denim: An R package for deterministic compartmental models with flexible dwell‐time distributions Compartmental models are widely used for dynamical systems where states are discrete, such as in infectious disease epidemiology with the so-called Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) framework...

Compartments models with an explicit modeling of the distributions of the waiting times in compartments, made easy in R: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Today is the World AIDS day and also the 21st anniversary of my PhD defense (on HIV, among others).

Scalable, open-access and multidisciplinary data integration pipeline for climate-sensitive diseases: doi.org/10.12688/wel...

Performance and added value of a high-resolution (2 km) rainfall product based on WRF-downscaled ERA5 for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Theoretical and Applied Climatology Although the fifth-generation ECMWF reanalysis (ERA5) reanalysis dataset at 0.25º resolution and its land-specific product (ERA5-Land) at 0.1º resolution are widely used, they still remain too coarse ...

Producing high quality high resolution grid rainfall data from global climatic models outputs through a combination of dynamical downscaling techniques and machine learning algorithms: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa

Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Detection of Immunity Gap before Measles Outbreak, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2024 Detection of Immunity Gap before Measles Outbreak, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2024

Can we use hospital residual serum samples to predict the risk of an outbreak? Giving some answers to this question using the 2024 measles outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in a study conducted in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City CDC (HCDC).
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Preventing bad behavior in academia We gave young scientists this prompt: Describe one change to scientific policy or culture that would substantially decrease incidents of scientific misconduct or other unethical behavior.

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Genomic insights unveil the plasmid transfer mechanism and epidemiology of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Vietnam - Nature Communications Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) is a significant cause of severe community-acquired infection, primarily in Asia. Here, the authors characterise the genetic profile, phylogenetic structure,...

Genomic insights unveil the plasmid transfer mechanism and epidemiology of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Vietnam

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