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A Frequency-Reconfigurable Monopole Antenna with Switchable Stubbed Ground Structure
A frequency-reconfigurable coplanar-waveguide (CPW) fed monopole antenna using switchable stubbed ground structure is presented. Four PIN diodes are employed in the stubs stretching from the ground to make the antenna reconfigurable in three operating modes: a single-band mode (2.4-2.9 GHz), a dual-band mode (2.4-2.9 GHz/5.09-5.47 GHz) and a triple-band mode (3.7-4.26 GHz/5.3-6.3 GHz/8.0-8.8 GHz). The monopole antenna is resonating at 2.4 GHz, while the stubs produce other operating frequency bands covering a number of wireless communication systems, including WLAN, WiMAX, C-band, and ITU. Furthermore, an optimized biasing network has been integrated into this antenna, which has little influence on the performance of the antenna. This paper presents, compares and discusses the simulated and measured results
In an Attempt to Introduce Long-range Interactions into Small-world Networks
Distinguishing the long-range bonds with the regular ones, the critical
temperature of the spin-lattice Guassian model built on two typical Small-world
Networks (SWNs) is studied. The results show much difference from the classical
case, and thus may induce some more accurate discussion on the critical
properties of the spin-lattice systems combined with the SWNs.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 18 referenc
Head motion in children with ADHD during resting-state brain imaging
Although head motion during scanning has been largely considered to reflect simply technical artifacts, there is growing evidence showing that the variable of head motion reflects valuable information regarding individual’s psychological and/or clinical factors. Detailed studies would not only help to deal with the head motion biases, but they also help researchers in understanding the mental disorders. In this study, children with ADHD and demographically-matched typically developing control (TDC) participants underwent rs-fMRI examination without any specific task, and six mean single head motion parameters (three translational and three rotational) and a summary motion index for each participant were obtained. We found that patients with ADHD showed specific patterns of head motion during scanning: motion was significantly increased in the ADHD group, which was mainly contributed by the motion around and along the superior-to-inferior direction. Furthermore, the cross-validation classification analyses showed that the head motion could accurately distinguish children with ADHD from the healthy controls. These results suggest that head motion during scanning reflects useful information about the participants and accounting for head motion from MRI data may be helpful for ADHD diagnosing and treatment with neuroimaging
A rapid staining-assisted wood sampling method for PCR-based detection of pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in Pinus massoniana wood tissue
For reasons of unequal distribution of more than one nematode species in wood, and limited
availability of wood samples required for the PCR-based method for detecting pinewood nematodes in
wood tissue of Pinus massoniana, a rapid staining-assisted wood sampling method aiding PCR-based
detection of the pine wood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Bx) in small wood samples of P.
massoniana was developed in this study. This comprised a series of new techniques: sampling, mass
estimations of nematodes using staining techniques, and lowest limit Bx nematode mass determination
for PCR detection. The procedure was undertaken on three adjoining 5-mg wood cross-sections, of
0.5 · 0.5 · 0.015 cm dimension, that were cut from a wood sample of 0.5 · 0.5 · 0.5 cm initially, then
the larger wood sample was stained by acid fuchsin, from which two 5-mg wood cross-sections (that
adjoined the three 5-mg wood cross-sections, mentioned above) were cut. Nematode-staining-spots
(NSSs) in each of the two stained sections were counted under a microscope at 100· magnification. If
there were eight or more NSSs present, the adjoining three sections were used for PCR assays. The
B. xylophilus – specific amplicon of 403 bp (DQ855275) was generated by PCR assay from 100.00% of
5-mg wood cross-sections that contained more than eight Bx NSSs by the PCR assay. The entire
sampling procedure took only 10 min indicating that it is suitable for the fast estimation of nematode
numbers in the wood of P. massonina as the prelimary sample selections for other more expensive
Bx-detection methods such as PCR assay
Relativistic corrections to the Pionium Lifetime
Next to leading order contributions to the pionium lifetime are considered
within non-relativistic effective field theory. A more precise determination of
the coupling constants is then needed in order to be consistent with the
relativistic pion-pion scattering amplitude which can be obtained from chiral
perturbation theory. The relativistic correction is found to be 4.1% and
corresponds simply to a more accurate value for the non-relativistic decay
momentum.Comment: 5 pages, Latex. Includes corrections based on a more precise matching
to the pion-pion scattering amplitude from chiral perturbation theor
Evolution equations of curvature tensors along the hyperbolic geometric flow
We consider the hyperbolic geometric flow introduced by Kong and Liu [KL]. When the Riemannian
metric evolve, then so does its curvature. Using the techniques and ideas of
S.Brendle [Br,BS], we derive evolution equations for the Levi-Civita connection
and the curvature tensors along the hyperbolic geometric flow. The method and
results are computed and written in global tensor form, different from the
local normal coordinate method in [DKL1]. In addition, we further show that any
solution to the hyperbolic geometric flow that develops a singularity in finite
time has unbounded Ricci curvature.Comment: 15 page
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