A BAYESIAN SYSTEM TO DETECT AND TRACK OUTBREAKS OF INFLUENZA-LIKE ILLNESSES INCLUDING NOVEL DISEASES: ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION

A Bayesian System to Detect and Track Outbreaks of Influenza-Like Illnesses Including Novel Diseases: Algorithm Development and Validation

Background The early identification of outbreaks of both known and novel influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) is an important public health problem.Objective This study aimed to describe the design and testing of a tool that detects and tracks outbreaks of both known and novel ILIs, such as the SARS-CoV-2 worldwide pandemic, accurately and early.Methods

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Sex and Gender in Natural Language

The topic of this paper is the relation between a real-world Surveillance Cameras category (sex) and a linguistic category (gender).In the first part, the gender system of Indo-European languages is discussed.Then the gender-system in a language without grammatical gender is described.Finally, a few general comments are hazarded on the difficult qu

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Modelling daily weight variation in honey bee hives

A quantitative understanding of the dynamics of bee colonies is important to support global efforts to improve bee health and enhance pollination services.Traditional approaches focus either on theoretical models or data-centred statistical analyses.Here we argue that the combination of these two approaches is essential to obtain interpretable info

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