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Sensors, Volume 12, Issue 4

April 2012 - 81 articles

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Articles (81)

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,385 Views
11 Pages

20 April 2012

Over the last 10 years, it has become clear that patients with head and neck cancer can be stratified into two distinct subgroups on the basis of the etiology of their disease. Patients with human papillomavirus-related cancers have significantly bet...

  • Review
  • Open Access
93 Citations
16,149 Views
25 Pages

20 April 2012

The unique properties of microporous zeolites, including ion-exchange properties, adsorption, molecular sieving, catalysis, conductivity have been exploited in improving the performance of gas sensors. Zeolites have been employed as physical and chem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,805 Views
38 Pages

19 April 2012

Studies of the IEEE 802.15.4 Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheme have been received considerable attention recently, with most of these studies focusing on homogeneous or saturated traffic. Two novel transmission s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,916 Views
11 Pages

Humidity-Induced Charge Leakage and Field Attenuation in Electric Field Microsensors

  • Haiyan Zhang,
  • Dongming Fang,
  • Pengfei Yang,
  • Chunrong Peng,
  • Xiaolong Wen and
  • Shanhong Xia

19 April 2012

The steady-state zero output of static electric field measuring systems often fluctuates, which is caused mainly by the finite leakage resistance of the water film on the surface of the electric field microsensor package. The water adsorption has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,892 Views
18 Pages

19 April 2012

One of the most critical issues of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the deployment of a limited number of sensors in order to achieve maximum coverage on a terrain. The optimal sensor deployment which enables one to minimize the consumed energy, co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
12,467 Views
25 Pages

19 April 2012

The integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) with Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) has been very actively researched for many years due to the complementary nature of the two systems. In particular, during the last few years the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,722 Views
10 Pages

18 April 2012

Nuclear receptors regulate the transcription of genes and various functions such as development, differentiation, homeostasis, and behavior by formation of complexes with ligand and co-activator. Recent findings have shown that agonists of a ligand m...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,988 Views
12 Pages

Dynamic Sensing of Localized Corrosion at the Metal/Solution Interface

  • Wei Li,
  • Boyu Yuan,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Liang Li and
  • Shenhao Chen

18 April 2012

A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is employed to detect localized corrosion at the metal/solution interface in the potentiodynamic sweep of the iron electrode in solutions. During the electrochemical reactions, local variations of the electrolyte’s refra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,494 Views
12 Pages

Endogenous Bioactive Peptides as Potential Biomarkers for Atherosclerotic Coronary Heart Disease

  • Takuya Watanabe,
  • Kengo Sato,
  • Fumiko Itoh,
  • Kohei Wakabayashi,
  • Masayoshi Shichiri and
  • Tsutomu Hirano

18 April 2012

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, with high medical costs and rates of disability. It is therefore important to evaluate the use of cardiovascular biomarkers in the early diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). We ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,965 Views
19 Pages

Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Structural Dynamic Frequency Characteristics Control

  • Xingwu Zhang,
  • Xuefeng Chen,
  • Shangqin You,
  • Zhengjia He and
  • Bing Li

18 April 2012

In general, mechanical equipment such as cars, airplanes, and machine tools all operate with constant frequency characteristics. These constant working characteristics should be controlled if the dynamic performance of the equipment demands improveme...

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