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Bragazzi, NL, Kong, JD, Mahroum, N, Tsigalou, C, Khamisy-Farah, R, Converti, M, Wu, Jianhong, Epidemiological trends and clinical features of the ongoing monkeypox epidemic: a preliminary pooled data analysis and literature review, J of Medical Virology, 2022, doi: 10.1002/jmv.27931
Kazemi, M, Bragazzi, NL, Kong, JD, Assessing Inequalities in COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out Programs: A Cross-Country Study Using a Machine Learning Approach, Vaccines, V. 10, no. 2, 2022, doi: 10.3390/vaccines10020194
Tao, S, Bragazzi, NL, Wu, J, Mellado, B, Kong, JD, Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to assess the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on the second wave of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic across the world, Scientific Reports, V. 12, no. 1, 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04731-5
Yuan, P, Li, J, Aruffo, E, Gatov, E, Li, Q, Zheng, T, Ogden, NH, Sander B, et al, Efficacy of a “stay at home” policy on SARS-COV-2 transmission in Toronto, Canada a mathematical modelling study, CMAJ, V. 10, no. 2, 2022, doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200242
Iyaniwura, SA, Rabiu, M, David, JF, Kong, JD, The basic reproduction number of COVID-19 across Africa, Public Library of Science, V. 17, no. 2, 2022, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264455
Yuan, P, Aruffo, E, Li, Q, Li, J, Tan, Y, Zheng, T, et al, Evaluating the risk of reopening the border: a case study of Ontario (Canada) to New York (USA) using mathematical modeling, Springer, Cham, Mathematics of Public Health, 2022.
Habees, AA, Aldabbas, E, Bragazzi, NL, Kong, JD, Bacteria-bacteriophage cycles facilitate Cholera outbreak cycles: an indirect Susceptible-Infected-Recovered-Bacteria-Phage (iSIRBP) model-based mathematical study, J of Biological Dynamics, V. 16, no. 1, 2022, doi: 10.1080/17513758.2021.2017032
Nia, Zahra and Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi and Wu, Jianhong and Wu, Jianhong and Kong, Jude Dzevela, A Twitter Dataset for Monkeypox, May 2022 (June 21, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4142796
Han, Qing and Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi and Asgary, Ali and Orbinski, James and Wu, Jianhong and Wu, Jianhong and Kong, Jude Dzevela, Estimation of Epidemiological Parameters and Ascertainment Rate from Early Transmission of COVID-19 across Africa (May 30, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4131409 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4131409
Wang, X, Han, Q, Kong, JD, Studying the mixed transmission in a community with age heterogeneity: COVID-19 as a case study, Infectious Disease Modeling, V. 7, no. 2, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.idm.2022.05.006
Nia, ZM, Ahmadi, A, Mellado, B, Jianhong, Wu, Orbinski, J, Asgary, A, Kong, JD, A Twitter Based Gender Recognition Using Transformers, 2022, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.06801
Avusuglo, Wisdom and Han, Qing and Woldegerima, Woldegebriel Assefa and Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi and Ahmadi, Ali and Asgary, Ali and Wu, Jianhong and Wu, Jianhong and Orbinski, James and Kong, Jude Dzevela, COVID-19 and malaria co-infection: do stigmatization and self-medication matter? A mathematical modelling study for Nigeria (April 21, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4090040
Alavinejad, Mahnaz and Mellado, Bruce and Asgary, Ali and Mbada, Mduduzi and Mathaha, Thuso and Lieberman, Benjamin and Stevenson, Finn and Tripathi, Nidhi and Swain, Abhaya Kumar and Orbinski, James and Wu, Jianhong and Wu, Jianhong and Kong, Jude Dzevela, Management of Healthcare Resources in the Gauteng Province, South Africa, During the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 3, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4049177 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4049177
Nia ZM, Asgary A, Bragazzi N, Melado B, Orbinski J, Wu J, Kong JD. Tracing Unemployment Rate of South Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Twitter Data https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/33843
Avusuglo, Wisdom and Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi and Asgary, Ali and Orbinski, James and Wu, Jianhong and Wu, Jianhong and Kong, Jude Dzevela, The Role of Behavioral Compliance to Non-Pharmaceutical and Pharmaceutical Interventions in the Fight Against COVID-19: Insights From a Behavior-Disease Economic Epidemic Model Coupled With Optimal Control Theory (September 11, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3922118 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3922118
Duhon, J., Bragazzi, N., & Kong, J. D. (2021). The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions, demographic, social, and climatic factors on the initial growth rate of COVID-19: A cross-country study. The Science of the total environment, 760, 144325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144325
Stevenson F, Hayasi K, Bragazzi NL, Kong JD, Asgary A, Lieberman B, Ruan X, Mathaha T, Dahbi SE, Choma N, Kawonga M. Development of an Early Alert System for an Additional Wave of COVID-19 Cases using a Recurrent Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory. IJERPH 2021
Lieberman B, Gusinow R, Asgary A, Bragazzi NL, Choma N, Dahbi SE, Hayasi K, Kar D, Kawonga M, Kong JD, Mbada M. Big Data-and Artificial Intelligence-Based Hot-Spot Analysis of COVID-19: Gauteng, South Africa, as a case study. IJERPH 2021
Mellado B, Wu J, Kong JD, Bragazzi NL, Asgary A, Kawonga M, Choma N, Hayasi K, Lieberman B, Mathaha T, Mbada M. Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to optimize COVID-19 clinical public health and vaccination roll-out strategies in Africa. IJERPH 2021
Duhon J, Bragazzi N, Kong JD. The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions, demographic, social, and climatic factors on the initial growth rate of COVID-19: A cross-country study. Science of The Total Environment. 2021 Mar 15;760:144325.
Mbogning Fonkou MD, Bragazzi NL, Tsinda EK, Bouba Y, Mmbando GS, Kong JD. COVID-19 Pandemic Related Research in Africa: Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Output, Collaborations and Scientific Leadership. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 Jan;18(14):7273.
Guelmami N, Khalifa MB, Chalghaf N, Kong JD, Amayra T, Wu J, Azaiez F, Bragazzi NL. Development of the 12-Item Social Media Disinformation Scale and its Association With Social Media Addiction and Mental Health Related to COVID-19 in Tunisia: Survey-Based Pilot Case Study. JMIR Formative Research. 2021 Jun 9;5(6):e27280.
Sott MK, da Silva Nascimento L, Foguesatto CR, Furstenau LB, Faccin K, Zawislak PA, Mellado B, Kong JD, Bragazzi NL. Agriculture 4.0 and Smart Sensors. The Scientific Evolution of Digital Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities.
Guelmami N, Chalghaf N, Wu J, Kong JD, Mellado B, Jahrami H, Ben Khalifa M, Amayra T, Azaiez F, Bragazzi NL. Social Media COVID-19 Information and Vaccine Decision: A Latent Class Analysis. Available at SSRN 3841301. 2021 May 7.
Kong JD, Tchuendom RF, Adeleye SA, David JF, Admasu FS, Bakare EA, Siewe N. SARS-CoV-2 and self-medication in Cameroon: a mathematical model. Journal of Biological Dynamics. 2021 Jan 1;15(1):137-50.
Yagai Bouba, Emmanuel Kagning Tsinda, Maxime Descartes, Mbogning Fonkou ,Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando ,Nicola Luigi Bragazzi , Jude Dzevela Kong. The determinants of the low COVID-19 transmission and mortality rates in Africa: A cross- country analysis. SSRN 2021.
Thiede R, Abdelatif N, Fabris-Rotelli I, Manjoo-Docrat R, Holloway J, van Rensburg CJ, Debba P, Dudeni-Tlhone N, Kimmie Z, Roux AL. Spatial variation in the basic reproduction number of COVID-19: A systematic review. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06301. 2020 Dec 10.
Fabris-Rotelli I, Holloway J, Kimmie Z, Archibald S, Debba P, Docrat R, le Roux A, Dudeni-Tlhone N, Van Rensburg CJ, Thiede R, Abdelatif N. A Spatial SEIR Model for COVID-19 in South Africa.
Potgieter A, Fabris-Rotelli I, Kimmie Z, Dudeni-Tlhone N, Holloway J, Van Rensburg CJ, Thiede R, Debba P, Docrat R, Abdelatif N, Makhanya S. Modelling Representative Population Mobility for COVID-19 Spatial Transmission in South Africa.