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Sensors, Volume 7, Issue 11

November 2007 - 36 articles

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Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
19,278 Views
21 Pages

20 November 2007

Effective assessment of biodiversity in cities requires detailed vegetation maps.To date, most remote sensing of urban vegetation has focused on thematically coarse landcover products. Detailed habitat maps are created by manual interpretation of aer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
17,146 Views
26 Pages

Tempo-Spatial Patterns of Land Use Changes and Urban Development in Globalizing China: A Study of Beijing

  • Yichun Xie,
  • Chuanglin Fang,
  • George C.S. Lin,
  • Hongmian Gong and
  • Biao Qiao

20 November 2007

This study examines the temporal and spatial changes in land use as aconsequence of rapid urban development in the city of Beijing. Using a combination oftechniques of remote sensing and GIS, the study identifies a substantial loss of plaindryland an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,008 Views
10 Pages

Piezoelectric Biosensor for a Simple Serological Diagnosis of Tularemia in Infected European Brown Hares (Lepus europaeus)

  • Miroslav Pohanka,
  • František Treml,
  • Martin Hubálek,
  • Hana Banďouchová,
  • Miroslava Beklová and
  • Jiří Pikula

19 November 2007

Piezoelectric biosensor was used for diagnosis of infection by Francisellatularensis subsp. holarctica in European brown hares. Two kinds of experiments wereperformed in this study. First, sera from experimentally infected European brown hares(Lepus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,364 Views
17 Pages

Antimicrobial Peptides: New Recognition Molecules for Detecting Botulinum Toxins

  • Nadezhda V. Kulagina,
  • George P. Anderson,
  • Frances S. Ligler,
  • Kara M. Shaffer and
  • Chris Rowe Taitt

16 November 2007

Many organisms secrete antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) for protection againstharmful microbes. The present study describes detection of botulinum neurotoxoids A, Band E using AMPs as recognition elements in an array biosensor. While AMP affinitieswere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
13,478 Views
9 Pages

Ammonia Optical Sensing by Microring Resonators

  • Vittorio M. N. Passaro,
  • Francesco Dell’Olio and
  • Francesco De Leonardis

15 November 2007

A very compact (device area around 40 μm2) optical ammonia sensor based on amicroring resonator is presented in this work. Silicon-on-insulator technology is used insensor design and a dye doped polymer is adopted as sensing material. The sensor exhi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,286 Views
13 Pages

Metalloporphyrin - based Electronic Tongue: an Application for the Analysis of Italian White wines

  • Giorgio Verrelli,
  • Larisa Lvova,
  • Roberto Paolesse,
  • Corrado Di Natale and
  • Arnaldo D'Amico

15 November 2007

An Electronic Tongue system (ET) composed of “all-solid-state” potentiometricsensors was developed and applied for the identification of white wines. The sensingproperties were due to the PVC based membranes doped with several metallo-porphyrinsdepos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,590 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2007

Though one of the most significant driving forces behind ecological processessuch as biogeochemical cycles and energy flows, solar radiation data are limited or non-existent by conventional ground-based measurements, and thus, often estimated from ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,342 Views
29 Pages

15 November 2007

An important criterion of wireless sensor network is the energy efficiency inspecified applications. In this wireless multimedia sensor network, the observations arederived from acoustic sensors. Focused on the energy problem of target tracking, this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,788 Views
18 Pages

Modelling a Peroxidase-based Optical Biosensor

  • Romas Baronas,
  • Evelina Gaidamauskait˙e and
  • Juozas Kulys

14 November 2007

The response of a peroxidase-based optical biosensor was modelled digitally.A mathematical model of the optical biosensor is based on a system of non-linear reaction-diffusion equations. The modelling biosensor comprises two compartments, an enzyme l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
10,607 Views
12 Pages

13 November 2007

Impedometric zeolite hydrocarbon sensors with a chromium oxide intermediatelayer show a very promising behavior with respect to sensitivity and selectivity. Theunderlying physico-chemical mechanism is under investigation at the moment. In order tover...

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