AEDES ALBOPICTUS AND AEDES FLAVOPICTUS (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE) PRE-IMAGINAL ABUNDANCE PATTERNS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ALONG AN ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT

Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) is a major global invasive mosquito species that, in Japan, co-occurs with Aedes (Stegomyia) flavopictus Yamada, a closely related species recently intercepted in Europe.Here, we present results of a detailed 25-month long study where we biweekly sampled pupae and fourth instar larvae of these two species from o

Power grids include entities such as home-microgrids (H-MGs), consumers, and retailers, each of which has a unique and sometimes contradictory objective compared with others while exchanging electricity and heat with other H-MGs.Therefore, there is the need for a smart structure to handle the new situation.This paper proposes a bilevel hierarchical

Many adolescents living with or without HIV are sexually active and in need of continuous free access Toddler Tops to a variety of contraceptive methods.Dual contraception, condom use together with reversible effective contraception (hormonal contraception [HC] or intrauterine device), seems to be the most effective option for female adolescents fo

It is widely known that the pinch-grip forces of the human hand are linearly related to the weight of the grasped object.Less is known about the relationship between grip force and grip stiffness.We set out to determine variations to these dependencies in different tasks with and without visual feedback.In two different settings, subjects were aske