Public reporting guidelines for outbreak data: enabling accountability for effective outbreak response by developing standards for transparency and uniformity
Gregoire, V Zhu, A Brown, C Brownstein, J Cardo, D Cumming, F Danila, R Donnelly, C Duchin, J Fill, M Fraser, C Fullerton, K Funk, S George, D Hopkins, S Kraemer, M Layton, M Lessler, J Lynfield, R McCaw, J McPherson, T Moore, Z Morgan, O Riley, S Rosenfeld, R Samoff, E Schaffner, W Shaffner, J Sturm, R Tershita, D Walke, H Washington, R Rivers, C Public Health

A Christmas classic...

Written for the Russian film Lieutenant Kijé in 1934, it has become synonymous with the festive season, though in fact it depicts a cart being pulled by horses in the summer. Christmas wasn't big in the Soviet Union.

You often hear it without the first, slower 30 seconds or so, but here it is in full. Well worth the wait.

Reconstruction from smaller cards
Groenland, C Johnston, T Scott, A Tan, J Israel Journal of Mathematics 1-38 (30 Nov 2025)
Uniform undistortion from barycentres, and applications to hierarchically hyperbolic groups
Abbott, C Hagen, M Petyt, H Zalloum, A Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces volume 13 issue 1 (26 Nov 2025)
Geometric numerical integration via auxiliary variables
Andrews, B
The Perils of Optimizing Learned Reward Functions: Low Training Error Does Not Guarantee Low Regret
Fluri, L Lang, L Abate, A Forré, P Krueger, D Skalse, J Proceedings of Machine Learning Research volume 267 17306-17377 (01 Jan 2025)
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We are all different: Modeling key individual differences in physiological systems

Anita Layton
(University of Waterloo)
Abstract
Mathematical models of whole-body dynamics have advanced our understanding of human integrative systems that regulate physiological processes such as metabolism, temperature, and blood pressure. For most of these whole-body models, baseline parameters describe a 35-year-old young adult man who weighs 70 kg. As such, even among adults those models may not accurately represent half of the population (women), the older population, and those who weigh significantly more than 70 kg. Indeed, sex, age, and weight are known modulators of physiological function. To more accurately simulate a person who does not look like that “baseline person,” or to explain the mechanisms that yield the observed sex or age differences, these factors should be incorporated into mathematical models of physiological systems. Another key modulator is the time of day, because most physiological processes are regulated by the circadian clocks. Thus, ideally, mathematical models of integrative physiological systems should be specific to either a man or woman, of a certain age and weight, and a given time of day. A major goal of our research program is to build models specific to different subpopulations, and conduct model simulations to unravel the functional impacts of individual differences.


 

Detection of anomalous spatio-temporal patterns of app traffic in response to catastrophic events
Pedreschi, N Medina, S Lambiotte, R LaRock, T Babul, S Sahasrabuddhe, R
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