BACKGROUND Numerous malaria epidemics have occurred in western Kenya, with increasing frequency over the past 20 years. A variety of hypotheses on the etiology of these epidemics have been put forth, with different implications for surveillance and control. We investigated the ecological and socioeconomic factors promoting highland malaria vectors in the dry season after the 2002 epidemic. ME...

In 1987, Lovv asz conjectured that every brick G diierent from K 4 , C 6 , and the Petersen graph has an edge e such that G e is a matching covered graph with exactly one brick. Lovv asz and Vempala announced a proof of this conjecture in 1994. Their paper is under preparation. We present here an independent proof of their theorem. We shall in fact prove that if G is any brick diierent from K 4...

Ceramic industrial kiln refers to the combustion equipment for ceramic production, which generally roller kiln, shuttle tunnel and kiln. Roller with continuous firing rotating as vehicle of billet body; Tunnel adopts takes rail car transport body. Shuttle is fired intermittently consists car, chamber door. Factors influencing energy saving include construction materials, structure, technology, ...

A brick is a 3-connected graph such that the graph obtained from it by deleting any two distinct vertices has a perfect matching. The importance of bricks stems from the fact that they are building blocks of the matching decomposition procedure of Kotzig, and Lovász and Plummer. We prove that every brick except for the Petersen graph can be reduced to K4 or the prism by repeatedly applying a ce...

The Olivetti Research Laboratory has developed an experimental system based on intelligent peripherals connected directly to an ATM network. As well as multimedia modules (e.g. audio and video) the system also includes a directly connected RAID-3 storage server called the “Disc Brick”. This paper describes the architecture of the Disc Brick, and discusses some of the hardware and software issue...

Brick industry in India is the second largest brick producer in the world after China. The industry is one of the largest employment generating industries employing millions of people. The present study focuses on the brick industries located in North Karnataka, India, where about 1500 brick kilns are operating employing thousands of workers. The main aim of this study is to investigate the sel...

The recycling of zinc in the Waelz process is an important part efficient use resources steel processing cycle. pyro-metallurgical zinc-containing wastes takes place a rotary kiln. Various measured variables are available to monitor process. temperature kiln-shell analyzed by infrared kiln-shell-scanner. In this paper, methods presented which eliminate external weather-related disturbances on k...

Chinese Fuzhuan brick-tea is a unique microbial fermented tea characterized by a period of fungal growth during its manufacturing process. The aim of the present study was to characterize, both physicochemically and microbiologically, traditional industrial production processes of Fuzhuan brick-tea. Fermenting tea samples were collected from the largest manufacturer. Physicochemical analyses sh...