Definitions of terms in the field of antennas are provided.

To describe the performance of an antenna, definitions of various parameters are necessary. Some of the parameters are interrelated and not all of them need be specified for complete description of the antenna performance. Parameter definitions are given in this chapter. Many of those in quotation marks are from the IEEE Standard Definitions of Terms for Antennas (IEEE Std 145-1983).† This is a...

Polyaniline nanospheres (PANI-NS) prepared by morphological transformation of micelle polymerized camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) doped polyaniline nanotubes (PANI-NT) in the presence of ethylene glycol (EG) have been characterized by X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infra-red and UVVisible spectroscopy. A P...

1Copyright, David M. Mount, 2005, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742. These lecture notes were prepared by David Mount for the course CMSC 754, Computational Geometry, at the University of Maryland. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these notes for educational purposes and without fee is hereby granted, provided that this copyright notice ap...

Elacridar (ELC) and tariquidar (TQD) are generally thought to be nontransported inhibitors of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) and breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP), but recent data indicate that they may also be substrates of these multidrug transporters (MDTs). The present study was designed to investigate potential transport of ELC and TQD by MDTs at the blood-brain barrier at tracer doses as used...

The shelterin complex at mammalian telomeres contains the single-stranded DNA–binding protein Pot1, which regulates telomere length and protects chromosome ends. Pot1 binds Tpp1, the shelterin component that connects Pot1 to the duplex telomeric DNA–binding proteins Trf1 and Trf2. Control of telomere length requires that Pot1 binds Tpp1 as well as the single-stranded telomeric DNA, but it is no...

1Copyright, David M. Mount, 2010, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742. These lecture notes were prepared by David Mount for the course CMSC 754, Computational Geometry, at the University of Maryland. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these notes for educational purposes and without fee is hereby granted, provided that this copyright notice ap...

Problem 1. As mentioned in class, the convex hull is a somewhat non-robust shape descriptor, since if there are any distant outlying points, they will tend to dominate the shape of the hull. A more robust method is based on the following iterative approach. Given a planar point set P in general position (see Fig. 1(a)), let H1 be the convex hull of P . Remove the vertices of H1 from P and compu...

For energies relevant to future linear colliders, √ s & 500 GeV, the WW fusion channel dominates the Higgs boson production cross section e+e− → ν̄νh0. We have calculated the one-loop corrections to this process due to fermion and sfermion loops in the context of the MSSM. As a special case, the contribution of the fermion loops in the SM has also been studied. In general, the correction is nega...