In contrast, the IDF and other modelling studies relied solely on demographic trends and urbanisation as covariates, and produced lower estimates of T2DM prevalence in Saudi Arabia.
Descriptive studies rely on operational case definitions.
Therefore, our modelling work relied on a Monte Carlo method, based on numerical simulations with a high number of repetitions.
The vast majority of previous studies relies on single-source data and has overlooked the multilevel nature of organizations when modelling relationships of interest.
The remaining studies relied on CI assessments.
Our use of modelling and validation represents an advance on the assessment of exposure for studying risk of cancer near mobile phone base stations because previous studies relied on distance measures only.
These transitions do not necessarily need dramatic changes such as growth/retraction of processes, acquisition of new intra-membrane proteins etc. but rather, as shown by modelling studies, it may simply rely on a subtle tuning of pre-existing intercellular electrical coupling.
In order to save time, resource and labor, this study relies a modelling approach to implement in silico experiments.
The first intervention of this nature took place 8 years ago and the patients involved have suffered no relapses so far, providing proof of concept of the approach (Haissaguerre, 2002b; Knecht, 2009) However, the impossibility of creating more elaborate maps forces us to rely on experimental and theoretical modelling studies of this lethal condition.
Previous modelling studies of the potential impact of school closure for mitigating a pandemic have relied on assumptions for the reduction in contacts (see e.g. [ 17- 19]), or have relied on assumptions for the redistribution of contacts (compensatory behaviour) [ 13] during periods of school closure.
