Fast charging technology is attracting attention due to the increase in the use of batteries such as EV (Electric Vehicle), LEV (Light Electric Vehicle) and ESSs (Energy Storage Systems). Fast charging of the battery has problems such as fire, heat,...
Hydrogels containing redox-sensitive colorimetric nanoparticles (NPs) have been used to sense ambient pH in many fields owing to their simple and fast visualization capabilities. However, real-time pH monitoring still has limitations due to its poor...
Landslide early warning systems (EWSs) have been widely used to reduce disaster losses. The effectiveness of a landslide EWS depends highly on the prediction methods, and it is difficult to correctly predict landslides in a timely manner. In this pap...
Unlicensed 60 GHz millimeter band has a great potential in industrial Internet of things (IIoT) owing to its continuous large bandwidth. However, the signal transmission in this band suffers from high propagation loss, thus beamforming is adopted to...
The Fast Tracker (FTK) is a highly parallel processor dedicated to a quick and efficient reconstruction of tracks in the Pixel and Semiconductor Tracker (SCT) detectors of the ATLAS experiment at LHC. It is designed to identify charged particle track...
Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is low-cost and noninvasive and has the potential for real-time imaging and bedside monitoring of brain injury. However, brain injury monitoring by EIT imaging suffers from image noise (IN) and resolution problem...
Wearable electrical sensors based on zeolites can be used for breath monitoring. The high silicon content of clinoptilolite makes this type of zeolite very adequate for fabricating sensitive water sensors. In addition to sensitivity, response fastnes...
This work proposes a fast face tracking-by-detection (FFTD) algorithm that can perform tracking, face detection and discrimination tasks. On the basis of using the kernelized correlation filter (KCF) as the basic tracker, multitask cascade convolutio...
There are numerous streamwater parameters that exhibit a diurnal cycle. However, the shape of this cycle has a huge variation from one parameter to another and from one monitoring point to another on the same river. Important variations also occur at...
Breath is one of the most important physiological features of human life. In particular, it is significant to monitor the physical characteristics of breath, such as breath frequency and tidal volume. Breath sensors play an important role in the fiel...
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is one of China’s major pieces of national infrastructure. A variable cable-net structure is used as the main supporting structure of the active reflector. The displacement of the...
Batteries have become the main power source in today’s automotive systems. This paper proposes the design of a fast-balancing passive battery management system (BMS) with remote monitoring for the automotive domain. This system is designed for...
28 October 2022
The use of multi-wavelength spectrofluorometers for the fast detection of algal taxa, based on chlorophyll a (Chl-a) emission spectra, has become a common practice in freshwater water management, although concerns about their accuracy have been raise...
Conventional methods for the detection of bacterial infection such as DNA or immunoassays are expensive, time consuming, or not definitive and thus may not provide all the information sought by medical professionals. In particular, it is difficult to...
This paper presents the investigation of the root causes of the fast degradation of a railway crossing. The dynamic performance of the crossing was assessed using the sensor-based crossing instrumentation, and the measurement results were verified us...
In this paper, a fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system based on the Android smartphone was proposed. We designed a portable low-power fetal ECG collector, which collected maternal abdominal ECG signals in real time. The ECG data were sent t...
As the amount of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data increases significantly with the high demands of nondestructive detection methods under urban roads, a method suitable for time-lapse data dynamic monitoring should be developed to quickly identify...
Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) has been implicated in numerous pathologies associated with an inflammatory component, but its selective and sensitive detection in biological settings remains a challenge. In this report, imaging of HOCl was realized with a...
Respiratory monitoring is crucial for evaluating health status and identifying potential respiratory diseases such as respiratory failure, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Humidity sensors play a significant role in this regard, and efforts are being made...
Food adulteration which is economically motivated (i.e., food fraud) is an incentive for the development and application of new and fast detection methods/instruments. An example of a fast method that is extremely environmentally friendly is near-inf...
Grapes’ infection with the fungi Botrytis cinerea is one of the major causes of economic loss in the winemaking sector worldwide. The laccase activity of grapes is considered an appropriate indicator of this type of fungal infection, and enzyma...
13 December 2022
Consumption of raw or undercooked meat is responsible for 2.3 million foodborne illnesses yearly in Europe alone. The greater part of this illness is associated with beef meat, which is used in many traditional dishes across the world. Beneath the lo...
Epidemiological studies have shown that self-reported fast eating increases the risk of diabetes and obesity. Our aim was to evaluate the acute effect of fast eating on glycemic parameters through conducting a randomized controlled cross-over study w...
Dynamic harmonic estimation is important for the monitoring and control of power-electronic grids. But the high-precision dynamic harmonic estimation algorithms usually have a heavy computational burden and occupy a large memory space, making them di...
Background: Preoperative clear fluid fasting is intended to reduce aspiration risk, but prolonged abstinence may impair hydration, comfort, and cardiovascular stability. Arterial hypotension during anesthesia induction is a common perioperative compl...
Thiophenic compounds constitute a class of sulfur compounds derived by thiophene, containing at least one thiophenic ring. Their presence in fuels (crude oil, etc.) is important and can reach 3% m/m. The combustion of fuels leads to the formation of...
Cefiderocol (C) is a parenteral siderophore cephalosporin with relevant inter-individual pharmacokinetic variability among critically ill patients, which may potentially affect effective drug exposure. Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) may concur in...
Humidity sensors with high sensitivity and fast response characteristics are of great interest for researchers. In this work, capacitive humidity sensors were fabricated using ionic liquid/cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) as the composited sensing film. T...
The performance and longevity of next-generation nuclear reactors depend on the implementation of sensing technologies able to withstand extreme conditions. This study evaluates the performance of femtosecond-laser-inscribed Fiber Bragg Grating (fs-F...
This paper presents a new intelligent monitoring and event management method for data center physical infrastructure based on multilayer node event processing. The priorities of highly classified data centers are not only the maintenance of the highe...
Intermittent religious fasting increases the risk of hypo- and hyperglycemia in individuals with diabetes, but its impact on those without diabetes has been poorly investigated. The aim of this preliminary study was to examine the effects of religiou...
As semiconductor devices approach the sub-10 nm technology node, the self-heating effect (SHE) induced by confined geometries (e.g., FinFETs and nanosheet FETs) has emerged as a critical bottleneck affecting both performance and reliability. This cha...
Approximately 40% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) experience an early-morning rise in fasting glucose that is not effectively treated by available oral hypoglycemic agents. This study aimed to determine the acute effect of consuming almond but...
Meropenem (MRP)-Vaborbactam (VBR) is a novel beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor used for the management of difficult-to-treat Gram-negative infections. Among critically ill patients, MRP-VBR shows remarkable inter-individual variability in pharmaco...
The beamforming method is capable of localizing the acoustic emission source in a large-scale structure but its accuracy relies strongly on the assumed propagation speed and it is quite time consuming to apply in online monitoring. This paper propose...
The current state of the art in hydroacoustics research employs a variety of feature extraction techniques with the goal of accurately classifying a ship based on its radiated noise. These techniques are capable of accuracy in excess of 95%. A questi...
Deformation monitoring of Gas-Insulated Transmission Lines (GILs) is critical for the early detection of structural issues and for ensuring safe power transmission. In this study, we introduce a rapid monocular measurement method that leverages deep...
Wind turbines face significant operational challenges due to their complex electromechanical systems, exposure to harsh environmental conditions, and high maintenance costs. Reliable structural health monitoring and condition monitoring are therefore...
The swelling mechanism is widely used to explain the response of ionic liquids (ILs) or poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) to moisture. While a fairly broad consensus has been attained, there are still some phenomena that are not well explained. As a complem...
The present work introduces an automated and smart system (named CageView) used to monitor a mouse, detect motion, and control access to food in accordance with experimental schedules. We describe the components of the CageView platform and give a su...
The pattern of micro-electricity production of simple two-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFC) was monitored in this study. Piggery wastewater and anaerobic sludge served as fuel and inocula for the MFC, respectively. The output power, including voltag...
This paper describes a new method for predicting trihalomethanes (THMs) presence in networks of water supply systems, using a low-cost device that permits a fast monitoring of concentrations without need of complex analysis made in laboratories. This...
The article describes a system for monitoring the vital parameters of evacuated individuals, integrating three key functionalities: pulse detection, verification of wristband contact with the skin, and motion recognition. For pulse detection, the sys...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) coupled with machine learning approaches have attracted considerable interest from academicians and industrialists. UAVs provide the advantage of operating and monitoring actions performed in a remote area, making them...
Fast-track surgery is becoming increasingly popular, whereas the monitoring of postoperative rehabilitation remains a matter of considerable debate. The aim of this study was to validate a newly developed wearable system intended to monitor knee func...
The paper focuses on real-time damage detection based on vibration studies carried out by the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) structural health monitoring team. The experiment was performed on a 1:3 scaled model of a six- story reinforced...
Due to its simplicity, time-limited eating (TLE) may represent a more feasible approach for treating adolescents with obesity compared to other caloric restriction regimens. This pilot study examines the feasibility and safety of TLE combined with co...
Computer numerical control (CNC) is a machine used in the manufacturing industry to produce components quickly for the engineering field or the desired shape. In the milling process carried out by CNC machines, sometimes vibrations occur that cause u...
In this study, we propose a methodology for the identification of potential fault occurrences of railway point-operating machines, using unlabeled signal sensor data. Data supplied by Network Rail, UK, is processed using a fast Fourier transform sign...
While acoustic emission (AE) testing can be used as a valuable technique in structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing, little research has been conducted to establish its sources, particularly in 2024-T3 aluminium alloys. The major con...
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