In the paper, a corporate feed antenna array with slot radiators and a layer of polarizing patches is designed to operate at 350 GHz.The antenna is conceived as a silicon structure fully metalized by gold.Different methods for modeling thin gold layers at terahertz frequencies are compared and the optimum approaches are chosen depending on the thic

Austropuccinia psidii is a fungal plant pathogen that infects species within the Myrtaceae, causing the disease myrtle rust.Myrtle rust is causing declines in populations within natural and managed ecosystems and is expected to result in species extinctions.Despite this, variation in response to A.psidii exist within some species, from complete sus

With the number of threatened species increasing globally, conservation breeding is vitally important now more than ever.However, no previous peer-reviewed study has attempted to determine how the varying conditions across zoos have influenced breeding by an extinct-in-the-wild species.We therefore use questionnaires and studbook data to evaluate t

In Iranian Civil Law.like in Islamic Jurisprudence, in addition to puberty, the maturity is necessary in order to have capacity for carrying out deity deftrap transaction.The age of puberty is defined in jurisprudence; however, there is no specific age of maturity.Before the revolution in Iran , Article 1210 of the Civil Code determined the age of

To clarify how the digestive tract of the weatherloach, Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, serves a dual function of digestion and respiration simultaneously, the histological structures of its digestive tract, the passage of digesta and air passing through its intestine and the rate of intestinal evacuation have been studied.The results indicate that the