Moorhens Gallinula chloropus have a conspicuous frontal shield, which is used in competitor assessment, and whose size and colour is testosteronedependent in both sexes. During 2 months in winter we examined sex-related differences in size and colour of the red or red-orange shield and the yellow-tipped bill of free-living adult moorhens, as well as their relationship with indices of body condi...

This paper presents The Electromagnetic Interference effect from power line noise in Multi Speciality Hospital to Bio-Medical signals. The study includes the design of Bio-Medical signal Generating circuits that is used to eliminate the power line noise from the signal. The Bio-Medical system basically is a combination of Instrumentation Amplifier, High pass filter, Low pass filter, and Notch f...

OBJECTIVES To assess the value of external shielding of the testis during pelvic radiotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Nineteen patients, receiving radiotherapy to the pelvis with the lower border of the field at the obturator foramen, were randomly selected. A 5 half value layer cerrobent shield was positioned at the inferior border of the field. The dose to the testis was measured with and wit...

This paper proposes a multiband handset antenna combining PIFA and novel slots on radiating patch of PIFA for mobile applications. Two slots were introduced in order to embody 900 and 1800 MHz band. Radiation patterns are computed in free space as well as in the presence of head. Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of slotted PIFA antenna is calculated and is compared with the SAR limits in the safe...

BACKGROUND Interventional cardiologists are increasingly exposed to radiation-induced diseases like cataract and the stochastic risk of left-sided brain tumors. The RADPAD is a sterile, disposable, lead-free shield placed on the patient with the aim to minimize operator-received scatter radiation. The objective of the trial was to examine the RADPAD's efficacy in a real-world situation. METHO...

soil-dwelling mites and among them gamasina (acari, mesostigmata) are widely distributed in soils, rich in species and have great ecological significance in the respective ecosystems. a survey was conducted to study laelapidae (mesostigmata) mites in ahwaz (khuzestan province), iran during 2010-2012. samples were taken from soil and litters and then mites extracted using berlese funnel, cleared...

Due to its high density and close-to-SRAM read latency, spin transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM) is considered one of the most-promising emerging memory technologies for designing large last level caches (LLCs). However, in deep sub-micron region, STT-RAM shows read-disturbance error (RDE) whereby a read operation may modify the stored data value and this presents a severe threat to performance and r...

A new monotypic genus and a new free-living edaphic species of the family Eviphididae, Loricaseius lepontinus gen. nov., sp. nov., are described on the basis of adults and deutonymphs collected from litter detritus in the Italian Lepontine Alps (Piemonte, Val d'Ossola). The new genus is characterized by a widened and truncate idiosomal vertex with widely spaced setae j2, peritrematal shields ex...

Introduction: The geologic features “shield fields” and “shield plains” (or “shield terrain”) have been used by a number of Venus researchers and authors of Venus geologic quadrangle maps. However, there has been occasional confusion concerning the two terms and the geologic units they define. Stratigraphic interpretation may vary due to the identification of clusters of small shields as either...