels to model nonlocal interaction. Linear stability analysis shows that pattern formation occurs when the dispersal rate is small and the discrete interaction kernel satisfies certain conditions. Weakly nonlinear analysis approximates stationary patterns arising from the model, which are compared with numerical solutions.
DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS-SERIES B
(2022)