BACKGROUND The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), transmits important arboviral diseases and displaces native species. This peridomestic mosquito deposits eggs in natural and artificial containers. Container larval habitats tend to be cryptic and, therefore, difficult to reach by conventional insecticide treatments. We have developed an autodissemination station that transfers the ...

Background: The neurological examination is considered to be complex and contributes to the phenomenon of "neurophobia". It is traditionally taught in small groups by residents ("traditional concept"), making the learning success partially dependent on the resident's level of clinical training, didactic education and personal motivation. Aim of this study was to examine the effects of a newly d...

In this paper, we analyze the effect of bursty packet losses, caused by a correlation in the multipath fading process, on the throughput and delay performance of a multichannel wireless access protocol. equal-capacity, orthogonal, traffic channels are shared by mobile users ( ) on the uplink (mobile-to-base station link). Transmission attempts on the uplink are made based on the busy/idle statu...

The power efficient on data collection is to increase the energy efficiency condition even when there is problem in the failure of the main parent node. The on data collection is the concept, the power efficient data transfer in a network of nodes. The main concept that is used here is data gathering which is a method where the data from the child nodes are collected by the parent node first an...

This study developed a load balancing early handoff scheme that enables transfer part of heavy load in a base station to the others using the overlap between base stations in wireless cellular networks. The proposed scheme reduces the new call blocking probability (CBP) and handoff call connection dropping probability (CDP) as well as to increase the resource utilization of wireless networks. S...

Recent advances in mobile computing and wireless technologies resulted in the emergence of new services such as Video-on-Demand. However, high rates of disconnection, low bandwidth, and other problems still strongly affect the quality of such services. To address some of these challenges, we propose a new model for the caching of video content that takes advantage of the cooperation among distr...

The waste intermodal station of Clyde, in the city of Sydney, Australia, is in the heart of a complex network of terminals connected by road and rail to transport urban waste from its first collection to its final disposal. The amount of waste the network is projected to handle in 2015 will increase from about 340,000 tonnes/year in 2006 up to about 1.5 million tonnes/year, following population...