Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are the most medically important arthropods worldwide, vectoring numerous agents that negatively affect humans, including dengue, arboviral encephalitides and malaria parasites. These mosquito-borne pathogens adversely affect millions of people annually, and the total burden of diseases associated with mosquitoes is well documented (e.g. see Sachs and Malaney 200...

The internal lateral ligament is the ligament most frequently damaged. Usually a few of the upper fibres are torn away from the periosteal attachment at the lower end of the femur. Occasionally, however, the deep fibres which are attached to the internal semilunar cartilage are partially torn without the cartilage being damaged. Occasionally, the external lateral ligament is injured. With more ...

An insect growth regulator, pyriproxyfen, has been used for the control of a range of pest insects, including mosquitoes. Pyriproxyfen is effective in inhibiting adult emergence and sterilizing adult females. The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), is an important vector of dengue and chikungunya, and is expanding its distribution throughout Europe and the Americas. In the present s...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Oyo is an urban community in Oyo state of south-western Nigeria and it is holoendemic for malaria. Information was collected on the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of inhabitants of Oyo town in relation to malaria. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 192 households with the aid of self- or researcher-administered questionnaires was carried out to identify fact...

Digital automation in reconstruction of apictorial hand torn paper document increases efficacy and reduces human effort. Reconstruction of torn document has importance in various fields like archaeology, art conservation and forensic sciences. The devised novel technique for hand torn paper document, consists of pre-processing, feature extraction and reconstruction phase. Torn fragment’s bounda...

We consider the problem of communicating over a channel that randomly “tears” message block into small pieces different sizes and shuffles them. For binary torn-paper with length $n$ notation="LaTeX">${\mathrm{ Geometric}}(p_{n})$ , w...