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    • Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria 

      Ahmad, Nura M. R.; Montañola i Sales, Cristina; Prats, Clara; Musa, Mustapha; López, Daniel; Casanovas Garcia, Josep (Complexity, 2018-11-07)
      Today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the major threats to humankind, being the first cause of death by an infectious disease worldwide. TB is a communicable chronic disease that every year affects ...
    • Big data in multi-block data analysis: An approach to parallelizing Partial Least Squares Mode B algorithm 

      Martinez Ruiz, Alba; Montañola i Sales, Cristina (Heliyon, 2019-04-29)
      Partial Least Squares (PLS) Mode B is a multi-block method and a tightly coupled algorithm for estimating structural equation models (SEMs). Describing key aspects of parallel computing, we approach the ...
    • Different Modelling Purposes 

      Edmonds, Bruce; Le Page, Christophe; Bithell, Mike; Chattoe-Brown, Edmund; Grimm, Volker; Meyer, Ruth; Montañola i Sales, Cristina; Ormerod, Paul; Root, Hilton; Squazzoni, Flaminio (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2019-06-30)
      How one builds, checks, validates and interprets a model depends on its ‘purpose’. This is true even if the same model code is used for di erent purposes. This means that a model built for one purpose ...
    • Introduction of nirsevimab in Catalonia, Spain: description of the incidence of bronchiolitis and respiratory syncytial virus in the 2023/2024 season 

      Perramon Malavez, Aida; López de Rioja, Víctor; Coma, Ermengol; Hermosilla Pérez, Eduardo; Fina, Francesc; Martínez Marcos, Montserrat; Mendioroz, Jacobo; Cabezas, Carmen; Montañola i Sales, Cristina; Prats, Clara; Soriano-Arandes, Antoni (European Journal of Pediatrics. 2024;183:5181–5189, 2024-09-28)
      Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes most of the cases of bronchiolitis and thousands of deaths annually, particularly in infants less than 6 months old. In Catalonia (Spain), infants born between ...
    • The evolution of a study and research path in Statistics 

      Markulin, Kristina; Bosch, Marianna; Florensa, Ignasi; Montañola i Sales, Cristina (EpiDEMES 2022, 1, 7584, 2022)
      We present the organisation of a first course in statistics for Business Administration degree students, which includes a study and research path (SRP) as an inquiry-based teaching proposal. The paper ...
    • Unraveling the effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the hospital burden of respiratory syncytial virus 

      Perramon Malavez, Aida; López de Rioja, Víctor; Creus Costa, Anna; Andrés, Cristina; Montañola i Sales, Cristina (Pediatric Pulmonology, 2023-07-26)