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01:58, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Central and Eastern Europe : Virtual Special Issue of Regional Studies Association Articles (Created page with "This virtual special issue marks the 2022 RSA Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Programme by drawing together papers published across the RSA's journals Regional Studies, Spatial Economic Analysis, Territory, Politics, Governance, and Regional Studies, Regional Science. It highlights the wide range of novel research by RSA authors, and the growth of central and eastern Europe as a key region of present and future focus. link to website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.co...")
01:57, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Celebrating 1000 Open Access Books (Created page with "In May 2020 we published our 1000th open access book. It's a proud moment for us, especially as open access books help to achieve our mission of advancing discovery through open research. "Open access increases the visibility, readership, and impact of scholarly books, and we are delighted to be at the forefront in helping more authors benefit from this, given the important role books play in scholarly communication." link to website: https://www.springernature.com/gp/...")
01:56, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Bibliometric Overview of Operations Research/Management Science Research In Asia (Created page with "This paper evaluates the distribution of papers published by Asian authors in Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) journals from 1968 to 2006. The impact of OR/MS research in Asia is compared with that of the United States and the World, and research trends are highlighted through an analysis of keywords. From 1968 to 2006, 89,293 papers were published in 60 OR/MS journals. Of these, 41.4% came from USA and 16.6% came from seven Asian countries/regions. The...")
01:55, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Analyzing the sustainability of harvesting behavior and the relationship to personality traits in a simulated Lotka-Volterra biotope (Created page with "By '''Christian Grabner, Heiko Hahn, Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Stefan Pickl''' '''Abstract''' For the analysis presented in this paper we use experiments to study human behavior in a simulation environment based on a simple Lotka–Volterra predator–prey ecology. The aim is to study the influence of different harvesting strategies and of certain personality traits derived from the Hamburg Personality Inventory (HPI) [Andresen, B., 2002. HPI – Hamburger Personlichk...")
01:52, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics Volume 25 (Created page with "By: '''David Y. Gao, Ray W. Ogden and Romesh C. Batra''' '''Introduction''' At an analysis and control of different geophysical and socio-economical processes it is often appears such problem: at a mathematical modelling of effects related to friction and viscocity, quantum effects, a description of different nature waves the existing "gap" between rather high degree of mathematical theory of analysis and control for non-linear processes and fields and practice of its...")
01:51, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics (Created page with "'''Volume 24''' By: '''David Y. Gao, Ray W. Ogden and Romesh C. Batra''' '''Introduction''' System analysis is a unique ground where almost all mathematical disciplines are closely related and widely applied. Besides, while solving difficult system problems, necessity to create new mathematical directions which in their turn simulate the development of classical chapters of mathematics arises. Link to material: http://ifors.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/5.pdf Cat...")
01:50, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Review of R(C)MARS and (C)MARS with a Comparison Study (Created page with "by: '''Ayşe Ozmen and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber''' '''Content''' - Introduction - Regression - Robustification - MARS - CMARS - Idea of Robust (C)MARS - Robust Optimization - RCMARS under Polyhedral Uncertainty - A Real-World Application by RCMARS - Conclusion and Outlook on Future Studies '''Introduction''' learning from data has become very important in every field of science and technology, e.g., in • financial sector, • quality improvement in manufact...")
01:48, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A problem-structuring method for complex societal decisions: Its philosophical and psychological dimensions (Created page with "by '''Donald Hector, Carleton Christensen, Jim Petrie''' '''Abstract''' A novel approach to problem-structuring for decisions relating to the sustainable development of large-scale infrastructure is pre- sented. The philosophical (a critical realist ontology and epistemology), psychological (implications of behavioural and cognitive psy- chology), and systems dimensions (dynamics and emergent properties) of the problem are discussed, and form the basis of the approach....")
01:46, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Multiobjective Model for Planning The Exports of Developing Countries (Created page with "This study presents a linear goal-programming model for planning exports in less developed countries. The model examines some economic factors such as: industrial structure, labor force, value added in exports, capital efficiency, imported inputs for exports, and investment planning, among others, that could affect exports. The application of the model is demonstrated using data from the Indian economy. The model presented in this study, is hoped, will have general appea...")
01:45, 12 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Mathematical Introduction to SVMs with Self-Concordant Kernel (Created page with "by: '''Prof. Dr. Florian Jarre''' The following (public domain) MATLAB-implementation of a solver for support vector machines (SVM), https://github.com/florianjarre/SVM-Test-Set, has been prepared with the aim to solve real-world problems from all sectors of the economy and areas of life, not least in the "developing countries". The implementation is described in a paper that can be found on archive: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10482 and builds on the (open source) tu...")
13:15, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The Ecology of Antitrust: Preconditions for Competition Law Enforcement in Developing Countries (Created page with "The number of developing countries that have adopted a competition law has grown exponentially over the past two decades. Yet the mere adoption of a competition law is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it to be part of market reform. Just as ecological conditions determine the ability of a flower to bloom, so do some preconditions affect the ability to apply a competition law effectively. This study seeks to identify the ecology of antitrust in developing coun...")
13:14, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Operations Research Applied to Law Enforcement Operations (Created page with "The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice is seeking applications for funding to research, develop, and demonstrate innovative operations research models and methods that can be used to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of the operations and training conducted by law enforcement and corrections agencies as well as agencies involved in the judicial process. This program furthers the Department’s mission by...")
13:13, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page From Poisson to the Present: Applying Operations Research to Problems of Crime and Justice (Created page with "In the 1830s Siméon-Denis Poisson developed the distribution that bears his name, basing it on the binomial distribution. He used it to show how the inherent variance in jury decisions affected the inferences that could be made about the probability of conviction in French courts. In recent years there have been a number of examples where researchers have either ignored or forgotten this inherent variance, and how operations research, in particular mathematical modeling...")
13:11, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Analytics Strengthening Law Enforcement in Chile (Created page with "The National Prosecutor’s Office of Chile employs a suite of advanced analytical tools known as Fiscal HeredIA (Spanish for Prosecutor HeredIA) to strengthen law enforcement. Its criminal network analysis module combines graph theory, optimization methods, and economic principles to identify members of organized crime groups. Additional modules, based on artificial intelligence, analyze massive volumes of text, transcribe and interpret audio recordings, and even summar...")
13:09, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Regional Studies Annual Lecture 2021: "Infrastructural Optimism: Case Studies for Systems-based Urban Design" (Created page with "'''Speaker:''' Linda Samuels, Washington University in St. Louis, USA '''Chair:''' Jennifer Clark, The Ohio State University, USA As global populations become more urbanized, wealth distribution more inequitable, and climate change impacts more severe, the pressure on our interconnected natural and synthetic infrastructural systems to maintain basic quality of life standards grows more and more intense. Infrastructural optimism is the concept that a more socially equit...")
13:07, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps (Created page with "by '''Sarah Treanor and Katie Prescott''' "There are about two billion people in the world who don't appear on a proper map," says Ivan Gayton from the charity Humanitarian OpenStreetMap. "It's shameful that we - as cartographers of the world - don't take enough interest to even know where they are. People are living and dying without appearing on any database." Known as the "Wikipedia for maps", anyone can download OpenStreetMap and edit it too. "It's an amazing sit...")
13:05, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Exploring Success Factors of Social Infrastructure Projects in Malaysia (Created page with "by: '''S.H. Wai, Aminah Md Yusof, Syuhaida Ismail and C.A. Ng''' '''Abstract''' In the context of construction management, Social Infrastructure Projects (SIPs) have long been overlooked. However, SIPs are one of the main criteria for enhancing economic productivity. This paper analyses the results of a survey aiming to develop a framework for SIP success factors to enhance the likelihood of success in the provision of SIPs in Malaysia. The principal component analysis...")
13:04, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries: A survey of the recent economic literature (Created page with "This paper reviews the recent economic research on emerging issues for infrastructure policies affecting poor people in developing countries. It's main purpose is to identify some of the challenges the international community, and donors in particular, are likely to have to address over the next few years. Link to material: http://www.google.com.tr/books?hl=tr&lr=&id=dXuO2QXKL9gC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=infrastructure+operations+research+developing+countries&ots=wcfV_LBu0-&si...")
13:03, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Computing Pareto-Optimal Transit Routes Through Mathematical Algorithms (Created page with "by: '''M. Fawad Zazai and Armin Fugenschuh''' '''Abstract''' Afghanistan is geo-strategically in an important transit zone in South and Central Asia, but currently lacks of modern infrastructure. We present the construction of optimal transit routes in Afghanistan through mathematical optimization. Basically there are three different optimization goals a) the shortest route w.r.t. the distance, b) the cheapest route w.r.t. the construction cost, and c) the most conveni...")
13:01, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Africa Fashion Futures: Creative Economies, Global Networks, and Local Development (Created page with "by: '''Lauren England, Eka Ikpe, Roberta Comunian, Ananya Jahanara Kabir''' '''Abstract''' This article reviews existing literature and approaches to the current study of fashion and economic development to rethink the interconnection between creative producers and global production and trade networks in relation to sustainable local development. Focusing on the work of independent fashion designers on the African continent, we first consider their positioning as cultu...")
12:59, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Review of Infrastructure Modelling for Green Logistics (Created page with "Infrastructure modelling is a strategic level activity to make one or more decisions on the optimum location, number and allocation of service providers. This problem has been intensively researched in academic literature and traditionally focuses on minimizing total logistics costs or maximizing profit. But in many cases the optimum may involve dealing with multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives. Recently, climate change and environmental concerns in logistics ne...")
12:57, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Voxel-MARS and CMARS: Methods for Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease by Classification of Structural Brain MRI (Created page with "by: '''Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber and Dr. Alper Cevik''' '''PRESENTATION OUTLINE''' '''Introduction''' - Motivation - Objectives '''Background''' - Biomarkers - MARS/CMARS '''Methodology''' - Data - Methods '''Performance''' - Results - Discussions '''Conclusions''' - Conclusions - Future Outlook '''DEFINITIONS''' '''Alzheimer's Disease (AD)''' - Most common neurodegenerative disease - Most common cause of dementia - Causes problems with memory, thinking...")
12:54, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page UK COVID-19 Vaccines Delivery Plan (Created page with "'''Ministerial Foreword''' We have always known that vaccines would be our best way out of this pandemic and towards a more normal way of life. It is why we moved fast and early: supporting groundbreaking research from January last year, and pre-ordering millions of vaccines on behalf of the whole of the UK. As a result of this work, we are the first country in the world to authorise a vaccine against COVID-19. Today we have three authorised vaccines for COVID-19; more...")
12:53, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The Use of Operations Research as a Tool for Monitoring and Managing Food-Assisted Maternal/Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Programs: An Example from Haiti (Created page with "This report describes the methods and results of an operations research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision (WV)’s food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) program in the Central Plateau region of Haiti. The research had three main objectives: (1) to assess the effectiveness of implementation and operations of the program relative to plans; (2) to assess the quality of delivery of the various services; and (3) to explore the perce...")
12:51, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The impact of COVID-19 on older persons Afghanistan analytical brief --- by Samuel Hall (Created page with "'''Highlights''' • Afghanistan reported its first COVID-19 case on 24 February 2020 in Herat. Its first death occurred on 22 March 2020 in the northern Balkh province. On 28 March, the Afghan government placed the city of Kabul on a three-week lockdown, which included closing of nonessential businesses and restriction of movement; this was extended to 21 May 2020. • COVID-19 is deadly for elderly people, people with pre-existing diseases such as high blood pressure...")
12:50, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page The effect of operations research on program changes in Bangladesh: Studies in Family Planning (Created page with "This article is based on the ten-year experience of an operations research project in Bangladesh. It assesses how, and under what circumstances, research-based advice and results of pilot projects contribute to change in large - scale public programs. Link to material: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14488659_The_Effect_of_Operations_Research_on_Program_Changes_in_Bangladesh Category: Health")
12:48, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Strengthening the utilisation of family planning operations research: Findings from case studies in Africa (Created page with "Operations Research (OR) “is a process, a way of identifying and solving program problems” (Fisher et al., 1991). Fisher et al. describe this five step process as: (1) problem identification and diagnosis; (2) strategy selection; (3) strategy experimentation and evaluation; (4) information dissemination; and (5) information utilization. The process of OR has a clear goal: to obtain information about a problem and ways to address it and to then see that this informati...")
12:47, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Robustness of Reduced-Order Non-Parametric Model for Inverse ECG Solution against Modeling and Measurement Noise (Created page with "by: '''G. W. Weber1, O. N. Onak, Y. S. Dogrusoz''' '''Background''' '''Action-Potential''' Action Potential (AP) is electrical stimu- lation created by a sequence of ion fluxes through specialized channels in the membrane of cardiomyocytes that leads to car- diac contraction. '''Electrocardiogram''' An electrocardiogram — abbreviated as EKG or ECG — is a test that measures the electrical activity of the heartbeat. With each beat, an electrical impulse (or wave)...")
12:45, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Risk assessment for skin exposure according to the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations – An Overview (Created page with "by '''Chris Packham''' This document provides a brief overview of what a COSHH risk assessment should include. Note that it is concerned only with skin exposure and not the other two routes – inhalation and ingestion. Be aware also that treating each route in isolation ignores the potential for cross reaction that might not be identified if each is treated as a discrete, isolated route. The diagram shows the cross reactions that can exist between the three routes. As...")
12:44, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Quality of Primary Health Care in Developing Countries: Recent Experiences and Future Direction (Created page with "In industrialized countries, quality of care is widely debated in the context of health sector reform [I]. A wealth of literature reflects the progress made in developing tools to monitor and improve the quality of health care. In developing countries, however, interest in the issue has been surprisingly low until recently. This is so, in spite of overwhelming published and anecdotal evidence of low quality of care in these countries (for an overview, see [2]). In this p...")
12:43, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Primary Health Care Operations Research Project (PRICOR) I and II (Created page with "The Primary Health Care Operations Research Project (PRICOR) I and II undertook multi-country research to guide developing countries in strengthening their primary health care services. URC pioneered the development of a practical, systematic approach to operations research on critical issues facing primary health care services in developing countries. Link to material: http://www.urc-chs.com/project?ProjectID=85 Category: Health")
12:41, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Optimal control of intervention strategies and cost effectiveness analysis for a Zika virus model (Created page with "by: '''Abdulfatai A. Momoha, Armin Fügenschuh''' '''Abstract''' This paper presents an optimal control strategy and a cost effectiveness analysis for the Zika virus disease. A mathematical model for the transmission of the Zika virus is considered with four preventive measures as control, namely: the use of treated bednets, the use of condoms, a medical treatment of infected persons, and the use of indoor residual spray (IRS). We obtain the reproduction number R0 for...")
12:40, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Operational Research and Health Care in Low & Medium (Created page with "by: '''Geoff Royston''' Operational research is the science of improving systems and processes, often complex and dynamic, involving resources, people and information that underpin daily life. In this webinar entitled “operational research and health care in low and medium resource settings", Dr Geoff Royston, former head of strategic analysis and operational research in the Department of Health for England, presents the conceptual and practical definition of the term...")
12:39, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Operational Research and Development; "Real World" insights from Health O.R.? (Created page with "by: '''Geoff Royston''' '''A talk in four parts''' 1. Major global health problems 2. Areas where O.R. has made, is making or could make a contribution to global health 3. Gaps in O.R. for global health 4. Enabling an increased contribution to health and development through “real world” O.R. Link to slideshow:http://ifors.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OR-for-Development-Workshop-9-July-2015-Geoff-Royston-pdf-of-slides.pdf Category: Health")
12:37, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Multi-year optimization of malaria intervention: a mathematical model (Created page with "by: '''Harry J. Dudley, Abhishek Goenka, Cesar J. Orellana and Susan E. Martonosi''' '''Abstract''' '''Background''' Malaria is a mosquito-borne, lethal disease that affects millions and kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, mostly children. There is an increasing need for models of malaria control. In this paper, a model is developed for allocating malaria interventions across geographic regions and time, subject to budget constraints, with the aim of mini...")
12:33, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Modelling and Optimal Control of Multi Strain Epidemics, with Application to COVID-19 (Created page with "by: '''Edilson F. Arruda, Dayse H. Pastore, Claudia M. Dias and Shyam S. Das''' '''Abstract''' This work introduces a novel epidemiological model that simultaneously considers multiple viral strains, reinfections due to waning immunity response over time and an optimal control formulation. This enables us to derive optimal mitigation strate- gies over a prescribed time horizon under a more realistic framework that does not imply perennial immunity and a single strain,...")
12:29, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page LSE LACC Blog: From field to favela: Tackling food inequality in Brazil (Created page with "by: '''André Duarte, Lars M. Sanches, Michele E. Martins and Vinícius Picanço''' During the COVID-19 crisis, Brazil’s longstanding problems of food insecurity and food inequity have only become more pronounced. While the consumers in greatest need are left with barely anything to eat, small farmers find themselves unable to bring their goods to market. Fresh food supply chains need to be redesigned so that they properly connect and protect their weakest links, writ...")
12:22, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Investigating the Health Needs and Challenges of Individuals Seeking Asylum and Refugees: An Evaluative Framework (Created page with "by: '''Michael Snowden, Michelle Bartholomew, Harriet Smith, Mousa Jawasreh''' '''Abstract''' This evaluative projects utilised an innovative a framework "CARA" which can be utilised to ensure effective integration of populations into decision making and service design. An integral part of this development included exploring the experiences of individuals seeking asylum and refugees by focusing on the challenges they have experienced in accessing health care. link to...")
12:21, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page How Elsevier is supporting your response to COVID-19 (Created page with "To those of you who are working tirelessly to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, we applaud you and want to support your efforts. We created this page to let you know about resources we have made freely available for this purpose. It’s part of our comprehensive effort to support our customers and partners across the research, higher education and health communities during these unique and trying times. '''Research''' Elsevier's Novel Coronavirus Information Center has exp...")
12:20, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page HelpAge – COVID-19, Displacement & Older People in Afghanistan - by Samuel Hall (Created page with "This research brief highlights: • Limited targeted support for elderly IDPs & returnees and a lack of special healthcare services, including COVID-19 testing capacities, for elderly IDPs. • Health workers in Kabul identify elderly clients as more likely to struggle with depression. • Decreased access to healthcare for IDPs and returnees due to costs of treatment and transport, and location of health clinics. • Changing perceptions and cultural norms as a resu...")
12:18, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Healthcare Information For All - HIFA (Created page with "'''About HIFA''' HIFA (Healthcare Information For All) is a global social movement to improve the availability and use of healthcare information in low- and middle-income countries. It has more than 20,000 members (health workers, librarians, publishers, researchers, policymakers...) committed to the progressive realisation of a world where every person has access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of others - and is prote...")
12:17, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Hand hygiene for infection prevention against COVID-19 (Created page with "by: '''Chris Packham''' '''Hand hygiene as a method of infection prevention''' Hand hygiene is probably the most important measure that the individual person can adopt in the attempt to prevent, or at least minimise, the possibility of infection with the COVID-19 virus. However, it is essential to ensure that the method of hand hygiene adopted and the way in which it is then carried out is such that the risk of skin contact with the virus and colonisation is genuinely...")
12:15, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Free Online Courses from Peoples-Praxis: Public Health, Open Science, Research Methods, Thoughtful Practice (Created page with "Courses to help build capacity in public health particularly among those in low- to middle-income countries. This should not only help with developing knowledge, but with putting this knowledge into practice. Courses include those to help with the review and open publication of research results. Please explore any of these courses (they are listed below). They are free, open access and self paced, so you can work through them in your own time. You may want to work throu...")
12:14, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Flattening the curves: on-off lock-down strategies for COVID-19 with an application to Brazil (Created page with "by: '''Luís Tarrataca, Claudia Mazza Dias, Diego Barreto Haddad and Edilson Fernandes De Arruda''' '''Abstract''' The current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting different countries in different ways. The assortment of reporting techniques alongside other issues, such as underreporting and budgetary constraints, makes predicting the spread and lethality of the virus a challenging task. This work attempts to gain a better understanding of how COVID-19 will affect one of the...")
12:12, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Discrete Event Simulation for Performance Modelling in Healthcare: A Review of the Literature (Created page with "'''Abstract''' Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been widely used in modelling healthcare systems for many years and a simple citation analysis shows that the number of papers published has increased markedly since 2004. Over the last 30years several significant reviews of DES papers have been published and we build on these to focus on the most recent era, with an interest in performance modelling within hospitals. Since there are few papers that propose or illustrat...")
12:11, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page COVID-19 In Afghanistan: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices & Impact --- by Samuel Hall (Created page with "'''INTRODUCTION''' COVID-19 threatens Afghanistan’s many gains, from progress in access to education for children and trust in formal protection mechanisms to social norms around gender and trust in Government. With a healthcare system already stretched to the limits, ongoing conflict and natural disasters, widespread food insecurity and reductions in foreign aid, stakeholders in Afghanistan were already facing a complex and worsening situation. COVID-19 has the pote...")
12:08, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Coronavirus (COVID-19) (Created page with "All COVID-19 - sharing wider resources to support those involved in specific work, opportunities to get involved and ORS e-learning. '''COVID-19 E-Learning Resources''' Like many others, the society has now switched to remote working. Our priority is, and will always be, the wellbeing of our team and this move ensures that our team are protected and that support to our members will continue. Key ways in which your ORS membership can support your continued learning and...")
12:07, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Capacity-Building for Health Research in Developing Countries: A Manager’s Approach (Created page with "By: Franklin White '''Abstract''' Research may be viewed as rigorous inquiry to advance knowledge and improve practices. An international commission has argued that strengthening research capacity is one of the most powerful, cost-effective, and sustainable means of advancing health and development. However, the global effort to promote research in developing countries has been mostly policy driven, and largely at the initiative of donor agencies based in developed cou...")
12:05, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page A Novel Stochastic Epidemic Model with Application to COVID-19 (Created page with "by: '''Edilson F. Arruda, Rodrigo e A. Alexandre, Marcelo D. Fragoso, Joao B. R. do Val, Sinnu S. Thomas''' '''Abstract''' In this paper we propose a novel SEIR stochastic epidemic model. A distinguishing feature of this new model is that it allows us to consider a set up under general latency and infectious period distributions. To some extent, queuing systems with infinitely many servers and a Markov chain with time-varying transition rate are the very technical unde...")
11:38, 11 May 2026 Dcadmin talk contribs created page Sustainable Energy for Developing Countries (Created page with "Overall, at least 1.6 billion peopleone-fourth of the worlds populationcurrently live without electricity and this number has hardly changed in absolute terms since 1970. And yet, the electricity required for people to read at night, pump a minimal amount of drinking water and listen to radio broadcasts would amount to less than 1 percent of overall global energy demand. Developing and emerging economies face thus a two-fold energy challenge in the 21st century: Meeting...")