The Biodiversity and Bioindicators research group (BiBIO), based at the Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, has coordinated four long-term faunal monitoring programmes based on citizen science over more than two decades in Catalonia (NE Spain). We...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the increase in multi-resistant bacteria are among the most important threats to public health worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Moreover, this issue is underpinned by the One Health persp...
The Mediterranean Sea is a biodiversity and climate change hotspot. The increase in seawater temperature affects marine ecosystems causing marine species to change their distribution and abundance. Such changes lead to alterations in community compos...
Drilling rig hoisting platform security monitoring system has played a very important role in oil exploration. And drilling parameters and working condition of workers are particularly important, because these parameters indicate that whether the dri...
This paper presents a method to monitor the thermal peaks that are major concerns when designing Integrated Circuits (ICs) in various advanced technologies. The method aims at detecting the thermal peak in Systems on Chip (SoC) using arrays of oscill...
This paper presents a dynamic optimization solution for the data packet-based communication of programmable logic controller (PLC) visual monitoring, and the objective is to improve the communication efficiency between a supervisory computer and fiel...
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) offers a broad portfolio of global and regional atmospheric products that support environmental monitoring, air quality assessment, health applications and climate policy. Under the CAMS National Co...
14 March 2012
Monitoring of progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) drinking water target relies on classification of water sources as “improved” or “unimproved” as an indicator for water safety. We adjust the current Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP...
Background/Objectives: The Dutch National Immunisation Programme (NIP) aims to protect children against severe infectious diseases. As with all vaccines, adverse events following immunisation (AEFIs) may occur with the use of vaccines in the NIP. Saf...
Network monitoring is becoming increasingly challenging as networks grow in scale, speed, and complexity. The evolution of monitoring approaches reflects a shift from device-centric, localized techniques toward network-wide observability enabled by m...
Over the past few decades, there has been increasing interest in recording landscape change. Monitoring programmes have been established to measure the scope, direction and rate of change, and assess the consequences of changes for multiple interests...
Smart manufacturing relies on programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that translate sensor inputs into actuator commands. Generating PLC programs in legacy textual languages such as Mitsubishi FX-series Instruction List (IL) remains an expert-only tas...
The Sustainable Development Goals promulgate access to sanitation and hygiene for all and the end to open defecation in the framework of the human right to sanitation. Tanzania has one of the lowest levels of access to sanitation, with increasing ope...
Background/Objectives: In France, remote monitoring for chronic heart failure transitioned from the experimental ETAPES programme (Expérimentations de télémédecine pour l’amélioration des parcours de sant&eacu...
Power Spectral Density (PSD) is an essential representation of the signal spectrum that depicts the power measurement content versus frequency. PSD is typically used to characterize broadband random signals and has a variety of usages in many fields...
This paper presents a new universal programmable portable measuring device (PMD) as a complete, accurate, and efficient solution for monitoring and technical diagnostics of industrial fluid power systems. PMD has programmable functions designed for r...
Heart failure (HF) is a growing epidemic, affecting millions of people worldwide, and is a major cause of mortality, morbidity, and impaired quality of life. Traditional cardiac rehabilitation is a valuable approach to the physical and quality-of-lif...
An appropriate control and measurement system is one of the elements that allows for the safe and effective operation of a technological installation. Such a system may have a diverse structure that corresponds to the expectations and needs of its us...
Tissue engineering technology has been advanced and applied to various applications in the past few years. The presence of a bioreactor is one key factor to the successful development of advanced tissue engineering products. In this work, we develope...
As manufacturing technology advances, the shift toward smart solutions makes programmable logic controllers (PLCs) essential due to their reliability and scalability. Operational failures cause major disruptions if not detected early. Therefore, we d...
As Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are increasingly connected and integrated into the industrial Internet of things, cybersecurity threats to PLCs are also increasing. Adversaries can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack based on the transm...
System health monitoring (SHM) of a ball screw laboratory system using an embedded real-time platform based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology was developed. The ball screw condition assessment algorithms based on machine learning app...
Medication errors (MEs) often prelude guilt and fear in health care professionals (HCPs), thereby resulting in under-reporting and further compromising patient safety. To improve patient safety, we conducted a study on the implementation of a volunta...
This research presents a sleep posture monitoring system designed to assist the elderly and patient attendees. Monitoring sleep posture in real time is challenging, and this approach introduces hardware-based edge computation methods. Initially, we d...
This paper proposes a novel architecture of a wearable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based platform to dynamically monitor Muscle Fiber Conduction Velocity (MFCV). The system uses a set of wireless sensors for the detection of muscular activat...
Computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines have evolved to adapt to increasing technological and industrial requirements. To cover these needs, new generation machines have to perform monitoring strategies by incorporating multiple sensors. Since...
The design of materials with programmable degradation profiles presents a fundamental challenge in pattern recognition across molecular space, requiring the identification of complex structure–property relationships within an exponentially larg...
The control circuits of blood pressure have a strong neural regulatory element important in the pathogenesis of essential drug-resistant hypertension. Targeting lower medullary neural control mechanisms of blood pressure by electrical stimulation cou...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly accessible tools with widespread use as environmental monitoring systems. They can be used for anthropogenic marine debris survey, a recently growing research field. In fact, while the increas...
14 September 2024
Precision agriculture (PA) technologies combined with remote sensors, GPS, and GIS are transforming the agricultural industry while promoting sustainable farming practices with the ability to optimize resource utilization and minimize environmental i...
The fundamental importance of groundwater for urban drinking water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly recognised. However, little is known about the trends in urban groundwater development by individual households and its role in securing...
Attacks on embedded devices are becoming more and more prevalent, primarily due to the extensively increasing plethora of software vulnerabilities. One of the most dangerous types of these attacks targets application code at run-time. Techniques to d...
During recent years, several eutrophication processes and subsequent environmental crises have occurred in Mar Menor, the largest hypersaline coastal lagoon in the Western Mediterranean Sea. In this study, the Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 satellites are...
The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) proposal includes few improvements compared to previous programming periods which may reinforce future evaluation, but we can also observe elements that may weaken the assessment, with the risk of repeating pa...
Human activities coupled with climate change impacts are becoming the main factors in decreasing inland surface water quantity and quality, leading to the disturbance of the aquatic ecological balance. Under such conditions, the introduction and prol...
Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and satellites are used for monitoring and assessing the quality of surface waters. Combining both sensors in a joint tool may scale local water quality retrieval models to regional and global scales by translating UAS-b...
Ultra-high-frequency (UHF) partial discharge (PD) online monitoring is an effective way to inspect potential faults and insulation defects in power transformers. The construction of UHF PD online monitoring system is a challenge because of the high-f...
In recent years, the increased interest in energy conservation and environmental protection, combined with the development of modern communication and computer technology, has resulted in the replacement of distributed heating by central heating in u...
30 July 2012
Infrastructural problems force South African households to supplement their drinking water consumption from water resources of inadequate microbial quality. Microbial water quality monitoring is currently based on the Colilert®18 system which leads t...
The online Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation of underground cables and their reliability analysis requires obtaining the cable failure time probability distribution. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of complex thermal heating and electro-thermal deg...
This paper presents the design and experimental characterization of a portable high-precision single-phase lock-in instrument with phase adjustment. The core consists of an analog lock-in amplifier IC prototype, integrated in 0.18 µm CMOS techn...
Flooding is among the most common natural disasters in our planet and one of the main causes of economic and human life loss worldwide. Evidence suggests the increase of floods at European scale with the Mediterranean coast being critically vulnerabl...
NMR Relaxation (NMRR) is an extremely useful quantitative technique for material science, particularly for studying polymers and porous materials. NMR Cryoporometry (NMRC) is a powerful technique for the measurement of pore-size distributions and tot...
As data center networks grow in scale and complexity, the active inband network telemetry (AINT) system collects a broader range of network status metrics to provide comprehensive visibility for AINT-related network applications, but it also leads to...
Access to clean water is fundamental to public health and safety, serving as the cornerstone of well-being in communities. Despite the significant investments of millions of dollars in water testing and treatment processes, the United States continue...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents can propose financial transactions, but model output should not itself grant execution authority. We develop Authority–Inference Separation (AIS), in which an independent control plane evaluates a typed finan...
Resonant electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces are being investigated for sensing, radio-frequency energy harvesting, selective shielding, and wavefront control in buildings. This review examines these functions in relation to the materials,...
The application of polar pesticides in agricultural production has been of great interest due to their low costs and their high effectiveness. For this reason, the possibility of their transfer to foods of animal origin is of great concern for human...
28 August 2020
The slow decrease in child stunting rates in East Africa warrants further research to identify the influence of contributing factors such as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). This study investigated the association between child length and WASH...
The activity of enterprises in the energy sector is complicated by the complexity and capital intensity of the resources and processes used. In the current market conditions, an additional challenge is the implementation of sustainable development, i...
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