Author affiliations: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (H.-C. Chung, J.-H. Lee, G.-E. Lee, Y.-S. Noh, C.-H. Lee, B.K. Park); Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi, Vietnam (V.G. Nguyen); Green Cross Veterinary Products, Yongin, South Korea (H.-J. Moon); National Forensic Service, Chilgok, South Korea (S.-J. Park); Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, South Korea (H.-K. ...

Group decision making often leads to putting pressure on minority group members, who might have useful information but find it hard to share them under group pressure. Traditional solutions such as devil’s advocacy, while being effective, are not always practical due to imposing specific processes. This study investigates the effects of increasing saliency of minority’s opinion in visual repres...

In epidemiology, it is very important to estimate the baseline incidence of infectious diseases, but the available data are often subject to outliers due to epidemic outbreaks. Consequently, the estimate of the baseline incidence is biased and so is the predicted epidemic threshold which is a crucial reference indicator used to suspect and detect an epidemic outbreak. Another problem is that th...

Empirical and mechanistic modeling indicate that pathogens transmitted via aerially dispersed inoculum follow a power law, resulting in dispersive epidemic waves. The spread parameter (b) of the power law model, which is an indicator of the distance of the epidemic wave front from an initial focus per unit time, has been found to be approximately 2 for several animal and plant diseases over a w...

Correlated node behavior poses a great challenge for normal functioning of mobile ad hoc network. The impact could be devastating if the spreading of correlated node behavior will result in network failure. We model correlated node behavior by merging the principle of epidemic model and semi Markov process. Under merging condition, node behavior transition and epidemic model is converge to capt...

Thompson’s AIDS epidemic model, which is formulated in his article “AIDS: The Mismanagement of an Epidemic,” published in Great Britain, 1989, does not reflect female infective population that has been growing. While the majority of AIDS patients were assumed to be male homosexuals, Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of infected females through heterosexual co...