Big data analytics and smart cities: applications, challenges, and opportunities

E Cesario - Frontiers in big data, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Urban environments continuously generate larger and larger volumes of data, whose
analysis can provide descriptive and predictive models as valuable support to inspire and …

Gendered share of housework and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining self‐ratings and speculation of others in Germany, India, Nigeria, and South Africa

IF Obioma, A Jaga, M Raina, WA Asekun… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This cross‐sectional study examined gender differences between male‐and female‐typed
housework during the early COVID‐19 lockdowns in 2020. Participants in Germany, India …

A vaccination model for COVID-19 in Gauteng, South Africa

CJ Edholm, B Levy, L Spence, FB Agusto… - Infectious Disease …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to explore the impact of government
mandates on movement restrictions and non-pharmaceutical interventions on a novel …

Changes in trauma-related emergency medical services during the COVID-19 lockdown in the Western Cape, South Africa

A Pettke, W Stassen, L Laflamme, LA Wallis… - BMC emergency …, 2023 - Springer
Background To limit virus spread during the COVID pandemic, extensive measures were
implemented around the world. In South Africa, these restrictions included alcohol and …

[HTML][HTML] A spatial model with vaccinations for COVID-19 in South Africa

C Dresselhaus, I Fabris-Rotelli, R Manjoo-Docrat… - Spatial Statistics, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the emergence of the novel COVID-19 virus pandemic in December 2019, numerous
mathematical models were published to assess the transmission dynamics of the disease …

Mobility signatures: a tool for characterizing cities using intercity mobility flows

M Astero, Z Huang, J Saramäki - Frontiers in big data, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the patterns of human mobility between cities has various applications from
transport engineering to spatial modeling of the spreading of contagious diseases. We adopt …

Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on SO2, NO2, and CO Trends in Durban Using TROPOMI, AIRS, OMI, and MERRA-2 Data

B Mokgoja, P Mhangara, L Shikwambana - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
This research report investigated the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on CO,
SO2, and NO2 trends in Durban from 2019 to 2021. The COVID-19 lockdown restrictions …

A data-driven framework to assess population dynamics during novel coronavirus outbreaks: A case study on **amen Island, China

P Wang, J Huang - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has profoundly influenced daily
life, necessitating the understanding of the relationship between the epidemic's progression …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of changing COVID-19 restrictions on the transmission rate in a veterinary clinic

L Spence, DE Anderson, IH Aslan, M Demir… - Infectious Disease …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization on March
11, 2020, the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (UTCVM), like other …

A spatial SEIR model for COVID-19 in South Africa

I Fabris-Rotelli, JP Holloway, Z Kimmie, S Archibald… - 2022 - researchspace.csir.co.za
The virus SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in numerous modelling approaches arising rapidly to
understand the spread of the disease COVID-19 and to plan for future interventions. Herein …