A novel flat beam steering prototype based on the specific arrangement of a cylindrical unit cell is designed, manufactured and tested. The wideband broad scanning capability demonstrated at Ku-band. We have considered two configurations, first with circular rings (CR) defined permittivity values for respective radial distance from center aperture, second rods that shall be placed CR, which mim...

We studied the artificial incubation method of red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii embryos using cell culture plates. In first experiment, cleavage stage or egg-nauplius were individually cultured at 20°C in well plates with different water volumes per [12 (4 ml), 24 (2 48 (1 ml) and 96 (0.25 ml)]. second 12-well 15, 20 25°C. Almost all died without hatching. Egg-nauplius survived to hatch. ...

OBJECTIVES This study compared callus formation in distal femur fractures stabilized with locking plates and intramedullary nails to test the hypothesis that locking plates induce less fracture callus than IM nails. DESIGN Retrospective case matched study. SETTING Two orthopaedic trauma centers. PATIENTS 174 distal femur fracture were reviewed to extract cases treated with retrograde IM n...

Two new Chinese species of the leafhopper genus Onukigallia, Onukigallia neoonukiisp. n. from Sichuan and Guangdong Provinces, and Onukigallia tumidasp. n. from Hubei and Hunan Provinces are described and illustrated. A key and an updated checklist with distributions of Onukigallia species are provided.

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to determine whether the amount of growth response to mechanical compression and the underlying mechanism differed with night-time or day-time loading, relative to full time loading. Mechanical compression (nominally 0.1 MPa stress) was applied across tibial and tail vertebral growth plates of growing Sprague-Dawley rats. Four groups of animals were tested: ...

During 2015–16, the presence of micromycetes species in aquatic ecosystems was studied in Iran. Samples were collected from rivers, lakes and wetlands. For isolation, agar disks were transferred to plates containing water samples. The plates were incubated at 25­–27° C for 21 days in 12 h light/12 h dark condition. Then from the mycelium grown on the agar disks, pure cultures were obtained. Fin...

Up to a global scaling, the geometry of foams squeezed between two solid plates (2D GG foams) essentially depends on two independent parameters: the liquid volume fraction and the degree of squeezing (bubble thickness to diameter ratio). We describe it in two main asymptotic regimes: fully dry floor tiles, where the Plateau border radius is smaller than the distance between the solid plates, an...