Sentence examples for model for flu from inspiring English sources

Dr. Fouchier's experiments involved ferrets, which are considered a good model for flu research because they react to the virus in much the same way that people do.

Last year, controversial papers published by influenza scientists Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in Nature, and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in Science suggested that a few mutations in H5N1 sufficed to make the virus transmissible through coughing and sneezing between ferrets, the most widely used animal model for flu.

Hoping to answer those questions, some researchers began experimenting with bird flu, working with ferrets, which are considered the best model for studying flu, because they contract it and get sick in much the same way that people do.

The work was done in ferrets, which are considered a good model for predicting what flu viruses will do in people.

Ferrets are the best model for predicting human flu transmission, so the assumption should be that this new strain would spread among humans, perhaps as easily as seasonal flu.

When combining offline and Twitter data to train a model, we use (k=2), (m=2), (n=1) for flu and (k=4), (m=2), (n=3) for unemployment.

For example, FLU model stands at the first rank for 680 out of 992 alignments.

We deploy an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model for predicting current values of flu activity and unemployment rate, incorporating both offline and Twitter values.

For the sake of simplicity, we denote FLU as the overall model for FLU1 and FLU2 in analyzing the two-fold cross validation.

For flu tweets only "flu" was used.

Figure 2 Time series for flu (a) and unemployment (b).