New perspectives on migraine treatment: a review of the mechanisms and effects of complementary and alternative therapies.

Migraine is a prevalent and disabling neurovascular disorder, with women being more susceptible, characterized by unilateral throbbing headache, often accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and often associated with various comorbidities such as brain and cardiovascular diseases, which can have a serious impact on quality of life. Although nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the main first-line medications for the treatment of pain, long-term use often leads to side effects and drug addiction, which emphasizes the need to investigate alternative pain management strategies with fewer adverse effects. Complementary and alternative medicine is a viable pain intervention often used in conjunction with traditional medications, including acupuncture, herbs, moxibustion, transcutaneous electrical stimulation, bio-supplements, and acupressure, which offer non-pharmacological alternatives that are now viable pain management options.

Structural transitions in two-dimensional modulated systems under triangular confinement.

We study numerically the structural transitions of two-dimensional systems of classic particles with competing interactions under a triangular confinement with two different types of soft-wall potentials. We observe a variety of novel confinement-induced equilibrium configurations as a function of particle density and confinement steepness for each considered confinement potential. The specific role played by the confining potentials on the ordering of the particle clusters is revealed.

[Visual analysis of literature knowledge structure and acupoint matching rules of acupuncture for depression].

Objective: To analyze the literature knowledge structure and acupoint matching rules of acupuncture for depression.

Methods: The articles regarding acupuncture for depression published from January 1 of 1984 to October 19 of 2020 were searched in CNKI database. CiteSpace5.

Enhanced capacitive performance by improving the graphitized structure in carbon aerogel microspheres.

Herein, good electrical conductivity and high specific surface area carbon aerogel (CA) microspheres were synthesized by a facile and economical route using a high temperature carbonization and CO activation method. The electroconductive graphitized structure of the CA microspheres could be easily improved by increasing the carbonization temperature. Then the CA microspheres were activated with CO to increase the specific surface area of the electrode material for electric double layer capacitors (EDLC).

Realization of Tunable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Cu@CuO Core-Shell Nanoparticles by the Pulse Laser Deposition Method.

Cu@CuO core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) not only possess a stabilized structure but also exhibit better photocatalytic performance as compared to pure CuO. Therefore, preparation of Cu@CuO core-shell NPs is key toward efficient photocatalysis applications. In this paper, the fabrication of Cu@CuO core-shell NPs on single-crystal MgO(100) substrates has been studied systematically by pulse laser deposition.

Nanostrip-Induced High Tunability Multipolar Fano Resonances in a Au Ring-Strip Nanosystem.

Surface plasmon resonances of a Au ring-strip nanosystem with tunable multipolar Fano resonances have been investigated based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Abundant plasmon properties of a Au ring-strip nanosystem can be obtained on the basis of the unique electronic properties of different geometry parameters. In our research models, these multipolar Fano resonances are induced and can be tuned independently by changing the geometry parameters of the Au ring-strip nanosystem.

Plasmonic Absorption Enhancement in Elliptical Graphene Arrays.

In this paper, we come up with a wavelength tunable absorber which is made up of periodically elliptical graphene arrays in the far-infrared and terahertz regions. Through simulation, we find that we can increase the length of long axis of the ellipse, raise the incidence angles of TM- and TE-polarization (TM- and TE-polarization indicate the direction of the incident electric field along the direction of the x and the y axis, respectively.) within certain limits, and increase the chemical potential of graphene, so as to enhance the absorption of light in the elliptical graphene arrays.

Multi-Scale Modeling for Predicting the Stiffness and Strength of Hollow-Structured Metal Foams with Structural Hierarchy.

This work was inspired by previous experiments which managed to establish an optimal template-dealloying route to prepare ultralow density metal foams. In this study, we propose a new analytical-numerical model of hollow-structured metal foams with structural hierarchy to predict its stiffness and strength. The two-level model comprises a main backbone and a secondary nanoporous structure.

Discrete Dipole Approximation Simulation of Nearly Touching Plasmonic Au Dimers and Influence of Particle Shape Assembly on Optical Response.

The method Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) is used to calculate the extinction spectra and field distribution of three types of dimers. In the paper we provide a systematic analysis of the optical response of different nanoscopic dimer structures with relatively small gap distances. A description is given about how the energy and excitation cross sections of dimer plasmons depend on nanoparticle separation.

The influence of edge and corner evolution on plasmon properties and resonant edge effect in gold nanoplatelets.

In this paper a simulation of the properties of surface plasmons on gold nanoplatelets with various cross-sections inscribed in a circle and an investigation of their field distributions to assign multiple SPRs are described. The manipulated propagation can be obtained through the evolution of edges and corners. Furthermore, the particle morphology and the associated spectral positions alone do not uniquely reflect the important details of the local field distribution or the resonance modes.