Ports & Junctions
Exogenous Forcing: A Changing Baseline Modified by Control
Source:vignettes/Forcing.Rmd
Forcing.RmdThe design of ramp.xds facilitates
modeling malaria as a changing baseline that has been modified by
control. Most of the functionality is found in the satellite packages,
but ramp.xds sets this up by adding
ports and junctions.
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a port in
ramp.xdsor one of the satellite package is a structured way of handling a specific part of malaria. Examples include temperature, mosquito resources, mosquito traps, larval source management, bed nets, or habitat dynamics. Each port is defined by:a model object
functions that set up variables
a junction in
ramp.xdsis a function that implements several ports.
The junctions in ramp.xds get called in
a specific order to minimize conflicts that could arise. The
junctions are all functions that get implemented in
xds_compute_terms. They are:
Forcing - functions to setup variables for weather and hydrology
Health - functions to setup mass treatment, mass vaccination, and more
Vector Control - functions to distribute vector control commodities.
Resources - functions to model availability of mosquito resources, including ports for variables on the blood feeding and egg laying interfaces
Forcing
Forcing :: ramp.xds sets
up an empty junction handle exogenous forcing by weather and
hydrology. Models to implement forcing are in
ramp.forcing
Vector Control
VectorControl and
VectorControlEffectSizes::
ramp.xds sets up an empty
junctions handle various aspects of vector control. Models to
implement vector control are in
ramp.control