The strawman PASS design calls for the use of a CONUS beam for transmission between the supplier and the satellite and for fixed beams for transmission between the basic personal terminal (BPT) and the satellite. The satellite uses a 3m main reflector for transmission at 20 GHz and a 2m main reflector for reception at 30 GHz. The beamwidth of the reflector is 0.35°. To cover CONUS 142 fixed bea...

A 56-year-old man, a current smoker with a history of arterial hypertension and dyslipidaemia, was admitted to our department for a scheduled coronary angiography. Ten days earlier, the patient had been admitted to another hospital for an anterior myocardial infarction, treated with intravenous thrombolysis. The patient’s in-hospital course was reported to have been complicated by an episode of...

abstract genomic dna extraction with high quantity and quality is the basic necessities of molecular genetic studies. the aim of this study is the applicability of different dna extraction methods as the easiest and fastest methods for and their efficiency with different tissue qualities (foot, siphon, harpoon) from marine cone snail conus coronatus, mollusca with phenol-chloroform, ammonium ac...

PURPOSE To determine the appearance of the ventriculus terminalis of the conus medullaris and the frequency with which it is seen on MR. METHODS Four hundred eighteen normal spine MR examinations were reviewed. RESULTS Eleven (2.6%) of 418 children, all younger than 5 years of age, demonstrated an ovoid, nonenhancing, smooth dilation of the central canal within the conus medullaris. Average...

Background With the expansion of the fashion industry the quantity of industrial pre-consumer textile waste has increased. It is estimated that approximately 10-20% of textiles are wasted during garment manufacture [1]. Reusing pre-consumer textile waste within the fashion supply chain offers many environmental advantages, including: · Directing waste away from landfill and incinerators · Conse...

Two large collections of Conus from the Galapagos Islands permitted the analysis of size, sex ratio, and food of 4 of the estimated 13 species of Conus present in the islands. The species investigated were C. diadema, C. lucidus, C. tiaratus, and C. nux. Significantly unequal sex ratios were found in the samples of C. diadema, C. lucidus, and C. tiaratus, but there was no indication of sexual d...