Effective indoor residual spraying against malaria vectors depends on whether mosquitoes rest indoors (i.e., endophilic behavior). This varies among species and is affected by insecticidal irritancy. Exophilic behavior has evolved in certain populations exposed to prolonged spraying programs. Optimum effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets presumably depends on vectors biting at hours when mo...

Nowadays, most of the computation of a rendering system is done in color space. Thus, the whole process, from acquisition (with a digital camera) and modelisation to display (on CRT/LCD displays) is color-based. Unfortunately, the re ection of a light on a surface is based on an approximation which can reduce the preservation of the color appearance. In this report, we present a new approach fo...

Modeling processes are the activities of capturing and representing processes and control of their dynamic behavior. Desired features of the model include capture of relevant aspects of a real phenomenon, understandability, and completeness of static and dynamic specifications. This paper proposes a diagrammatic language for engineering process modeling that provides an integration tool for cap...

The medicinal leech has served as an important experimental preparation for neuroscience research since the late 19th century. Initial anatomical and developmental studies dating back more than 100 years ago were followed by behavioral and electrophysiological investigations in the first half of the 20th century. More recently, intense studies of the neuronal mechanisms underlying leech movemen...

The personality assessment literature using deviant and antisocial subject populations contains an interesting anomaly—that persons representing major criminal offense categories can be only weakly distinguished from one another by using standard scales of the best conventional inventories (e.g., the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the California Psychological Inventory). This m...

Various studies suggest that movement sequences are initially learned predominantly in effector-independent spatial coordinates and only after extended practice in effector-dependent coordinates. The present study examined this notion for the discrete sequence production (DSP) task by manipulating the hand used and the position of the hand relative to the body. During sequence learning in Exper...

Oliver Williamson's Corporate Control and Business Behavior is an important contribution to the old but ever-lively examination of how and how effectively competition regulates economic activity. Though he speaks in mathematical language, and addresses himself primarily to economists and theorists of organization and management, Professor Williamson has a broader message for all those concerned...

IN LATE June of 1970, the Wash ington Post reported that doctors in Omaha, Nebraska, were giving hundreds of school children so-called behavior modification drugs to make them "behave" better. Five days later Huntley-Brinkley featured a news story about the Omaha situation on their national news cast. These, as well as other news media, posed some very real concerns about possible misuse of var...