Coupled Dynamic Model of Resource Diffusion and Epidemic Spreading in Time-Varying Multiplex Networks

Figure 4

The final fractions and of the infected nodes and the noresource nodes as a function of the resource loss rate (a) and the resource diffusion rate (b). The symbols are the same as in Figure 3. The results show that both and increase with but decrease with . And, a smaller can dramatically reduce , indicating the diffusion of individual resources is of importance for suppressing the spread of disease. The other fixed parameters are , .

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