RESILIENCE OF FRANCHISE SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES AND POLAND TO SHOCKS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE COVID-19 PERIOD

The article deals with the issue of franchise as a distribution system.Participation in such systems brings many benefits, both for franchisors and franchisees.Still, the uneven bargaining power of the parties is significant, and effective actions require mutual trust and a certain autonomy of the parties.The work aims to determine how franchise sy

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Loss Mitigation in Self-Biased Microstrip Circulators

Integration of the ferrite devices in the RF front-end and active antennas is hindered by the need for external magnets, biasing soft microwave ferrites.The hexaferrite-based self-biased essie day drift away nonreciprocal devices can operate without external magnets at mm-wave frequencies but the currently available hexaferrite materials inflict hi

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Dispersive forces and resisting spot welds by alternative homolog conjunction govern chromosome shape in Drosophila spermatocytes during prophase I.

The bivalent chromosomes that are generated during prophase of meiosis I comprise a pair of homologous chromosomes.Homolog pairing during prophase I must include mechanisms that avoid or eliminate entanglements between non-homologous chromosomes.In Drosophila spermatocytes, non-homologous associations are disrupted by chromosome territory formation

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