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    • Community resilience in collaborative learning 

      Kribs, Christopher; Crisosto, Nicolas M.; Castillo-Chavez, Carlos; Wirkus, Stephen (American Institute of Mathematical SciencesMathematics Department, University of Texas at Arlington; Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington; Laboratoire de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5558 Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, 2010-07)
      This paper introduces a simplified dynamical systems framework for the study of the mechanisms behind the growth of cooperative learning in large communities. We begin from the simplifying assumption that individual-based ...
    • A cost-based comparison of quarantine strategies for new emerging diseases 

      Kribs, Christopher; Mubayi, Anuj; Martcheva, Maia; Castillo-Chavez, Carlos (American Institute of Mathematical SciencesMathematics Department, University of Texas at Arlington, 2010-07)
      A classical epidemiological framework is used to provide a preliminary cost analysis of the effects of quarantine and isolation on the dynamics of infectious diseases for which no treatment or immediate diagnosis tools are ...
    • Model parameters and outbreak control for SARS 

      Kribs, Christopher; Chowell, Gerardo; Castillo-Chavez, Carlos; Fenimore, Paul W.; Arriola, Leon; Hyman, James M. (Centers for Disease Control and PreventionMathematics Department, University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-07)
      Control of the 2002–2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak was based on rapid diagnosis coupled with effective patient isolation. We used uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of the basic reproductive ...