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This prospective comparative study randomized 51 adults with chronic nonspecific low back pain into HILT, pulsed EMF, or control groups for 8 weeks of treatment (twice weekly). Both HILT and EMF groups showed improvements in pain, disability, and lumbar flexion range of motion after the intervention. The study…

This review discusses medical applications of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields spanning 0 Hz to the THz range, focusing mainly on therapeutic uses and mentioning few diagnostic approaches. It reports that current EMF-based methods generally have limited clinical impact and are not expected to replace conventional…

This exposure assessment quantified RF-EMF levels using portable, high-sampling-rate devices across 94 outdoor microenvironments and 18 public transport vehicles in six countries. Mean outdoor exposure ranged from 0.23 to 1.85 V/m, and public transport exposure ranged from 0.32 to 0.86 V/m. Exposure varied…

This paper reports the isolation of strain M26 from garden soil that was pre-treated with microwave radiation, followed by polyphasic taxonomic characterization. Based on morphological, chemotaxonomic, and 16S rRNA phylogenetic analyses, the authors propose the new species Streptosporangium minutum. The strain is…

This paper describes in situ EMF measurements around industrial high frequency (dielectric) welders, framed by Polish labor safety regulations aligned with EU Directive 2013/35/EU. It reports real-world scenarios where excessive EMF exposure can occur near welders, often linked to errors or omissions during…

This conference paper describes an automated method for ABO and Rh-D blood typing using images captured by low-cost mobile phones of a fabric strip rapid diagnostic test. The approach applies morphological image processing steps including noise reduction, range filtering, and empirically derived heuristics to…

This animal study measured salivary melatonin in 1–2 month old calves exposed to 50 Hz extremely low frequency magnetic fields in the hundreds of nT range. The authors report a season-dependent response: melatonin decreased with exposure in winter but increased in summer. They suggest future studies should consider…

This study used numerical modeling with a human body model to evaluate how the placement of a single body-worn personal exposimeter affects RF electric-field measurements in the 98–2450 MHz range. Across 256 simulated exposure scenarios, the body substantially altered measured values compared with the unperturbed…

This paper describes development of a fully implantable biotelemetry system that wirelessly transmits cardiac biomechanical force data along with ECG. The system uses a microcontroller with a bidirectional RF transceiver and was tested in a porcine model. The authors report successful transmission and recording of…

This food science study assessed how UV irradiation, pulsed electric field, hot water dip, and ethanol vapour treatments affected mung bean sprout quality and storage life at room and low temperatures. The abstract reports minimal effects on sprout growth metrics, with ethanol suppressing length/weight, hot water dip…

This engineering/materials study examined how RF magnetron sputtering power affects the structural and optical properties of In2S3 thin films intended as a CdS buffer substitute in CIGS solar cells. Films deposited at 60–120 W were characterized using XRD, AFM, EDS, and UV-visible spectrophotometry. The films were…

This engineering/medical physics study used Monte Carlo simulations to examine how a uniform transverse magnetic field affects the dose distribution of a 30 MeV electron beam in a water phantom. The abstract reports substantial changes in depth-dose, including reduced range and a pronounced end-of-range dose peak…

This engineering paper describes a third-order continuous-time current-mode ΣΔ modulator designed for WLAN 802.11b applications. It proposes a modified current mirror integrator and a dynamic latch-based current comparator aimed at improving bandwidth, linearity, and sampling rate. The authors report >60 dB dynamic…

This exposure assessment study used portable exposure meters to characterize variability and repeatability of mobile phone base station RF-EMF measurements in urban areas of Basel and Amsterdam. Reported exposure levels varied by area type and city, with downtown/business areas showing higher ranges than residential…

This engineering/optics study examines focusing properties of a radially polarized beam interacting with gold metal cubes arranged along the beam propagation direction. It reports >20d7 electric field enhancement between two cubes separated by bb/10 on the optical axis, linked to a strong longitudinal field and…

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 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 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 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 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.…