We experimentally investigate intermodal nonlinear interactions, such as Raman scattering and four wave mixing. The fiber used is a specially designed few moded fiber, which splits the degeneracy of the first mode group, leading to stable propagation of the two full vectorial modes, TM01 and TE01. For the Raman experiments pumping occur in either the fundamental mode or the two full vectorial m...

This paper deals with the question of completing a monotone increasing family of subsets Γ of a finite set Ω to obtain the linearly dependent subsets of a family of vectors of a vector space. Specifically, we demonstrate that such vectorial completions of the family of subsets Γ exist and, in addition, we show that the minimal vectorial completions of the family Γ provide a decomposition of the...

The vectorial competence of the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus is discussed in relation to the epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniasis, taking into account its strict association with dogs and the low indices of natural infection presented by its known vector, the phlebotomine sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis. In order to evaluate natural infection by Leishmania chagasi and the infectivity o...

Triatoma guasayana (Wygodzinsky & Abalos) is a peridomestic triatomine with epidemiological importance in Bolivia, that may play an important role in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas). In this study, two parameters of vectorial capacity were evaluated: the interval of feeding-defecation time and metacyclogenesis, in adult males and females and nymphal instars II to V of T. guasayan...

Zika virus infection was declared a public health emergency of international concern in February 2016 in response to the outbreak in Brazil and its suspected link with congenital anomalies. In this study we use early notification data and disease natural history parameters to estimate the basic reproductive number <0 . Our estimates of the basic reproductive number for Zika in Rio de Janeiro (<...

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest, theoretically as well as experimentally, in space-variant polarization manipulation for obtaining vectorial beams. In general, vectorial beams are defined as beams having space-variant (transversely nonuniform) polarization state. In this lecture we present new methods for designing, realizing and analyzing nonuniformly polarized and partial polar...

Peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) and commensal microbes mediate pathogen infection outcomes in insect disease vectors. Although PGRP-LD is retained in multiple vectors, its role in host defense remains elusive. Here we report that Anopheles stephensi PGRP-LD protects the vector from malaria parasite infection by regulating gut homeostasis. Specifically, knock down of PGRP-LD (dsLD) in...

In this paper, several methods for constructing substitution boxes (S-boxes) with good cross-correlation properties are proposed. We firstly analyze the cross-correlation properties of bent functions and derive a sufficient condition that the absolute indicator f ,g of two bent functions f and g achieve its lowest possible value 2 n/2. More precisely, it is sufficient that f + g is also a bent ...