Ricerc@Sapienza

The risk of local transmission of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses from viremic travelers arriving from affected areas is a real possibility in southern Europe, due to the large presence of the vector Aedes albopictus. The first chikungunya outbreak in Europe occurred in the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy, in 2007, prompting the regional public health department to implement an Ae. albopictus monitoring and control plan. This paper presents the procedure developed for the quality control of the data collected by the regional ovitrap monitoring network.

Hydrometric monitoring networks have a crucial role in water resources management, flood forecasting and hydrologic
modelling. They should be designed to provide as much information as possible and to reduce uncertainty
in the ungauged locations. Among the several methods proposed in literature for the optimal design of monitoring
networks, the one based on information theory is one of the most common. Recently, new methodologies based on
complex network theory have been employed to identify the most and the less influential stations in a monitoring