To demonstrate biofilm formations on a cochlear implant magnet of a pediatric patient suffering from a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The appearance of biofilm colonies was analyzed on different magnet sections. The appearance of MRSA biofilms on the surface of an explanted cochlear implant was analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), focusing on the patter...

in this paper, the driver with antiwindup and fuzzy high-performance and robust pi controller has been suggested for permanent magnet synchronous motor (pmsm). this controller is suggested for the design of the robust driver for three phase pmsm and the cost reduction of its control system. it’s useful for the industrial application and automation and ultimately speed control and the improvemen...

BACKGROUND Tracking an ingested magnet by the Magnet Tracking System MTS-1 (Motilis, Lausanne, Switzerland) is an easy and minimally-invasive method to assess gastrointestinal transit. The aim was to test the validity of MTS-1 for assessment of gastric transit time and small intestinal transit time, and to illustrate transit patterns detected by the system. METHODS A small magnet was ingested...

Brushless permanent magnet surface inset machines are interested in industrial applications due to their high efficiency and power density. Magnet segmentation is a common technique in order to mitigate cogging torque and electromagnetic torque components in these machines. An accurate computation of magnetic vector potential is necessary in order to compute cogging torque, electromagnetic torq...

Flux switching permanent magnet synchronous motor (FMSM) has the characteristics such as large output torque, fast speed response and high reliability, so it can be widely used in the field of high-performance and high precision control.In the permanent magnet synchronous motor control system, the speed loop usually adopts the PI control algorithm. Although the PI control algorithm is relativel...

Kuhl’s native language magnet (NLM) theory of phonetic learning is examined in the light of an exemplar-based model. According to the NLM theory the perceptual space is partitioned into phonetic categories as a consequence of the magnet-like properties of the category’s best exemplar  the category’s prototype. The NLM theory predicts that the perceptual space is warped in the neighborhood of t...

Simulation of the dynamics of nanoscale systems are usually restricted to a purely classical description, which becomes inadequate once technological minimization reaches scales on which quantum mechanical effects become relevant. In this paper we propose a multiscale approach to estimate quantum corrections to such classical descriptions. Quantum fluctuations in a quantum magnet are absorbed i...

A simple noncontact force sensor based on an optical fiber Bragg grating attached to a small magnet has been proposed and built. The sensor measures the force between the magnet and any ferromagnetic material placed within a few millimeters of the sensor. Maintaining the sensor at a constant standoff distance, material loss due to corrosion increases the distance between the magnet and the corr...

Nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, is the energy exchange between an RF magnetic field and an atomic nucleus such as a hydrogen proton, which is a tiny bar magnet due to its spin. NMR has a broad array of powerful applications, including: biomolecule sensing (e.g., cancer marker detection), medical imaging, and oil detection. NMR instruments, however, are bulky, heavy, and expensive, and remai...