English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Metapopulation (multipatch) models are widely used to study the patterns ofspatial spread of epidemics. In this paper we study the impact of inter-patchconnection weights on the predictions of these models. We contrast arbitrary,uniform link weights with link weights predicted using a gravity model based onpatch populations and distance. In a synthetic system with one large drivercity and many small follower cities, we show that under uniform link weights,epidemics in the follower regions are perfectly synchronized. In contrast,gravity-based links allow a more realistic, less synchronized distribution ofepidemic peaks in the follower regions. We then fit a three-patchmetapopulation model to regional dengue fever data from Peru -- a countryexperiencing yearly, spatially defined epidemics. We use data for 2002-2008(studying the seasonal disease patterns in the country and the yearlyreinfection patterns from jungle to the coast) and 2000-2001 (one largeepidemic of a new disease strain across the country). We present numericalresults.

A study of gravity-linked metapopulation models for the spatial spread of dengue fever