Antenna decision makes waves

Maths Makes Waves!

Waves are everywhere, from the smallest scales to the largest, from waves which oscillate in a pico second, to ones which change over may years, and from waves with length scales smaller than the size of the atom, to waves which stress across the galaxy. Waves lie at the heart of much of modern technology, physics, chemistry, biology, medical imaging, music, popular culture and are all around u...

Hospice decision making: diagnosis makes a difference.

PURPOSE This study explored the process of decision making about hospice enrollment and identified factors that influence the timing of that decision. METHODS This study employed an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional design and was conducted using qualitative methods. In-depth in-person semistructured interviews were conducted with 36 hospice patients and 55 caregivers after 2 weeks of...

Introgression Makes Waves in Inferred Histories of Effective Population Size.

Human populations have a complex history of introgression and of changing population size. Human genetic variation has been affected by both these processes, so inference of past population size depends upon the pattern of gene flow and introgression among past populations. One remarkable aspect of human population history as inferred from genetics is a consistent "wave" of larger effective pop...

RANKing Bone Resorption Versus Inflammation: Infection Makes the Decision

A Dual-Polarized Slot Antenna for Millimeter Waves

We describe a new dual-polarized slot antenna to be used with quasi-optical devices such as superconductor-insulatorsuperconductor (SIS) mixers at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The radiation and impedance characteristics of the antenna were obtained from a moment-method calculation. The antenna has an excellent radiation pattern, a low impedance, wide bandwidth, and low cross polari...