size and duration of epidemic waves was proposed in Chap. 13 and applied for
USA, Germany, the UK, the Republic of Korea, Italy, Austria, Spain, France, the
Republic of Moldova, Sweden, Ukraine, the city of Kyiv and the whole world.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to Profs. Dirk Langemann (Technische
Universitaet Braunschweig) and Juergen Prestin (Universitaet zu Luebeck) for their
support in developing the used optimization approach. I would also like to thank
Profs. Alberto Redaelli, Giuseppe Passoni, and Gianfranco Fiore (Politecnico di
Milano), Sergei Pereverzyev (RICAM, Linz, Austria) for involving me in very
interesting biomedical investigations under the EU-funded Horizon 2020 projects:
EUMLS (grant PIRSES-GA-2011-295164-EUMLS) and AMMODIT (grant
MSCA-RISE 645672).
Finally, my thanks to Academician Viktor Grinchenko, Profs. Volodymyr
Tymofeyev, Alexander Galkin, Pavlo Maslianko, my friends Liudmyla Trotsenko,
Maia Troian, Nina Basiuk, Anna Voronka, Daria Cusitcaia, Damien Berezenko,
Anatolii Podkur, Volodymyr Borysenko, and Oleksii Rodionov for their support
and help in collecting and processing data.
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