Unknown to the United States three decades ago, Lyme disease is now the most prevalent vectorborne disease in the country. Caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, Lyme disease is typically transmitted to humans by the bite of a blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) in the nymph stage. For this reason the density of infected nymphs is considered the most precise ecological indicator of Lyme...

Because forest cover changes directly affect the sustainability of value, they should be observed carefully. This study analyzed spatial and temporal pattern land use/land change (LULCC) along with effects some socio-economic factors such as crime rates, rural population change, annual gross national product (GNP) on spatiotemporal dynamics between 1970 2015 in Olur planning unit using ArcGIS s...

Over the years, Cognitive radio technology has dramatically influenced wireless systems in which antenna plays a significant role for interviewing spectrum sensing and underlay operations. An ultra-wideband (UWB) with extended dual notch band feature is proposed this work to meet requirements of cognitive radios without interference from crowded spectrum. The consists stair-stepped rectangular ...

Climate, topography, vegetation and land use interact to influence fire regimes. Variable fire regimes may promote landscape heterogeneity, diversification in vegetation pattern and biotic diversity. The objective was to compare effects of alternative land use practices on landscape heterogeneity. Patch characteristics of fire scars were measured from 21 annual burn maps produced from 1972 to 2...

The central dogma of black hole physics -- which says that from the outside a can be described in terms quantum system with exp$(\text{Area}/4G_N)$ states evolving unitarily has recently been supported by computations indicating interior is encoded Hawking radiation exterior. In this paper, we probe whether such for cosmological horizons any support similar computations. fact de Sitter bifurcat...

A topology optimization method is proposed in this study to miniaturize a Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antenna (RMPA) operates at a frequency of 2.4 GHz using Metamaterials (MTMs) composed of complementary resonator. The metamaterial is placed in an intermediate layer between the patch and the ground, binary pixelation approach is used to build the structure of the complementary resonator and i...

PURPOSE To report the results of one 60 degrees conjunctival limbal autograft (CLAU) combined with amniotic membrane (AM) transplantation for an eye with total limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD). METHODS One eye of a patient with chronic total LSCD and symblepharon caused by chemical burn was subjected to symblepharon lysis, removal of pannus from corneal surface, AM transplantation to cover ...

Explaining and predicting animal distributions is one of the fundamental objectives in ecology and conservation biology. Animal habitat selection can be regulated by top-down and bottom-up processes, and is mediated by species interactions. Species varying in body size respond differently to top-down and bottom-up determinants, and hence understanding these allometric responses to those determi...