Ping Yan Knihy

Focusing on the advancements in disease surveillance, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of computer-based infectious disease surveillance systems. It evaluates their outbreak modeling and detection capabilities, offering a unified framework to assess the effectiveness of existing systems. Through detailed examination, it highlights the significant progress made in tracking and managing infectious diseases, making it a valuable resource for public health professionals and researchers.

Focusing on the mathematical foundations of outbreak dynamics and control, this book offers a comprehensive analysis that balances theory with practical applications. It introduces a unified framework related to the distribution theory of non-negative random variables, enhanced by contemporary topics in infectious disease modeling. Numerous examples throughout the text illustrate theoretical concepts, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

Over the last few years, the field of nanotechnology has shaped up to be the next big thing, with many potential applications such as switches, sensors, and single-molecule devices. Compared to the vast literature covering inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials, little is available on organic nanostructures and molecular devices. Perylene diimides are a group of organic compounds well known for their high fluorescence quantum yield, high photostability, and high charge carrier mobilities. This book, therefore, provides a safari to the young and promising field of nano- and molecular device research field built on perylene diimides. Four distinctly different topics are covered: fluorescent redox switch; self-organization of nanostructure; single-molecule device; conformational switch. This book should be especially useful to professionals in self-assembly, biosensor, and single-molecule spectroscopy research fields, or anyone else who may be interested in utilizing nano- and molecular devices and borrowing the design principles for their own research.