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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This chapter is partly based on work performed within the framework of IMAAC

(https://imaac.eu/) related to COST Action CA16227 (Investigation & Mathe-

matical Analysis of Avant-garde Disease Control via Mosquito Nano-Tech-Repellents,

https://cost.eu/actions/CA16227/), supported by COST Association (Euro-

pean Cooperation in Science and Technology).

GLOSSARY

ANN: artificial neural networks,

CRRN: comparison of ranks by random numbers,

DEET: N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide,

DEPA: N,N-diethyl phenylacetamide,

HCA: hierarchical cluster analysis,

IR3535: 3-[N-butyl-N-acetyl]-aminopropionic acid,

MLR: multiple linear regression,

LR: linear regression,

OBP: odorant binding protein,

PCA: principal component analysis,

PCR: principal component regression,

PLS: partial least squares,

QSAR: quantitative structure–activity relationship,

RR: ridge regression,

SRD: sum of ranking differences,

VBD: vector-borne diseases.

FURTHER READING

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