The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on fraud in the UK

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly altered socio-economic activities, human behaviors, and crime patterns.However, less is known about how the pandemic and associated restrictions affected cyber-enabled and traditional fraud.Here, we conducted a retrospective analysis using police-recorded crime data in the UK to examine the impact of COVID-

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Entomological study of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Asalouyeh, the heartland of an Iranian petrochemical industry

Objective: To investigate the fauna and seasonal activity of different species of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Asalouyeh, the click here heartland of an Iranian petrochemical industry, Southern Iran, as a oil rich district.Sand flies are the vectors of at least three different kinds of disease, the most important of which is

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Effects of meteorological conditions on brood care in cooperatively breeding carrion crow and consequences on reproductive success

Abstract Meteorological stressors (e.g., temperature and rain shortage) constrain brood provisioning in some bird species, but sensationnel kiyari the consequences on reproductive success have been rarely quantified.Here we show, in a cooperatively breeding population of carrion crow Corvus corone in Spain, that individual feeding rates decreased s

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