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Mortality From the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919: The Case of India

Chandra, Siddharth; Kuljanin, Goran; Wray, Jennifer - In: Demography 49 (2012) 3, pp. 857-865

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The Pervasive and Persistent Influence of Caste on Child Mortality in India

Dommaraju, Premchand; Agadjanian, Victor; Yabiku, Scott - In: Population Research and Policy Review 27 (2008) 4, pp. 477-495

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Tall claims: Mortality selection and the height of children in India

Alderman, Harold; Lokshin, Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 393-406

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to … assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was … of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be …

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An assessment of the ex-post socio-economic impacts of global rinderpest eradication: Methodological issues and applications to rinderpest control programs in Chad and India

Rich, Karl M.; Roland-Holst, David; Otte, Joachim - In: Food Policy 44 (2014) C, pp. 248-261

to the cases of Chad and India. …

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Natural disasters in China: 1900–2011

Chen, Sha; Luo, Zhongkui; Pan, Xubin - In: Natural Hazards 69 (2013) 3, pp. 1597-1605

1900 to 2011, the major disaster types include drought, earthquake, epidemic, extreme temperature, flood, mass movement wet …

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Post-Cyclone Sidr illness patterns in coastal Bangladesh: an empirical study

Paul, Bimal; Rahman, Munshi; Rakshit, Bankim - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 3, pp. 841-852

After the landfall of Cyclone Sidr along the southwestern coast of Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, emergency and public health personnel within and beyond Bangladesh anticipated a massive outbreak of water-borne and other diseases in most affected areas. Fortunately, such an outbreak did not...

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Effective vaccination strategies for realistic social networks

Miller, Joel C.; Hyman, James M. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 386 (2007) 2, pp. 780-785

We consider the effectiveness of targeted vaccination at preventing the spread of infectious disease in a realistic social network. We compare vaccination strategies based on no information (random vaccination) to complete information (PageRank) about the network. The most effective strategy we...

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Crossover from weak to strong disorder regime in the duration of epidemics

Buono, C.; Lagorio, C.; Macri, P.A.; Braunstein, L.A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 16, pp. 4181-4185

epidemic has a crossover with the system size, from a power-law regime to a logarithmic regime depending on the … transmissibility related to the strength of the disorder. Using percolation theory, we find that the duration of the epidemic scales as …

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Extending the SIR epidemic model

Satsuma, J; Willox, R; Ramani, A; Grammaticos, B; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 369-375

We investigate possible extensions of the susceptible–infective-removed (SIR) epidemic model. We show that there exists … the non-infected population at the end of the epidemic. A cellular automaton SIR is also constructed on the basis of the …

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EMPIRICAL DATA AND MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURES IN THE EPIDEMIC MODELING OF PARENTERAL HEPATITIS IN ITALY

SCHINAIA, GIUSEPPE - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 08 (2005) 01, pp. 33-58

and qualitative aspects of the epidemic, such as possible endemic steady states and the basic reproduction number, are …

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