Browsing by Author "Rabindra Kumar Gupta"

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A mathematical model for the impact of disinfectants on the control of bacterial diseases
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023) Rabindra Kumar Gupta; Rajanish Kumar Rai; Pankaj Kumar Tiwari; Arvind Kumar Misra; Maia Martcheva
Here, we investigate a mathematical model to assess the impact of disinfectants in controlling diseases that spread in the population via direct contacts with the infected persons and also due to bacteria present in the environment. We find that the disease-free and endemic equilibria of the system are related via a transcritical bifurcation whose direction is forward. Our numerical results show that controlling the transmissions of disease through direct contacts and bacteria present in the environment can help in reducing the disease prevalence. Moreover, fostering the recovery rate and the death rate of bacteria play significant roles in disease eradication. Our numerical observations convey that reducing the bacterial density at the source discharged by the infected population through the use of chemicals has prominent effect in disease control. Overall, our findings manifest that the disinfectants of high quality can completely control the bacterial density and the disease outbreak. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Dynamics of coronavirus pandemic: effects of community awareness and global information campaigns
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Pankaj Kumar Tiwari; Rajanish Kumar Rai; Subhas Khajanchi; Rabindra Kumar Gupta; Arvind Kumar Misra
The effects of social media advertisements together with local awareness in controlling COVID-19 are explored in the present investigation by means of a mathematical model. The expression for the basic reproduction number is derived. Sufficient conditions for the global stability of endemic equilibrium are obtained. We perform sensitivity analysis to identify the key parameters of the model having great impacts on the prevalence and control of COVID-19. We calibrate the proposed model to fit the data set of COVID-19 cases for India. Our simulation results show that dissemination rate of awareness among susceptible individuals at community level and individual level plays pivotal role in curtailing the COVID-19 disease. Moreover, we observe that the global information distributing from social media and local awareness coming from mouth-to-mouth communication between unaware susceptible and aware people, together with hospitalization of symptomatic individuals and quarantine of asymptomatic individuals, are much beneficial in reducing COVID-19 cases in India. Our study suggests that both global and local awareness must be implemented effectively to manage the burden of COVID-19 pandemic. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
MODELING THE CONTROL OF BACTERIAL DISEASE BY SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISEMENTS: EFFECTS OF AWARENESS AND SANITATION
(World Scientific, 2022) Pankaj Kumar Tiwari; Rajanish Kumar Rai; Rabindra Kumar Gupta; Maia Martcheva; Arvind Kumar Misra
Media impact has significant effect on reducing the disease prevalence, meanwhile sanitation and awareness can control the epidemic by reducing the growth rate of bacteria and direct contacts with infected individuals. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of media and sanitation coverage on the dynamics of epidemic outbreak. We observe that the growth rate of social media advertisements carries out a destabilizing role, while the system regains stability if the baseline number of social media advertisements exceeds a certain threshold. The dissemination of awareness among susceptibles first destabilizes and then stabilizes the system. The disease can be wiped out if the baseline level of awareness or the rate of spreading global information about the disease and its preventive measures is too high. We obtain an explicit expression for the basic reproduction number 0 and show that 0 < 1 leads to the total eradication of infection from the region. To capture a more realistic scenario, we construct the forced delay model by seasonally varying the growth rate of social media advertisements and incorporating the time lag involved in reporting of total infective cases to the policy makers. Seasonal pattern in the growth rate of social media advertisements adds complexity to the system by inducing chaotic oscillations. For gradual increase in the delay in reported cases of infected individuals, the nonautonomous system switches finitely many times between periodic and chaotic states. © 2022 World Scientific Publishing Company.
Modeling the Effect of TV and Social Media Advertisements on the Dynamics of Vector-Borne Disease Malaria
(World Scientific, 2023) A.K. Misra; Soumitra Pal; Rabindra Kumar Gupta
Vector-borne disease malaria is transmitted to humans by arthropod vectors (mosquitoes) and contributes significantly to the global disease burden. TV and social media play a key role to disseminate awareness among people by broadcasting awareness programs. In this paper, a nonlinear model is formulated and analyzed in which cumulative number of advertisements through TV and social media is taken as dynamical variable that propagates awareness among people to control the prevalence of vector-borne disease. The human population is partitioned into susceptible, infected and aware classes, while the vector population is divided into susceptible and infected classes. Humans become infected and new cases arise when bitten by infected vectors (mosquitoes) and susceptible vectors get infected as they bite infected humans. The feasibility of equilibria is justified and their stability conditions are discussed. A crucial parameter, basic reproduction number, which measures the disease transmission potentiality is obtained. Bifurcation analysis is performed by varying the sensitive parameters, and it is found that the proposed system shows different kinds of bifurcations, such as transcritical bifurcation, saddle-node bifurcation and Hopf bifurcation, etc. The analysis of the model shows that reduction in vector population due to intervention of people of aware class would not efficiently reduce the infective cases, rather we have to minimize the transmission rates anyhow, to control the disease outbreak. © World Scientific Publishing Company.
Modeling the impact of precautionary measures and sanitation practices broadcasted through media on the dynamics of bacterial diseases
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023) Rabindra Kumar Gupta; Soumitra Pal; A.K. Misra
The media has a significant contribution in spreading awareness by broadcasting various programs about prevalent diseases in the society along with the role of providing information, feeding news and educating a large mass. In this paper, the effect of media programs promoting precautionary measures and sanitation practices to control the bacterial infection in the community is modeled and analyzed considering the number of media programs as a dynamical variable. In the modeling phenomena, human population is partitioned into three classes; susceptible, infected and recovered. The disease is supposed to spread by direct contact of susceptible with infected individuals and indirectly by the ingestion of bacteria present in the environment. The growth in the media programs is considered proportional to the size of infected population and the impact of these programs on the indirect disease transmission rate and bacteria shedding rate by infected individuals is also considered. The feasibility of equilibria and their stability conditions are obtained. Model analysis reveals that broadcasting media programs and increasing its effectiveness shrink the size of infected class and control the spread of disease to a large extent. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.