Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseDengue virus, one of the most prevalent mosquito-borne flaviviruses affecting humans globally, is primarily transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which thrives in densely populated urban environments.
Amanda Cupertino de Freitas +22 more
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Legacy and social media respectively influence risk perceptions and protective behaviors during emerging health threats: A multi-wave analysis of communications on Zika virus cases. [PDF]
, 2018 ObjectiveBoth legacy media, such as television and newspapers, and online social media are potentially important but incompletely understood sources of information in the face of emerging public health risks.
Albarracín, Dolores +5 more
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Exploring marking methods for the predatory hoverfly Sphaerophoria rueppellii (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Insect Science, EarlyView.As important pollinators and predators of aphids, hoverflies play an important role in ecosystems. This study focuses on identifying the best marking technique for the model species Sphaerophoria rueppellii that can be used to track hoverfly feeding and oviposition sites, evaluating three methods: rubidium (RbCl), fluorescein, and fluorescent dusts ...
Michele Violi +4 more
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Extracción de zumo de cítricos para la elaboración de repelentes naturales
Revista de Iniciación Científica, 2017 Los repelentes son aquellos que nos defienden de insectos, principalmente de los mosquitos. Es necesario protegerse de sus picaduras, razón por la cual, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo general la elaboración de un repelente a base del zumo ...
Ricardo García +4 more
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Spartan Daily, November 29, 1945 [PDF]
, 1945 Volume 34, Issue 38https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3668/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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A Metapopulation Model for Chikungunya Including Populations Mobility on a Large-Scale Network
, 2012 In this work we study the influence of populations mobility on the spread of a vector-borne disease. We focus on the chikungunya epidemic event that occurred in 2005-2006 on the R\'eunion Island, Indian Ocean, France, and validate our models with real ...
Arino +32 more
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Infection with dengue-2 virus alters proteins in naturally expectorated saliva of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes [PDF]
, 2014 Daniel M. Chisenhall +5 more
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Genetic engineering for SIT application: a fruit fly‐focused review
Insect Science, EarlyView.Abstract Sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a key component of efficient pest control. Fruit fly pests from the Drosophilidae and Tephritidae families pose a substantial and overwhelmingly increasing threat to the agricultural industry, aggravated by climate change and globalization among other contributors.
Serafima Davydova +2 more
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Journal of Parasite ScienceThis study examines how climate change affects the distribution of Mansonia genus mosquitoes and their potential role in filariasis transmission in Pajaten Hamlet, Keleyan, Socah Bangkalan, Madura, Indonesia.
Dwi Aprilia Anggraini +3 more
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Delayed Sampling and Automatic Rao-Blackwellization of Probabilistic Programs
, 2018 We introduce a dynamic mechanism for the solution of analytically-tractable substructure in probabilistic programs, using conjugate priors and affine transformations to reduce variance in Monte Carlo estimators. For inference with Sequential Monte Carlo,
Broman, David +4 more
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