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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,948 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Fingerprinting Technique for Data Storing and Sharing through Clouds

  • Mehvish Fatima,
  • Muhammad Wasif Nisar,
  • Junaid Rashid,
  • Jungeun Kim,
  • Muhammad Kamran and
  • Amir Hussain

17 November 2021

With the emerging growth of digital data in information systems, technology faces the challenge of knowledge prevention, ownership rights protection, security, and privacy measurement of valuable and sensitive data. On-demand availability of various...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,832 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2016

Real-time Locating Systems (RTLSs) have the ability to precisely locate the position of things and people in real time. They are needed for security and emergency applications, but also for healthcare and home care appliances. The research aims for d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,756 Views
11 Pages

Multivariate Analysis with XRD Data as a Fingerprinting Technique to Study Burned Soils

  • Débora R. Rocha,
  • Xavier Barber,
  • Manuel M. Jordán-Vidal,
  • Alexandre Urbano,
  • Fábio L. Melquiades,
  • Edivaldo L. Thomaz and
  • Jorge Mataix-Solera

2 November 2022

Fire is a natural process with recognized recurrence. However, ongoing climate change and human activities are causing some disturbances in their natural regimes in most ecosystems. It is important to improve the methodologies used to evaluate the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,420 Views
15 Pages

Discrimination/Classification of Edible Vegetable Oils from Raman Spatially Solved Fingerprints Obtained on Portable Instrumentation

  • Guillermo Jiménez-Hernández,
  • Fidel Ortega-Gavilán,
  • M. Gracia Bagur-González and
  • Antonio González-Casado

5 January 2024

Currently, the combination of fingerprinting methodology and environmentally friendly and economical analytical instrumentation is becoming increasingly relevant in the food sector. In this study, a highly versatile portable analyser based on Spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,577 Views
18 Pages

An INS/WiFi Indoor Localization System Based on the Weighted Least Squares

  • Jian Chen,
  • Gang Ou,
  • Ao Peng,
  • Lingxiang Zheng and
  • Jianghong Shi

7 May 2018

For smartphone indoor localization, an INS/WiFi hybrid localization system is proposed in this paper. Acceleration and angular velocity are used to estimate step lengths and headings. The problem with INS is that positioning errors grow with time. Us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,530 Views
16 Pages

Investigating the Origin of Non-Metallic Inclusions in Ti-Stabilized ULC Steels Using Different Tracing Techniques

  • Kathrin Thiele,
  • Christoph Truschner,
  • Christoph Walkner,
  • Thomas C. Meisel,
  • Sergiu Ilie,
  • Roman Rössler and
  • Susanne K. Michelic

15 January 2024

Since steel cleanness comes to the fore of steel producers worldwide, it is necessary to understand the formation mechanism and modification of non-metallic inclusions (NMIs) in more detail. One central point is the identification of the source of es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,571 Views
24 Pages

Integration of Isotopic and Nuclear Techniques to Assess Water and Soil Resources’ Degradation: A Critical Review

  • José L. Peralta Vital,
  • Lucas E. Calvo Gobbetti,
  • Yanna Llerena Padrón,
  • Francisco Heriberto Martínez Luzardo,
  • Oscar Díaz Rizo and
  • Reinaldo Gil Castillo

10 October 2024

Isotopic and nuclear techniques are indispensable in many fields, including health, industry, food, and agriculture. The techniques discussed, collectively known as fallout radionuclide, fingerprint, and isotope hydrology, are currently being employe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,902 Views
20 Pages

Application of PCR-Based Techniques for the Identification of Genetic Fingerprint Diversity of Dominant Bacteria in Fecal Samples of Children with Diarrhea in Vietnam

  • Thi Quy Nguyen,
  • Trong Khoa Dao,
  • Hong Duong Nguyen,
  • Thi Bich Thuy Phung,
  • Thi Thanh Nga Pham,
  • Thi Viet Ha Nguyen,
  • Thi Huong Trinh,
  • Huu Cuong Le,
  • Thi Thu Hong Le and
  • Thi Huyen Do

29 September 2024

In Vietnam, diarrhea, especially persistent diarrhea, is one of the most common diseases in children, while a significant proportion of cases are negative with pathogens; thus, there is an urgent need to understand gut bacterial dysbiosis. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,716 Views
11 Pages

Visualisation of Amphetamine Contamination in Fingerprints Using TOF-SIMS Technique

  • Małgorzata I. Szynkowska-Jóźwik,
  • Elżbieta Maćkiewicz,
  • Jacek Rogowski,
  • Magdalena Gajek,
  • Aleksandra Pawlaczyk,
  • Marcel de Puit and
  • Andrzej Parczewski

20 October 2021

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was applied to detect traces of amphetamine on fingerprints. In the present study, three different lift tapes and latent powder fingerprints were tested. The obtained results show that it is p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,670 Views
35 Pages

8 September 2020

Indoor positioning poses a number of challenges, especially in large and complex buildings. Several effects, such as signal attenuation, signal fluctuations, interference, and multipath play a decisive role in signal propagation. The severity of each...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,196 Views
32 Pages

Spectroscopic Analyses Highlight Plant Biostimulant Effects of Baker’s Yeast Vinasse and Selenium on Cabbage through Foliar Fertilization

  • Ștefan-Ovidiu Dima,
  • Diana Constantinescu-Aruxandei,
  • Naomi Tritean,
  • Marius Ghiurea,
  • Luiza Capră,
  • Cristian-Andi Nicolae,
  • Victor Faraon,
  • Constantin Neamțu and
  • Florin Oancea

21 August 2023

The main aim of this study is to find relevant analytic fingerprints for plants’ structural characterization using spectroscopic techniques and thermogravimetric analyses (TGAs) as alternative methods, particularized on cabbage treated with sel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,542 Views
20 Pages

18 March 2020

In recent years, wireless-based fingerprint positioning has attracted increasing research attention owing to its position-related features and applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, by leveraging long-term evolution (LTE) signal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,511 Views
23 Pages

Localization Approach Based on Ray-Tracing Simulations and Fingerprinting Techniques for Indoor–Outdoor Scenarios

  • Antonio Del Corte-Valiente,
  • José Manuel Gómez-Pulido,
  • Oscar Gutiérrez-Blanco and
  • José Luis Castillo-Sequera

31 July 2019

The increase of the technology related to radio localization and the exponential rise in the data traffic demanded requires a large number of base stations to be installed. This increase in the base stations density also causes a sharp rise in energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,741 Views
17 Pages

Quality Evaluation of Oviductus Ranae Based on PUFAs Using HPLC Fingerprint Techniques Combined with Chemometric Methods

  • Hongye Guo,
  • Yuanshuai Gan,
  • Min Liu,
  • Shihan Wang,
  • Shuling Ni,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Yao Xiao,
  • Zhihan Wang and
  • Yongsheng Wang

7 August 2019

Oviductus Ranae is a nutritional product for both medicine and food. Its quality is uneven due to multiple factors. An efficient method was established to evaluate the quality of Oviductus Ranae using fingerprint techniques and chemometric methods ba...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,768 Views
15 Pages

Recently, deep-learning-based indoor localisation systems have attracted attention owing to their higher performance compared with traditional indoor localization systems. However, to achieve satisfactory performance, the former systems require large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,836 Views
24 Pages

15 July 2024

There are various indoor fingerprint localization techniques utilizing the similarity of received signal strength (RSS) to discriminate the similarity of positions. However, due to the varied states of different wireless access points (APs), each AP&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,913 Views
13 Pages

Cytotoxic Activities and Fingerprint Analysis of Triterpenes by HPTLC Technique for Distinguishing Ganoderma Species from Vietnam and other Asian Countries

  • Tran Viet Hung,
  • Phan Nguyen Truong Thang,
  • Ha Minh Hien,
  • Vu Thi Diep,
  • Nguyen Thi Thu,
  • Duong Minh Tan,
  • Duy Toan Pham,
  • Do Thi Ha and
  • Duyen Thi My Huynh

6 December 2022

Ganoderma lucidum (Fr.) P. Karst. (Ganodermataceae), commonly called Linhzhi, is traditionally employed in the treatment of human diseases, including hepatitis, liver disorders, hypercholesterolemia, arthritis, bronchitis, and tumorigenic diseases. I...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,972 Views
23 Pages

Recognition of Activities of Daily Living Based on Environmental Analyses Using Audio Fingerprinting Techniques: A Systematic Review

  • Ivan Miguel Pires,
  • Rui Santos,
  • Nuno Pombo,
  • Nuno M. Garcia,
  • Francisco Flórez-Revuelta,
  • Susanna Spinsante,
  • Rossitza Goleva and
  • Eftim Zdravevski

9 January 2018

An increase in the accuracy of identification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) is very important for different goals of Enhanced Living Environments and for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) tasks. This increase may be achieved through identification...

  • Article
  • Open Access
173 Views
32 Pages

Background/Objectives: The recovery of latent fingerprints from submerged evidence remains a critical challenge in forensic science, as ridge details deteriorate rapidly once under water. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of three establis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,468 Views
20 Pages

23 February 2023

Concern for the offsite impact of eroded sediment and the need to develop effective catchment sediment management strategies has directed attention to the need for an improved understanding of the primary sediment sources within catchments and the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,582 Views
24 Pages

15 April 2017

Indoor positioning methods based on fingerprinting and radio signals rely on the quality of the radio map. For example, for room-level classification purposes, it is required that the signal observations related to each room exhibit significant diffe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
574 Citations
36,481 Views
33 Pages

19 October 2009

Breath analysis, a promising new field of medicine and medical instrumentation, potentially offers noninvasive, real-time, and point-of-care (POC) disease diagnostics and metabolic status monitoring. Numerous breath biomarkers have been detected and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,558 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Palm Oil—The Role of Screening and Advanced Analytical Techniques for Geographical Traceability and Authenticity Verification

  • Umi Salamah Ramli,
  • Noor Idayu Tahir,
  • Nurul Liyana Rozali,
  • Abrizah Othman,
  • Nor Hayati Muhammad,
  • Syahidah Akmal Muhammad,
  • Azmil Haizam Ahmad Tarmizi,
  • Norfadilah Hashim,
  • Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi and
  • Rajinder Singh
  • + 2 authors

25 June 2020

Palm oil production from oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is vital for the economy of Malaysia. As of late, sustainable production of palm oil has been a key focus due to demand by consumer groups, and important progress has been made in establishi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,698 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2025

To address issues of food authenticity, such as fraud and origin tracing, it is essential to employ methods in food fingerprinting that are efficient, economical, and easy to use. This review highlights the capabilities of vibrational spectroscopy te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,339 Views
14 Pages

Elemental Fingerprinting Combined with Machine Learning Techniques as a Powerful Tool for Geographical Discrimination of Honeys from Nearby Regions

  • Andrea Mara,
  • Matteo Migliorini,
  • Marco Ciulu,
  • Roberto Chignola,
  • Carla Egido,
  • Oscar Núñez,
  • Sònia Sentellas,
  • Javier Saurina,
  • Marco Caredda and
  • Mario A. Deroma
  • + 5 authors

12 January 2024

Discrimination of honey based on geographical origin is a common fraudulent practice and is one of the most investigated topics in honey authentication. This research aims to discriminate honeys according to their geographical origin by combining ele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,292 Views
14 Pages

Prediction of Flavor Potential of Ocimum basilicum L. Side-Stream Phytoconstituents, Using Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis and In Silico Techniques

  • Eftichia Kritsi,
  • Thalia Tsiaka,
  • Anna Boroboka,
  • Garyfallia Koletsou,
  • Spyridon Theofilatos,
  • Artemis Maggenaki,
  • Paris Christodoulou,
  • Georgia Ladika,
  • Konstantinos Tsiantas and
  • Georgios Sotiroudis
  • + 1 author

3 September 2024

Although post-distillation side-streams of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) pose significant economic and environmental challenges, they also bring forth new opportunities in the flavor industry. Thus, the objective of the current study was to assess the...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,232 Views
17 Pages

High-Throughput Fingerprinting of Rhizobial Free Fatty Acids by Chemical Thin-Film Deposition and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry

  • Aleksey Gladchuk,
  • Julia Shumilina,
  • Alena Kusnetsova,
  • Ksenia Bureiko,
  • Susan Billig,
  • Alexander Tsarev,
  • Irina Alexandrova,
  • Larisa Leonova,
  • Vladimir A. Zhukov and
  • Igor A. Tikhonovich
  • + 3 authors

Fatty acids (FAs) represent an important class of metabolites, impacting on membrane building blocks and signaling compounds in cellular regulatory networks. In nature, prokaryotes are characterized with the most impressing FA structural diversity an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,621 Views
13 Pages

Using Geochemical Fingerprints for Assessing Sediment Source Apportionment in an Agricultural Catchment in Central Argentina

  • Yanina Garcias,
  • Romina Torres Astorga,
  • Guillermo Ojeda,
  • Sergio de los Santos Villalobos,
  • Samuel Tejeda and
  • Hugo Velasco

17 December 2021

In the hilly semi-arid region of central Argentina, where the agricultural frontier expands at the expense of natural ecosystems, soil erosion is one of the most alarming environmental problems. Thus, obtaining knowledge about the dynamics of erosive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,816 Views
23 Pages

Integration of Directional Antennas in an RSS Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization System

  • Raúl Guzmán-Quirós,
  • Alejandro Martínez-Sala,
  • José Luis Gómez-Tornero and
  • Joan García-Haro

23 December 2015

In this paper, the integration of directional antennas in a room-level received signal strength (RSS) fingerprinting-based indoor localization system (ILS) is studied. The sensor reader (SR), which is in charge of capturing the RSS to infer the tag p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,395 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2016

Currently there is almost ubiquitous availability of wireless signaling for data communications within commercial building complexes resulting in receiver signal strength (RSS) observables that are typically sufficient for generating viable location...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,666 Views
21 Pages

An Introduction to Nuclear Industrial Archaeology

  • Erin I. Holland,
  • Yannick Verbelen,
  • Dean T. Connor,
  • Tomas Martin,
  • Matthew Higginson and
  • Thomas B. Scott

4 April 2023

The legacy of the early days of the Atomic Age consists of many problematic sites worldwide, including radioactive waste dumps, uranium mines, spent fuel reprocessing plants, and defunct processing and enrichment plants. Although nature quickly recla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,187 Views
13 Pages

22 July 2023

In this study, a method of mid-level data fusion with the fingerprint region was proposed, which was combined with the characteristic wavelengths that contain fingerprint information in NIR and FT-MIR spectra to detect the DON level in FHB wheat duri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,349 Views
13 Pages

Chemical Constituents, Quantitative Analysis, Anti-SARS-CoV-2 and Antioxidant Activities of Herbal Formula “Ping An Fang Yu Yin”

  • Yun-Chen Tsai,
  • Ming-Chung Lee,
  • Yu-Hui Hsieh,
  • Kun-Teng Wang,
  • Chao-Yu Chen,
  • Wu-Chang Chuang and
  • Jih-Jung Chen

27 October 2022

COVID-19 is a global pandemic infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The herbal formula, Ping An Fang Yu Yin (PAFYY), has been used to prevent respiratory viral infections for many years. This study...

  • Review
  • Open Access
434 Citations
56,953 Views
32 Pages

Advances in Chemical and Biological Methods to Identify Microorganisms—From Past to Present

  • Ricardo Franco-Duarte,
  • Lucia Černáková,
  • Snehal Kadam,
  • Karishma S. Kaushik,
  • Bahare Salehi,
  • Antonio Bevilacqua,
  • Maria Rosaria Corbo,
  • Hubert Antolak,
  • Katarzyna Dybka-Stępień and
  • Martyna Leszczewicz
  • + 6 authors

Fast detection and identification of microorganisms is a challenging and significant feature from industry to medicine. Standard approaches are known to be very time-consuming and labor-intensive (e.g., culture media and biochemical tests). Conversel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,868 Views
23 Pages

Optimized Authentication System with High Security and Privacy

  • Uttam Sharma,
  • Pradeep Tomar,
  • Syed Sadaf Ali,
  • Neetesh Saxena and
  • Robin Singh Bhadoria

13 February 2021

Authentication and privacy play an important role in the present electronic world. Biometrics and especially fingerprint-based authentication are extremely useful for unlocking doors, mobile phones, etc. Fingerprint biometrics usually store the attri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,904 Views
15 Pages

11 August 2022

Fingerprint presentation attack detection has become significant due to a wide-spread usage of fingerprint authentication systems. Well-replicated fingerprints easily spoof the authentication systems because their captured images do not differ from t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
25,057 Views
34 Pages

A Review of Fingerprint Sensors: Mechanism, Characteristics, and Applications

  • Yirong Yu,
  • Qiming Niu,
  • Xuyang Li,
  • Jianshe Xue,
  • Weiguo Liu and
  • Dabin Lin

14 June 2023

Identification technology based on biometrics is a branch of research that employs the unique individual traits of humans to authenticate identity, which is the most secure method of identification based on its exceptional high dependability and stab...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,100 Views
5 Pages

A Systematic Approach to Generate 3D Path Loss Heat Maps for WIFI Indoor Positioning

  • Ali Haider,
  • Muhammad Hussnain Farooq,
  • Hamza Mukhtar and
  • Muhammad Usman Ali

To estimate the location of an object in an indoor environment, many indoor positioning techniques have been developed in recent decades. The popularity of indoor positioning systems has increased nowadays to enable the implementation of indoor locat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,897 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2022

Fingerprints are gaining in popularity, and fingerprint datasets are becoming increasingly large. They are often captured utilizing a variety of sensors embedded in smart devices such as mobile phones and personal computers. One of the primary issues...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,711 Views
28 Pages

Fingerprint Systems: Sensors, Image Acquisition, Interoperability and Challenges

  • Akmal Jahan Mohamed Abdul Cader,
  • Jasmine Banks and
  • Vinod Chandran

21 July 2023

The fingerprint is a widely adopted biometric trait in forensic and civil applications. Fingerprint biometric systems have been investigated using contact prints and latent and contactless images which range from low to high resolution. While the ima...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,227 Views
15 Pages

4 December 2023

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the maintenance of food quality and food safety on the basis of metabolomic fingerprinting using vibrational spectroscopy combined with multivariate chemometrics. Nontargeted spectroscopy techniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,969 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2024

Fingerprint recognition systems have achieved widespread integration into various technological devices, including cell phones, computers, door locks, and time attendance machines. Nevertheless, individuals with worn fingerprints encounter challenges...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,547 Views
20 Pages

Malicious domains are part of the landscape of the internet but are becoming more prevalent and more dangerous both to companies and to individuals. They can be hosted on various technologies and serve an array of content, including malware, command...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,585 Views
16 Pages

31 March 2015

A sweeping fingerprint sensor converts fingerprints on a row by row basis through image reconstruction techniques. However, a built fingerprint image might appear to be truncated and distorted when the finger was swept across a fingerprint sensor at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,575 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2022

WiFi localization based on channel state information (CSI) fingerprints has become the mainstream method for indoor positioning due to the widespread deployment of WiFi networks, in which fingerprint database building is critical. However, issues, su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,653 Views
15 Pages

A Hybrid Deep Learning and Feature Descriptor Approach for Partial Fingerprint Recognition

  • Zhi-Sheng Chen,
  • Chrisantonius,
  • Farchan Hakim Raswa,
  • Shang-Kuan Chen,
  • Chung-I Huang,
  • Kuo-Chen Li,
  • Shih-Lun Chen,
  • Yung-Hui Li and
  • Jia-Ching Wang

Partial fingerprint recognition has emerged as a critical method for verifying user authenticity during mobile transactions. As a result, there is a pressing need to develop techniques that effectively and accurately authenticate users, even when the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,970 Views
22 Pages

31 March 2022

Great attention has been paid to indoor localization due to its wide range of associated applications and services. Fingerprinting and time-based localization techniques are among the most popular approaches in the field due to their promising perfor...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,375 Views
8 Pages

Investigation of the Process of Evolution of Traces of Explosives Carried by Fingerprints Using Polarimetric Macrophotography and Remote LF/LIF Method

  • Sergei Bobrovnikov,
  • Evgeny Gorlov,
  • Viktor Zharkov,
  • Sergei Murashko,
  • Alexander Vorozhtsov and
  • Alexander Stykon

The results of a study of the degradation of the cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) traces carried in fingerprints depending on the fingerprint number are presented. The surface concentration of the trace was assessed using macrophotography in polar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,364 Views
17 Pages

The spread of biometric systems utilizing fingerprints has increased the need for advanced spoof detection techniques, but training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with the limited number of images available in fingerprint datasets poses signifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,003 Views
11 Pages

2 December 2022

Electroanalytical chemistry is a metrological analysis technique that provides information feedback by measuring the voltammetric signal that changes when a molecule is involved in an electrochemical reaction. There is variability in the type and con...

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