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List of works by Stefano Merler

A Combinatorial Model of Malware Diffusion via Bluetooth Connections

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

A grid environment for high-throughput proteomics

scientific article published on June 2007

Age-prioritized use of antivirals during an influenza pandemic

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Algebraic stability indicators for ranked lists in molecular profiling

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An accelerated procedure for recursive feature ranking on microarray data.

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An individual-based model of hepatitis A transmission

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Assessing the potential risk of Zika virus epidemics in temperate areas with established Aedes albopictus populations

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Assessing the risk of autochthonous yellow fever transmission in Lazio, central Italy

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Automatic model selection in cost-sensitive boosting

BIAS-VARIANCE CONTROL VIA HARD POINTS SHAVING

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Behavioral Changes and Adaptation Induced by Epidemics

Coinfection can trigger multiple pandemic waves.

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Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models.

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Containing Ebola at the Source with Ring Vaccination

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Containing the accidental laboratory escape of potential pandemic influenza viruses

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Deciphering the relative weights of demographic transition and vaccination in the decrease of measles incidence in Italy

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

Deriving the Kernel from Training Data

Detecting a Surprisingly Low Transmission Distance in the Early Phase of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Determinants of the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic in Europe: Implications for Real-Time Modelling

scientific article published on September 29, 2011

Different Clinical Phenotypes of Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: A Subgroup Analysis of 86 Patients

Effectiveness and economic assessment of routine larviciding for prevention of chikungunya and dengue in temperate urban settings in Europe

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Effectiveness of Ultra-Low Volume insecticide spraying to prevent dengue in a non-endemic metropolitan area of Brazil

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Effectiveness of contact investigations for tuberculosis control in Arkansas

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Effects of clustered transmission on epidemic growth Comment on "Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: A review" by Gerardo Chowell et al.

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Entropy-based gene ranking without selection bias for the predictive classification of microarray data

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Epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 cases in Italy and estimates of the reproductive numbers one month into the epidemic

scientific article published on 11 April 2020

Epidemiology and transmission dynamics of the 1918-19 pandemic influenza in Florence, Italy

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Estimating measles transmission potential in Italy over the period 2010-2011.

scientific article published on January 2014

Estimating the establishment of local transmission and the cryptic phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Evaluating vaccination strategies for reducing infant respiratory syncytial virus infection in low-income settings

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Exact Bagging with k-Nearest Neighbour Classifiers

First outbreak of Zika virus in the continental United States: a modelling analysis.

scientific article published on September 2017

Geographical information systems and bootstrap aggregation (bagging) of tree-based classifiers for Lyme disease risk prediction in Trentino, Italian Alps

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Heterogeneity in social and epidemiological factors determines the risk of measles outbreaks

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Highlighting Hard Patterns via AdaBoost Weights Evolution

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Hope-Simpson's progressive immunity hypothesis as a possible explanation for herpes zoster incidence data

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Impact of mass effect, tumor location, age, and surgery on the cognitive outcome of patients with high-grade gliomas: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Inferring the structure of social contacts from demographic data in the analysis of infectious diseases spread

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Integrating gene expression profiling and clinical data

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Little Italy: an agent-based approach to the estimation of contact patterns- fitting predicted matrices to serological data

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Machine Learning on Historic Air Photographs for Mapping Risk of Unexploded Bombs

scholarly article by Stefano Merler et al published 2005 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Machine learning methods for predictive proteomics

scientific article published on 29 February 2008

Measles immunity gaps and the progress towards elimination: a multi-country modelling analysis

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Measurability of the epidemic reproduction number in data-driven contact networks

scholarly article by Quan-Hui Liu et al published 11 December 2018 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Mitigation measures for pandemic influenza in Italy: an individual based model considering different scenarios

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Model predictions and evaluation of possible control strategies for the 2009 A/H1N1v influenza pandemic in Italy.

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Model-Based Comprehensive Analysis of School Closure Policies for Mitigating Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics.

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Modeling socio-demography to capture tuberculosis transmission dynamics in a low burden setting

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Modeling the impact of changes in day-care contact patterns on the dynamics of varicella transmission in France between 1991 and 2015

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Modeling the impact of social distancing, testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second-wave scenarios of the COVID-19 epidemic

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Pandemic influenza A/H1N1pdm in Italy: age, risk and population susceptibility.

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Parallelizing AdaBoost by weights dynamics

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Parental vaccination to reduce measles immunity gaps in Italy

scholarly article by Valentina Marziano et al published 3 September 2019 in eLife

Perspectives on model forecasts of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa: lessons and the way forward

scientific article published on March 2017

Perspectives on the impact of varicella immunization on herpes zoster. A model-based evaluation from three European countries

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Population dynamics of wild rodents induce stochastic fadeouts of a zoonotic pathogen

scientific article published on 19 February 2017

Potential Risk of Dengue and Chikungunya Outbreaks in Northern Italy Based on a Population Model of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

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Projected spread of Zika virus in the Americas

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Quantifying the risk of local Zika virus transmission in the contiguous US during the 2015-2016 ZIKV epidemic

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Quantifying the spatial spread of dengue in a non-endemic Brazilian metropolis via transmission chain reconstruction

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Quantifying the transmission dynamics of MRSA in the community and healthcare settings in a low-prevalence country

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Retrospective analysis of the Italian exit strategy from COVID-19 lockdown

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

Risk perception and effectiveness of uncoordinated behavioral responses in an emerging epidemic

scientific article published on May 3, 2012

School closure policies at municipality level for mitigating influenza spread: a model-based evaluation

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Searching for mechanisms of synchrony in spatially structured gamebird populations

scientific article published in 2000

Selection of Tree-Biased Classifiers with the Bootstrap 632+ Rule

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Semisupervised Profiling of Gene Expressions and Clinical Data

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Semisupervised learning for molecular profiling

scientific article published in April 2005

Social Contact Structures and Time Use Patterns in the Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of the Ebola epidemic in Guinea and implications for vaccination and disease elimination: a computational modeling analysis

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of viral hepatitis A in Italy

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis

scientific article published on 7 January 2015

Spontaneous behavioural changes in response to epidemics

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Spread of Zika virus in the Americas

scientific article (publication date: 25 April 2017)

Strategies for containing an influenza pandemic: the case of Italy

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Structural and functional integration between dorsal and ventral language streams as revealed by blunt dissection and direct electrical stimulation

scientific article published on 03 June 2016

Synchrony, scale and temporal dynamics of rock partridge (Alectoris graeca saxatilis) populations in the Dolomites

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Terminated Ramp-Support vector machines: a nonparametric data dependent kernel

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The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Pujehun, Sierra Leone: epidemiology and impact of interventions

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The COVID-19 outbreak in Sichuan, China: Epidemiology and impact of interventions

scientific article published on 28 December 2020

The Effect of Risk Perception on the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Dynamics

scientific article published on February 7, 2011

The Epidemiology of Herpes Zoster After Varicella Immunization Under Different Biological Hypotheses: Perspectives From Mathematical Modeling

scientific article published on 18 March 2016

The Impact of the Unstructured Contacts Component in Influenza Pandemic Modeling

scientific article published on January 30, 2008

The RAPIDD Ebola forecasting challenge: Model description and synthetic data generation

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

The RAPIDD ebola forecasting challenge: Synthesis and lessons learnt

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

The Role of Climatic and Density Dependent Factors in Shaping Mosquito Population Dynamics: The Case of Culex pipiens in Northwestern Italy

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The containment of potential outbreaks triggered by imported Chikungunya cases in Italy: a cost utility epidemiological assessment of vector control measures.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

The effect of interspecific competition on the temporal dynamics of Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens

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The hidden burden of measles in Ethiopia: how distance to hospital shapes the disease mortality rate

scholarly article by Piero Poletti et al published 18 October 2018 in BMC Medicine

The impact of demographic changes on the epidemiology of herpes zoster: Spain as a case study

scientific article published in April 2015

The impact of demographic changes, exogenous boosting and new vaccination policies on varicella and herpes zoster in Italy: a modelling and cost-effectiveness study

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The interplay between individual social behavior and clinical symptoms in small clustered groups

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The introduction of 'No jab, No school' policy and the refinement of measles immunisation strategies in high-income countries

scholarly article by Filippo Trentini et al published 17 May 2019 in BMC Medicine

The role of different social contexts in shaping influenza transmission during the 2009 pandemic

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The role of population heterogeneity and human mobility in the spread of pandemic influenza.

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Towards a functional atlas of human white matter

scientific article published on 09 May 2015

Transmission Potential and Design of Adequate Control Measures for Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever

scientific article published on December 10, 2012

Transmission dynamics of the ongoing chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy: from coastal areas to the metropolitan city of Rome, summer 2017.

scientific article published in November 2017

Transmission potential of chikungunya virus and control measures: the case of Italy

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Tuning Cost-Sensitive Boosting and Its Application to Melanoma Diagnosis

Uncoordinated Human Responses During Epidemic Outbreaks

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