COMBINING HYDROLOGY AND MOSQUITO POPULATION MODELS TO IDENTIFY THE DRIVERS OF RIFT VALLEY FEVER EMERGENCE IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS OF WEST AFRICA.

Combining hydrology and mosquito population models to identify the drivers of Rift Valley fever emergence in semi-arid regions of West Africa.

BackgroundRift Valley fever (RVF) is D-pad/board a vector-borne viral zoonosis of increasing global importance.RVF virus (RVFV) is transmitted either through exposure to infected animals or through bites from different species of infected mosquitoes, mainly of Aedes and Culex genera.These mosquitoes are very sensitive to environmental conditions, w

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Temperature-Controlled Chameleonlike Cloak

Invisibility cloaking based on transformation optics has brought about unlimited space for reverie.However, the design and fabrication of transformation-optics-based cloaks still remain fairly challenging because of the complicated, even extreme, material prescriptions, including its meticulously engineered anisotropy, inhomogeneity and singularity

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