Evaluating and optimising formic acid treatment against varroa mites on honey bees with MOx-sensors and a control loop

In many parts of the world beekeepers report high numbers of honey bee colony losses, which is both an environmental and an economical problem.Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) are a major factor of honey bee colony losses.Many beekeepers use formic acid to fight varroa, but treatments show low efficacy when weather conditions are suboptimal or the

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Robust Control for Non-Minimum Phase Systems with Actuator Faults: Application to Aircraft Longitudinal Flight Control

This study is concerned with developing a robust tracking control system that merges the optimal control theory with fractional-order-based control and the heuristic optimization algorithms into a single framework for the non-minimum phase pitch angle dynamics of Boeing 747 aircraft.The main control objective is to deal with the non-minimum phase n

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Incidence of catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its main determinants in Mexican households caring for a person with a mental disorder

Abstract Background There are few studies on the impact of out-of-pocket mental health care expenditures and sociodemographic factors on the probability of Mexican households to incur catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE).Objective The goal of the present Girls Halloween Dress study was to estimate the incidence of CHE and its main determinant

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