Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe-a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations

__Background:__ The need for wildlife health surveillance as part of disease control in wildlife, domestic animals and humans on the global level is widely recognized. However, the objectives, methods and intensity of existing wildlife health surveillance programs vary greatly among European countries, resulting in a patchwork of data that are difficult to merge and compare. This survey aimed at evaluating the need and potential for data harmonization in wildlife health in Europe. The specific objective was to collect information on methods currently used to estimate host abundance and pathogen prevalence. Questionnaires were designed t

Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2019.

In February 2019, following the annual taxon ratification vote, the order Mononegavirales was amended by the addition of four new subfamilies and 12 new genera and the creation of 28 novel species. This article presents the updated taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales as now accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)

DynaMan: a tool to improve software process management through dynamic simulation

This paper deals with the use of system dynamics as an innovative and effective technique to model software processes. In particular, we describe how system dynamics have been used to study the quantitative aspects of software processes and discuss the improvement to software development management deriving from the adoption of this technique. In order to effectively use system dynamics based models, however, a tool is necessary to support their creation, customization, maintenance and simulation. In this paper we introduce DynaMan, a tool designed to accomplish these goals; in particular we describe the first version of the tool and the improvement that we are currently carrying on at CEFRIEL