LesVernoniaDe Madagascar

Madagascar Decentralization

Madagascar: a Megadiversity Country

In this short article on lemurs I give a concise introduction for non-specialists to these conspicuous and unique animals on the island of Madagascar. INTRODUCTION Madagascar has long been known for its exquisite wildlife. It has been identified as a Megadiversity country and “Hottest Hotspot” for biodiversity conservation (Meyers et al. 2000 Mittermeier et al. 2005) due to the combination of e...

Groundwater Quality: Madagascar

Madagascar is a large island, some 1600 km in length (north to south) and 587,000 square kilometres in area. The island lies around 300 km off Mozambique (south-east Africa) in the Indian Ocean. Topography consists of a central mountainous region with an average altitude of 2000 m, which covers around two thirds of the island. The highest point is Maromokotro (2876 m). The uplands are surrounde...

Investigation of Pneumonic Plague, Madagascar

To the Editor: In an investigation of a pneumonic plague outbreak in Madagascar, Ramasindrazana et al. reported isolation of Yersinia pestis from 2 patients and seroconversion in 2 additional patients; these data indicated 4 (28.7%) of 14 diagnosed cases among described cases (1). The risk for overestimation of pneumonic plague contagion was illustrated by an outbreak in the Democratic Republic...

Madagascar: Scalable Planning with SAT

The scalability of SAT to very large problems has been achieved in the last ten years, due to substantially improved encodings, SAT solvers, and algorithms for scheduling the runs of SAT solvers. This has lead to SAT-based planners that are dramatically different from the earliest implementations based on the late 1990ies technology. We discuss a SATbased planning system that implements moderni...