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Leveraging artifcial intelligence and data science techniques in harmonizing, sharing, accessing and analyzing SARS-COV-2/COVID-19 data in Rwanda (LAI
Leveraging artifcial intelligence and data science techniques in harmonizing, sharing, accessing and…
Leveraging artifcial intelligence and data science…
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda, a vast amount of SARS-COV-2/COVID-19-related data have been collected including COVID-19 testing and hospital routine care data. Unfortunately, those data are fragmented in silos with different data structures or formats and cannot be used to improve understanding of the…
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda, a vast amount of SARS-COV-2/COVID-19-related data…
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A mixed-methods study on the design of Artificial Intelligence and data science-based strategies to inform public health responses to COVID-19 in diff
A mixed-methods study on the design of Artificial…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science research are promising tools to better inform public policy…
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Twitter-Based Gender Recognition Using Transformers
Twitter-Based Gender Recognition Using Transformers
Social media contains useful information about people and the society that could help advance research…
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Estimation of epidemiological parameters and ascertainment rate from early transmission of COVID-19 across Africa
Estimation of epidemiological parameters and ascertainment…
Country reported case counts suggested a slow spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the initial phase of the COVID-19…
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Datos digitales de salud: ¿parte de la solución y del problema?
Datos digitales de salud: ¿parte de la solución y…
El sistema de salud argentino1 está cada vez más digitalizado: desde las notas tomadas…
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A Comprehensive Overview of Education during Three COVID-19 Pandemic Periods: Impact on Engineering Students in Sri Lanka
A Comprehensive Overview of Education during Three…
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the education system in Sri Lanka, similar to many countries…
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Tropicalisation of epidemiological models in Africa: A mixed and hybrid approach to better predict COVID-19 indicators
Tropicalisation of epidemiological models in Africa:…
Abstract Context: Since the outbreak of the SARS-COV2 epidemic turned into a COVID-19 pandemic, international…
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On Public Sentiments Towards COVID–19 Vaccines in South African Cities: An Analysis of Twitter Posts.
On Public Sentiments Towards COVID–19 Vaccines in…
While vaccination against the coronavirus (COVID–19) lasts, Twitter has become one of the social…
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COVID-19 Pandemic Related Research in Africa: Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Output, Collaborations and Scientific Leadership
COVID-19 Pandemic Related Research in Africa: Bibliometric…
Scientometrics enables scholars to assess and visualize emerging research trends and hot-spots in the…
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Big Data- and Artificial 2 Intelligence-Based Hot-Spot Analysis of 3 COVID-19: Gauteng, South Africa, as a 4 case study
Big Data- and Artificial 2 Intelligence-Based Hot-Spot…
“Coronavirus Disease 2019” (COVID-19) related data contain many complexities that must be taken into…
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Hands Off: A Handshake Interaction Detection and Localization Model for COVID-19 Threat Control
Hands Off: A Handshake Interaction Detection and Localization…
Abstract— The COVID-19 outbreak has affected millions of people across the globe and is continuing…
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