We review dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) designs. This review examines recent advancements across several categories, specifically focusing on their applicability in array configurations for millimeter-wave (mmW) bands, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond 5G applications. Notably, the off-chip DRA designs, including in-substrate and compact DRAs, have gained prominence in recent years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBirdsong overlapping may either indicate communicative interaction between birds or be a simple coincidence. We developed a program that allowed us to mathematically modulate the independent singing of birds with a given level of song rate. This permitted us to statistically evaluate whether song overlapping is a random coincidence or real acoustic interactions between birds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
January 2017
Orientation by magnetic cues appears to be adaptive during animal migrations. Whereas the magnetic orientation in birds, mammals, and urodele amphibians is being investigated intensively, the data about anurans are still scarce. This study tests whether marsh frogs could determine migratory direction between the breeding pond and the wintering site by magnetic cues in the laboratory.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrednisolone in therapeutic concentrations blocks Ca(2+) channels of lymphocyte plasma membranes and prevents arachidonic acid-induced Ca(2+) entry into the cells. Glucocorticoid virtually did not modulate arachidonic acid-stimulated release of Ca(2+) from intracellular stores. No appreciable effect of the hormone on mitogen-induced changes in the intracellular content of cAMP was detected.
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