Three different resting station designs made of cardboard covered with black cloth were evaluated for their attractiveness to Aedes aegypti populations resting inside houses in Thailand. Box designs attracted more females (but not males) than an open-panel design. Thirty to 60% of all adult Ae. aegypti resting inside houses were collected by aspirating from 2-4 resting boxes placed inside house...

Using the singularity theory of scalar functions, we derive a classification of sliding bifurcations in piecewise-smooth flows. These are global bifurcations which occur when distinguished orbits become tangent to surfaces of discontinuity, called switching manifolds. The key idea of the paper is to attribute sliding bifurcations to singularities in the manifold’s projection along the flow, nam...

In the model of Chain Inflation, a sequential chain of coupled scalar fields drives inflation. We consider a multidimensional potential with a large number of bowls, or local minima, separated by energy barriers: inflation takes place as the system tunnels from the highest energy bowl to another bowl of lower energy, and so on until it reaches the zero energy ground state. Such a scenario can b...

Physical Modeling of audio signals is a method for achieving musical textures in a class of sounds related to a timbre class associated with an instrument family or perhaps acoustical phenomena which can be applied to a musical context. Many of these models are based on the concept of a waveguide algorithm defined simply as a model of a traveling wave, its reflections and its discontinuities. B...

Robots operating in domestic environments need to deal with a variety of different objects. Often, these objects are neither placed randomly, nor independently of each other. For example, objects on a breakfast table such as plates, knives, or bowls typically occur in recurrent configurations. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical generative model to reason about latent object constell...

Super Bowl XLVIII drew the largest television audience in American history with 111.5 million US viewers.[1] This surpassed the previous record set by Super Bowl XLVI two years prior with 111.3 million viewers.[2] In fact, the last four Super Bowls have been the four most watched TV programs in U.S. history.[20] Despite the uneventful game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, wh...

This qualitative study explored the impact of a Boccia (modified indoor bowls) group on the lives of people with dementia and their carers. Semi-structured interviews with people with dementia (N=6), carers (N=10) and the group organisers (N=6) analysed using thematic analysis revealed four main themes. ‘The struggle of being a carer’ was relieved by participating in the group and benefiting fr...