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LASER Terminology

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LASER

Light Agent Spatial modeling for ERadication

ABM

Agent Based Model

CCS

Critical Community Size

CM

Compartmental Model

"CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on graphical processing units (GPUs)."

EULA

Epedimiologically Uninteresting Light Agent

FUSION

FUll Simulation In One Notebook

"Julia is a high-level, general-purpose dynamic programming language, most commonly used for numerical analysis and computational science."

MCW

  • Monte Carlo weight: "a factor that adjusts the probability of an event or outcome in a simulation." Generally, a property of an agent who represents multiple agents with the same properties.

"Numba is a just-in-time compiler for Python that works best on code that uses NumPy arrays and functions, and loops."

"NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python."

"PyCUDA gives you easy, Pythonic access to Nvidia’s CUDA parallel computation API."

RI

Routine Immunization of children on a standard schedule by age.

SES

Socio-Economic Status - roll-up of factors which could affect participation in RI or SIAs.

SIA

Supplemental Immunization Activity - additional vaccination campaigns intended to address children who missed their RI vaccinations.

SIR

Susceptible - Infectious - Recovered (Removed) model

SEIR

Susceptible - Eposed - Infectious - Recovered (Removed) model

"Structured Query Language (SQL) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS)."

"Taichi is a domain-specific language embedded in Python that helps you easily write portable, high-performance parallel programs."

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