In 2019, the EPMA celebrated its 10th anniversary at the 5th World Congress in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The history of the International Professional Network dedicated to Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (PPPM / 3PM) is rich in achievements. Facing the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic it is getting evident globally that the predictive approach, targeted prevention and personalisation of medical services is the optimal paradigm in healthcare demonstrating the high potential to save lives and to benefit the society as a whole. The EPMA World Congress Supplement 2020 highlights advances in 3P medicine.
The investigation of transport properties in normal liquid helium-3 and its topological superfluid phases provides insights into related phenomena in electron fluids, topological materials, and putative topological superconductors. It relies on the measurement of mass, heat, and spin currents, due to system neutrality. Of particular interest is transport in strongly confining channels of height approaching the superfluid coherence length, to enhance the relative contribution of surface excitations, and suppress hydrodynamic counterflow. Here we report on the thermal conduction of helium-3 in a 1.1 μm high channel. In the normal state we observe a diffusive thermal conductivity that is approximately temperature independent, consistent with interference of bulk and boundary scattering. In the superfluid, the thermal conductivity is only weakly temperature dependent, requiring detailed theoretical analysis. An anomalous thermal response is detected in the superfluid which we propose arises from the emission of a flux of surface excitations from the channel.
We report on magnetic measurements carried out in a textured YBa2Cu3O 7−δ and YBa2(Cu1−xAgx)3O 7−δ (at x ≈ 0.02) crystals. The so-called fishtail-effect (FE) or second magnetization peak has been observed in a wide temperature range 0.4 < T /Tc < 0.8 for H c. The origin of the FE arises for the competition between surface barrier and bulk pinning. This is confirmed in a non-monotonically behavior of the relaxation rate R. The value Hmax for Ag-doped crystals is larger than for the pure one due to the presence of additional pinning centers, above all on silver atoms.
The influence of the layered structure on the temperature dependencies of the specific heat, thermal conductivity, and electric resistivity of photosensitive bismuth oxyhalides BiOX (X = Cl, Br and I) single crystals were investigated in the temperature range 2 K ≤ T ≤ 300 K. The low temperature specific heat data for BiOX demonstrated the presence of two-dimensional behavior with increased anisotropy for the BiOI sample. Moreover, the thermal conductivity values for BiOI are three times higher than for BiOCl and BiOBr, and this observation is consistent with increased anisotropy arising from the contribution of optical out-of-plane phonons. The influence of green (λ = 532 nm) and red (λ = 640 nm) laser excitations on the electrical conductivity properties has been investigated. Each photoconductivity curve reveals transitions from low to high sensitivity. The depletion temperature region for BiOX single crystals corresponds to the peak in temperature dependence of the charge carrier mobility.
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