Publications by authors named "Elaine C B Cambui"

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 virus, has overloaded health systems in many contexts Conant and Wolfe (2008). Brazil has experienced more than 345,000 deaths, as of April/2021 Conant and Wolfe (2008), with dire consequences for the country's public and private health systems. This paper aims to estimate the synchronization graph between the cities' contagion waves from public COVID-19 data records.

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To effectively combat the COVID-19 pandemic, countries with limited resources could only allocate intensive and non-intensive care units to a low number of regions. In this work, we evaluated the actual displacement of infected patients in search of care, aiming to understand how the networks of planned and actual hospitalizations take place. To assess the flow of hospitalizations outside the place of residence, we used the concepts of complex networks.

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Article Synopsis
  • The Covid-19 pandemic has caused widespread suffering and economic disruption globally, making it crucial for authorities to understand the disease's spread and characteristics for effective interventions.
  • A hybrid model incorporating local SIR models and population flow networks provides a more accurate representation of contagion dynamics compared to traditional models that assume uniform contact rates among municipalities.
  • By highlighting the importance of local variations and inter-municipality transport, the study suggests that early restrictions on movement can significantly help in controlling the spread of the virus.
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Butterflies are one of the best-known insect groups, and they have been the subject of numerous studies in ecology and evolution, especially in the tropics. Much attention has been given to the fruit-feeding butterfly guild in biodiversity conservation studies, due to the relative ease with which taxa may be identified and specimens sampled using bait traps. However, there remain many uncertainties about the macroecological and biogeographical patterns of butterflies in tropical ecosystems.

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