Search results for "Nuisance"
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"Save the Night" : light footprint, urbanism and territorial governance
2010
Our society maintains a complex relation with night, space-time often outside the diurnal cadences which facilitates the reflection, the imagination, the creation, the listening and the link with the other one, while revealing the segregation, the fear, and thus the restriction. By this research, we put compared to the urban lighting – real light project carrier of a strong symbolism – the socio-cultural, ecological and sanitary costs engendered by the artificial light. The urban lighting generates a geographical interlacing of bright imprints of differentiated scales, which we approach by various modellings, without forbidding us the sensitive analysis. We clarify, at various scales, the g…
On the moments of Cochran's Q statistic under the null hypothesis, with application to the meta-analysis of risk difference.
2011
W. G. Cochran's Q statistic was introduced in 1937 to test for equality of means under heteroscedasticity. Today, the use of Q is widespread in tests for homogeneity of effects in meta-analysis, but often these effects (such as risk differences and odds ratios) are not normally distributed. It is common to assume that Q follows a chi-square distribution, but it has long been known that this asymptotic distribution for Q is not accurate for moderate sample sizes. In this paper, the effect and weight for an individual study may depend on two parameters: the effect and a nuisance parameter. We present expansions for the first two moments of Q without any normality assumptions. Our expansions w…
Dimensions cognitives et multiscalaires des conflits environnementaux
2011
Résumé disponible en ligne sur le site de l'UMR SAD-APT (INRA AgroParisTech) : http://www6.versailles-grignon.inra.fr/sadapt/Equipe-Proximites/Seminaire-Conflits-et-territoires/dernieres-interventions/a_larceneux; National audience; La dynamique conflictuelle s'exprime particulièrement sur le terrain de l'aménagement et de l'environnement. Mais pour qu'il y ait conflit ou opposition entre des individus ou des groupes, il faut que des " opinions " soient constituées : or celles-ci se forment de manière complexe, dans des processus dont les explications théoriques sont multiples et opposent nettement les lectures économiste, monétarisant les dommages, et écologique, qui raisonne en termes de …
Quand les eaux de rouissage débordaient dans la cité : essai sur le mode d'existence d'une nuisance (France, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle)
2013
Efficacy of an insecticide paint against malaria vectors and nuisance in West Africa--part 2: field evaluation.
2010
Abstract Background Widespread resistance of the main malaria vector Anopheles gambiae to pyrethroids reported in many African countries and operational drawbacks to current IRS methods suggest the convenience of exploring new products and approaches for vector control. Insecticide paint Inesfly 5A IGR™, containing two organophosphates (OPs), chlorpyrifos and diazinon, and one insect growth regulator (IGR), pyriproxyfen, was tested in Benin, West Africa, for 12 months. Methods Field trials were conducted in six experimental huts that were randomly allocated to one or two layers of insecticide at 1 Kg/6 m2 or control. Evaluations included: (i) early mosquito collection, (ii) mosquito release…
Immissioni
2012
Alla soluzione dei problemi nascenti dal conflitto fra forme di utilizzazione reciprocamente incompatibili di proprietà vicine è preordinato, nel nostro ordinamento, l’art. 844 c.c. La norma trova collocazione nell’ambito dello statuto proprietario, ed in particolare tra le disposizioni sulla proprietà fondiaria di cui al Capo II del Titolo II del Libro III del codice civile. Oggetto della presente ricerca è costituito, per un verso, dai criteri indicati dalla norma per la soluzione del conflitto fra usi fondiari incompatibili e, per altro verso, dall’individuazione dell’apparato rimediale attribuito al titolare del fondo offeso. Questa prospettiva trova giustificazione nel fatto che il tem…
Perception des adventices par les agriculteurs, conseillers, techniciens d’expérimentation et chercheurs en France
2019
Une enquête nationale ayant recueilli 1320 réponses (839 analysées dans cet article), dont 56% d'agriculteurs, 26% de conseillers, 14% de techniciens/expérimentateurs et 4% de chercheurs, a permis de sonder leur perception des adventices. Les effets positifs des adventices ont moins d’importance aux yeux des sondés que leurs effets négatifs. Pour les effets négatifs, la perte de rendement (nuisibilité primaire directe) et l’augmentation du stock semencier (nuisibilité secondaire) sont les plus importants. Entre 60% et 80% des personnes enquêtées jugent importants les effets négatifs sur la conduite des travaux agricoles et la perte de qualité la récolte. Les effets positifs « sources de pol…
Bayesian measures of surprise for outlier detection
2003
From a Bayesian point of view, testing whether an observation is an outlier is usually reduced to a testing problem concerning a parameter of a contaminating distribution. This requires elicitation of both (i) the contaminating distribution that generates the outlier and (ii) prior distributions on its parameters. However, very little information is typically available about how the possible outlier could have been generated. Thus easy, preliminary checks in which these assessments can often be avoided may prove useful. Several such measures of surprise are derived for outlier detection in normal models. Results are applied to several examples. Default Bayes factors, where the contaminating…
Mosquito Magnet ® traps as a potential means of monitoring blackflies of medical and veterinary importance
2021
Mosquito Magnet® traps, deployed in widespread parts of England as part of nationwide mosquito surveillance projects, also caught blackflies. As many as 1242 blackflies were caught in a trapping session lasting 4 days. Principal among the species caught were Simulium equinum, Simulium lineatum and Simulium ornatum s.l. As S. ornatum s.l. is a vector that transmits Onchocerca linealis to cattle and S. equinum is responsible for dermatitis ('sweet itch') in cattle and horses, it is suggested that Mosquito Magnet® traps could be used to monitor and partially control these pests, as well as nuisance anthropophilic blackflies such as Simulium posticatum that can cause simuliidosis in southern En…
Increasing concentration of polyunsaturated fatty acids in browning boreal lakes is driven by nuisance algaGonyostomum
2020
Elevated concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) promote browning of lakes, which alters the physicochemical properties of water and ecosystem functioning. However, browning‐induced changes in basal production of polyunsaturated fatty acids from the n‐3 and n‐6 families (n‐3 and n‐6 PUFA) in lakes are not fully understood. The concentrations of PUFA, which are micronutrients required to maintain growth and reproduction of consumers, have been suggested to either rise or decline in seston as a response to lake browning. Elevated DOC concentrations may also promote bacterial biomass and production and thus potentially increase the concentration of bacterial fatty acids (BAFA) in sest…