This paper introduces a framework that allows a robot to form a single behavior–grounded object categorization after it uses multiple exploratory behaviors to interact with objects and multiple sensory modalities to detect the outcomes that each behavior produces. Our robot observed acoustic and visual outcomes from 6 different exploratory behaviors performed on 20 objects (containers and non-c...

Cemeteries with many water-filled containers, flowers, sources of human blood, and shade are favorable urban habitats for the proliferation of Aedes aegypti, a vector of yellow fever and dengue. A total of 22,956 containers was examined in the five cemeteries of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The vector was found in four cemeteries that showed an average infestation level of 5.5% (617 pos...

Residues of pesticide fumigants and toxic industrial chemicals in freight containers represent a health hazard to employees and consumers, especially since freight containers are sealed for transport and distributed widely throughout the importing countries before being opened for unloading. We investigated 2113 freight containers arriving at the second largest container terminal in Europe, Ham...

The most preferred containers by Aedes aegypti were studied April and July (rainy and dry periods) in two Manaus neighbourhoods. In all, 2,700 premises and 13,912 containers were examined, most (87%) recorded outdoors. Out of the 13,100 inspected premises, only 1.6% showed to be positive for Aedes aegypti, summing up to 7,916 collected samples. Most frequently found containers outdoors in eithe...

The numbers of children under 5 years in South Glamorgan admitted to hospital because of accidental poisoning have been analysed for 1980-4. There has been no significant fall in those taking solid dose, prescribable medications since the voluntary agreement between the government and the pharmaceutical profession in 1981 on child resistant containers. Most children still take these poisons fro...

BACKGROUND Failure in detecting naturally occurring breeding sites of Aedes mosquitoes can bias the conclusions drawn from field studies, and hence, negatively affect intervention outcomes. We characterized the habitats of immature Aedes mosquitoes and explored species dynamics along a rural-to-urban gradient in a West Africa setting where yellow fever and dengue co-exist. METHODOLOGY Between...

The Minimum Bin Slack is a heuristic proposed by Gupta and Ho [6]. Such algorithm is defined by its authors as an algorithm focused on the container. MBS starts from the idea that minimizing the number of containers is equivalent to reduce the left space in the containers: thus, less quantity of containers means less left space in the containers. Considering this idea, MBS algorithm uses the co...

A manufacturer of electrical cable needs to pack drums and pallets of cable into standard shipping containers for exporting overseas. Packing is done in such a way as to minimise the number of containers used. A three dimensional packing heuristic is developed to solve this problem. The packing plans prepared manually were compared to the plans obtained from the heuristic. The heuristic was fou...

With the advent of Docker, it becomes popular to bundle Web applications (apps) and their libraries into lightweight linux containers and offer them to a wide public by deploying them in the cloud. Compared to previous approaches, like deploying apps in cloud-provided virtual machines (VMs), the use of containers allows faster start-up and less overhead. However, having containers inside VMs ma...

Software containers present an effective mechanism for decoupling cross-cutting concerns in software. System-wide concerns such as persistence, transaction management, security, fault masking, etc., are implemented as container services. While a lot of effort has been expended in developing effective container implementations, specifications for software containers are largely presented in info...