Search results
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Title
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Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...
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Title
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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Title
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Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...
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Title
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A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
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Author
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Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
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Description
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Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...
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Title
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Genetic diversity of Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia provides insight into patterns of spread
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa (HOA) raises concerns about the impact of this mosquito on malaria transmission in the region. Analysis of An. stephensi genetic diversity...
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Geographical distribution of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The recent detection of the South Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and other regions in the Horn of Africa has raised concerns about its potential impact on malaria transmission. We report here the findings of a surv...
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Title
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Active Notch signaling is required for arm regeneration in a brittle star
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Machado, Denis Jacob, Reid, Robert
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Cell signaling pathways play key roles in coordinating cellular events in development. The Notch signaling pathway is highly conserved across all multicellular animals and is known to coordinate a multitude of diverse cellular events, including pr...
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Title
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Insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi in Somali Region, eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background The movement of malaria vectors into new areas is a growing concern in the efforts to control malaria. The recent report of Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia has raised the necessity to understand the insecticide resistance status...
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Title
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Sequence-based identification of Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Malaria
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Description
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Background: The recent finding of a typically non-African Anopheles species in eastern Ethiopia emphasizes the need for detailed species identification and characterization for effective malaria vector surveillance. Molecular approaches increase t...
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Title
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Updated phylogeny of chikungunya virus suggests lineage-specific RNA architecture
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Author
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Janies, Daniel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Communicable diseases, Biology
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Description
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, has recently emerged in the Americas from lineages from two continents: Asia and Africa. Historically, CHIKV circulated as at least four lineages worldwide with both...
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Title
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A new strategy to infer circularity applied to four new complete frog mitogenomes
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Author
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Machado, Denis Jacob, Janies, Daniel, Brouwer, Cory, Grant, Taran
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Amphibians, Bioinformatics
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Description
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We applied a novel strategy to infer sequence circularity and complete assembly of four mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of the frog families Bufonidae (Melanophryniscus moreirae), Dendrobatidae (Hyloxalus subpunctatus and Phyllobates terribili...
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Title
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Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
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Author
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Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomics, Biology
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Description
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Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...