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a
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Age of a mosquito in hours at the end of a given hour-long time interval
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1,2,3....720
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Defined here
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C
h
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Demographic coverage of humans with long-lasting insecticidal nets, expressed as the proportion of humans that use one each night
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0 or 0.8
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Complete absence or World Health Organization targets [39]
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d
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Age of a mosquito in days, rounded down to whole days, at the end of a given hour-long time interval
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1,2,3....720
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Defined here
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Δ
u
|
Probability of mosquito diverting away from attacking an encountered unprotected human host
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0.1
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[26, 40]
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|
Δ
p
|
Probability of mosquito diverting away from attacking an encountered human host who is protected by using a long-lasting insecticidal net at that time
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0.6 or 0.8
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Stereotypical values for normal and behaviourally evasive vectors, respectively [14–16, 41]
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|
E
max
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Rate at which host-seeking mosquitoes encounter human hosts when fully active
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0.181 encounters · host seeking mosquito-1 · hour-1
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Derived [31] from field studies of wild An. arabiensis in Tanzania [42].
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I
t
|
Proportion of human population indoors and asleep where they can be protected by using long-lasting insecticidal nets
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0 to 1
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Assumed to vary over the course of each 24-hour day to reflect a stereotypical average of survey results from rural Africa [2]
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|
μ
u
|
Probability of mosquito dying as a result of attacking an encountered unprotected human host
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0.1
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[26, 40]
|
|
μ
p
|
Probability of mosquito dying as a result of attacking an encountered human host who is protected by using a long-lasting insecticidal net at that time
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0.6 or 0.2
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Stereotypical values for normal and behaviourally evasive vectors, respectively [15, 16, 41]
|
|
N
h
|
Number of humans present contributing to the encounter rate described above
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1000
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[26, 43]
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P
|
Proportion of mosquitoes alive at the start of each hour that survive hazards other than host attack over the course of that hour
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0.995
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Derived from sensitivity analysis of daily values [26]
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|
S
t
|
Suitability of a given hour-long time interval to the mosquito for host seeking, expressed as a proportion of their maximum host-seeking activity
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0 to 1
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Assumed to vary over the course of each 24-hour day to reflect one of three distinct stereotypical patterns of preferred feeding times
|
|
t
|
An hour-long time interval during the 24-hour day starting at 18:00, corresponding to the intervals 18:00 to 19:00, 19:00 to 20:00 etc., through to 17:00 to 18:00.
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0,1,2,3…23
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[30]
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