Xu, Li Tang, Kai-Yue Chen, Xiao-Feng Tao, Yong Jiang, Hong-Bo Wang, Jin-Jun
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BMC Genomics
BackgroundOlfactory systems take on important tasks to distinguish salient information from a complex olfactory environment, such as locating hosts, mating, aggression, selecting oviposition sites, and avoiding predators. The olfactory system of an adult insect consists of two pairs of main olfactory appendages on the head, the antennae, and the pa...
Govindjee, Razjivin, Andrei P Kozlovsky, Vladimir S
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Photosynthesis research
We provide here an edited version of the "Farewell discussion" by the late Aleksandr (Alex) Yuryevich (Yu) Borisov (1930-2019) on several aspects related to the excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic bacteria. It is preceded by a prolog giving the events that led to our decision to publish it. Further, we include here a few photographs to giv...
Maeda, Toru Nisimura, Tomoyosi Habe, Shunnya Uebi, Tatsuya Ozaki, Mamiko
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Zoological Letters
Appetite or feeding motivation relies significantly on food odors. In the blowfly Phormia regina, feeding motivation for sucrose is decreased by the odor of d-limonene but increased by the odor of 1-octen-3-ol odor. These flies have antennal lobes (ALs) consisting of several tens of glomerular pairs as a primary olfactory center in the brain. Odor ...
Efazat, Seyed Saeed Basiri, Raheleh Jam, Shahrokh
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Optical and Quantum Electronics
In this paper, a broadband near-zero refractive index metasurface is designed in the terahertz band. The Random Hill Climbing optimization algorithm is utilized to propose the corresponding unit cell. The designed metasurface is employed as the superstrate of two planar microstrip wideband antennas resulting to increase the gains of antennas. The i...
Ehrhardt, Erica Boyan, George
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Invertebrate Neuroscience
Sensory and motor systems in insects with hemimetabolous development must be ready to mediate adaptive behavior directly on hatching from the egg. For the desert locust S. gregaria, cholinergic transmission from antennal sensillae to olfactory or mechanosensory centers in the brain requires that choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and the vesicular ac...
Tiwari, Bhawna Gupta, Sindhu Hak Balyan, Vipin
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Applied Physics A
In the present scenario, smart devices are using flexible wearable wireless technologies to enable interaction among people and their surrounding equipments. Due to the commercialization of these flexible electronic devices and systems, these systems require the integration of flexible antennas. The compactness and flexibility of the antenna are th...
Koulali, A. Clarke, P. J.
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Journal of Geodesy
Vertical surface displacements from continuous Global Positioning System (GPS) stations often show strong seasonal signals, which in some cases may be associated with surface mass loading, including hydrological, and non-tidal oceanic and atmospheric loading. In Antarctica, many GPS stations show vertical motions in phase with seasonal snow accumul...
Bergstrand, Sten Jarlemark, Per Herbertsson, Magnus
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Journal of Geodesy
We evaluated the performance of GNSS absolute antenna calibrations and its impact on accurate positioning with a new assessment method that combines inter-antenna differentials and laser tracker measurements. We thus separated the calibration method contributions from those attainable by various geometric constraints and produced corrections for th...
Yuen, Chi-Sing Chen, Hsiao-Chin
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Biomedical Microdevices
A probe-antenna and a multifunctional single-pole-four-throw switch are proposed for biomedical neural implants. The multifunctional switch is fabricated in TSMC 90-nm CMOS process and occupies the core area of 297 × 248 μm2. Operating in transmitter/receiver mode, the switch achieves the insertion loss of 4.5/4.8 dB, return loss of 16.7/15.4 dB, i...
Sankar Ponnapalli, V. A. Reddy, Kaithi Deepthi Aqeel, Shaik
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Carpathian Journal of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Parametric study and analysis of microstrip patch antenna with multiple slit positions is presented in this research contribution. This work is aimed to design a microstrip patch antenna, which can able resonate dual-band frequencies (i.e. 3.5 GHz and 5.3 GHz) with a trade-off between the geometrical parameters. The proposed antenna designed using ...
