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This randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over trial evaluated a wrist-applied PEMF bracelet in 18 migraine patients and examined possible modulation of placebo effects. In the overall group, both PEMF and placebo were associated with similar reductions in migraine frequency and intensity. The authors…

This paper reports molecular dynamics simulations of polyelectrolyte brushes subjected to external electric fields, focusing on how chain stiffness and salt concentration affect responses. The simulations suggest higher salt concentrations strengthen an induced opposing field from ion redistribution, which resists…

This engineering paper proposes a control method for a photo-electromagnetic field (EMF)-based ammonia gas sensor that uses a wireless network and adjusts illumination light intensity. It reports that measurement error is minimized over 3800 ppm ammonia when the concentration corresponds to an optimal illumination…

This engineering paper describes low-power wireless sensor nodes and a cluster-based dynamic-tree hierarchical WSN architecture for monitoring historical buildings and wooden artifacts for early pest detection. The authors report simulation and demonstration results indicating improved scalability and reliability…

This paper describes a new magnetization transfer 31P MRS approach (MT-ISIS) for measuring the creatine kinase forward reaction rate in the human brain using a volume 31P/1H RF coil on a clinical 3-T MRI system. The method aims to reduce acquisition time (30 min), avoid scalp muscle contamination, improve RF…

This experimental and modeling study examined pulsed electric field (PEF) permeabilization in several fruit and vegetable tissues at 293 K using 1000 μs pulses and field strengths of 400 and 1000 V·cm(-1). While electroporation theory predicts greater damage in tissues with larger cells, the authors report this…

This in vitro study examined whether extremely low-frequency magnetic fields affect chondrogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in pellet culture. Cells exposed for 3 weeks to a homogeneous sinusoidal 5 mT magnetic field showed increased collagen type II expression (significant at passage 6) and…

This materials study reports that ZnO nanorod polymer hybrids can form liquid-crystalline phases and exhibit orientation switching under an applied AC electric field. The orientation reportedly changes from planar to homeotropic, analogous to switching in low-molecular liquid crystals. Dielectric measurements and…

This engineering/food science study examined ohmic heating of peaches at 60 V/cm using bipolar pulses across frequencies from 50 Hz to 1 MHz. Heating time to a target temperature and multiple electrical properties were frequency-dependent, particularly for intact tissue. The authors report faster electro-thermal…

This experimental study examined how pulsed electric field (PEF) processing parameters affect cell membrane rupture in onion tissue disks, using ion leakage as the primary integrity measure. Disintegration efficiency increased with field strength up to 500 V/cm and varied with pulse width, pulse number, and…

This experimental study examined how pulsed electric fields affect onion tissue integrity and texture across different field strengths and pulse counts. It reports distinct critical field strengths for plasma membrane versus tonoplast membrane breakdown, with higher thresholds needed for tonoplast disruption. Effects…

This theoretical study analyzes quench dynamics in the Kondo model on the Toulouse line in the presence of a local magnetic field. The authors report exact analytical results for local spin dynamics, finding that relaxation timescales are set by the Kondo scale. They also describe damped transient oscillations in…

This condensed-matter physics study examined how high magnetic fields and pressure affect magnetization, transport, and thermodynamic properties of the intermediate-valence compound YbPd. The authors report that the Yb valence state and two first-order transitions are stable up to 55 T, while increasing pressure…

This laboratory/materials study examined deformation and swelling of magnetic field sensitive polymer gels (ferrogels) in a static, uniform magnetic field. The authors report that gels with randomly distributed magnetic particles exhibited weak magnetodeformation, whereas gels with aligned particles showed no…

This paper is a review of two-dimensional electron dynamics in microscopically inhomogeneous magnetic fields, focusing on magnetic potentials varying on scales smaller than the mean free path. It covers early work on localization in random magnetic fields, methods to fabricate magnetic potentials, and drift-diffusion…

This paper theoretically investigates zero- and finite-temperature behavior of an anisotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg XXZ spin-1/2 chain under a transverse magnetic field, focusing between the factorizing and critical fields. It reports an entanglement phase transition at the factorizing field where entanglement…

This theoretical condensed-matter study examines how an electric field affects the electronic spectrum and localization in quasiperiodic chains modeled with Harper and Fibonacci potentials. It reports localized ladder spectra under strong fields and smoothing with linearly decreasing gaps under weak fields. When…

This theoretical/physics paper examines how an in-plane uniform electric field affects the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect in graphene. It reports that magnetization, magnetic susceptibility, and dHvA oscillation behavior depend on a dimensionless parameter β = E/(vF B), with divergences described at a critical…