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This study models nematic liquid crystals embedded in random polymer networks, where disorder disrupts long-range order and produces a glassy state. It uses simulations and an Imry-Ma-like analytic approach to visualize domains, predict domain size, and calculate the response to an applied electric field. The authors…

This paper presents a theoretical model of a single ferromagnetic particle with finite coupling between its magnetic moment and particle body in a rotating magnetic field. It describes synchronous and asynchronous motion regimes, including planar motion at low frequencies and a precession regime at high frequencies,…

This paper investigates, in an interneuronal network model, how a steady DC electric field induced by magnetic stimulation affects network coherence and synchronization. The authors report that coherence can exhibit a peak or plateau across a defined range of induced field values. Effects varied by network topology…

This engineering paper describes a wireless implementation of a near-infrared profiling sensor using multiple sensor nodes and a base station for data preprocessing and realignment. It reports an enhanced classification approach using a back-propagation neural network to categorize objects as human, animal, or…

This engineering study investigates a plasmonic nanostructure composed of a spherical metallic nanoshell with a small metallic nanoparticle (“nanoknob”) on its surface. It reports tunable plasmon resonance behavior driven by nanoshell properties and localized/enhanced electromagnetic fields near the nanoknob under…

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 pre/post clinical study evaluated radiofrequency-assisted uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for snoring using polysomnography before and after surgery in 22 patients. The abstract reports a statistically significant postoperative reduction in snoring, with most patients showing decreased snoring index. The work concerns…

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 study develops and experimentally evaluates a fuzzy-logic method for locating mobile robots in an intelligent space using wireless sensor networks. Localization relies on inter-node range measurements estimated from RF signal strength attenuation, which the authors describe as noisy and unreliable.…

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 article reports an engineering implementation of a wireless sensor network-based remote water-level monitoring system. The system includes field sensors, a base station, a data center, and a web publishing module, and is described as providing real-time monitoring and anti-jamming capability. The authors state…

This paper reports the development of a 15-channel transmit-receive RF coil for 7 T human brain MRI, using a hybrid decoupling approach to support element placement along three axes. The design is presented as enabling B1+ shimming and parallel imaging acceleration in three dimensions, with reported isolation and…

This modeling study applies uniform electric fields parallel and normal to 180° ferroelectric domain walls in PbTiO3 and computes equilibrium structures using anharmonic lattice statics. The authors report that electric fields can substantially increase domain wall thickness and identify a critical field Ec above…

This theoretical study models electron spin resonance and spin/charge pumping in zigzag graphene nanoribbons driven by a transverse rotating magnetic field without applied bias. It reports that pumped spin current density increases with ribbon size and rotating-field intensity, and that even-chain ribbons can also…

This paper presents a mesoscopic transport modeling framework (NEGF plus a real-space π-orbital model) to study how a uniform perpendicular magnetic field affects electronic transport in armchair graphene nanoribbons. The authors report width-dependent equilibrium current profiles and edge-localized transport under…

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…

A theoretical analysis is presented of electron states in a two-dimensional plane bound to an off-plane donor impurity under a magnetic field. The authors calculate energy levels (ground and first three excited states) variationally and report binding energies and mean orbital radii as functions of donor position and…

This study reports slow relaxation of magnetoresistance in selectively doped p-GaAs-AlGaAs structures following application of a magnetic field. The authors emphasize efforts to rule out temperature fluctuation artifacts and state that the main relaxation features remain. They interpret the phenomenon using a…

This engineering-focused study measured ultrasonic propagation velocity in hydrocarbon-based magnetic and magnetorheological fluids under an external magnetic field. The authors report that clustering structures formed in the fluids influence ultrasonic propagation velocity, with observed hysteresis and anisotropy.…

This theoretical paper analyzes consequences of nonuniqueness of the external magnetic field B(r) in spin-polarized density functional theory. It reports that for ground states the energy functional is not differentiable with respect to spin density, but one-sided derivatives can exist. The work links these one-sided…

This engineering study measures and simulates screening current induced magnetic fields (SCF) in a Bi2223-tape HTS insert used in an LTS/HTS NMR magnet at 77 K. SCF was induced by the insert self-field, an external 5-T background magnet, and their combination, and axial field distributions and temporal variations…

This theoretical paper analyzes vortex solutions in two-component superconductors within a U(1) x U(1) Ginzburg-Landau framework. It reports that exponentially screened magnetic fields are only found in special cases, while most parameter choices yield delocalized magnetic fields with slowly decaying tails. It also…

This paper uses atomistic simulations to examine how a nonpolar nanoparticle suspended in water reorients under an applied electric field. The authors report that molecular-level effects increase the torque relative to continuum estimates and substantially speed up reorientation above a stated field threshold. The…

This theoretical/physics study investigates spectral properties of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice in a magnetic field. It reports that interchain interactions in a magnetic field generate dominant modes that behave as quasiparticles, featuring anomalous incommensurate…

This experimental animal study compared tympanic membrane closure time after myringotomy performed by microknife versus radiofrequency microcautery, with and without mitomycin C. Radiofrequency myringotomy differed significantly from knife myringotomy, and the 0.7 mm radiofrequency tip combined with mitomycin C was…