Invasive snails and an emerging infectious disease: results from the first national survey on Angiostrongylus cantonensis in China.

BACKGROUND: Eosinophilic meningitis (angiostrongyliasis) caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis is emerging in mainland China.However, the distribution of A.cantonensis and its intermediate host snails, and the role of two invasive snail species in the emergence of angiostrongyliasis, are not well understood.METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A nationa

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Stage-Wise Learning of Reaching Using Little Prior Knowledge

In some manipulation robotics environments, because of the difficulty of precisely modeling dynamics and computing features which describe well the variety of scene appearances, hand-programming a Triathlon - Femme - Vetements - Singlet robot behavior is often intractable.Deep reinforcement learning methods partially alleviate this problem in that

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