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Assessment of COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Children and Young People Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US
Importance: COVID-19 was the underlying cause of death for more than 940 000 individuals in the US, including at least 1289 children …
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Pyfectious: An individual-level simulator to discover optimal containment policies for epidemic diseases
Simulating the spread of infectious diseases in human communities is critical for predicting the trajectory of an epidemic and …
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The Trajectory of Discovery:What Determines the Rate and Direction of Medical Progress?
Medical research works in trajectories. Scientists and researchers must choose to pursue certain scientific pathways and omit others, …
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Perspectives on the narrowing and clustering of research trajectories: an epistemic threat to medical progress?
Abstract Evidence suggests that a certain degree of clustering and narrowing of research trajectories is occurring, both on the …
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Transforming terrestrial biodiversity surveys using airborne eDNA
Studies show that land-living animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria leave DNA traces in the air. These results imply that sequencing of …
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Global disparities in SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance
Genomic sequencing provides critical information to track the evolution and spread of SARS-CoV-2, optimize molecular tests, treatments …
Anderson Fernandes Brito, Elizaveta Semenova, Gytis Dudas, Gabriel W. Hassler, Chaney C. Kalinich, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, Joses Ho, Houriiyah Tegally, George Githinji, Charles N. Agoti, Lucy E. Matkin, Charles Whittaker, COVID-19 Impact Project, Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA), GISAID Core Curation Team, Benjamin P. Howden, Vitali Sintchenko, Neta S. Zuckerman, Orna Mor, Heather M. Blankenship, Túlio De Oliveira, Raymond Tzer Pin Lin, Marilda Mendonça Siqueira, Paola Cristina Resende, Ana Tereza Ribeiro De Vasconcelos, Fernando Rosado Spilki, Renato Santana Aguiar, Ivailo Alexiev, Ivan N. Ivanov, Ivva Philipova, Christine v. F. Carrington, Nikita S. D. Sahadeo, Céline Gurry, Sebastian Maurer‐Stroh, Dhamari Naidoo, Karin Jasmijn Von Eije, Mark D. Perkins, Maria D. Van Kerkhove, Sarah Catherine Hill, Éster Cerdeira Sabino, Oliver George Pybus, Christopher Dye, Samir Bhatt, Seth Flaxman, Marc A. Suchard, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Guy Baele, Nuno R. Faria
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Environmental DNA in human and veterinary parasitology - Current applications and future prospects for monitoring and control
Parasites are important pathogens with significant global economic, public and animal health impacts. Successful control or elimination …
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A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom
We propose a new framework to model the COVID-19 epidemic of the United Kingdom at the local authority level. The model fits within a …
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Authors’ Reply to the Discussion of ‘A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom’ by Mishra et al. in Session 2 of the Royal Statistical Society’s Special Topic Meeting on COVID-19 Transmission: 11 June 2021
We are very grateful for the interesting and constructive comments about the papers discussed in this meeting. We will address the …
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$$\pi $$VAE: a stochastic process prior for Bayesian deep learning with MCMC
Abstract Stochastic processes provide a mathematically elegant way to model complex data. In theory, they provide flexible priors over …
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