Model predictive control to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak in a multi-region scenario

R Carli, G Cavone, N Epicoco, P Scarabaggio… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak is deeply influencing the global social and economic framework,
due to restrictive measures adopted worldwide by governments to counteract the pandemic …

[HTML][HTML] A review of multilevel modeling and simulation for human mobility and behavior

L Serena, M Marzolla, G D'Angelo, S Ferretti - … modelling practice and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multilevel modeling and simulation is a general technique that has many applications in
such diverse fields as chemistry, biology, engineering, social sciences and economics …

Kinetic models for epidemic dynamics with social heterogeneity

G Dimarco, B Perthame, G Toscani… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2021 - Springer
We introduce a mathematical description of the impact of the number of daily contacts in the
spread of infectious diseases by integrating an epidemiological dynamics with a kinetic …

Network models to evaluate vaccine strategies towards herd immunity in COVID-19

JNA Tetteh, EA Hernandez-Vargas - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Vaccination remains a critical element in the eventual solution to the COVID-19 public health
crisis. Many vaccines are already being mass produced and supplied in many countries …

Optimal control of epidemic spreading in the presence of social heterogeneity

G Dimarco, G Toscani… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The spread of COVID-19 has been thwarted in most countries through non-pharmaceutical
interventions. In particular, the most effective measures in this direction have been the stay …

Computational simulations to dissect the cell immune response dynamics for severe and critical cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection

R Blanco-Rodriguez, X Du… - Computer methods and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: COVID-19 is a global pandemic leading to high death tolls worldwide day by
day. Clinical evidence suggests that COVID-19 patients can be classified as non-severe …

Minimizing the epidemic final size while containing the infected peak prevalence in SIR systems

J Sereno, A Anderson, A Ferramosca… - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
Mathematical models are critical to understand the spread of pathogens in a population and
evaluate the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). A plethora of optimal …

Nucleator induced highly oriented crystalline structure of poly (lactic acid) fiber enables superior intrinsic piezoelectric and antibacterial effect

W He, C Yan, X Zhao, Y Zhang, L Ye - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the continuous worldwide threats from infectious diseases, exploring novel
antibacterial materials based on renewable, biodegradable and biocompatible polymers …

Challenges and future directions in pandemic control

T Alamo, P Millán, DG Reina… - IEEE Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we describe some of the most important objectives and needs in pandemic
control. We identify the main open problems in the different stages of the decision making …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling of pandemic COVID-19 using optimal control theory

SS Chaharborj, SS Chaharborj, JH Asl, PS Phang - Results in physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In 2019, a new infectious disease called pandemic COVID-19 began to spread from Wuhan,
China. In spite of the efforts to stop the disease, being out of the control of the governments it …