fixed and mobile antennas for satellite communications

... space segment antennas, earth-segment antennas, and gateway antennas for satellite communications; microstrip antennas for xed and mobile satellite communications; and mobile antennas for receiving ... Aeronautical and Maritime Antennas for Satellite Communications Shingo Ohmori 14 Fixed and Mobile Antennas for Satellite Communications Marek Bialkowski, Nemai C Karmakar, Paul W Davis, and Hyok J Song ... Transform and Data Compression Handbook K.R Rao and P.C Yip Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion David Hall and James Llinas Handbook of Antennas in Wireless Communications Lal Chand Godara Forthcoming...

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... environments and forest management regimes Acknowledgments: This research was funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Hardwood Fibre and Paper Science, Fletcher Challenge Paper (now Norske Skog) and ... North Forest Products, Triabunna The senior author was supported through the APART program of the Austrian Academy of Science Thanks to Dale Worledge, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products for site ... Growth and water use of Eucalyptus globulus and E nitens in irrigated and rainfed plantations, Aust For 59 (1996) 64–73 [16] Impens I.I., Schalck J.M., A very sensitive electric dendrograph for...

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... primers P5 and P9 were utilized to amplify a 131-nucleotide product for construct VII; primers P10 and P9 were paired to amplify a 106-nucleotide product for construct VIII; and primers P11 and P7 ... by lipid hydrolysis [7], for generating lipid second messengers (eicosanoids and lysolipids), for modulating ion channel kinetics [19,40] and for providing fatty acids for univalent transmembrane ... primers P5 and P4 were paired to amplify a 390-nucleotide product for construct II; primers P6 and P4 were utilized to amplify a 197-nucleotide product for construct III; primers P5 and P8 were...

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... consists of Fos and Jun proteins [26] Fos and Jun form a dimer, which in turn binds to AP-1 regulatory elements and enhancer regions of numerous mammalian genes Jun forms homodimers and heterodimers ... antibody (Invitrogen) and visualized ChIP assay The cells were fixed in 1% formaldehyde for 10 at room temperature, and immunoprecipitation was performed with antibodies against c-Fos and c-Jun (Santa ... hepatocytes, cells were incubated for 14 h, and then further incubated in the presence or absence of ATZ (20 mM) and mercaptosuccinic acid (7 mM) for h (A) The levels of c-Fos and c-Jun protein were determined...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... B1CB2 were labeled for 10 h with [32P]orthophosphate before stimulation with lM BK and lM DAK, respectively, for Cells were lysed and proteins were solubilized, immunoprecipitated and visualized ... 0.5 mm Pefabloc SC and 10 lm each of 1.10-phenanthroline, aprotinin, leupeptin and pepstatin A for 45 at °C with gentle rocking The sample was centrifuged at 6240 g for 20 at °C and the supernatant ... agarose and 2.5 lL of antiserum AS346 for h at °C The mixture was then washed twice with RIPA buffer and once with distilled water, resuspended in 30 lL of Laemmli buffer and incubated for at...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... with HGF (150 ngÆmL)1), FGF1 (300 ngÆmL)1) and FGF4 (25 ngÆmL)1) for weeks, and with oncostatin M (30 ngÆmL)1) and dexamethasone (2 · 105 molÆL)1) for the next weeks (B,C) Phase-contrast micrographs ... v) and BSA (2 mgÆmL)1) for 30 A wash in NaCl ⁄ Pi for at room temperature was performed to remove any additional stain, followed by another wash in a similar buffer, separately prepared, for ... Ms Ayako Inoue, Ms Maho Kodama, and Ms Nachi Namatame for their excellent technical assistance, and Research & Development projects for supporting regional small and medium enterprises References...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... interleukin (IL)-3 (10 lgÆmL)1) for The cells were then lysed and proteins were isolated for immunoblotting From the immunoblots (Figs and 2) we observed that in both GM-CSF and IL-3 treated cells the ... Cells and reagents FDC-P1, BAF-3, TF-1, BJAB, A20 and HEK293 cells and primary porcine Achilles tendon fibroblasts (tenocytes) were grown at 37 °C and 5% (v ⁄ v) CO2 with humidity FDC-P1 and BAF-3 ... the indicated concentrations for 10 Ccells were then stimulated with GM-CSF (10 ngÆmL)1) for Cell lysates were fractionated using 9% SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotted for anti-(phospho-PKB) (P-S473-PKB)...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20

... Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications Volume Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications Volume Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition ... Spatial and Fourier Domain B Jähne 3.1 Vector spaces and unitary transforms 3.2 Continuous Fourier transform (FT) 3.3 The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) 3.4 Fast Fourier transform algorithms ... handbook will have fulfilled its purpose The handbook comprises three volumes The first volume, Sensors and Imaging, covers image formation and acquisition The second volume, Signal Processing and...

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... Figure and Training5 workforce flow for the optometry sector of eye care personnel Training and workforce flow for the optometry sector of eye care personnel Page of (page number not for citation ... Ca r e W/F Figure and Training6 workforce flow for the non-physician sector of eye care personnel Training and workforce flow for the non-physician sector of eye care personnel and interacts with ... the stocks and flows of personnel through training and into and out of the The computable model of an eye care MEES showing the stocks and flows of personnel through training and into and out of...

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... Classification of sEMG to identify the hand movement and gesture is a desired option [4-7] Identified hand and finger actions can be used to command robotic and prosthetic hand which will allow the users ... researchers to identify control commands for controlling prosthetic hands and for human machine interface One shortcoming in the use of sEMG for identifying control commands is the unreliability when ... weak such as during finger and wrist flexion and extension To overcome this, often sEMG based commands are treated as binary and the user need to give a series of commands for functionality [8] While...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... that seen for IL16 (Fig 1) The antibody specific for IL-16 that we used for both immunostaining and western blot binds to the C-terminal portion of both pro- and secreted IL-16 and therefore does ... the data, and wrote the manuscript She performed immunocytochemistry and confocal analysis of MS tissue sections JC performed the western blot analysis and helped with immunostaining and statistical ... MS and 19 controls We found marked increases in IL-16 and active caspase-3 expression in lesions and in adjacent normal appearing white matter (NAWM) Similarly, specific increases in T-bet and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Bordeaux, France) for surgery supervision and Dr Marc Landry (CNRS, UMR 5297) for helpful discussion We thank Celine Girard and Geraldine Miquel for technical assistance with the animals and histology ... antibodies for ED1 (Serotec, 1/100) and rabbit polyclonal antibodies for AQP4 and GFAP (Sigma, 1/100 and Dako, 1/1000, respectively) Immunostaining was conducted in PBS containing 0.1% Triton X-100 and ... 95°C for min, followed by 40 cycles at 95°C for 10 sec, 65°C for min, and finished by 55°C for 30 sec Specificity previously assessed in silico (BLAST software) was confirmed by electrophoresis and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... grouping and beamforming for MIMO systems EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:154 Endnote a In this article, the beamforming mode refers to the transmit beamforming ... transmission methods, and one data stream of 16-QAM for the beamforming mode The proposed mode selection performs better Kim et al EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, ... solid lines are for an IID channel and the dashed lines are for a highly correlated channel As in Figures and 5, the performance of mode selection is the best By examining Figure and the condition...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... SNR thresholds for all values of ET First, we observe the diversity performance for different numbers of relays Figure plots the BER performance with and without SNR thresholds for R = 2, 4, Here ... Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol 3, no 5, pp 1416–1421, 2004 [5] I.-H Lee and D Kim, “BER analysis for decode -and- forward relaying in dissimilar Rayleigh fading channels,” IEEE Communications ... Giannakis, and J N Laneman, “High-performance cooperative demodulation with decodeand-forward relays,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 55, no 7, pp 1427–1438, 2007 D Chen and J N Laneman,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... of beamforming vectors in multiuser MIMO beamforming systems We discussed several criteria for designing local codebooks and presented a number of constructions for two and four transmit antennas ... codebooks For example, the total feedback with the Nl = three phase codebook is bits for the base quantization, bits for the first refinement, bits for the second refinement, and bits for the final ... several specific ring constructions for two and four antennas using uniform phase quantization and mutually unbiased bases[7, 8] We also present an approach for building nonring local codebooks...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... continuous bounded mapping and for each t ∈ [0,1], H(t, ·) be a k-set-contractive mapping Suppose that H(t,x) is uniformly continuous with respect to t for all x ∈ U and for all (t,x) ∈ [0,1] × ... First, for r > 0, let H : [0,1] × K → K and H(t,u) = Ka (tg(u)) Obviously, H(t, ·) is strictly set-contractive for fixed t ∈ [0,1] and H(t,u) is uniformly continuous with respect to t for all ... Clearly, for any fixed t ∈ [0,1], H(t, ·) is strictly set-contractive and H(t,u) is uniformly continuous with respect to t for all u ∈ K r We now show that there exists R0 > r0 such that u = H(t,u) for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... for Power Quality Applications and on Advanced Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence Techniques for Power Line Communications for the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and ... number of features, m1 and m2 , and D2 and D2 are the means and variances vec1 tors of parameters vectors p1,k , k = 1, 2, , M p , and p2,k , k = 1, 2, , M p p1,k and p2,k are feature vectors ... related to (a) c f , (b) c for , (c) c f , and (d) c for feature vectors when the disturbance is sag Figure 9: FDR values related to (a) c f , (b) c for , (c) c f , and (d) c for feature vectors when...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... for ωk = and ωk = π scale differently (by a factor of 2) than the other components Thus for a finite number of tones and finite sample length Ns equal to the period of the signal and for full bandwidth, ... measured For identification the unbiased minimum variance estimator (UMVE) [1, page 87] for the linear FIR filter case, ˆ θ = UT U −1 UT z (41) is applied both for the optimal bandpass sequence and for ... bound for one period by 1/2, Parameter number Figure 25: Mean and 95% confidence region of estimated standard deviations of the estimates for the cubic part of the Wiener-type model for a bandpass...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... Finally, Glass and Fukuodome incorporate a plucked-string model into an audio coder for audio compression and instrument synthesis The guest editors would like to thank all the authors for their contributions ... “ALMA: Algorithms for the Modelling of Acoustic Interactions,” and is co-coordinating the IST-2000-28436 European Project “ORIGAMI: A new paradigm for high-quality mixing of real and virtual.” Matti ... engineering articles and contributed to organizing several conferences and workshops Professor Karjalainen is an AES Fellow and a Member in IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers),...

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... nevertheless disastrous for forests For instance, 300 000 m3 pines had to be cut down between 1983 and 1986 after attacks by Tomicus piniperda and Ips sexdentatus [25] and the same amount of Spruce ... the surface tension of xylem sap, and therefore increase the vulnerability to cavitation This hypothesis was put forward for the pine wilt nematode [15] and for bark-beetles [12], but is far ... “Stress and Tree Health” (FAIR CT96-1854), and by a grant of the Région Centre to N.G The authors are grateful to “Office National des For ts” for providing the Scots pine stand in the forest...

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