We formulate an infinite-time quadratic functional minimization problem ofAedes aegyptimosquito population.Three techniques of mosquito population management, chemical insecticide control, sterile insect technique control, and environmental carrying capacity reduction, are combined in order to obtain the most sustainable strategy to reduce mosquito population and consequently dengue disease. Th...

Without attempting to summarize the vast field of statistical mechanics, we briefly mention some of the progress that was made in areas which have enjoyed Barry Simon’s interests. In particular, we focus on rigorous non-perturbative results which provide insight on the spread of correlations in Gibbs equilibrium states and yield information on phase transitions and critical phenomena. Briefly m...

Professor Mirko Drazen Grmek (Krapina 1924--Paris 2000) was one of the most prominent Croatian scientists. Work in history of science directed him to the crossroads of various fields placing his approach in anthropological perspective. Two models will serve as illustrations of his main theories. The historical reconstruction of scientific discovery (mostly on examples of 17th century) will be p...

introduction. what is the conception of talented students about university and academic and social life? does this conception change before and after entering the university? how these changes occur and in which direction? are these changes important? do the talented students have any solution for academic life problems? method. in a qualitative study 20 medical talented students were selected....

This chapter provides an introduction to Description Logics as a formal language for representing knowledge and reasoning about it. It first gives a short overview of the ideas underlying Description Logics. Then it introduces syntax and semantics, covering the basic constructors that are used in systems or have been introduced in the literature, and the way these constructors can be used to bu...

Metacognition refers to “thinking about thinking” or our ability to know what we know, what we don’t know and how to regulate as well as control such thinking. This article seeks to give an overview of some issues related to metacognition, a construct which received a considerable attention on the part of teaching theoreticians and researchers. It starts with a brief introduction of metacogniti...

In this paper we present our ideas for conducting a cost benefit analysis by using three different methods: scenario analysis, decision trees and simulation. Then we introduce our case study and examine these methods in a real world situation. We show how these tools can be used and what the results are for each of them. Our aim is to conduct a comparison of these different probabilistic method...

was surprised to find that the latest ideas as set forth in that volume were very often not mentioned in the Handbook of Midwifery, older methods being given instead. For instance, the treatment of eclampsia is dealt with in a very different manner in the two books. Surely, the most advanced lines of treatment should be advocated for midwives and obstetricians alike! However, there is no doubt ...

Geometric and stochastic ideas interact in a wide variety of ways over both theory and applications. For two connections that do not seem to have been mentioned before, we present here descriptive comments and suggestions for further investigation. The first deals with multivariate medians, an active area of research in which Yehuda himself was interested (see [11] with Cun-Hui Zhang). Using th...

This chapter provides an introduction to Description Logics as a formal language for representing knowledge and reasoning about it. It first gives a short overview of the ideas underlying Description Logics. Then it introduces syntax and semantics, covering the basic constructors that are used in systems or have been introduced in the literature, and the way these constructors can be used to bu...