Twelve healthy dogs were studied in this parallel group, blinded, randomised, and negative controlled efficacy study. On Day -1, the 12 dogs included were ranked within sex in descending order of individual pre-treatment (Day -5) fed mosquito counts and randomly allocated by blocks of two dogs to the untreated control group or the afoxolaner-treated group. NexGard® (Merial, now part of Boehring...

Algorithms in computational geometry are usually designed under the Real RAM model. In implementing these algorithms, however, fixed-precision arithmetic is used in place of exact arithmetic. This substitution introduces numerical errors in the computations that may lead to nonrobust behaviour in the implementation, such as infinite loops or segmentation faults. There are various approaches in ...

Dendrimers are highly branched organic macromolecules with successive layers or generations of branch units surrounding a central core [1,4]. These are key molecules in nanotechnology and can be put to good use. In this article, we compute the first geometricarithmetic index of two infinite classes of dendrimers.

Let G be a graph. In this paper, we study the eccentric connectivity index, the new version of the second Zagreb index and the forth geometric–arithmetic index.. The basic properties of these novel graph descriptors and some inequalities for them are established.

‎We obtain the asymptotic expansion of the sequence with general term $frac{A_n}{G_n}$‎, ‎where $A_n$ and $G_n$ are the arithmetic and geometric means of the numbers $d(1),d(2),dots,d(n)$‎, ‎with $d(n)$ denoting the number of positive divisors of $n$‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we obtain some explicit bounds concerning $G_n$ and $frac{A_n}{G_n}$.

Parallel subtraction is an operation defined on pairs of positive operators. In terms of electrical networks, one may pose the following problem: Given an electrical network, represented by a specified positive operator, determine the set of positive operators which when connected in parallel with the specified operator yield another prescribed operator. The set of solutions of this electrical ...

We introduce a model for the dynamics of a patchy population in a stochastic environment and derive a criterion for its persistence. This criterion is based on the geometric mean (GM) through time of the spatial-arithmetic mean of growth rates. For the population to persist, the GM has to be >/=1. The GM increases with the number of patches (because the sampling error is reduced) and decreases ...

Consider two sequences generated by ",,+ i Mi"„<hn)hn*\ M'i"„+X,b„), where the a„ and b„ are positive and M and M' are means. The paper discusses the nine processes which arise by restricting the choice of M and M' to the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, one case being that used by Archimedes to estimate it. Most of the paper is devoted to the arithmetic-harmonic mean, whose limit is e...