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Sensors, Volume 11, Issue 6

2011 June - 57 articles

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Articles (57)

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
12,833 Views
20 Pages

Roughness Encoding in Human and Biomimetic Artificial Touch: Spatiotemporal Frequency Modulation and Structural Anisotropy of Fingerprints

  • Calogero Maria Oddo,
  • Lucia Beccai,
  • Johan Wessberg,
  • Helena Backlund Wasling,
  • Fabio Mattioli and
  • Maria Chiara Carrozza

26 May 2011

The influence of fingerprints and their curvature in tactile sensing performance is investigated by comparative analysis of different design parameters in a biomimetic artificial fingertip, having straight or curved fingerprints. The strength in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinspired Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,094 Views
14 Pages

Label-Free Electrochemical Detection of the Specific Oligonucleotide Sequence of Dengue Virus Type 1 on Pencil Graphite Electrodes

  • Elaine Souza,
  • Gustavo Nascimento,
  • Nataly Santana,
  • Danielly Ferreira,
  • Manoel Lima,
  • Edna Natividade,
  • Danyelly Martins and
  • José Lima-Filho

26 May 2011

A biosensor that relies on the adsorption immobilization of the 18-mer single-stranded nucleic acid related to dengue virus gene 1 on activated pencil graphite was developed. Hybridization between the probe and its complementary oligonucleotides (the...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
15,127 Views
15 Pages

A Simple Method to Improve Autonomous GPS Positioning for Tractors

  • Jaime Gomez-Gil,
  • Sergio Alonso-Garcia,
  • Francisco Javier Gómez-Gil and
  • Tim Stombaugh

26 May 2011

Error is always present in the GPS guidance of a tractor along a desired trajectory. One way to reduce GPS guidance error is by improving the tractor positioning. The most commonly used ways to do this are either by employing more precise GPS receive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,263 Views
16 Pages

A Cabled Acoustic Telemetry System for Detecting and Tracking Juvenile Salmon: Part 1. Engineering Design and Instrumentation

  • Mark A. Weiland,
  • Z. Daniel Deng,
  • Tom A. Seim,
  • Brian L. LaMarche,
  • Eric Y. Choi,
  • Tao Fu,
  • Thomas J. Carlson,
  • Aaron I. Thronas and
  • M. Brad Eppard

26 May 2011

In 2001 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District (OR, USA), started developing the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System, a nonproprietary sensing technology, to meet the needs for monitoring the survival of juvenile salmonids through...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,583 Views
16 Pages

A Cabled Acoustic Telemetry System for Detecting and Tracking Juvenile Salmon: Part 2. Three-Dimensional Tracking and Passage Outcomes

  • Z. Daniel Deng,
  • Mark A. Weiland,
  • Tao Fu,
  • Tom A. Seim,
  • Brian L. LaMarche,
  • Eric Y. Choi,
  • Thomas J. Carlson and
  • M. Brad Eppard

26 May 2011

In Part 1 of this paper, we presented the engineering design and instrumentation of the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) cabled system, a nonproprietary sensing technology developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland Distr...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,153 Views
14 Pages

Odor Removal Characteristics of a Laminated Film-Electrode Packed-Bed Nonthermal Plasma Reactor

  • Takuya Kuwahara,
  • Masaaki Okubo,
  • Tomoyuki Kuroki,
  • Hideya Kametaka and
  • Toshiaki Yamamoto

25 May 2011

Odor control has gained importance for ensuring a comfortable living environment. In this paper, the authors report the experimental results of a study on the detailed characteristics of a laminated film-electrode and a laminated film-electrode packe...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
194 Citations
20,409 Views
18 Pages

25 May 2011

Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy was used for assessment of structural differences of celluloses of various origins. Investigated celluloses were: bacterial celluloses cultured in presence of pectin and/or xyloglucan, as well...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry)

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