Aim. This study compares the effectiveness of Michigan Neuropathy Screening Instrument (MNSI), neurothesiometer, and electromyography (EMG) in detecting diabetic peripheral neuropathy in patients with diabetes type 2. Materials and Methods. 106 patients with diabetes type 2 treated at the outpatient clinic of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital Department of Endocrinology between Sept...

Using a full-potential ab-initio technique I study the electronic and magnetic properties of the (001) surfaces of the half-Heusler alloys, NiMnSb, CoMnSb and PtMnSb and of the full-Heusler alloys Co 2 MnGe, Co 2 MnSi and Co 2 CrAl. The MnSb terminated surfaces of the half-Heusler compounds present properties similar to the bulk compounds and, although the half-metallicity is lost, an important...

OBJECTIVE Subclinical inflammation represents a risk factor of type 2 diabetes and several diabetes complications, but data on diabetic neuropathies are scarce. Therefore, we investigated whether circulating concentrations of acute-phase proteins, cytokines, and chemokines differ among diabetic patients with or without diabetic polyneuropathy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We measured 10 marker...

We report the transport properties, including electrical resistivity (r) and Seebeck coefficient (S) of Ge-substituted MnSi1 xGex (with x 1⁄4 0, 0.02, 0.05, and 0.10) alloys as a function of temperature between 10 and 300K. It was found that the partial substitution of Ge at Si site has a surprisingly weak effect on the ferromagnetic transition temperature TC in MnSi, indicating that the negati...

We performed a crystal growth to obtain chirality-controlled enantiopure crystals using laser-diode-heated floating zone (LDFZ) method with composition-gradient feed rod. It has been argued that the handedness of $T$Si ($T$ : transition metal) is fixed depending on $T$ in case ones grown by conventional methods. found right-handed single CoSi and MnSi were from composition gradient rods consist...

clinical assessment of distal symmetric polyneuropathy (dpn) involves the evaluation of symptoms and signs. although there are numerous tools to evaluate dpn, there is still a need to determine the most sensitive, specific, and accurate tests to detect dpn in a busy outpatient clinical setting. a total of 107 patients with type 2 diabetes were examined using michigan neuropathy screening instru...

In this work we present a theoretical study of the effect of disorder on spin polarisation at the Fermi level, and the disorder formation energies for Co₂FexMn1-xSi (CFMS) alloys. The electronic calculations are based on density functional theory with a Hubbard U term. Chemical disorders studied consist of swapping Co with Fe/Mn and Co with Si; in all cases we found these are detrimental for sp...

Supplementary information for our manuscript, entitled 'Spontaneous Skyrmion Ground States of Magnetic Metals', cond-mat/0603103, is presented. The physical nature of the gradient terms of our generalized micromagnetic model for ferromagnets with softened longitudinal fluctuations is explained. The relationship of our micromagnetic model with the spin fluctuation theory of itinerant-electron ma...

Recent studies show that the non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior of MnSi and Fe spans over an unexpectedly broad pressure range, between the critical pressure pc and around 2pc. In order to determine the extension of their NFL regions, we analyze the evolution of the resistivity ρ(T ) ∼ A(p)T at higher pressures. We find that in MnSi the n = 3/2 exponent holds below 4.8GPa ≈ 3pc, but it increases a...

Abstract Band-gap engineering is one of the fundamental techniques in semiconductor technology and also applicable next generation spintronics using spin degree freedom. To fully utilize spintronic materials, it essential to optimize spin-dependent electronic structures operando conditions by applying magnetic and/or electric fields. Here we present an advanced spectroscopic technique probe spi...