Purpose: Mapping the human connectome in healthy adults for the Human Connectome Project (HCP) benefits from high quality, high resolution, multiband (MB)-accelerated whole brain fMRI and dMRI [1-3]. Higher field strengths provide higher SNR and the opportunity to acquire at higher resolution [4], however, this comes at the cost of increased motion sensitivity [5] (due to required in-plane phas...

Abstract Terahertz photoconductive antenna (PCA) is an important device for generating ultrabroadband terahertz radiations, being applicable in various scenarios. However, the metallic electrodes PCAs, a pair of coplanar strip lines (CSL), always produce horizontal electrode modes broad THz band, thus resulting low directivity vertical direction. Here, we introduce spoof surface plasmon polarit...

A new type of distributed analog phase shifter is presented that utilizes the coplanar strip transmission line topology. This transmission line has several benefits for phase shifter design, resulting in decreased physical dimensions and potentially lower losses. A prototype was constructed using thin-film barium strontium titante (BST) varactor technology. The design achieved a 49◦/dB figure o...

The largest nosocomial outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) occurred in South Korea in 2015. Health Care Personnel (HCP) are at high risk of acquiring MERS-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections, similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) infections first identified in 2003. This study described the similarities and differences in epidemiological an...

Analysis of microarrays containing 6,345 Dictyostelium discoideum genes has identified 21 whose expression is dependent on the MADS box transcription factor SrfA. In wild-type cells, all of these genes are induced late in development. At least four of them are necessary for proper spore differentiation, stability, and/or germination.

A comparative study of non-coplanar binary dislocation junctions in magnesium (Mg) and beryllium (Be) is presented to examine the effects of elastic properties and active Burgers vectors on junction formation and destruction in hexagonal close-packed (hcp) crystals via discrete dislocation dynamics simulations. Two junction configurations formed at intersecting prismatic ð01 10Þ=basal ð0001Þ pl...

The measurement of the mutual impedance of thin circular loop antennas on an N-layered conducting medium at high frequency is calculated. The horizontal, vertical coplanar, perpendicular and vertical coaxial loop antennas have been presented, the comparison between them and the numerical results have been calculated. The displacement currents in free space and in the conducting medium are taken...