Microbiome research and microbiome data analysis are one of the fast-growing areas in
biomedical and public health research. It is evidenced and catalyzed by publications in …

Introduction A worsening heart failure event (WHFE) is defined as progressively escalating
heart failure signs/symptoms requiring intravenous diuretic treatment or hospitalization. No …

Parasitism in wild mammals can vary according to myriad intrinsic and extrinsic factors,
many of which vary seasonally. However, seasonal variation in parasitism is rarely studied …

Background Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections have many negative health outcomes
(eg, diarrhea, nutritional deficiencies) that can also exacerbate poverty. These infections are …

In this chapter, we introduce and illustrate how to model zero-inflated microbiome data. In
Sect. 12.1, we briefly introduce modeling zero-inflated data. The remaining of this chapter is …

Coinfections with parasitic helminths and microparasites are highly common in nature and
can lead to complex within-host interactions between parasite species which can cause …

Pollinator biodiversity may benefit crop pollination. Yet benefits in agro-ecosystems may be
context-dependent and offset by agronomic or other limiting orchard-specific or tree-specific …

Cooperative vehicle-infrastructure warning (CVIW) applications have great potential to
relieve traffic congestion and improve traffic safety and mobility. To understand their public …

Climate change will strongly impact aquatic ecosystems particularly in arid and semi‐arid
regions. Fish–parasite interactions will also be affected by predicted altered flow and …

Objectives This study aims to explore factors influencing the number of axillary lymph nodes
in women diagnosed with primary breast cancer by choosing an efficient model to assess …