The fate of mosquito sperm in the female reproductive tract has been addressed sporadically and incompletely, resulting in significant gaps in our understanding of sperm-female interactions that ultimately lead to fertilization. As with other Diptera, mosquito sperm have a complex journey to their ultimate destination, the egg. After copulation, sperm spend a short time at the site of inseminat...

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

to study the scholarly production of iran in the basic sciences and identify the place of the country among islamic countries and the world, and also comparing the different disciplines in this field of knowledge, help to plan properly to provide necessary facilities for the advancement in these areas. the purpose of this study is the analysis of scientific poverty line of iranian scientists an...

the philosophy of biology has existed as a distinct sub-discipline within the philosophy of science for about thirty years. the rapid growth of the field has mirrored that of the biological sciences in the same period. today the discipline is well represented in the leading journals in philosophy of science, as well as in several specialist journals. there have been two generations of textbooks...

malaria is one the major health problem in nigeria. during pregnancy, it poses serious threat to the survival of both unborn foetus and the mothers. this study determined the effect of adequate malaria knowledge and pregnancy status of women on use of mosquito nets and reported malaria fever morbidity.the data were collected during the malaria indicator survey (mis) from 4632 women. data analys...

Esmaeil Mortaz 1, , Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Soheila Matroodi , Atefeh Abedini , Arda Kiani , Dina Soroush , and Ian M. Adcock * 1 Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Masih Dane...

this paper summarizes the proceedings of a 1 day national symposium entitled “reproductive biology, stem cells biotechnology and regenerative medicine” held at shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran on 3rd march 2016. here, we collected the papers that presented and discussed at this meeting by specialists that currently researched about the overlaps of the fields of reprodu...

Changes in mosquito ecology and active anti-vector measures abolished endemic malaria transmission in Hong Kong by 1969. Unfortunately, endemic transmission of P. vivax reappeared in 1977. The threat posed to the British Army in Hong Kong however, appears to be small (5 cases since 1983), and restricted to areas close to the border with the Peoples Republic of China. Malaria biology and protect...

Surveys of mosquitos in Sri Lanka have generally been confined to the South. A recent study in Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka reported on the biology of peridomestic mosquito species. The present survey indicates the predominant species to be Armigeres durhami (Edwaards) and Armigeres subalbatus (Coquillett). Aedes albopictus (Skuse), Ae. aegypti (Linnaeus) and Ae. novalbopictus Barraud...