In this paper, the numerical design and simulate a biosensor to detect tumors and cancerous tissues by using metamaterial structures in the microwave regime are presented. The presented structure consists of a microstrip transmission line and a split ring resonator (SRR) that form a bandpass filter and has a unique resonance frequency. Given that cancerous tissues have larger volumes of water t...

To understand the roles of forest management practices in meeting the goals of forest sustainability and CO2 sequestration, we evaluated the effects of burning and thinning treatments on soil respiration and soil environments in an old-growth, mixed-conifer forest in California’s southern Sierra Nevada. Six experimental treatments with two levels of burning and three levels of thinning were imp...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal people in British Columbia (BC) have higher injury incidence than the general population, but information is scarce regarding variability among injury categories, time periods, and geographic, demographic and socio-economic groups. Our project helps fill these gaps. This report focuses on workplace injuries. METHODS We used BC's universal health care insurance plan as a ...

In this paper, a compact near field reader antenna is proposed for ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) applications. The antenna structure is composed of two split-ring-resonators (SRRs) and miniaturized to a special small size of 21 ∗ 21 ∗ 1.6mm3 for mobile RFID application. The measured bandwidth of antenna prototype is 13 MHz (914.5–927.5MHz) with reflection coef...

Male factor is the sole reason or a component for infertility in 20 and 30% of cases respectively. The management of the disease may be via medical or surgical treatment. The surgical approach is classified as techniques which improves sperm production and delivery in order to achieve spontaneous pregnancy or sperm retrieval techniques prior to assisted reproductive techniques (ART). Varicocele...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) is a type of ad hoc network that allows vehicles to communicate with each other in the absence of fixed infrastructure. Inter-vehicle geographic routing has been proven to perform well in high speed vehicular environments. In connected and reliable vehicular scenarios, greedy based geographical routing protocols could forward data packets efficiently and quick...

INTRODUCTION Renal transplantation is the best treatment for kidney failure. As the demand far exceeds the supply, various legislative measures have been put into place in Singapore to increase kidney transplant rates. This paper evaluates the impact of these measures and reports on the outcomes for kidney transplant recipients in Singapore. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient demographics, recipie...

A compact triple band notched ultra-wideband (UWB) monopole antenna is presented in this paper. Split Ring Resonator (SRR) structure exploited various forms like Complementary (CSRR), Pair (SRRP) and CSRR on Electromagnetic Band Gap (EBG) to produce characteristics UWB spectrum. The proposed produces functions with integration of all three types SRR primary antenna. parametric analysis each for...