Presented at: Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress, Liverpool, UK, May 2015. Financial Disclosure(s): The author(s) have made the following disclosure(s): J.D.C.: Grant d International Health PhD Fellowship, grant no. 097437/Z/11/Z. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom. The sponsor or funding organization had no role in the design or conduct of this research. Aut...

In this study, 13 weeks (October to December 2012) of ovitrap surveillance was conducted in two suburban residential areas in Kampar town, Perak. A total of 17,310 Aedes mosquitoes were found in Taman Kampar Jaya, whereas Taman Juloong recorded a higher number at 19,042. Less than 1% of these were identified as Aedes aegypti, with the remaining confirmed as Aedes albopictus. The female Ae. albo...

We build stochastic models for analyzing Jaya and semi-steady-state algorithms. The analysis shows that (a) the maximum expected value of number worst-index updates per generation is a paltry 1.7 regardless population size; (b) size, expectation best-index decreases monotonically with generations; (c) exact upper bounds as well asymptotics best-update counts can be obtained specific distributio...