Applying new tools to control tuberculosis

New tools for achieving tuberculosis control: progress and reflexion.

Immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: new questions, new tools conference 2008

Human infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis exists as a spectrum of conditions ranging from asymptomatic infection to active disease. Novel, accurate tuberculosis immunodiagnostics have been introduced over the last decade, but it remains challenging to timely diagnose active disease and to accurately distinguish asymptomatic M. tuberculosis infection from immune memory resulting from a pri...

Proceedings of Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis: New Questions, New Tools

Introduction: The first international meeting on new biomarkers and tools for the immunodiagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection and disease, entitled objective of the conference was to integrate the most recent knowledge generated through basic, translational, and clinical research that could lead to novel, improved immunodiagnostic tools for tuberculosis (TB). About 150 researchers from academi...

Decay Control with New Tools

This presentation focuses primarily on recent developments in new technologies that have impacts on decay control. These technologies include 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) and new preand postharvest fungicides. With the increasing use of 1-MCP in the apple industry, depending on varieties, many apples do not have to be drenched with diphenylamine (DPA) prior to storage. Because use of 1-MCP has ...

Applying New Optimization Algorithms to Model Predictive Control

The connections between optimization and control theory have been explored by many researchers, and optimization algorithms have been applied with success to optimal control. The rapid pace of developments in model predictive control has given rise to a host of new problems to which optimization has yet to be applied. Concurrently, developments in optimization, and especially in interior-point ...