Background Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) targeted for elimination. The declining prevalence of infection will change the demands on health systems to effectively detect cases. Detection of HAT currently relies on vertical surveillance programs where patients are identified in their villages and then required to travel long distances to HAT treatment c...

When selling electronic products, manufacturers and retailers often o er rebates to stimulate sales. Due to certain adverse e ects, however, some manufacturers and retailers are contemplating the elimination of their rebate programs. This paper sheds light on the debate about the value of rebate programs by presenting a model for evaluating the conditions under which a rm should o er rebates in...

An algorithm or a program can be animated by a movie that graphically represents its dynamic execution. A sorting algorithm, for instance, might be animated by a sequence of frames that shows a set of vertical lines of various heights being permuted into order of increasing height. Such animations are useful for developing new programs, for debugging, and for explaining how programs work. This ...

background: daylight availability data are essential for designing effectively day lighted buildings. in respect to no available daylight availability data in iran, illuminance data on the south facing vertical surfaces were estimated using a proper method. methods: an illuminance measuring set was designed for measuring vertical illuminances for standard times over 15 days at one hour interval...

The article discusses the construction of a digital terrain model in various programs, which will be used for vertical planning design. One major challenges this area is creation an accurate and realistic surface, give opportunity to create quality compliant site. To solve problem analyze, same territory initial data has been built. paper presents algorithms DTM method constructing irregular gr...

An inverse design process is applied to determine blade shapes used in vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). The method is based on the modified Garabedian-McFadden technique that uses the deviation of the pressure distribution or the velocity distribution on the surface from a target pressure or velocity distribution, and modifies the blade surface in order to reduce this deviation. The method ...

We report 2 cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in southern France in a French woman and an American man of Togolese origin who reported no recent travel to malaria-endemic countries. Both infections occurred after a stay near Marseille, which raises the possibility of autochthonous transmission. Entomologic and genotypic investigations are described.

This article consists of geoelectrical resistivity data sets for thirty (30) vertical electrical sounding (VES) and four (4) traverses of 2D electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) collected within Iyesi, Ota, southwestern Nigeria for about five (5) weeks between December, 2016 and January, 2017 using an ABEM Terrameter (SAS1000/4000). The observed apparent resistivity data sets for the VES were p...