BACKGROUND Paedocypris is a newly established genus of fish in Southeast Asia. Paedocypris is characterized by several unique features, including a tiny adult size (thus named miniature fish or minifish), fragmentary habitats of acidic peat blackwater swamps, an unusual reproduction mode and truncated development. These peculiarities lend themselves excellent for studying chromosome evolution a...

Miniaturized species have evolved in many animal lineages, including insects and vertebrates. Consequently, their nervous systems are constrained to fit within tiny volumes. These miniaturized nervous systems face two major challenges for information processing: noise and energy consumption. Fewer or smaller neurons with fewer molecular components will increase noise, affecting information proc...

The paper presents research results in the field of small antennas obtained at the Department of Wireless Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. A study comparing the application of several miniaturization techniques on a shorted patch antenna is presented. Single and dual band shorted patch antennas with notches and/or slot are introduced. A PIFA...

Solubility and drug dissolution are of crucial importance for drug formulations. Poor water-solubility of drug candidates is a major obstacle in drug development, since the oral route is the most patient convenient and cost effective way to deliver drugs. In some cases the low aqueous solubility may limit the bioavailability when the absorption of the drug is dissolution limited. About 40% of t...

One of the main focuses in many research fields is the miniaturisation of work pieces and components. Micro fluidic, micro mechanic, micro electronic and micro optical functional groups are integrated into smallest space to microsystems for medical, information technology or automotive purposes. Directly opposed to the miniaturisation trend of these products are the machine tools used for the p...

We describe and characterize alternative configurations for Doppler-free polarization spectroscopy. The suggested apparatus enables complete pump/probe beam overlap and allows substantial miniaturization. Its utility and performance for narrow linewidth, high-stability frequency locking is discussed for the /5S(1/2)F=2>-->/5P(3/2)F(')>D(2) transition in (87)Rb.