Search results for "MAGNETIC FIELD"
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An evaluation of exposure metrics in an epidemiologic study on radio and television broadcast transmitters and the risk of childhood leukemia.
2009
Electric field strength values calculated by wave propagation modeling were applied as an exposure metric in a case–control study conducted in Germany to investigate a possible association between radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) emitted from television and radio broadcast transmitters and the risk of childhood leukemia. To validate this approach it was examined at 850 measurement sites whether calculated RF-EMF are an improvement to an exposure proxy based on distance from the place of residence to a transmitter. Further, the agreement between measured and calculated RF-EMF was explored. For dichotomization at the 90% quantiles of the exposure distributions it was found that…
Efficient full decay inversion of MRS data with a stretched-exponential approximation of the distribution
2012
SUMMARY We present a new, efficient and accurate forward modelling and inversion scheme for magnetic resonance sounding (MRS) data. MRS, also called surface-nuclear magnetic resonance (surface-NMR), is the only non-invasive geophysical technique that directly detects free water in the subsurface. Based on the physical principle of NMR, protons of the water molecules in the subsurface are excited at a specific frequency, and the superposition of signals from all protons within the excited earth volume is measured to estimate the subsurface water content and other hydrological parameters. In this paper, a new inversion scheme is presented in which the entire data set is used, and multi-expone…
Electron Holography for Electric and Magnetic Field Measurements and Its Application for Nanophysics
2011
Abstract Texture constitutes one of the fundamental properties of objects besides color and shape. In several image analysis applications, it is often the only exploitable quality of objects. As such, it has been studied, described, segmented, synthesized, or in short, analyzed extensively. Among the plethora of texture description methods, mathematical morphology deserves special attention as it excels at the exploitation of spatial relationships among pixels, rendering it inherently suitable for texture description. In this chapter, we focus on morphological texture description methods for grey-scale and color images in an effort to spread the advantages of this framework in the context o…
Influencia del movimiento de vórtices de plasma en concentraciones magnéticas finas en la fotósfera solar
2016
High-resolution observations from ground-based (Solar Swedish Telescope) and space-borne (Hinode) solar telescopes acquired data with various filters, obtaining images of a quiet Sun region populated with small-scale magnetic elements. The region is also characterized by the presence of photospheric swirl convective plasma structures. This work abridges the results of different analysis applied over time series of images to follow the evolution of magnetic features aiming to establish the influence of the plasma vortices on their motions. Observaciones solares en alta resolución desde telescopios en tierra (SST) y en el espacio (Hinode) registraron datos con diferentes filtros, obteniendo i…
Mhd-Modeling of the Propagation of a Coronal Mass Ejection
2005
Hydrodynamic modeling of the propagation of a density perturbation launched upwards in the solar corona has been shown to explain some features of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) observed in detail with the SoHO/UVCS, but left open the questions of the evidence of thermal insulation of the CME and of its large expansion factor. We investigate whether the interaction with the coronal magnetic field is able to explain these aspects, by performing magnetohydrodynamic simulations. We solve the ideal MHD equations for a fully ionized compressible plasma with different assumptions on the ambient magnetic field, using the FLASH code. We include the effect of the directional thermal conduction. Preli…
Observation of the cosmic ray moon shadowing effect with the ARGO-YBJ experiment
2011
Cosmic rays are hampered by the Moon and a deficit in its direction is expected (the so-called Moon shadow). The Moon shadow is an important tool to determine the performance of an air shower array. Indeed, the westward displacement of the shadow center, due to the bending effect of the geomagnetic field on the propagation of cosmic rays, allows the setting of the absolute rigidity scale of the primary particles inducing the showers recorded by the detector. In addition, the shape of the shadow permits to determine the detector point spread function, while the position of the deficit at high energies allows the evaluation of its absolute pointing accuracy. In this paper we present the obser…
On magnetic guidance of charged particles
2016
High precision beta decay experiments with polarized neutrons, employing magnetic guiding fields for the decay electrons in combination with energy dispersive detectors, initiated detailed studies of the point spread function (PSF) for homogeneous magnetic fields. A PSF describes the radial probability distribution of mono-energetic electrons at the detector plane which were emitted from a point-like source. With regard to accuracy considerations for high-precision experiments unwanted singularities occur as function of the radial detector coordinate which have recently been discussed in detail by Dubbers (2015) [3]. In the present article mathematical inconsistencies in the approximations …
From My Postdoc at the “Abteilung Cardona”
2015
Before finishing my Ph.D. in September 1986, I had already a non permanent position at the University of Valencia, it was called at this time assistant professor (profesor ayudante), with a lot of teaching. I sent a letter to Manuel at the beginning of 1987 and, after receiving the letter, he called immediately by phone my thesis advisor, Prof. Alfredo Segura. Manuel told him: I have a lot of people at the moment, but if he is very good, I will accept him. Finally, he sent me an acceptation letter and I got a fellowship from the local government and the Ministry of Education. I did my postdoc from December 87 to 89.
Illustrating the processability of magnetic layered double hydroxides: layer-by-layer assembly of magnetic ultrathin films.
2013
We report the preparation of single-layer layered double hydroxide (LDH) two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets by exfoliation of highly crystalline NiAl-NO3 LDH. Next, these unilamellar moieties have been incorporated layer-by-layer (LbL) into a poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate)/LDH nanosheet multilayer ultrathin film (UTF). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), ultraviolet-visible light (UV-vis), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) profiles have been used to follow the uniform growth of the UTF. The use of a magnetic LDH as the cationic component of the multilayered architecture enables study of the resulting magnetic properties of the UTFs. Our magnetic data show the appearance of spontaneous …
A discussion of potential exposure metrics for use in epidemiological studies on human exposure to radiowaves from mobile phone base stations
2000
There is currently a high level of concern in many countries that exposure to radiowaves from mobile phone base stations may be hazardous to health. When investigating such suggested risks, epidemiologists need to define an exposure metric that can reliably discriminate between exposed and unexposed groups of people. We conducted a feasibility study to investigate if either short-term measurements of electric field strength, calculations of electric field strength, or distance from nearby mobile phone base stations could be used to develop a metric reflecting an individual's exposure to radiowaves. With electric field strengths in the range of 0.012-0.343 V/m, radiowaves from mobile phone b…