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1. The efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits in reducing malaria vector abundance in low-endemicity settings of northwest Mali

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Mohamed M. Traore, Amy Junnila, Sekou F. Traore, Seydou Doumbia, Edita E. Revay, Yosef Schlein, Roman V. Yakovlev, Aidas Saldaitis, Liwang Cui, Gergely Petrányi, Rui-De Xue, Alexey M. Prozorov, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Aboubakr S. Kone, Nafomon Sogoba, Mahamadou Diakite, John Vontas, John C. Beier, and Günter C. Müller

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ATSB, Bait station, Anopheles gambiae, Mali, Malaria, Entomological inoculation rate (EIR), Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
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Abstract Background Attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSBs) have the potential to significantly reduce infective female Anopheles mosquitoes in arid areas, such as in Northern Mali. Malaria is epidemic in the north due to the limited viability of Anopheles species in the desert climate. The goal of this study was to determine of the effect of ATSB on the number of older female An. gambiae and on the number of sporozoite-positive females in villages in northern Mali. Methods Villages were located in the north of Mali. In this study, 5677 ATSB stations were deployed, two on each home, in ten villages during late July and early August 2019. Ten villages served as controls. After a pre-treatment monitoring period in July, An. gambiae populations were monitored again from August to December using CDC-UV light traps, pyrethrum spray catches (PSC), and human landing catches (HLC). Mosquitoes were dissected to estimate their age, while ELISA detected sporozoite positivity. The monthly entomological inoculation rates (EIRs) were calculated for HLC indoors and outdoors. Data from villages were compared using t-tests, while bait station weighted density versus amount of collected females was checked with a Pearson’s correlation. Results A total of 2703 female An. gambiae were caught from treated villages, 4582 from control villages, a 41.0% difference. Dissection of 1759 females showed that ATSB significantly reduced the number of older females. The proportion of older females in treated villages was 0.93% compared to 9.4% in control villages. ELISA analysis of 7285 females showed that bait stations reduced the number of sporozoite-positive females. The infective females in treated villages was 0.30% compared to 2.73% in the controls. The greater the density of bait stations deployed, the fewer the older, infective females (P

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2024
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2. The efficacy of attractive targeted sugar baits in reducing malaria vector abundance in low-endemicity settings of northwest Mali

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Traore, Mohamed M., Junnila, Amy, Traore, Sekou F., Doumbia, Seydou, Revay, Edita E., Schlein, Yosef, Yakovlev, Roman V., Saldaitis, Aidas, Cui, Liwang, Petrányi, Gergely, Xue, Rui-De, Prozorov, Alexey M., Prozorova, Tatiana A., Kone, Aboubakr S., Sogoba, Nafomon, Diakite, Mahamadou, Vontas, John, Beier, John C., and Müller, Günter C.

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2024
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3. Review of the African golden-spotted genera Haplopacha and Dasychirinula (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Poecilocampinae)

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Tesfu Fekensa Tujuba, Roman V. Yakovlev, Aidas Saldaitis, Harald Sulak, Leif Aarvik, Raymond J. Murphy, Julia S. Volkova, Mohamed M. Traore, Edita E. Revay, Günter C. Müller, Tatiana A. Prozorova, and Alexey M. Prozorov

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afrotropical realm, biodiversity, lappet moth, new genus, new species, new synonymy, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
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African golden-spotted lappet moths from the genera Haplopacha Aurivillius, 1905 and Dasychirinula Hering, 1926 are reviewed. Antennae, heads and legs are investigated in addition to the traditional comparison of habitus, genitalia, and distribution areas. Two new genera are established and four new species are described as a result: Eudoumbia gen. n. with the type-species Eudoumbia thorogood sp. n. from Angola, Namibia, and Botswana; Auripluvia gen. n. with the type species Auripluvia sophia sp. n. from Ethiopia; Haplopacha mason sp. n. from Tanzania; and Dasychirinula julia sp. n. from Ethiopia. One species is reattributed to the new genus as Eudoumbia ndoumoi (Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016) stat. n. One new synonymy is established for two Tanzanian species: Dasychirinula chrysogramma Hering, 1926 = Haplopacha lunata Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 syn. n.; and one potential synonymy is remarked between Haplopacha tangani Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 from Tanzania and Malawi and Haplopacha riftensis Dupont, Simonsen & Zilli, 2016 from Malawi. Photos of the related material stored in the main collections of Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (Pretoria, RSA) and Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) are showed.

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2024
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4. Is outdoor vector control needed for malaria elimination? An individual-based modelling study

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Zhu, Lin, Müller, Günter C, Marshall, John M, Arheart, Kristopher L, Qualls, Whitney A, Hlaing, WayWay M, Schlein, Yosef, Traore, Sekou F, Doumbia, Seydou, and Beier, John C

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Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Microbiology, Clinical Sciences, Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Malaria, Vector-Borne Diseases, Rare Diseases, Prevention of disease and conditions, and promotion of well-being, 3.2 Interventions to alter physical and biological environmental risks, Infection, Good Health and Well Being, Animals, Anopheles, Computer Simulation, Female, Humans, Insecticide Resistance, Models, Biological, Mosquito Control, Mosquito Vectors, Outdoor vector control, Malaria elimination, Residual malaria transmission, Anopheles gambiae, Agent-based model, Individual-based model, LLIN, ATSB, Public Health and Health Services, Tropical Medicine, Medical microbiology, Public health
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BackgroundResidual malaria transmission has been reported in many areas even with adequate indoor vector control coverage, such as long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). The increased insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes has resulted in reduced efficacy of the widely used indoor tools and has been linked with an increase in outdoor malaria transmission. There are considerations of incorporating outdoor interventions into integrated vector management (IVM) to achieve malaria elimination; however, more information on the combination of tools for effective control is needed to determine their utilization.MethodsA spatial individual-based model was modified to simulate the environment and malaria transmission activities in a hypothetical, isolated African village setting. LLINs and outdoor attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) stations were used as examples of indoor and outdoor interventions, respectively. Different interventions and lengths of efficacy periods were tested. Simulations continued for 420 days, and each simulation scenario was repeated 50 times. Mosquito populations, entomologic inoculation rates (EIRs), probabilities of local mosquito extinction, and proportion of time when the annual EIR was reduced below one were compared between different intervention types and efficacy periods.ResultsIn the village setting with clustered houses, the combinational intervention of 50% LLINs plus outdoor ATSBs significantly reduced mosquito population and EIR in short term, increased the probability of local mosquito extinction, and increased the time when annual EIR is less than one per person compared to 50% LLINs alone; outdoor ATSBs alone significantly reduced mosquito population in short term, increased the probability of mosquito extinction, and increased the time when annual EIR is less than one compared to 50% LLINs alone, but there was no significant difference in EIR in short term between 50% LLINs and outdoor ATSBs. In the village setting with dispersed houses, the combinational intervention of 50% LLINs plus outdoor ATSBs significantly reduced mosquito population in short term, increased the probability of mosquito extinction, and increased the time when annual EIR is less than one per person compared to 50% LLINs alone; outdoor ATSBs alone significantly reduced mosquito population in short term, but there were no significant difference in the probability of mosquito extinction and the time when annual EIR is less than one between 50% LLIN and outdoor ATSBs; and there was no significant difference in EIR between all three interventions. A minimum of 2 months of efficacy period is needed to bring out the best possible effect of the vector control tools, and to achieve long-term mosquito reduction, a minimum of 3 months of efficacy period is needed.ConclusionsThe results highlight the value of incorporating outdoor vector control into IVM as a supplement to traditional indoor practices for malaria elimination in Africa, especially in village settings of clustered houses where LLINs alone is far from sufficient.

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2017

9. Sonitha adetoun – a new species from the Congolian lowland forests (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Gastropachini)

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Tejuoso, Olanrewaju, primary, Friend, Herman L., additional, Prozorov, Alexey M., additional, Yakovlev, Roman V., additional, Saldaitis, Aidas, additional, Prozorova, Tatiana A., additional, Sulak, Harald, additional, Volkova, Yulia S., additional, Murphy, Raymond J., additional, Revay, Edita E., additional, and Müller, Günter C., additional

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2024
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10. Effect of textile colour on vector mosquito host selection: a simulated field study in Mali, West Africa

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Benz, Ursula, primary, Traore, Mohamad M, additional, Revay, Edita E, additional, Traore, Amadou S, additional, Prozorov, Alexey M, additional, Traoré, Issa, additional, Junnila, Amy, additional, Cui, Liwang, additional, Saldaitis, Aidas, additional, Kone, Aboubakr S, additional, Yakovlev, Roman V, additional, Ziguime, Younoussa, additional, Gergely, Petrányi, additional, Samake, Siriman, additional, Keita, Alou, additional, Müller, Günter C, additional, Weitzel, Thomas, additional, and Rothe, Camilla, additional

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2024
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11. Resistive Plate Chamber Digitization in a Hadronic Shower Environment

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Deng, Z., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Yue, Q., Yang, Z., Apostolakis, J., Folger, G., Grefe, C., Ivantchenko, V., Ribon, A., Uzhinskiy, V., Boumediene, D., Carloganu, C., Français, V., Cho, G., Kim, D-W., Lee, S. C., Park, W., Vallecorsa, S., Cauwenbergh, S., Tytgat, M., Pingault, A., Zaganidis, N., Brianne, E., Ebrahimi, A., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Irles, A., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Kvasnicka, J., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morgunov, V., Neubüser, C., Provenza, A., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Schuwalow, S., Tran, H. L., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Schroeder, S., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Kawagoe, K., Hirai, H., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Sumida, H., Yoshioka, T., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Buridon, V., Combaret, C., Caponetto, L., Eté, R., Garillot, G., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J. C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Antequera, J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Gabriel, M., Goecke, P., Kiesling, C., vanderKolk, N., Simon, F., Szalay, M., Bilokin, S., Bonis, J., Cornebise, P., Richard, F., Pöschl, R., Rouëné, J., Thiebault, A., Zerwas, D., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Belkadhi, K., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Ruan, M., Rubio-Roy, M., Shpak, K., Videau, H., Yu, D., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Dulucq, F., Martin-Chassard, G., de la Taille, Ch., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Kotera, K., Ono, H., Takeshita, T., and Corriveau, F.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadron Calorimeter (SDHCAL) technological prototype is a sampling calorimeter using Glass Resistive Plate Chamber detectors with a three-threshold readout as the active medium. This technology is one of the two options proposed for the hadron calorimeter of the International Large Detector for the International Linear Collider. The prototype was exposed to beams of muons, electrons and pions of different energies at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. To be able to study the performance of such a calorimeter in future experiments it is important to ensure reliable simulation of its response. In this paper we present our prototype simulation performed with GEANT4 and the digitization procedure achieved with an algorithm called SimDigital. A detailed description of this algorithm is given and the methods to determinate its parameters using muon tracks and electromagnetic showers are explained. The comparison with hadronic shower data shows a good agreement up to 50 GeV. Discrepancies are observed at higher energies. The reasons for these differences are investigated.

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2016
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12. DHCAL with Minimal Absorber: Measurements with Positrons

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The CALICE Collaboration, Freund, B., Neubüser, C., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Xia, L., Dotti, A., Grefe, C., Ivantchenko, V., Antequera, J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Brianne, E., Ebrahimi, A., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Irles, A., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Kvasnicka, J., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morgunov, V., Provenza, A., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Schuwalow, S., Tran, H. L., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Schroeder, S., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kovalcuk, M., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., van Doren, B., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Miyazaki, Y., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Tomita, T., Ueno, H., Yoshioka, T., Bilokin, S., Bonis, J., Cornebise, P., Pöschl, R., Richard, F., Thiebault, A., Zerwas, D., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Besson, D., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Markin, O., Popova, E., Gabriel, M., Goecke, P., Kiesling, C., van der Kolk, N., Simon, F., Szalay, M., Corriveau, F., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Francis, K., Zutshi, V., Kotera, K., Ono, H., Takeshita, T., Ieki, S., Kamiya, Y., Ootani, W., Shibata, N., Jeans, D., Komamiya, S., and Nakanishi, H.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
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In special tests, the active layers of the CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype, the DHCAL, were exposed to low energy particle beams, without being interleaved by absorber plates. The thickness of each layer corresponded approximately to 0.29 radiation lengths or 0.034 nuclear interaction lengths, defined mostly by the copper and steel skins of the detector cassettes. This paper reports on measurements performed with this device in the Fermilab test beam with positrons in the energy range of 1 to 10 GeV. The measurements are compared to simulations based on GEANT4 and a standalone program to emulate the detailed response of the active elements.

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2016
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13. Hadron shower decomposition in the highly granular CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter

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The CALICE Collaboration, Eigen, G., Price, T., Watson, N. K., Marshall, J. S., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Apostolakis, J., Dotti, A., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Ribon, A., Uzhinskiy, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Brianne, E., Ebrahimi, A., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Irles, A., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Kvasnicka, J., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morgunov, V., Neubüser, C., Provenza, A., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Schuwalow, S., Tran, H. L., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Schroeder, S., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Munwes, Y., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., van Doren, B., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Hirai, H., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Sumida, H., Takada, S., Tomita, T., Yoshioka, T., Wing, M., Bonnevaux, A., Combaret, C., Caponetto, L., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J. C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Steen, A., Antequera, J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Bobchenko, B., Markin, O., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Smirnov, P., Soloviev, Y., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Drutskoy, A., Ilyin, A., Mironov, D., Mizuk, R., Popova, E., Gabriel, M., Goecke, P., Kiesling, C., van der Kolk, N., Simon, F., Szalay, M., Bilokin, S., Bonis, J., Cornebise, P., Pöschl, R., Richard, F., Thiebault, A., Zerwas, D., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Becheva, E., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cizel, J-B., Clerc, C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Magniette, F., de Freitas, P. Mora, Musat, G., Pavy, S., Rubio-Roy, M., Ruan, M., Videau, H., Callier, S., Dulucq, F., Martin-Chassard, G., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., de la Taille, Ch., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Kotera, K., Ono, H., Takeshita, T., Ieki, S., Kamiya, Y., Ootani, W., Shibata, N., Jeans, D., Komamiya, S., and Nakanishi, H.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
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The spatial development of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter is studied using test beam data collected at CERN and FNAL for single positive pions and protons with initial momenta in the range from 10 to 80 GeV/c. Both longitudinal and radial development of hadron showers are parametrised with two-component functions. The parametrisation is fit to test beam data and simulations using the QGSP_BERT and FTFP_BERT physics lists from Geant4 version 9.6. The parameters extracted from data and simulated samples are compared for the two types of hadrons. The response to pions and the ratio of the non-electromagnetic to the electromagnetic calorimeter response, h/e, are estimated using the extrapolation and decomposition of the longitudinal profiles., Comment: 38 pages, 19 figures, 5 tables; author list changed; submitted to JINST

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2016
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14. First results of the CALICE SDHCAL technological prototype

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Buridon, V., Combaret, C., Caponetto, L., Eté, R., Garillot, G., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J. C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Antequera, J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Cauwenbergh, S., Tytgat, M., Pingault, A., Zaganidis, N., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Belkadhi, K., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Haddad, Y., Ruan, M., Shpak, K., Videau, H., Yu, D., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Dulucq, F., Martin-Chassard, G., de la Taille, Ch., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Boumediene, D., Carloganu, C., Français, V., Bonis, J., Bouquet, B., Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Faucci-Giannelli, M., Frisson, T., Guilhem, G., Li, H., Richard, F., Pöschl, R., Rouëné, J., Wicek, F., Zhang, Z., Deng, Z., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Yue, Q., Yang, Z., Cho, G., Kim, D-W., Lee, S. C., Park, W., Vallecorsa, S., Brianne, E., Ebrahimi, A., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Irles, A., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Kvasnicka, J., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morgunov, V., Provenza, C. Neubüser A., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Schuwalow, S., Tran, H. L., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Schroeder, S., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Smirnov, P., Soloviev, Y., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Gabriel, M., Goecke, P., Kiesling, C., van der Kolk, N., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Weuste, L., Jeans, D., Komamiya, S., Nakanishi, H., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., and Khoulaki, Y.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The CALICE Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype, built in 2011, was exposed to beams of hadrons, electrons and muons in two short periods in 2012 on two different beam lines of the CERN SPS. The prototype with its 48 active layers, made of Glass Resistive Plate Chambers and their embedded readout electronics, was run in triggerless and power-pulsing mode. The performance of the SDHCAL during the test beam was found to be very satisfactory with an efficiency exceeding 90% for almost all of the 48 active layers. A linear response (within 5%) and a good energy resolution are obtained for a large range of hadronic energies (5-80GeV) by applying appropriate calibration coefficients to the collected data for both the Digital (Binary) and the Semi-Digital (Multi-threshold) modes of the SDHCAL prototype. The Semi-Digital mode shows better performance at energies exceeding 30GeV

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2016
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15. Annotated checklist of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Mali

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Robert H.-T. Beck, Alexey M. Prozorov, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Mohamed M. Traore, Sékou F. Traoré, Aidas Saldaitis, Gergely Petrányi, Julia S. Volkova, Roman V. Yakovlev, Edita E. Revay, and Günter C. Müller

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climate change, deforestation, faunistic list, vegetation zones, west africa, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
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Fifty-three species of Cerambycidae were collected in Mali between 2014 and 2020 as by-catches within NIH and IVCC projects for malaria vector ecology and control, 42 of them are new records for the country. An updated list of 89 species of cerambycid beetles of Mali is presented. Two species, Niphotragulus occidentalis Breuning, 1977 and Sophronica sudanica Breuning, 1962, are so far only known from Mali.

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2022
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16. Shower development of particles with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the CALICE scintillator-tungsten hadronic calorimeter

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The CALICE collaboration, Chefdeville, M., Karyotakis, Y., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Xia, L., Eigen, G., Marshall, J. S., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Tehrani, N. Alipour, Apostolakis, J., Dannheim, D., Elsener, K., Folger, G., Grefe, C., Ivantchenko, V., Killenberg, M., Klempt, W., van der Kraaij, E., Linssen, L., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Münnich, A., Poss, S., Ribon, A., Roloff, P., Sailer, A., Schlatter, D., Sicking, E., Strube, J., Uzhinskiy, V., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Francis, K., Zutshi, V., Giraud, J., Grondin, D., Hostachy, J. -Y., Brianne, E., Cornett, U., David, D., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Irles, A., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Kvasnicka, J., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Neubüser, C., Provenza, A., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Tran, H. L., Vargas-Trevino, A., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Schröder, S., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Munwes, Y., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Onel, Y., Kawagoe, K., Hirai, H., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Sumida, H., Takada, S., Tomita, T., Yoshioka, T., Wing, M., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Popova, E., Gabriel, M., Kiesling, C., van der Kolk, N., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Cornebise, P., Richard, F., Pöschl, R., Rouëné, J., Thiebault, A., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cizel, J-B., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Nanni, J., Pavy, S., Rubio-Roy, M., Shpak, K., Tran, T. H., Videau, H., Yu, D., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Martin-Chassard, G., de la Taille, Ch., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kovalcuk, M., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Ieki, S., Kamiya, Y., Ootani, W., Shibata, N., Chen, S., Jeans, D., Komamiya, S., Kozakai, C., Nakanishi, H., Götze, M., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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We present a study of showers initiated by electrons, pions, kaons, and protons with momenta from 15 GeV to 150 GeV in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-tungsten analogue hadronic calorimeter. The data were recorded at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron in 2011. The analysis includes measurements of the calorimeter response to each particle type as well as measurements of the energy resolution and studies of the longitudinal and radial shower development for selected particles. The results are compared to Geant4 simulations (version 9.6.p02). In the study of the energy resolution we include previously published data with beam momenta from 1 GeV to 10 GeV recorded at the CERN Proton Synchrotron in 2010., Comment: 35 pages, 21 figures, 8 tables

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2015
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17. Testing configurations of attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) stations in Mali, West Africa, for improving the control of malaria parasite transmission by vector mosquitoes and minimizing their effect on non-target insects

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Rabiatou A. Diarra, Mohamed M. Traore, Amy Junnila, Sekou F. Traore, Seydou Doumbia, Edita E. Revay, Vasiliy D. Kravchenko, Yosef Schlein, Kristopher L. Arheart, Petrányi Gergely, Axel Hausmann, Robert Beck, Rui-De Xue, Alex M. Prozorov, Aboubakr S. Kone, Silas Majambere, John Vontas, John C. Beier, and Günter C. Müller

Subjects
Non-target organisms (NTOs), Anopheles gambiae s.l., ATSB, ASB, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
Abstract

Abstract Background Application methods of |Attractive Toxic Sugar Baits (ATSB) need to be improved for wide-scale use, and effects on non-target organisms (NTOs) must be assessed. The goals of this study were to determine, at the village level, the effect of different configurations of bait stations to (1) achieve

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2021
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18. Pion and proton showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter

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The CALICE Collaboration, Bilki, B., Repond, J., Xia, L., Eigen, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Francis, K., Lima, J. G. R., Salcido, R., Zutshi, V., Salvatore, F., Kawagoe, K., Miyazaki, Y., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Tomita, T., Ueno, H., Yoshioka, T., Apostolakis, J., Dannheim, D., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Klempt, W., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Ribon, A., Schlatter, D., Sicking, E., Uzhinskiy, V., Giraud, J., Grondin, D., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Brianne, E., Cornett, U., David, D., Ebrahimi, A., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Neubüser, C., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Tran, H. L., Buhmann, P., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Munwes, Y., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., van Doren, B., Wilson, G. W., Wing, M., Combaret, C., Caponetto, L., Eté, R., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J. C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Antequera, J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Marin, J., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Verdugo, A., Corriveau, F., Bobchenko, B., Chistov, R., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Drutskoy, A., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mironov, D., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Popova, E., Gabriel, M., Kiesling, C., van der Kolk, N., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., Martin-Chassard, G., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Richard, F., Rouëné, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., de la Taille, Ch., Anduze, M., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Clerc, C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Matthieu, A., de Freitas, P. Mora, Musat, G., Ruan, M., Videau, H., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Jeans, D., and Weber, S.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Showers produced by positive hadrons in the highly granular CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter were studied. The experimental data were collected at CERN and FNAL for single particles with initial momenta from 10 to 80 GeV/c. The calorimeter response and resolution and spatial characteristics of shower development for proton- and pion-induced showers for test beam data and simulations using Geant4 version 9.6 are compared., Comment: 26 pages, 16 figures, JINST style, changes in the author list, typos corrected, new section added, figures regrouped. Accepted for publication in JINST

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2014
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19. The Pterophoridae fauna of Mali (Insecta: Lepidoptera).

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Ustjuzhanin, Petr Ya., Kovtunovich, Vasily N., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M., and Müller, Günter C.

Subjects
INSECTS, LEPIDOPTERA, SOUND recordings, SPECIES
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Copyright of SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia is the property of Sociedad Hispano-Luso-Americana de Lepidopterologia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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2024
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24. Testing Hadronic Interaction Models using a Highly Granular Silicon-Tungsten Calorimeter

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The CALICE Collaboration, Bilki, B., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Xia, L., Deng, Z., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Yue, Q., Yang, Z., Eigen, G., Mikami, Y., Price, T., Watson, N. K., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Cârloganu, C., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Francis, K., Lima, J. G. R., Salcido, P., Zutshi, V., Boisvert, V., Green, B., Misiejuk, A., Salvatore, F., Kawagoe, K., Miyazaki, Y., Sudo, Y., Suehara, T., Tomita, T., Ueno, H., Yoshioka, T., Apostolakis, J., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Ribon, A., Uzhinskiy, V., Cauwenbergh, S., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Krüger, K., Lutz, B., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Feege, N., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Lu, S., Marchesini, I., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Kaplan, A., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Kim, E. J., van Doren, B., Wilson, G. W., Wing, M., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Chistov, R., Danilov, M., Drutskoy, A., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Popov, V., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Besson, D., Popova, E., Gabriel, M., Kiesling, C., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Faucci-Giannelli, M., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., Kégl, B., van der Kolk, N., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Rouëné, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Becheva, E., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Magniette, F., Matthieu, A., de Freitas, P. Mora, Videau, H., Augustin, J-E., David, J., Ghislain, P., Lacour, D., Lavergne, L., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Jeans, D., and Götze, M.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

A detailed study of hadronic interactions is presented using data recorded with the highly granular CALICE silicon-tungsten electromagnetic calorimeter. Approximately 350,000 selected negatively charged pion events at energies between 2 and 10 GeV have been studied. The predictions of several physics models available within the Geant4 simulation tool kit are compared to this data. A reasonable overall description of the data is observed; the Monte Carlo predictions are within 20% of the data, and for many observables much closer. The largest quantitative discrepancies are found in the longitudinal and transverse distributions of reconstructed energy., Comment: 28 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication in NIM A

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2014
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25. The Time Structure of Hadronic Showers in highly granular Calorimeters with Tungsten and Steel Absorbers

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Adloff, C., Blaising, J. -J., Chefdeville, M., Drancourt, C., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Koletsou, I., Prast, J., Repond, G. Vouters J., Schlereth, J., Baldolemar, L. Xia E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Eigen, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Apostolakis, Y. Khoulaki J., Arfaoui, S., Benoit, M., Dannheim, D., Elsener, K., Folger, G., Grefe, C., Ivantchenko, V., Killenberg, M., Klempt, W., van der Kraaij, E., Linssen, L., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Münnich, A., Poss, S., Ribon, A., Roloff, P., Sailer, A., Schlatter, D., Sicking, E., Strube, J., Uzhinskiy, V., Carloganu, C., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Ebrahimi, A., Falley, G., Feege, N., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Neubüser, C., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Fagot, A., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Marchesini, I., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Miyazaki, Y., Sudo, Y., Ueno, H., Yoshioka, T., Dauncey, P. D., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Baulieu, G., Calabria, P., Caponetto, L., Combaret, C., Della Negra, R., Ete, R., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J-C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Tromeur, W., Donckt, M. Vander, Antequera, Y. Zoccarato J. Berenguer, Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Corriveau, F., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Popova, E., Tikhomirov, V., Gabriel, M., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., van der Kolk, N., Richard, F., Pöschl, R., Rouene, J., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Becheva, E., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Guliyev, E., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Ruan, M., Tran, T. H., Videau, H., Callier, S., Dulucq, F., Martin-Chassard, G., de la Taille, Ch., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, ., Ghazlane, H., Kotera, K., Ono, H., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Chai, J. S., Song, H. S., Lee, S. H., Götze, M., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
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The intrinsic time structure of hadronic showers influences the timing capability and the required integration time of hadronic calorimeters in particle physics experiments, and depends on the active medium and on the absorber of the calorimeter. With the CALICE T3B experiment, a setup of 15 small plastic scintillator tiles read out with Silicon Photomultipliers, the time structure of showers is measured on a statistical basis with high spatial and temporal resolution in sampling calorimeters with tungsten and steel absorbers. The results are compared to GEANT4 (version 9.4 patch 03) simulations with different hadronic physics models. These comparisons demonstrate the importance of using high precision treatment of low-energy neutrons for tungsten absorbers, while an overall good agreement between data and simulations for all considered models is observed for steel., Comment: 24 pages including author list, 9 figures, published in JINST

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2014
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26. Modelling optimum use of attractive toxic sugar bait stations for effective malaria vector control in Africa.

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Zhu, Lin, Marshall, John M, Qualls, Whitney A, Schlein, Yosef, McManus, John W, Arheart, Kris L, Hlaing, WayWay M, Traore, Sekou F, Doumbia, Seydou, Müller, Günter C, and Beier, John C

Subjects
Animals, Humans, Anopheles, Malaria, Carbohydrates, Feeding Behavior, Population Density, Mosquito Control, Longevity, Models, Theoretical, Africa, Female, Anopheles gambiae, Attractive toxic sugar bait, ATSB, EIR, Individual-based model, Agent-based model, Models, Theoretical, Vector-Borne Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Rare Diseases, 3.2 Interventions to alter physical and biological environmental risks, 2.2 Factors relating to physical environment, Infection, Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Public Health and Health Services, Microbiology
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BackgroundThe development of insecticide resistance and the increased outdoor-biting behaviour of malaria vectors reduce the efficiency of indoor vector control methods. Attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSBs), a method targeting the sugar-feeding behaviours of vectors both indoors and outdoors, is a promising supplement to indoor tools. The number and configuration of these ATSB stations needed for malaria control in a community needs to be determined.MethodsA hypothetical village, typical of those in sub-Saharan Africa, 600 × 600 m, consisting of houses, humans and essential resource requirements of Anopheles gambiae (sugar sources, outdoor resting sites, larval habitats) was simulated in a spatial individual-based model. Resource-rich and resource-poor environments were simulated separately. Eight types of configurations and different densities of ATSB stations were tested. Anopheles gambiae population size, human biting rate (HBR) and entomological inoculation rates (EIR) were compared between different ATSB configurations and densities. Each simulated scenario was run 50 times.ResultsCompared to the outcomes not altered by ATSB treatment in the control scenario, in resource-rich and resource-poor environments, respectively, the optimum ATSB treatment reduced female abundance by 98.22 and 91.80 %, reduced HBR by 99.52 and 98.15 %, and reduced EIR by 99.99 and 100 %. In resource-rich environments, n × n grid design, stations at sugar sources, resting sites, larval habitats, and random locations worked better in reducing vector population and HBRs than other configurations (P < 0.0001). However, there was no significant difference of EIR reductions between all ATSB configurations (P > 0.05). In resource-poor environments, there was no significant difference of female abundances, HBRs and EIRs between all ATSB configurations (P > 0.05). The optimum number of ATSB stations was about 25 for resource-rich environments and nine for resource-poor environments.ConclusionsATSB treatment reduced An. gambiae population substantially and reduced EIR to near zero regardless of environmental resource availability. In resource-rich environments, dispersive configurations worked better in reducing vector population, and stations at or around houses worked better in preventing biting and parasite transmission. In resource-poor environments, all configurations worked similarly. Optimum numbers of bait stations should be adjusted according to seasonality when resource availability changes.

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2015

27. A spatial individual-based model predicting a great impact of copious sugar sources and resting sites on survival of Anopheles gambiae and malaria parasite transmission

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Zhu, Lin, Qualls, Whitney A, Marshall, John M, Arheart, Kris L, DeAngelis, Donald L, McManus, John W, Traore, Sekou F, Doumbia, Seydou, Schlein, Yosef, Müller, Günter C, and Beier, John C

Subjects
Medical Microbiology, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Vector-Borne Diseases, Malaria, Rare Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Aetiology, 2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment, Infection, Good Health and Well Being, Animals, Anopheles, Ecosystem, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Insect Vectors, Male, Sexual Behavior, Animal, Survival Analysis, Microbiology, Public Health and Health Services, Tropical Medicine, Medical microbiology, Public health
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BackgroundAgent-based modelling (ABM) has been used to simulate mosquito life cycles and to evaluate vector control applications. However, most models lack sugar-feeding and resting behaviours or are based on mathematical equations lacking individual level randomness and spatial components of mosquito life. Here, a spatial individual-based model (IBM) incorporating sugar-feeding and resting behaviours of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae was developed to estimate the impact of environmental sugar sources and resting sites on survival and biting behaviour.MethodsA spatial IBM containing An. gambiae mosquitoes and humans, as well as the village environment of houses, sugar sources, resting sites and larval habitat sites was developed. Anopheles gambiae behaviour rules were attributed at each step of the IBM: resting, host seeking, sugar feeding and breeding. Each step represented one second of time, and each simulation was set to run for 60 days and repeated 50 times. Scenarios of different densities and spatial distributions of sugar sources and outdoor resting sites were simulated and compared.ResultsWhen the number of natural sugar sources was increased from 0 to 100 while the number of resting sites was held constant, mean daily survival rate increased from 2.5% to 85.1% for males and from 2.5% to 94.5% for females, mean human biting rate increased from 0 to 0.94 bites per human per day, and mean daily abundance increased from 1 to 477 for males and from 1 to 1,428 for females. When the number of outdoor resting sites was increased from 0 to 50 while the number of sugar sources was held constant, mean daily survival rate increased from 77.3% to 84.3% for males and from 86.7% to 93.9% for females, mean human biting rate increased from 0 to 0.52 bites per human per day, and mean daily abundance increased from 62 to 349 for males and from 257 to 1120 for females. All increases were significant (P < 0.01). Survival was greater when sugar sources were randomly distributed in the whole village compared to clustering around outdoor resting sites or houses.ConclusionsIncreases in densities of sugar sources or outdoor resting sites significantly increase the survival and human biting rates of An. gambiae mosquitoes. Survival of An. gambiae is more supported by random distribution of sugar sources than clustering of sugar sources around resting sites or houses. Density and spatial distribution of natural sugar sources and outdoor resting sites modulate vector populations and human biting rates, and thus malaria parasite transmission.

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2015

28. Large-scale field trial of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) for the control of malaria vector mosquitoes in Mali, West Africa

Author

Mohamad M. Traore, Amy Junnila, Sekou F. Traore, Seydou Doumbia, Edita E. Revay, Vasiliy D. Kravchenko, Yosef Schlein, Kristopher L. Arheart, Petrányi Gergely, Rui-De Xue, Axel Hausmann, Robert Beck, Alex Prozorov, Rabiatou A. Diarra, Aboubakr S. Kone, Silas Majambere, John Bradley, John Vontas, John C. Beier, and Günter C. Müller

Subjects
Anopheles gambiae, ATSB, Vector control, Mali, Sugar feeding, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
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Abstract Background The aim of this field trial was to evaluate the efficacy of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) in Mali, where sustained malaria transmission occurs despite the use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). ATSB bait stations were deployed in seven of 14 similar study villages, where LLINs were already in widespread use. The combined use of ATSB and LLINs was tested to see if it would substantially reduce parasite transmission by Anopheles gambiae sensu lato beyond use of LLINs alone. Methods A 2-day field experiment was conducted to determine the number of mosquitoes feeding on natural sugar versus those feeding on bait stations containing attractive sugar bait without toxin (ASB)—but with food dye. This was done each month in seven random villages from April to December 2016. In the following year, in seven treatment villages from May to December 2017, two ATSB bait stations containing the insecticide dinotefuran were placed on the outer walls of each building. Vector population density was evaluated monthly by CDC UV light traps, malaise traps, pyrethrum spray (PSCs) and human landing catches (HLCs). Female samples of the catch were tested for age by examination of the ovarioles in dissected ovaries and identification of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite infection by ELISA. Entomological inoculation rates (EIR) were calculated, and reductions between treated and untreated villages were determined. Results In the 2-day experiment with ASB each month, there was a lower number of male and female mosquitoes feeding on the natural sugar sources than on the ASB. ATSB deployment reduced CDC-UV trap female catches in September, when catches were highest, were by 57.4% compared to catches in control sites. Similarly, malaise trap catches showed a 44.3% reduction of females in August and PSC catches of females were reduced by 48.7% in September. Reductions of females in HLCs were lower by 19.8% indoors and 26.3% outdoors in September. The high reduction seen in the rainy season was similar for males and reductions in population density for both males and females were > 70% during the dry season. Reductions of females with ≥ 3 gonotrophic cycles were recorded every month amounting to 97.1% in October and 100.0% in December. Reductions in monthly EIRs ranged from 77.76 to 100.00% indoors and 84.95% to 100.00% outdoors. The number of sporozoite infected females from traps was reduced by 97.83% at treated villages compared to controls. Conclusions Attractive toxic sugar baits used against Anopheles mosquitoes in Mali drastically reduced the density of mosquitoes, the number of older females, the number of sporozoite infected females and the EIR demonstrating how ATSB significantly reduces malaria parasite transmission.

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2020
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29. Testing configurations of attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) stations in Mali, West Africa, for improving the control of malaria parasite transmission by vector mosquitoes and minimizing their effect on non-target insects

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Diarra, Rabiatou A., Traore, Mohamed M., Junnila, Amy, Traore, Sekou F., Doumbia, Seydou, Revay, Edita E., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Schlein, Yosef, Arheart, Kristopher L., Gergely, Petrányi, Hausmann, Axel, Beck, Robert, Xue, Rui-De, Prozorov, Alex M., Kone, Aboubakr S., Majambere, Silas, Vontas, John, Beier, John C., and Müller, Günter C.

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2021
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30. Performance of the first prototype of the CALICE scintillator strip electromagnetic calorimeter

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CALICE Collaboration, Francis, K., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Eigen, G., Mikami, Y., Watson, N. K., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Apostolakis, J., Dotti, A., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Ribon, A., Uzhinskiy, V., Carloganu, C., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Ebrahimi, A., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Goettlicher, P., Guenter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krueger, K., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Neubueser, C., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Lu, S., Marchesini, I., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Sudo, Y., Yoshioka, T., Dauncey, P. D., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Baulieu, G., Calabria, P., Caponetto, L., Combaret, C., Della Negra, R., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J-C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Tromeur, W., Donckt, M. Vander, Zoccarato, Y., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Corriveau, F., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Popov, V., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Tikhomirov, V., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., van der Kolk, N., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Poeschl, R., Raux, L., Rouene, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Guliyev, E., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Musat, G., Ruan, M., Tran, T. H., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Kotera, K., Ono, H., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Jeans, D., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Goetze, M., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

A first prototype of a scintillator strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter was built, consisting of 26 layers of tungsten absorber plates interleaved with planes of 45x10x3 mm3 plastic scintillator strips. Data were collected using a positron test beam at DESY with momenta between 1 and 6 GeV/c. The prototype's performance is presented in terms of the linearity and resolution of the energy measurement. These results represent an important milestone in the development of highly granular calorimeters using scintillator strip technology. This technology is being developed for a future linear collider experiment, aiming at the precise measurement of jet energies using particle flow techniques.

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2013
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31. Shower development of particles with momenta from 1 to 10 GeV in the CALICE Scintillator-Tungsten HCAL

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Adloff, C., Blaising, J. -J., Chefdeville, M., Drancourt, C., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Koletsou, I., Prast, J., Vouters, G., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Eigen, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Apostolakis, J., Dannheim, D., Dotti, A., Elsener, K., Folger, G., Grefe, C., Ivantchenko, V., Killenberg, M., Klempt, W., van der Kraaij, E., Lam, C. B., Linssen, L., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Muennich, A., Poss, S., Ribon, A., Sailer, A., Schlatter, D., Strube, J., Uzhinskiy, V., Carloganu, C., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Ebrahimi, A., Falley, G., Feege, N., Gadow, K., Goettlicher, P., Guenter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krueger, K., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Neubueser, C., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Marchesini, I., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Northacker, D., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Sudo, Y., Yoshioka, T., Dauncey, P. D., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Baulieu, G., Calabria, P., Caponetto, L., Combaret, C., Della Negra, R., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J-C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Tromeur, W., Donckt, M. Vander, Zoccarato, Y., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Corriveau, F., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Popov, V., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Besson, D., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Tikhomirov, V., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., van der Kolk, N., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Poeschl, R., Raux, L., Rouene, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Guliyev, E., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Musat, G., Ruan, M., Tran, T. H., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Kotera, K., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Chang, S., Khan, A., Kim, D. H., Kong, D. J., Oh, Y. D., Goetze, M., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

Lepton colliders are considered as options to complement and to extend the physics programme at the Large Hadron Collider. The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is an $e^+e^-$ collider under development aiming at centre-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. For experiments at CLIC, a hadron sampling calorimeter with tungsten absorber is proposed. Such a calorimeter provides sufficient depth to contain high-energy showers, while allowing a compact size for the surrounding solenoid. A fine-grained calorimeter prototype with tungsten absorber plates and scintillator tiles read out by silicon photomultipliers was built and exposed to particle beams at CERN. Results obtained with electrons, pions and protons of momenta up to 10 GeV are presented in terms of energy resolution and shower shape studies. The results are compared with several GEANT4 simulation models in order to assess the reliability of the Monte Carlo predictions relevant for a future experiment at CLIC., Comment: 28 pages, 23 figures, 3 tables

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2013
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32. Validation of GEANT4 Monte Carlo Models with a Highly Granular Scintillator-Steel Hadron Calorimeter

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Adloff, C., Blaha, J., Blaising, J. -J., Drancourt, C., Espargilière, A., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Prast, J., Vouters, G., Francis, K., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Buanes, T., Eigen, G., Mikami, Y., Watson, N. K., Mavromanolakis, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Yan, W., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Apostolakis, J., Dotti, A., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Uzhinskiy, V., Benyamna, M., Cârloganu, C., Fehr, F., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Vargas-Trevino, A., Feege, N., Garutti, E., Marchesinik, I., Ramilli, M., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Kaplan, A., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Dauncey, P. D., Magnan, A. -M., Bartsch, V., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Popov, V., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Tikhomirov, V., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., van der Kolk, N., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Rouëné, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., Anduze, M., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Jeans, D., de Freitas, P. Mora, Musat, G., Reinhard, M., Ruan, M., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Götze, M., Hartbrich, O., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Calorimeters with a high granularity are a fundamental requirement of the Particle Flow paradigm. This paper focuses on the prototype of a hadron calorimeter with analog readout, consisting of thirty-eight scintillator layers alternating with steel absorber planes. The scintillator plates are finely segmented into tiles individually read out via Silicon Photomultipliers. The presented results are based on data collected with pion beams in the energy range from 8GeV to 100GeV. The fine segmentation of the sensitive layers and the high sampling frequency allow for an excellent reconstruction of the spatial development of hadronic showers. A comparison between data and Monte Carlo simulations is presented, concerning both the longitudinal and lateral development of hadronic showers and the global response of the calorimeter. The performance of several GEANT4 physics lists with respect to these observables is evaluated.

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2013
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33. Track segments in hadronic showers in a highly granular scintillator-steel hadron calorimeter

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CALICE Collaboration, Adloff, C., Blaising, J. -J., Chefdeville, M., Drancourt, C., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Koletsou, I., Prast, J., Vouters, G., Francis, K., Repond, J., Schlereth, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Eigen, G., Mikami, Y., Watson, N. K., Mavromanolakis, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Yan, W., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Apostolakis, J., Dannheim, D., Dotti, A., Folger, G., Ivantchenko, V., Klempt, W., van der Kraaij, E., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Ribon, A., Schlatter, D., Uzhinskiy, V., Carloganu, C., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Tytgat, M., Zaganidis, N., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hartbrich, O., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Krüger, K., Lu, S., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Feege, N., Garutti, E., Laurien, S., Marchesini, I., Matysek, M., Ramilli, M., Briggl, K., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Sudo, Y., Yoshioka, T., Dauncey, P. D., Magnan, A. -M., Bartsch, V., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Gil, E. Cortina, Mannai, S., Baulieu, G., Calabria, P., Caponetto, L., Combaret, C., Della Negra, R., Grenier, G., Han, R., Ianigro, J-C., Kieffer, R., Laktineh, I., Lumb, N., Mathez, H., Mirabito, L., Petrukhin, A., Steen, A., Tromeur, W., Donckt, M. Vander, Zoccarato, Y., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Corriveau, F., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Popov, V., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Buzhan, P., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Tikhomirov, V., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Amjad, M. S., Bonis, J., Callier, S., di Lorenzo, S. Conforti, Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Fleury, J., Frisson, T., van der Kolk, N., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Rouene, J., Seguin-Moreau, N., Anduze, M., Balagura, V., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Cornat, R., Frotin, M., Gastaldi, F., Guliyev, E., Haddad, Y., Magniette, F., Musat, G., Ruan, M., Tran, T. H., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Kotera, K., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Jeans, D., Götze, M., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We investigate the three dimensional substructure of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter. The high granularity of the detector is used to find track segments of minimum ionising particles within hadronic showers, providing sensitivity to the spatial structure and the details of secondary particle production in hadronic cascades. The multiplicity, length and angular distribution of identified track segments are compared to GEANT4 simulations with several different shower models. Track segments also provide the possibility for in-situ calibration of highly granular calorimeters., Comment: 27 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in JINST

Published
2013

34. Hadronic energy resolution of a highly granular scintillator-steel hadron calorimeter using software compensation techniques

Author

CALICE Collaboration, Adloff, C., Blaha, J., Blaising, J. -J., Drancourt, C., Espargilière, A., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Prast, J., Vouters, G., Francis, K., Repond, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Buanes, T., Eigen, G., Mikami, Y., Watson, N. K., Goto, T., Mavromanolakis, G., Thomson, M. A., Ward, D. R., Yan, W., Benchekroun, D., Hoummada, A., Khoulaki, Y., Benyamna, M., Cârloganu, C., Fehr, F., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Hermberg, B., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Vargas-Trevino, A., Feege, N., Garutti, E., Marchesini, I., Ramilli, M., Eckert, P., Harion, T., Kaplan, A., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Tadday, A., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Dauncey, P. D., Magnan, A. -M., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Balagura, V., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Kirikova, N., Kozlov, V., Soloviev, Y., Buzhan, P., Dolgoshein, B., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Smirnov, S., Kiesling, C., Pfau, S., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Szalay, M., Tesar, M., Weuste, L., Bonis, J., Bouquet, B., Callier, S., Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Giannelli, M. Faucci, Fleury, J., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Wicek, F., Anduze, M., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Jeans, D., de Freitas, P. Mora, Musat, G., Reinhard, M., Ruan, M., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Takeshita, T., Uozumi, S., Sauer, J., Weber, S., and Zeitnitz, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The energy resolution of a highly granular 1 m3 analogue scintillator-steel hadronic calorimeter is studied using charged pions with energies from 10 GeV to 80 GeV at the CERN SPS. The energy resolution for single hadrons is determined to be approximately 58%/sqrt(E/GeV}. This resolution is improved to approximately 45%/sqrt(E/GeV) with software compensation techniques. These techniques take advantage of the event-by-event information about the substructure of hadronic showers which is provided by the imaging capabilities of the calorimeter. The energy reconstruction is improved either with corrections based on the local energy density or by applying a single correction factor to the event energy sum derived from a global measure of the shower energy density. The application of the compensation algorithms to Geant4 simulations yield resolution improvements comparable to those observed for real data., Comment: 26 pages, 14 figures

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2012
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35. Electromagnetic response of a highly granular hadronic calorimeter

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Adloff, C., Blaha, J., Blaising, J. -J., Drancourt, C., Espargilière, A., Gaglione, R., Geffroy, N., Karyotakis, Y., Prast, J., Vouters, G., Francis, K., Repond, J., Smith, J., Xia, L., Baldolemar, E., Li, J., Park, S. T., Sosebee, M., White, A. P., Yu, J., Mikami, Y., Goto, N. K. Watson T., Mavromanolakis, G., Thomson, M. A., Yan, D. R. Ward W., Benyamna, M., Cârloganu, C., Fehr, F., Gay, P., Manen, S., Royer, L., Blazey, G. C., Dyshkant, A., Lima, J. G. R., Zutshi, V., Hostachy, J. -Y., Morin, L., Cornett, U., David, D., Fabbri, R., Falley, G., Gadow, K., Garutti, E., Göttlicher, P., Günter, C., Karstensen, S., Krivan, F., Lucaci-Timoce, A. -I., Lu, S., Lutz, B., Marchesini, I., Meyer, N., Morozov, S., Morgunov, V., Reinecke, M., Sefkow, F., Smirnov, P., Terwort, M., Vargas-Trevino, A., Wattimena, N., Wendt, O., Feege, N., Haller, J., Richter, S., Eckert, J. Samson P., Kaplan, A., Schultz-Coulon, H. -Ch., Shen, W., Stamen, R., Tadday, A., Bilki, B., Norbeck, E., Onel, Y., Wilson, G. W., Kawagoe, K., Uozumi, S., Ballin, J. A., Dauncey, P. D., Magnan, A. -M., Yilmaz, H. S., Zorba, O., Bartsch, V., Postranecky, M., Warren, M., Wing, M., Salvatore, F., Alamillo, E. Calvo, Fouz, M. -C., Puerta-Pelayo, J., Balagura, V., Bobchenko, B., Chadeeva, M., Danilov, M., Epifantsev, A., Markin, O., Mizuk, R., Novikov, E., Rusinov, V., Tarkovsky, E., Soloviev, Y., Kozlov, V., Buzhan, P., Dolgoshein, B., Ilyin, A., Kantserov, V., Kaplin, V., Karakash, A., Popova, E., Smirnov, S., Frey, A., Kiesling, C., Seidel, K., Simon, F., Soldner, C., Weuste, L., Bonis, J., Bouquet, B., Callier, S., Cornebise, P., Doublet, Ph., Dulucq, F., Giannelli, M. Faucci, Fleury, J., Guilhem, G., Li, H., Martin-Chassard, G., Richard, F., de la Taille, Ch., Pöschl, R., Raux, L., Seguin-Moreau, N., Wicek, F., Anduze, M., Boudry, V., Brient, J-C., Jeans, D., de Freitas, P. Mora, Musat, G., Reinhard, M., Ruan, M., Videau, H., Bulanek, B., Zacek, J., Cvach, J., Gallus, P., Havranek, M., Janata, M., Kvasnicka, J., Lednicky, D., Marcisovsky, M., Polak, I., Popule, J., Tomasek, L., Tomasek, M., Ruzicka, P., Sicho, P., Smolik, J., Vrba, V., Zalesak, J., Belhorma, B., Ghazlane, H., Kotera, K., Nishiyama, M., Takeshita, T., Tozuka, S., Buanes, T., and Eigen, G.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The CALICE collaboration is studying the design of high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters for future International Linear Collider detectors. For the hadronic calorimeter, one option is a highly granular sampling calorimeter with steel as absorber and scintillator layers as active material. High granularity is obtained by segmenting the scintillator into small tiles individually read out via silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM). A prototype has been built, consisting of thirty-eight sensitive layers, segmented into about eight thousand channels. In 2007 the prototype was exposed to positrons and hadrons using the CERN SPS beam, covering a wide range of beam energies and incidence angles. The challenge of cell equalization and calibration of such a large number of channels is best validated using electromagnetic processes. The response of the prototype steel-scintillator calorimeter, including linearity and uniformity, to electrons is investigated and described.

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2010
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44. Five new species of the genus Meganaclia Aurivillius, 1892 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Syntomini)

Author

Ignatev, Nikolai, László, Gyula M., Paśnik, Anna, Fric, Zděnek Faltýnek, Sulak, Harald, and Müller, Günter C.

Subjects
Lepidoptera, Arctiidae, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Animal Science and Zoology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Taxonomy
Abstract

The Afrotropical genus Meganaclia Aurivillius, 1892 is revised, five new species M. smithi sp. n., M. grehani sp. n., M. josephi sp. n., M. johannae sp. n. and M. gaerberfesti sp. n. are described with a key for identification of species based on male genitalia structures. Habitus and genitalia of all taxa are illustrated and a distribution map is provided.

Published
2023

45. Three new Chinese species of Palpifer Hampson from the collection of Franz Daniel (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

Author

NIKOLAI IGNATEV, JOHN R. GREHAN, CARLOS G.C. MIELKE, LI-CHENG SHIH, and GÜNTER C. MÜLLER

Subjects
Lepidoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Hepialidae, Animalia, Animal Science and Zoology, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Taxonomy
Abstract

New Chinese Palpifer species are described from Yunnan and Fujian provinces. The male of Palpifer nielseni sp. n. is described from specimens housed at the Witt Museum Weiden and the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, while a male of P. chui sp. n. and a male and female of Palpifer climoi sp. n., are described from specimens in the latter collection only. Specimens were originally part of the Franz Daniel collection, collected in 1934–1935 from elevations of 2,300 and 3,000 m. The new species are diagnosed primarily by differences in the male genitalia. The female genitalia of P. climoi sp. n. represent the second published description for Palpifer. Four unique features of the forewing supporting monophyly of Palpifer are discussed.

Published
2023

46. Large-scale field trial of attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) for the control of malaria vector mosquitoes in Mali, West Africa

Author

Traore, Mohamad M., Junnila, Amy, Traore, Sekou F., Doumbia, Seydou, Revay, Edita E., Kravchenko, Vasiliy D., Schlein, Yosef, Arheart, Kristopher L., Gergely, Petrányi, Xue, Rui-De, Hausmann, Axel, Beck, Robert, Prozorov, Alex, Diarra, Rabiatou A., Kone, Aboubakr S., Majambere, Silas, Bradley, John, Vontas, John, Beier, John C., and Müller, Günter C.

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2020
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47. Description of a new Middle Eastern Lemonia species, comments on the Lemonia philopalus complex and Lemonia syriensis (Lepidoptera: Brahmaeidae: Lemoniinae)

Author

Alexey M. Prozorov, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Julia S. Volkova, Roman V. Yakovlev, Aidas Saldaitis, Antonio S. Ortiz, Giovanni Bianco, Tom Schneider, Edita E. Revay, and Günter C. Müller

Subjects
Insect Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

The Algerian-Tunisian Lemonia philopalus (Donzel, 1842) is reviewed and redescribed. The status of the Moroccan population named Lemonia philopalus rungsi Rougeot 1971 (type locality: Morocco, Merchouch) is revised, it is taken from the synonymy to the Iberian population and left as a subspecies of L. philopalus until the genetic relationship between the Moroccan and the Algerian-Tunisien populations is studied. The Iberian population is raised to a specific level as Lemonia vazquezi Oberthür, 1916 bona sp. (type locality: Spain, Madrid, Rivas-Vaciamadrid), it has a 2.13% genetic distance from the Moroccan L. philopalus rungsi. A lectotype for L. vazquezi is designated from the Natural History Museum (London, UK). The new Middle Eastern Lemonia levantina sp. n. is described (type locality: Jordan, Rift Valley, 40 km N of Aqaba, sands NW Rahma). The new species is externally similar to L. philopalus, L. philopalus rungsi, and L. vazquezi but has a 4.86% genetic distance from the Moroccan population and 5.55% from the Iberian one. The Levantine species is compared with Lemonia syriensis Daniel, 1953 because the two are sympatric and show external similarities. The ecology, phenology, and distribution of the species are discussed.

Published
2022

48. Notes on Pachypasa otus and the description of a new Iranian Pachypasa species (Lepidoptera, Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampinae, Lasiocampini)

Author

Alexey M. Prozorov, Tatiana A. Prozorova, Julia S. Volkova, Roman V. Yakovlev, Cristian Sitar, Aidas Saldaitis, Gergely Petrányi, Edita Revay, and Günter C. Müller

Subjects
Insect Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Abstract

The synonymy between Pachypasa otus (Drury, 1777) and P. otus fulvescens Kotzsch, 1932 is supported by the lack of any stable morphologic characters and average distance of 0.3% in the cytochrome C oxidase (COI) gene between the Balkan (n = 4) and the Levantine (n = 2) populations. The Iranian population is described as a new species, Pachypasa hausmanni sp. n., based on morphologic difference, geographic isolation, and an average genetic distance of 6.1%.

Published
2022

49. Rezensionen

Author

Thamer, Hans-Ulrich, primary, Behrmann, Günter C., additional, Rappe-Weber, Susanne, additional, Schneemann, Frauke, additional, Braungart, Wolfgang, additional, Harms, Antje, additional, Fiedler, Gudrun, additional, Reulecke, Jürgen, additional, Fischer, Saskia, additional, and Braun, Karl, additional

Published
2019
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