Investigations have shown that female mosquitoes with a larger body size (determined by wing length) exhibit higher feeding rates and greater fecundity relative to smaller mosquitoes. In this study, Anopheles dirus and An. sawadwongporni were reared in the laboratory at two different temperatures (23 degrees C and 30 degrees C). Effects of the rearing temperature on body size, fecundity, and la...

A new process for concurrent trim and structural optimization of Active Aeroelastic Wing technology is presented. The new process treats trim optimization and structural optimization as integrated problems in the same mathematical formulation, in which control surface gear ratios are added as design variables to a standard structural optimization algorithm. This new approach is in contrast to m...

The goal of this study is to analyze how the aeropropulsive benefits an over-the-wing distributed-propulsion (OTWDP) system at component level translate into benefit aircraft level, as well determine whether enhancement sufficient lead a reduction in overall energy consumption. For this, preliminary sizing partial-turboelectric regional passenger performed, and its performance metrics are compa...

To fulfil the various tasks and roles efficiently in the Royal Air Force good health is implicit but 'fitness' is not so specifically defined. Fitness relates to a task; it does not describe a state of health. Using a system of submaximal measurement of oxygen uptake (V02), skinfold thickness, weight and health parameters involving an actuarial scaled questionnaire and blood pressure measuremen...

Impact, which may occur during manufacture, service or maintenance, is one of the major concerns to be monitored throughout the lifetime of aircraft composite structures. Aiming at monitoring impacts online while minimizing the weight added to the aircraft to meet the strict limitations of aerospace engineering, this paper puts forward a new digital wireless network based on miniaturized wirele...

The aim of the article is the kinematic and geometric design of a flapping wing UAV, in order to develop an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, capable of executing reconnaissance and video-surveillance missions. To define the characteristic dimensions of the vehicle a biological study was initially carried out, analyzing, for example, the weight-wingspan ratio for the correct kinematics of the flight. On...

To fulfil the various tasks and roles efficiently in the Royal Air Force good health is implicit but 'fitness' is not so specifically defined. Fitness relates to a task; it does not describe a state of health. Using a system of submaximal measurement of oxygen uptake (VO2), skinfold thickness, weight and health parameters involving an actuarial scaled questionnaire and blood pressure measuremen...

We present a Concurrent-Learning approach for adaptive control that uses recorded data concurrently with instantaneous data for adaptive flight control. Concurrent learning can guarantee tracking error and weight error convergence to zero subject to a verifiable condition on linear independence of the recorded data; without requiring persistency of excitation in the system states. Simulation st...

Graphical procedures can be useful for illustrating and evaluating the process of inverse regression. We first review some simple and well-known graphical approaches for univariate linear and nonlinear models. We then propose a new graphical tool applicable to situations where the response is bivariate and repeated measures data are available. The proposed method is illustrated with an example ...