THE ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS BEAUVERIA BASSIANA REDUCES INSTANTANEOUS BLOOD FEEDING IN WILD MULTI-INSECTICIDE-RESISTANT CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS MOSQUITOES IN BENIN, WEST AFRICA

Abstract Background Mosquito-borne diseases are still a major health risk in many developing countries, and the emergence of multi-insecticide-resistant mosquitoes is threatening the future of vector control.Therefore, new tools that can manage resistant mosquitoes are required.Laboratory studies show that entomopathogenic fungi can kill insecticid

Abstract The World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 was an attempt to elevate humanitarian organisations more completely into the international political domain.Humanitarian organisations are agencies which provide life-saving assistance to populations in times of conflict or man-made disasters and use the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiali

Purpose.The article engages in a comprehensive analysis of the legal and normative foundations of international activities of the Russian sub-state regions with an emphasis on regional parliaments.Methods.In order to compile the study, the author draws upon a case-oriented research design and engages in two approaches namely comparative and politic

A physics-based optimisation framework is developed to investigate the potential advantages of novel technologies on the energy efficiency of a midrange passenger aircraft.In particular, the coupled-adjoint aerostructural analysis and optimisation tool FEMWET is modified to study the effects of active flow control at different load cases for conven