environmental management for malaria control is defined as any planned physical activities that through transformation of land, water and vegetation will result in the prevention, reduction or elimination of malaria. in planning and implementing these activities, full consideration must be given to their long-term effects and benefits and to the preservation of the quality of environment and th...

BACKGROUND Source reduction, defined as chemical, equipment and process changes that intervene in an industrial process to eliminate or reduce hazards, has not figured as a front-line strategy for the protection of workers' health. Such initiatives are popular for environmental protection, but their feasibility and effectiveness as an industrial hygiene approach have not been well described. ...

in recent years, need to increase the convenience of trips in railway vehicles causes that train operators and manufacturers focus on reducing the noise level which is sensed by passengers. in this paper, first the state of modeling acoustic noise in cab train is discussed and natural frequencies and acoustic mode shapes are derived and then formulation of acoustic pressure in the cab will be o...

Reduction of aquatic habitats through environmental management mitigates malaria transmission not only by reducing emergence of host-seeking mosquitoes, but also by increasing the amount of time required for vectors to locate oviposition sites. However, the consequence of source reduction on mosquito oviposition has largely been neglected in evaluations of environment-management programs. Here,...

Ndaona is a Matlab toolkit to create interactive three-dimensional models of data often found in NLP research, such as exploring the results of classification and dimensionality reduction algorithms. Such models are useful for teaching, presentations and exploratory research (such as showing where a classification algorithm makes mistakes). Ndaona includes embedding and graphics parameter estim...

The objective of this paper was design and implementation of a self-adaptive management system of a set of production sources in a changing and unpredictable energy demand environment. The strategy proposed made it possible to achieve optimal management of the energy resource production of the electrical system facing the changing demand. After showing the need to follow «intelligently» the beh...

Blind source represents a signal processing technique with a large potential for noise reduction. However, its application in modern digital hearing aids poses high demands with respect to computational efficiency and speed of adaptation towards the desired solution. In this paper, an algorithm is presented which fulfills these goals under the idealized assumption that the superposition of sour...

Knowledge of past plate motions derived from ocean-floor finite rotations is an important asset of the Earth Sciences, because it allows linking a variety of shallow-rooted and deep-rooted geological processes. Efforts have recently been taken toward inferring finite rotations at the unprecedented temporal resolution of 1 Myr or less, and more data are anticipated in the near future. These reco...

Complex high-dimensional systems represent an important area of interdisciplinary research in systems biology. Gene expression values obtained by microarray data represent a good example, owing to their various features that depend on biological network dynamics. This work emphasizes the role of blind source separation for dealing with dimensionality reduction and feature selection, and their u...