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This engineering study investigated factors affecting electro-dewatering of activated sludge under a horizontal applied electric field. It reports optimal performance without altering sludge pH or conductivity and finds that CPAM conditioning improves and accelerates dewatering. The authors provide operating…

This study measured atmospheric VOCs at the Gongga Mountain base station using weekly samples collected in 2007 and analyzed by preconcentration plus GC-MS. It reports mean concentrations of TVOCs and NMHCs, describes VOC composition, and uses PCA-based receptor modeling to attribute sources. The authors report…

This case-control study measured electric field intensity and magnetic flux density in high voltage substations and estimated workers' ELF-EMF exposure over a shift. Sleep quality was assessed using the PSQI in 67 exposed workers and 110 controls. The study reports no statistically significant difference in overall…

This paper presents a theoretical description of nonequilibrium dynamics in a three-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model driven by an external electric field. The authors report direction-dependent damping of Bloch oscillations and the emergence of a long-lived transient prethermalized state over a broad range of field…

This theoretical/physics study analyzes the spectrum of electron-phonon complexes in monolayer graphene in a perpendicular quantizing magnetic field. It reports that near the threshold of optical phonon emission, standard perturbation theory fails for calculating the scattering amplitude. The authors describe new…

This study examines how spatial inhomogeneity affects a two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric superconductor in an in-plane magnetic field, motivated by LaAlO3-SrTiO3 interfaces. The authors report that spatial variation of Rashba spin-orbit coupling can generate local magnetic flux patterns through a field-induced…

This paper proposes that Pb nanowires created by repeated indentation of a Pb tip on a Pb substrate may exhibit topological superconducting properties in an external magnetic field. The authors analyzed conductance curves from different nanowires and report that, in a few cases, the critical current shows a peculiar…

This Letter presents a method for constructing solar-wind-like magnetic fields that are nearly constant in magnitude, divergence-free, and match any specified fluctuation power spectrum. The approach selects relative phases between two polarizations per wave vector to minimize variance in field magnitude while…

This paper reports the scientific basis and 2D electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation results for magnetizing an initially unmagnetized plasma using beat-wave current drive. Simulations across different angles between injected waves show beat-wave generation consistent with theoretical predictions and reveal…

This physics study uses analytical calculations and Monte Carlo simulations to determine ground-state structures of monodisperse ferrofluid monolayers under external magnetic fields. It reports structural transitions depending on whether the field is perpendicular or parallel to the monolayer plane, with different…

This paper presents a theoretical calculation of the stationary probability density for a harmonic oscillator embedded in an electromagnetic field by solving the Fokker-Planck equation exactly. The magnetic field is treated as constant, while the electric field is modeled as an external stochastic force with…

This engineering study evaluated long-term encapsulation and packaging reliability of a fully wireless 100-channel Utah Slant Electrode Array system in vitro. The device was soaked in PBS for over 12 months while being wirelessly powered/configured at 2.765 MHz and transmitting an FSK-modulated 900 MHz RF signal. The…

This in vitro FTIR study examined human haemoglobin aqueous solutions exposed to a 200 mT static magnetic field for 3 and 7 hours, with and without the disaccharides sucrose and trehalose. The authors report spectral changes (amide A decrease and reduced CH(3) stretching) in haemoglobin dissolved in bi-distilled…

This in vitro study examined how an externally applied electric field influences the self-assembly of oppositely charged molecules in water into an ordered membrane. The authors report that electric fields changed the kinetics of membrane formation and altered membrane thickness, nanofiber growth orientation, and…

This study evaluated mobile phone use as a tool to improve cancer care follow-up and communication in a low-resource Nigerian setting. Among 1176 oncology patients, sustained follow-up at 24 months was reported as much higher in those receiving the phone intervention than in those who did not. Patients also reported…

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 study investigates instrumentation and procedures to assess electromagnetic exposure from compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by measuring both incident and induced fields in the 10 kHz–1 MHz range. For some CFLs, incident electric fields exceeded ICNIRP reference levels at close distances, but induced fields were…

This study reports an aqueous two-phase extraction method for equine spleen ferritin using polyethylene glycol (PEG) and hydroxyethyl starch (HES). Ferritin partitioning depended on PEG/HES concentrations and PEG molecular weight, and applying a magnetic field increased ferritin accumulation in the PEG-rich phase…

This experimental and clinical study compared two umbrella-shaped expandable radiofrequency ablation electrodes (SuperSlim vs CoAccess) across different ablation algorithms. In ex vivo bovine liver, CoAccess generally produced larger ablation areas and required longer ablation times than SuperSlim, with no…

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…