The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Due to the complexity of multifactorial diseases, single-target drugs do not always exhibit
satisfactory efficacy. Recently, increasing evidence indicates that simultaneous modulation …

Accurate estimation of the parameters characterising infectious disease transmission is vital
for optimising control interventions during epidemics. A valuable metric for assessing the …

Inferring biotic interactions from functional, phylogenetic and geographical proxies remains
one great challenge in ecology. We propose a conceptual framework to infer the backbone …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

The availability of large data sets has allowed researchers to uncover complex properties
such as large-scale fluctuations and heterogeneities in many networks, leading to the …

The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an
avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the …

The dynamic spatial redistribution of individuals is a key driving force of various
spatiotemporal phenomena on geographical scales. It can synchronize populations of …

Abstract Development of strategies for mitigating the severity of a new influenza pandemic is
now a top global public health priority. Influenza prevention and containment strategies can …

The term “organocatalysis” describes the acceleration of chemical reactions through the
addition of a substoichiometric quantity of an organic compound. The interest in this field has …