INTRODUCTION The need to control dengue transmission by means of insecticides has led to the development of resistance to most of the products used worldwide against mosquitoes. In the State of São Paulo, the Superintendência de Controle de Endemias (SUCEN) has annually monitored the susceptibility of Aedes aegypti to insecticides since 1996; since 1999, surveys were conducted in collaboration ...

A qualitative micromethod (IDS Rapid NH system) employing conventional and single-substrate enzyme tests was developed for the biochemical characterization of Neisseria spp., Haemophilus spp., and other gram-negative species. A total of over 140 dehydrated, miniaturized biochemical tests were investigated for their ability to distinguish species. Computer-assisted test selection and pair separa...

bstract. We provide a survey of hand biometric techniques in the iterature and incorporate several novel results of hand-based peronal identification and verification. We compare several feature ets in the shape-only and shape-plus-texture categories, emphaizing the relevance of a proper hand normalization scheme in the uccess of any biometric scheme. The preference of the left and ight hands o...

Microgrid system has received more and more attention internationally in recent years. As the most effective form of distributed generations, microgrid system has also found wide applications in many areas. In this paper, the optimal configuration issue of microgrid system is described briefly first. And then the monitoring system of microgrid system is discussed in details. Different control m...

Bayesian model or Beta-binomial conjugate using Bayesian sequential estimation method to estimate the proportion of different age groups is compared with the conventional multivariate control chart method. The parameters for the techniques were derived and applied. The result shows that the patients between the ages of 15-44 in 2009 and 44-64 and 64 and above in 2011 are out of control. This im...

The traditional architecture of Kerala, a state in India lying along its southwest coast, is known for its use of natural and passive methods for a comfortable indoor environment. Although there have been attempts to analyze the traditional architecture of Kerala, they were focused only on qualitative approach. An investigation was thus initiated by the authors to understand the passive environ...

The topic of this paper is the design and analysis of a control system for a semi-active suspension in a 2-wheel vehicle. The control system is implemented via a semi-active electro-hydraulic damper located on the rear suspension of a hypersport-class motorbike. The entire design and analysis procedure is outlined: the semi-active damper is analyzed and characterized; a wide range of control st...

Two distinct and parallel research communities have been working along the lines of the Model-Based Diagnosis approach: the FDI community and the DX community that have evolved in the fields of Automatic Control and Artificial Intelligence, respectively. This paper clarifies and links the concepts that underlie the FDI analytical redundancy approach and the DX logical approach. The formal match...