of effective tsetse control if it is implemented as a coordinated effort. The use of traps and insecticide-treated cattle requires a fully coordinated program over a wide area to be at all effective and to provide benefits to farmers over a broad area. Sequential aerial spraying with non-residual insecticides is another way to achieve area-wide control, as is the release of sterile insects to e...

The industrialized world is facing what some have called the third epidemiological transition [1]: related to long life expectancy and unhealthy lifestyle factors, an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases is accompanied by revival of many familiar infections [2,3] caused by increasingly resistant microorganisms. Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) [4] such as diabetes, cardiovascular d...

Coalition Structure Generation—the problem of finding the optimal division of agents into coalitions—has received considerable attention in recent AI literature. The fastest exact algorithm to solve this problem is IDP-IP [17], which is a hybrid of two previous algorithms, namely IDP and IP. Given this, it is desirable to speed up IDP as this will, in turn, improve upon the state-of-the-art. In...

UNICEF has declared Yemen as one of the largest humanitarian crises in world. With ongoing war, famine, and COVID-19 pandemic converging to create Yemen's current detrimental situation. This further exacerbated dwindling resources, contributing lack basic necessities, a poor healthcare system, poverty, food insecurity, illiteracy, pollution, skyrocketing outbreaks infectious diseases. Leading a...

The need for novel approaches to treat infectious diseases is obvious and urgent. This situation has renewed interest in the use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to treat infectious diseases. During the last 5 years, radioimmunotherapy (RIT), a modality developed for cancer treatment, has been successfully adapted for the treatment of experimental fungal (C. neoformans and H. capsulatum), bacter...

statisticians to contribute to the understanding and much remains unknown about properties of the tious disease data presents several challenges stem from the lack of detail and the dependence in data. Infectious disease data do not result from planned experiments, but arise from makes it diflicult to accumulate precise data and n lacking in detail. Another reason for the lack only partially ob...

This book is a collection of short articles written by the participants of a research workshop held in Poznan, Poland, in September 2000. The workshop, supported by NATO Scientific Affairs, focused on the three major larval cestode diseases of humans: Taenia solium neurocysticercosis, Echinococcus granulosus cystic hydatidosis, and E. multilocularis alveolar hydatidosis. The format and depth of...