AIMC Topic: Communicable Disease Control

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Field study analysis of the influences of deworming regimens and housing conditions on parasites and sperm output in 21 European boar studs.

Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997)
The current study reports the parasitological results of a quality control audit in 21 European boar studs. Field investigations were performed over a 2-year period (2012-2013) during the winter and spring. From each stud, an average of 30 (range, 25...

Application of a hybrid method combining grey model and back propagation artificial neural networks to forecast hepatitis B in china.

Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Accurate incidence forecasting of infectious disease provides potentially valuable insights in its own right. It is critical for early prevention and may contribute to health services management and syndrome surveillance. This study investigates the ...

Machine learning insights on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Nigeria.

International health
BACKGROUND: The lack of effective pharmacological measures during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) as initial mitigation strategies. The impact of these NPIs on COVID-19 i...

Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases.

Science robotics
The world was unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, and recovery is likely to be a long process. Robots have long been heralded to take on dangerous, dull, and dirty jobs, often in environments that are unsuitable for humans. Could robots be used to ...

Context matters: using reinforcement learning to develop human-readable, state-dependent outbreak response policies.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
The number of all possible epidemics of a given infectious disease that could occur on a given landscape is large for systems of real-world complexity. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the control actions that are optimal, on average, over all...