An SIS network model incorporating the influence of media coverage on transmission rate is formulated and analyzed. We calculate the basic reproduction number R0 by utilizing the local stability of the disease-free equilibrium. Our results show that the disease-free equilibrium is globally...

The dynamics of interacting botnets and the effects of the strategies selected by interacting botnet owners on the spread of botnets remain unclear. As a result, in this paper, we present a botnet interaction model, obtained by coupling a fast evolutionary game dynamics to a slow population...

Considering homosexual contacts and heterosexual contacts in the course of sexual contacts, double degrees which describe the numbers of homosexual contacts and heterosexual contacts are introduced, correlation coefficients about degrees based on the joint probability distribution are given, and...

One of the central issues in epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease. And time delay widely exists in the process of disease spread. Thus, in this paper, we presented an epidemic model with spatial diffusion and time delay. By mathematical analysis, we find two different types...

In this paper, we propose and study an SIS epidemic model with multiple transmission routes on heterogeneous networks. We focus on the dynamical evolution of the prevalence. Through mathematical analysis, we obtain the basic reproduction number R0 by investigating the local stability of the...

We introduce a new dynamic immunization method based on the static immunization algorithm and study the relationship between dynamic and static immunization. By nodes to be immunized according to static immunization strategies, we build a connection between dynamic and static immunization. Using...

Selection of the competition opponent is crucial for the evolution of cooperation in evolutionary games. In this work, we introduce a simple rule, incorporating individual popularity via the single parameter α, to study how the selection of the potential strategy sources influences individual...

Refrigerator ownership in rural China increased from 14% to 45% over the period 2001-2010.We test the impact on demand for food, particularly meat, using fixed-effect and demand system approaches based on provincial data. Results suggest that rising refrigerator ownership had a negative effect...

Many complex networks demonstrate a phenomenon of striking degree correlations: that is, a node tends to link to other nodes with similar (or dissimilar) degrees. From the perspective of degree correlations, in this paper we attempt to characterize topological structures of urban street...

In evidence-based medicine, meta-analysis is an important statistical technique for combining the findings from independent clinical trials which have attempted to answer similar questions about treatment's clinical eectiveness [1]. Normally, such meta-analyses are pair-wise treatment...