background: exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields is increasingly common, but the potential influence on pregnant women has not been thoroughly investigated. methods: in this case-control study, 58 women who had an unexplained spontaneous abortion at < 14 weeks gestation and 58 matched pregnant women >14 weeks gestation were enrolled in 2012. the women completed the questio...

introduction: the present study investigated the interactive effect of gabab receptors and extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (elf-emf) on foot shock-induced aggression in rats. methods: fifty adult male rats were randomly assigned into 10 groups. groups 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 were exposed to 50 hz, 500 µt elf-emf for 30 days 8h per day while the remaining groups (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) were s...

Abstract—This paper deals with planar scanning technique of electromagnetic (EM) near-field (NF) emitted by electronic printed circuit boards (PCBs) fully in the time-domain (TD). The proposed EM scanning metrology is essentially based on the NF test bench available at the IRSEEM laboratory. It comprises motorized mechanical structures for moving the probe interconnected to electronic measureme...

This paper describes the principles of the a.c. field measurement technique, a non-contacting electromagnetic method of crack detection and sizing in metals. The development of the technique is covered, followed by examples of some of the many different applications the technique has been used for, including multi-sensor arrays for rapid manual inspection or for deployment by robotic manipulato...

We study theoretically a Fermi-Dirac atomic gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice coupled to a coherent electromagnetic field with a topologically nontrivial soliton phase profile. We argue that the resulting fractional eigenvalues of the particle number operator can be detected via light scattering. This could be a truly quantum mechanical measurement of particle number fractionalization in...

This paper aims to advance the field of nondestructive testing by eddy currents. It provides a mathematical and numerical framework for imaging small volume conductive inclusions of arbitrary shapes from electromagnetic induction data. The effect of measurement noise on the localization and characterization approach developed in this paper is investigated. Mathematics Subject Classification (MS...

B-H–curves are used for modeling ferromagnetic materials in connection with electromagnetic field computations. Starting from real–life measurement data, we present an approximation technique which is based on the use of spline functions and a data–dependent smoothing functional. It preserves physical properties, such as monotonicity, and is robust with respect to noise in the measurements.