Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1225137
Daniel J. Coffield, A. Spagnuolo, Ryan Capouellez, G. Stryker
Chagas disease has been the target of widespread control programs, primarily through residual insecticide treatments. However, in some regions like the Gran Chaco, these efforts have failed to sufficiently curb the disease. Vector reinfestation into homes and vector resistance to insecticides are possible causes of the control failure. This work proposes a mathematical model for the dynamics of Chagas disease in neighboring rural villages of the Gran Chaco region, incorporating human travel between the villages, passive vector migration, and insecticide resistance. Computational simulations across a wide variety of scenarios are presented. The simulations reveal that the effects of human travel and passive vector migration are secondary and unlikely to play a significant role in the overall dynamics, including the number of human infections. The numerical results also show that insecticide resistance causes a notable increase in infections and is an especially important source of reinfestation when spraying stops. The results suggest that control strategies related to migration and travel between the villages are unlikely to yield meaningful benefit and should instead focus on other reinfestation sources like domestic foci that survive insecticide spraying or sylvatic foci.
{"title":"A mathematical model for Chagas disease transmission with neighboring villages","authors":"Daniel J. Coffield, A. Spagnuolo, Ryan Capouellez, G. Stryker","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1225137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1225137","url":null,"abstract":"Chagas disease has been the target of widespread control programs, primarily through residual insecticide treatments. However, in some regions like the Gran Chaco, these efforts have failed to sufficiently curb the disease. Vector reinfestation into homes and vector resistance to insecticides are possible causes of the control failure. This work proposes a mathematical model for the dynamics of Chagas disease in neighboring rural villages of the Gran Chaco region, incorporating human travel between the villages, passive vector migration, and insecticide resistance. Computational simulations across a wide variety of scenarios are presented. The simulations reveal that the effects of human travel and passive vector migration are secondary and unlikely to play a significant role in the overall dynamics, including the number of human infections. The numerical results also show that insecticide resistance causes a notable increase in infections and is an especially important source of reinfestation when spraying stops. The results suggest that control strategies related to migration and travel between the villages are unlikely to yield meaningful benefit and should instead focus on other reinfestation sources like domestic foci that survive insecticide spraying or sylvatic foci.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48725760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1210404
Meshal Shutaywi, Ziad Ur Rehman, Z. Shah, N. Vrinceanu, Rashid Jan, Wejdan Deebani, O. Dumitrașcu
Social media addiction (SMA) is the excessive use of social media platforms, resulting in negative consequences for individuals. It is characterized by an uncontrollable urge to use social media, leading to negative effects in human's life. This study aims to construct a mathematical model to conceptualize the transmission dynamics of SMA and explore the underlying mechanisms of this harmful addiction in the framework of fractional derivative. The fundamentals of fractional calculus are listed for examining the model. Equilibrium points are identified, and the reproduction parameter R0 is computed to understand the dynamics of SMA spread. Stability analysis of the equilibria is performed, and the impact of various input parameters is numerically investigated. The existence and uniqueness of the proposed SMA model are demonstrated through simulations, which also study the intricate dynamics with respect to different input factors. To develop effective control strategies, the system's dynamical behavior is examined, and the influence of fractional derivative order on fluctuations is explored. This research offers a range of suggestions aimed at reducing the occurrence of social media addiction.
{"title":"Modeling and analysis of the addiction of social media through fractional calculus","authors":"Meshal Shutaywi, Ziad Ur Rehman, Z. Shah, N. Vrinceanu, Rashid Jan, Wejdan Deebani, O. Dumitrașcu","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1210404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1210404","url":null,"abstract":"Social media addiction (SMA) is the excessive use of social media platforms, resulting in negative consequences for individuals. It is characterized by an uncontrollable urge to use social media, leading to negative effects in human's life. This study aims to construct a mathematical model to conceptualize the transmission dynamics of SMA and explore the underlying mechanisms of this harmful addiction in the framework of fractional derivative. The fundamentals of fractional calculus are listed for examining the model. Equilibrium points are identified, and the reproduction parameter R0 is computed to understand the dynamics of SMA spread. Stability analysis of the equilibria is performed, and the impact of various input parameters is numerically investigated. The existence and uniqueness of the proposed SMA model are demonstrated through simulations, which also study the intricate dynamics with respect to different input factors. To develop effective control strategies, the system's dynamical behavior is examined, and the influence of fractional derivative order on fluctuations is explored. This research offers a range of suggestions aimed at reducing the occurrence of social media addiction.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1268240
I. Spassiani, M. Taroni, A. Stallone, Pietro Artale Harris
{"title":"Editorial: Physical and statistical approaches to earthquake modeling and forecasting","authors":"I. Spassiani, M. Taroni, A. Stallone, Pietro Artale Harris","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1268240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1268240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45712227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1206500
M. Cai, H. Gu, P. Hong, Jingzhi Li
Biot's consolidation model in poroelasticity describes the interaction between the fluid and the deformable porous structure. Based on the fixed-stress splitting iterative method proposed by Mikelic et al. (Computat Geosci, 2013), we present a network approach to solve Biot's consolidation model using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs).Two independent and small neural networks are used to solve the displacement and pressure variables separately. Accordingly, separate loss functions are proposed, and the fixed stress splitting iterative algorithm is used to couple these variables. Error analysis is provided to support the capability of the proposed fixed-stress splitting-based PINNs (FS-PINNs).Several numerical experiments are performed to evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of our approach, including the pure Dirichlet problem, the mixed partial Neumann and partial Dirichlet problem, and the Barry-Mercer's problem. The performance of FS-PINNs is superior to traditional PINNs, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.Our study highlights the successful application of PINNs with the fixed-stress splitting iterative method to tackle Biot's model. The ability to use independent neural networks for displacement and pressure offers computational advantages while maintaining accuracy. The proposed approach shows promising potential for solving other similar geoscientific problems.
{"title":"A combination of physics-informed neural networks with the fixed-stress splitting iteration for solving Biot's model","authors":"M. Cai, H. Gu, P. Hong, Jingzhi Li","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1206500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1206500","url":null,"abstract":"Biot's consolidation model in poroelasticity describes the interaction between the fluid and the deformable porous structure. Based on the fixed-stress splitting iterative method proposed by Mikelic et al. (Computat Geosci, 2013), we present a network approach to solve Biot's consolidation model using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs).Two independent and small neural networks are used to solve the displacement and pressure variables separately. Accordingly, separate loss functions are proposed, and the fixed stress splitting iterative algorithm is used to couple these variables. Error analysis is provided to support the capability of the proposed fixed-stress splitting-based PINNs (FS-PINNs).Several numerical experiments are performed to evaluate the effectiveness and accuracy of our approach, including the pure Dirichlet problem, the mixed partial Neumann and partial Dirichlet problem, and the Barry-Mercer's problem. The performance of FS-PINNs is superior to traditional PINNs, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.Our study highlights the successful application of PINNs with the fixed-stress splitting iterative method to tackle Biot's model. The ability to use independent neural networks for displacement and pressure offers computational advantages while maintaining accuracy. The proposed approach shows promising potential for solving other similar geoscientific problems.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44638445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1260383
V. Breña-medina, Pablo Aguirre
{"title":"Editorial: Recent advances in bifurcation analysis: theory, methods, applications and beyond - volume II","authors":"V. Breña-medina, Pablo Aguirre","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1260383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1260383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45381284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1254646
A. Hutt
{"title":"Editorial: Insights in Dynamical Systems 2022","authors":"A. Hutt","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1254646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1254646","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43809073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1214022
G. Tinoco-Guerrero, F. Domínguez-Mota, J. A. Guzmán-Torres, Ricardo Román-Gutiérrez, J. Tinoco-Ruiz
When designing and implementing numerical schemes, it is imperative to consider the stability of the applied methods. Prior research has presented different results for the stability of generalized finite-difference methods applied to advection and diffusion equations. In recent years, research has explored a generalized finite-difference approach to the advection-diffusion equation solved on non-rectangular and highly irregular regions using convex, logically rectangular grids. This paper presents a study on the stability of generalized finite difference schemes applied to the numerical solution of the wave equation, solved on clouds of points for highly irregular domains. The stability analysis presented in this work provides significant insights into the proper discretizations needed to obtain stable and satisfactory results. The proposed explicit scheme is conditionally stable, while the implicit scheme is unconditionally stable. Notably, the stability analyses presented in this paper apply to any scheme which is at least second order in space, not just the proposed approach. The proposed scheme offers effective means of numerically solving the wave equation, particularly for highly irregular domains. By demonstrating the stability of the scheme, this study provides a foundation for further research in this area.
{"title":"Study of the stability of a meshless generalized finite difference scheme applied to the wave equation","authors":"G. Tinoco-Guerrero, F. Domínguez-Mota, J. A. Guzmán-Torres, Ricardo Román-Gutiérrez, J. Tinoco-Ruiz","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1214022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1214022","url":null,"abstract":"When designing and implementing numerical schemes, it is imperative to consider the stability of the applied methods. Prior research has presented different results for the stability of generalized finite-difference methods applied to advection and diffusion equations. In recent years, research has explored a generalized finite-difference approach to the advection-diffusion equation solved on non-rectangular and highly irregular regions using convex, logically rectangular grids. This paper presents a study on the stability of generalized finite difference schemes applied to the numerical solution of the wave equation, solved on clouds of points for highly irregular domains. The stability analysis presented in this work provides significant insights into the proper discretizations needed to obtain stable and satisfactory results. The proposed explicit scheme is conditionally stable, while the implicit scheme is unconditionally stable. Notably, the stability analyses presented in this paper apply to any scheme which is at least second order in space, not just the proposed approach. The proposed scheme offers effective means of numerically solving the wave equation, particularly for highly irregular domains. By demonstrating the stability of the scheme, this study provides a foundation for further research in this area.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43976961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1233135
F. Yanuar, H. Yozza, A. Zetra
{"title":"Corrigendum: Modified quantile regression for modeling the low birth weight","authors":"F. Yanuar, H. Yozza, A. Zetra","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1233135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1233135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46428984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1152476
M. Taroni, I. Spassiani, N. Laskin, S. Barani
In this note, we study the distribution of earthquake numbers in both worldwide and regional catalogs: in the Global Centroid Moment Tensor catalog, from 1980 to 2019 for magnitudes Mw 5. 5+ and 6.5+ in the first case, and in the Italian instrumental catalog from 1960 to 2021 for magnitudes Mw 4.0+ and 5.5+ in the second case. A subset of the global catalog is also used to study the Japanese region. We will focus our attention on short-term time windows of 1, 7, and 30 days, which have been poorly explored in previous studies. We model the earthquake numbers using two discrete probability distributions, i.e., Poisson and Negative Binomial. Using the classical chi-squared statistical test, we found that the Poisson distribution, widely used in seismological studies, is always rejected when tested against observations, while the Negative Binomial distribution cannot be disproved for magnitudes Mw 6.5+ in all time windows of the global catalog. However, if we consider the Japanese or the Italian regions, it cannot be proven that the Negative Binomial distribution performs better than the Poisson distribution using the chi-squared test. When instead we compared the performances of the two distributions using the Akaike Information Criterion, we found that the Negative Binomial distribution always performs better than the Poisson one. The results of this study suggest that the Negative Binomial distribution, largely ignored in seismological studies, should replace the Poisson distribution in modeling the number of earthquakes.
{"title":"How many strong earthquakes will there be tomorrow?","authors":"M. Taroni, I. Spassiani, N. Laskin, S. Barani","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1152476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1152476","url":null,"abstract":"In this note, we study the distribution of earthquake numbers in both worldwide and regional catalogs: in the Global Centroid Moment Tensor catalog, from 1980 to 2019 for magnitudes Mw 5. 5+ and 6.5+ in the first case, and in the Italian instrumental catalog from 1960 to 2021 for magnitudes Mw 4.0+ and 5.5+ in the second case. A subset of the global catalog is also used to study the Japanese region. We will focus our attention on short-term time windows of 1, 7, and 30 days, which have been poorly explored in previous studies. We model the earthquake numbers using two discrete probability distributions, i.e., Poisson and Negative Binomial. Using the classical chi-squared statistical test, we found that the Poisson distribution, widely used in seismological studies, is always rejected when tested against observations, while the Negative Binomial distribution cannot be disproved for magnitudes Mw 6.5+ in all time windows of the global catalog. However, if we consider the Japanese or the Italian regions, it cannot be proven that the Negative Binomial distribution performs better than the Poisson distribution using the chi-squared test. When instead we compared the performances of the two distributions using the Akaike Information Criterion, we found that the Negative Binomial distribution always performs better than the Poisson one. The results of this study suggest that the Negative Binomial distribution, largely ignored in seismological studies, should replace the Poisson distribution in modeling the number of earthquakes.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42862857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-30DOI: 10.3389/fams.2023.1207643
Marina Mancuso, Kaitlyn Martinez, C. Manore, F. Milner, Martha Barnard, H. Godinez
Climate change is arguably one of the most pressing issues affecting the world today and requires the fusion of disparate data streams to accurately model its impacts. Mosquito populations respond to temperature and precipitation in a nonlinear way, making predicting climate impacts on mosquito-borne diseases an ongoing challenge. Data-driven approaches for accurately modeling mosquito populations are needed for predicting mosquito-borne disease risk under climate change scenarios. Many current models for disease transmission are continuous and autonomous, while mosquito data is discrete and varies both within and between seasons. This study uses an optimization framework to fit a non-autonomous logistic model with periodic net growth rate and carrying capacity parameters for 15 years of daily mosquito time-series data from the Greater Toronto Area of Canada. The resulting parameters accurately capture the inter-annual and intra-seasonal variability of mosquito populations within a single geographic region, and a variance-based sensitivity analysis highlights the influence each parameter has on the peak magnitude and timing of the mosquito season. This method can easily extend to other geographic regions and be integrated into a larger disease transmission model. This method addresses the ongoing challenges of data and model fusion by serving as a link between discrete time-series data and continuous differential equations for mosquito-borne epidemiology models.
{"title":"Fusing time-varying mosquito data and continuous mosquito population dynamics models","authors":"Marina Mancuso, Kaitlyn Martinez, C. Manore, F. Milner, Martha Barnard, H. Godinez","doi":"10.3389/fams.2023.1207643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.2023.1207643","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is arguably one of the most pressing issues affecting the world today and requires the fusion of disparate data streams to accurately model its impacts. Mosquito populations respond to temperature and precipitation in a nonlinear way, making predicting climate impacts on mosquito-borne diseases an ongoing challenge. Data-driven approaches for accurately modeling mosquito populations are needed for predicting mosquito-borne disease risk under climate change scenarios. Many current models for disease transmission are continuous and autonomous, while mosquito data is discrete and varies both within and between seasons. This study uses an optimization framework to fit a non-autonomous logistic model with periodic net growth rate and carrying capacity parameters for 15 years of daily mosquito time-series data from the Greater Toronto Area of Canada. The resulting parameters accurately capture the inter-annual and intra-seasonal variability of mosquito populations within a single geographic region, and a variance-based sensitivity analysis highlights the influence each parameter has on the peak magnitude and timing of the mosquito season. This method can easily extend to other geographic regions and be integrated into a larger disease transmission model. This method addresses the ongoing challenges of data and model fusion by serving as a link between discrete time-series data and continuous differential equations for mosquito-borne epidemiology models.","PeriodicalId":36662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48101139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}