Abstract Background When seeking a human for a blood meal, mosquitoes use several cues to detect and find their hosts.From this knowledge, counter-flow odour-baited traps have been developed that use a combination of CO2, human-mimicking odour, visual cues and circulating airflow to attract and capture mosquitoes.Initially developed for monitoring,
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is directly linked to diabetes mellitus (DM), and its morbidity and mortality are rising at an alarming rate.Individuals with DM experience significantly worse clinical outcomes due to heart failure as a CVD consequence than non-diabetic patients.Hyperglycemia is the main culprit that triggers the activation of SHEA BUT
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an evolutionary algorithm that is well known for its simplicity and effectiveness.It usually has strong global search capability but has the drawback of being easily trapped by local optima.A scaling mutation strategy and an elitist learning strategy are presented in this paper.Based on these strategies, an impr
Attrition of sample members from a longitudinal survey can undermine the quality of the data and its research potential, especially when the sample members who drop out are different from those who do not.People who move house are more likely to drop out of the survey as they are harder to locate, and once located, may be harder to interview in the