The effect of cell phone antennas' radiations on the life cycle of honeybees

Proceedings of the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 408-414

  El Halabi, Nashaat ^a   Achkar, Roger ^a   Haidar, Gaby Abou ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Antenna's Patterns; back lobe; Colony collapse Disorder; Honeybees; main lobe; Mobile phone antennas' Radiations; Power density

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES;

BACK LOBES; COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER; HONEYBEES; MAIN LOBES; MOBILE-PHONE ANTENNAS; POWER DENSITIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84904208986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MELCON.2014.6820569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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