The statistics of using downhole electric submersible pump (ESP) units in the oil fields of Eurasia show that hydroabrasive wear is a common cause of ESP emergency failures. The authors of this study theoretically and experimentally investigated the...
In sustainable energy applications, standalone solar power systems are mostly preferred for self-powered energy zones. In all standalone renewable power systems, batteries are still preferred as the common energy storage device. On the other hand, ba...
Glucosinolates are secondary plant metabolites that are part of the plant’s defense system against pathogens and pests and are activated via enzymatic degradation by thioglucoside glucohydrolases (myrosinases). Epithiospecifier proteins (ESPs)...
The activity of serine proteases is influenced by their substrate specificity as well as by the physicochemical conditions. Here, we present the characterization of key biochemical features of the two SPATE members EspPα and EspI from Shiga-toxin pro...
Background: Many Gram-negative enterobacteria translocate virulence proteins (effectors) into intestinal epithelial cells using a type III secretion system (T3SS) to subvert the activity of various cell functions possess. Many T3SS effectors have bee...
The energy consumption of buildings, the effectiveness of energy-saving measures, and the exploitation of energy-saving potential are strategic issues for improving the energy performance of public assets and limiting their environmental impact. Howe...
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes severe diseases in humans worldwide. One of its virulence factors is EspP, which belongs to the serine protease autotransporters of Enterobacteriaceae (SPATE) family. In this review we recapitulate the current...
Electric submersible pumps (ESPs) are widely used in the oil and gas industry for crude-oil lifting, especially in subsea oil fields or underground storage caverns. The failure of ESPs causes a large economic cost mainly attributed to a break in prod...
Different levels of EspP2 expression are seen in strains of Glaesserella parasuis with high and low pathogenicity. As a potential virulence factor for G. parasuis, the pathogenic mechanism of EspP2 in infection of host cells is not clear. To begin to...
Mobile learning for English Language Teaching (ELT) has become an emerging trend to sustain education, providing the option to learn English for Specific Purposes (ESP). However, the review of mobile learning in ESP is scarce, despite its importance...
Agriculture, or farming, is the science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock. Ever since the days of the first plow from sticks over ten thousand years ago, agriculture has always depended on technology. As technology and sci...
The quantification of entropy in images is a topic of interest that has had different applications in the field of agronomy, product generation and medicine. Some algorithms have been proposed for the quantification of the irregularity present in an...
This paper explains the design and construction of a platform that implements the ESP32 embedded system and connects it to a telephone asterisk plant, to exchange data on both sides, commands sent from a telephone to the esp32 and make calls from an...
The goal of the study is to compare the most popular protocols available in IoT (Internet of Things) nodes and how they perform across multiple samples in controlled conditions. The focus is on local telemetry transmission, in which the ESP32-C6 and...
This paper presents the design, development, and testing of a smart home automation system that integrates a Siemens LOGO! programmable logic controller (PLC) with an ESP32 microcontroller to enable dual-mode control—manual and voice-activated....
Image processing has played a relevant role in various industries, where the main challenge is to extract specific features from images. Specifically, texture characterizes the phenomenon of the occurrence of a pattern along the spatial distribution,...
This paper presents the design and experimental characterization of a distributed ESP32/MicroPython edge–cloud sensing system with packet-level latency decomposition. Sensor nodes transmit periodic telemetry to an ESP32 gateway over ESP-NOW; th...
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection can cause a broad spectrum of symptoms spanning from asymptomatic shedding to mild and bloody diarrhea (BD) and even life-threatening hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). As a member of the serine p...
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Enterococci are commonly found in humans, animals and environments. Their highly adaptive mechanisms are related to several virulent determinants and their ability to resist antibiotics. Data on the relationship between the esp gene, biofilm formatio...
The main aim of this work is to establish a sensor MESH network using an ESP-MESH networking protocol with the ESP32 MCU (a Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller) for indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring in real time. Each sensor node is deployed at a d...
Fires and fire hazards in industrial environments pose a significant risk to safety, infrastructure, and the operational community. The need for real-time monitoring systems capable of detecting fires early and transmitting alerts promptly is crucial...
Managing firmware updates in large-scale IoT deployments presents significant challenges regarding security, reliability, and operational cost. This paper presents the design and implementation of “IOTAfy”, a new, open-source, comprehensi...
One of the characteristic manifestations of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection in humans, including EHEC and Enteroaggregative E. coli O104:H4, is watery diarrhea. However, neither Shiga toxin nor numerous components of the ty...
Enteropathogenic (EPEC) and Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli are considered emerging zoonotic pathogens of worldwide distribution. The pathogenicity of the bacteria is conferred by multiple virulence determinants, including the locus of ente...
In the current context, classic software licensing and protection mechanisms based exclusively on host application checks can be circumvented by patching, emulation and replay attacks in user-controlled environments. This paper presents an adaptive h...
Phase-angle AC control is a low-cost technique for regulating power in resistive loads, but its performance depends on accurate trigger timing. This study quantitatively compares an ESP32-based phase-angle controller implemented in MicroPython and in...
LexTALE has emerged as a popular measure of language proficiency in research studies. While it has been widely validated for L2 learners across multiple languages, its applicability to heritage language learners (HLLs)—who often show distinct l...
This paper explores the application of the ESP32 microcontroller in edge computing, focusing on the design and implementation of an edge server system to evaluate performance improvements achieved by integrating edge and cloud computing. Responding t...
On one hand, the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, needs an ESP course in ecology; on the other hand, the available wordlists do not meet fully meet the needs of the target group of students, i.e., the undergraduate ecology students. This discrepancy...
This paper presents a wireless mesh network testbed based on ESP8266 devices using painlessMesh library. It evaluates its feasibility and potential effectiveness as a solution to monitor perishable goods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, which are...
Charged particles have high momentum under high-temperature conditions, which helps to promote their movement towards a dust collector in a magnetic field environment, making it possible to improve the efficiency of the high-temperature wire-plate el...
For centuries, tuberculosis has been a worldwide burden for human health, and gaps in our understanding of its pathogenesis have hampered the development of new treatments. ESX-1 is a complex machinery responsible for the secretion of virulence facto...
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, efficient, and user-friendly gateway solutions that seamlessly connect resource-constrained edge devices to cloud services. Low-cost, widely available microcontrollers, such as the...
Since intercepted sensor data can reveal user activities, lightweight cryptography is essential for protecting information in resource-constrained devices. Although ARX-based lightweight schemes offer high computational efficiency, their lack of inhe...
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments increasingly rely on low-cost microcontrollers and single-board computers to stream operational telemetry for monitoring, control, and predictive maintenance, yet the canonical “TLS-to-broker&rdq...
The increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has facilitated the creation of advanced applications in various industries, notably in complex workplaces where safety and efficiency are paramount. This paper addresses the challenge...
This article describes the development and implementation of a water resource management system utilizing open technologies such as the ESP32 microcontroller and MicroPython. This system stands out for its low cost, high efficiency and adaptability t...
Wi-Fi security analysis and testing tools are vital to ensure the safety of wireless networks. Specialised hardware and software are needed to examine the underlying technology that connects our devices wirelessly. This article explores the feasibili...
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications requires high computational efficiency, low-cost, and low-power solutions for various IoT devices. These include a wide range of microcontrollers that are used to collect, process,...
Thermal limitations restrict the performance of low-cost, vertically stacked embedded systems. This paper presents a self-referencing digital twin framework for thermal and task management in a multi-device ESP32-S3 stack. The system combines a Mixtu...
The erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a widely used technique for perioperative analgesia. It involves the infiltration of anesthetics into the interfacial plane between the erector spinae muscle and the transverse processes of the vertebrae. In ve...
A pilot anaerobic bioreactor requires near-daily monitoring and frequent maintenance. This study aimed to upgrade a pilot bioreactor into a low-cost IoT device via ESP32 microcontrollers. The methodology was based on remote data acquisition and onlin...
LoRa is a long-range, low-power wireless communication technology widely used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, its conventional implementation through Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) presents operational constraints due to it...
Multi-beam box girder bridges have been applied widely throughout the world for many years. However, the cracking of longitudinal joints between the box girders always leads to reflective cracking of the bridge decks during the service period and thu...
For the rapid, reliable, and cost-effective methods of tuberculosis (TB) auxiliary diagnosis, antibody (Ab) detection to multiple antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has great potential; however, this methodology requires optimization. We co...
In this paper, a new method for irrigation systems in agriculture has been reported. This work aims to design and implement a smart irrigation system based on the ESP32 platform and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for optimizing water usage man...
This paper presents a compact wearable patch antenna operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band for biomedical Internet of Things (IoT)-based healthcare monitoring applications. The proposed antenna is intended for integration with wearable biomedical sensors...
Vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs) can help prevent traffic accidents through wireless communication; however, most studies are based on simulations or static evaluations. This research paper presents the design, implementation, and experimental evalua...
With developments of modern and advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs), Industry 4.0 has launched big data analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI). Corpus analysis is also a part of big data a...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a technology for monitoring and controlling distributed processes. SCADA provides real-time data exchange between a control/monitoring centre and field devices connected to the distributed processes...
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