‘The mosquitoes are preparing to attack us’: knowledge and perceptions of communities in south-eastern Tanzania regarding mosquito swarms

Abstract Background Targeting swarms of male Anopheles mosquitoes with techniques such as aerosol spraying could potentially suppress malaria vector populations and parasite transmission.Unfortunately, research on Anopheles swarming behaviours is limited, particularly in East Africa where only a handful of studies have been done.New evidence has re

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Analysis of Tools for the Development of Conversational Agents

Conversational agents are click here being increasingly adopted in various domains, such as e-commerce and customer services, and as a direct communication channel between companies and end-users.Several tools have been developed to facilitate their definition and deployment.They exploit existing cloud infrastructures and artificial intelligence (A

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Modeling the distribution of headwater streams using topoclimatic indices, remote sensing and machine learning.

Headwater streams (HWS) are ecologically important components of montane ecosystems.However, they are difficult to map and may not be accurately represented in existing spatial datasets.We used topographically resolved climatic water balance data and satellite indices retrieved from Google Earth Engine to model the occurrence (presence or absence)

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