Prophylaxis of contacts of infectious cases such as household members and treatment of infectious cases are methods to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. We develop a method based on maximum likelihood to estimate the efficacy of such interventions and the transmission probabilities. We...

The intercalation of spacer is a commonly used method for suppressing re-stacking of MXene nanosheets. However, the intrinsically inactive property of spacer injures the capacitance performance of MXene in acid electrolyte. Here, hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) molecules are used as the...

Abstract We propose the minicommunity design to estimate indirect effects of vaccination. Establishing indirect effects of vaccination in unvaccinated subpopulations could have important implications for global vaccine policies. In the minicommunity design, the household or other small...