The widespread transmission of dengue viruses (DENV), coupled with the alarming increase of birth defects and neurological disorders associated with Zika virus, has put the world in dire need of more efficacious tools for Aedes aegypti-borne disease mitigation. We quantitatively investigated the epidemiological value of location-based contact tracing (identifying potential out-of-home exposure ...

Doctors cure few diseases. When even an occasional patient begins to recover from a disease which previously carried 100% mortality, an impressive advance has been made, and when, later, such patients are actually expected to recover, then medicine may claim a triumph. This has happened with regard to pneumococcal meningitis. Pneumococcal meningitis is not common, and no large series of cases h...

The use of anterior cingulectomy in the treatment of certain mental disorders gave us the opportunity of studying in a small group of patients, whose basic personality was unaffected by their illness, the changes which may follow lesions of this area. This paper is concerned with a report of six such cases. The effect of lesions of the cingulate gyrus in animals has recently been described. Ele...

Small Footprint LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) has been proposed as an effective tool for measuring detailed biophysical characteristics of forests over broad spatial scales. However, by itself LiDAR yields only a sample of the true 3D structure of a forest. In order to extract useful forestry relevant information, this data must be interpreted using mathematical models and computer algori...

Cairns, Stephen D. A Revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 504, 44 pages, 12 plates, 4 tables, 1 map, 1991.—The ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos islands are revised based primarily on the collections of the 1986 expedition of the Johnson-Sea-Link I research submersible. A historical review of ...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization estimates that the global number of dengue infections range between 80-100 million per year, with some studies estimating approximately three times higher numbers. Furthermore, the geographic range of dengue virus transmission is extending with the disease now occurring more frequently in areas such as southern Europe. Ae. aegypti, one of the most promin...

Sir, We read with great interest the article by Wong et al., 2014 that described a novel hereditary late-onset neurodegenerative disorder. Neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by an early-onset and heterogeneous phenotypic presentation including frontotemporal dementia, pyramidal and extra-pyramidal signs (Bigio et al., 2003...