Field Observations During the Eighth Microwave Water and Energy Balance Experiment (MicroWEX-8): from June 16 through August 24, 2009 by Tara Bongiovanni, Heather Enos, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Blaire Colvin, Karthik Nagarajan, Jasmeet Judge, Pang-Wei Liu, Juan Fernandez-Diaz, Roger De Roo, Yuriy Goykhman, Xueyang Duan, Daniel Preston, Ramesh Shrestha, Clint Slatton, Mahta Moghaddam, Anthony England

“…This 68-page report presents the observations of an experiment using remotely sensed microwave observations with a view towards incorporating the findings into the models used to estimate energy and moisture fluxes and improve root zone soil moisture estimates. …”
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Remote Detection of the Electric Field Change Induced at the Seismic Wave Front from the Start of Fault Rupturing by Yukio Fujinawa, Kozo Takahashi, Yoichi Noda, Hiroshi Iitaka, Shinobu Yazaki

“…This phenomenon suggests a new seismic sensing method and a new earthquake early warning system providing more seconds of lead time.…”
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Former Food Products Safety Evaluation: Computer Vision as an Innovative Approach for the Packaging Remnants Detection by Marco Tretola, Matteo Ottoboni, Ambra Rita Di Rosa, Carlotta Giromini, Eleonora Fusi, Raffaella Rebucci, Francesco Leone, Vittorio Dell’Orto, Vincenzo Chiofalo, Luciano Pinotti

“…Nowadays, artificial senses are widely used for the detection of foreign material in food and all of them involve computer vision. …”
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2D wrinkle assisted zigzag plasmonic chains for isotropic SERS enhancement by Ziwen Yu, Swagato Sarkar, Sezer Seçkin, Ningwei Sun, Anik Kumar Ghosh, Sven Wießner, Ziwei Zhou, Andreas Fery

“…Micro spectral measurements and FDTD simulations reveal that zigzag assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticle chains offer isotropic behavior and exhibit stronger plasmonic coupling compared to 1D assemblies, which could be highly beneficial for sensing applications. Due to the responsive PANI shell encapsulating the gold nanoparticles, this 2D zigzag assembly enables flexible tuning of plasmonic resonance under pH regulation.…”
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Miniaturized thermal purge-and-trap device combined with self-calibration colorimetric/SERS dual-model optical sensors for highly rapid and selective detection of sulfur dioxide in... by Yun Wu, Meiqi Wang, Ying Gu, Kun Ge

“…The SO2 can be rapidly separated from wine and enriched by MTPT device, ensuring colorimetric/SERS dual-model optical sensing based on Karl Fischer reaction. The high separation efficiency of miniaturized MTPT device combined with self-calibration of dual-model optical sensors significantly alleviate matrix interference and improve the detection accuracy. …”
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Switching Algorithm with Prediction Strategy for Maximizing Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Network by Chuan-Jun Yi, Geng Yang, Hua Dai, Liang Liu, Ning Li

“…In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensed data of each node are usually gathered through a data collection tree rooted at the sink node. …”
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Quantification of soil losses using RUSLE model in the Boumlal watershed (Central Rif, Morocco) by El Ouazani Ech-Chahdi Khadija, El-Bouhali Abdelaziz, Amyay Mhamed

“…This contribution estimates soil losses in the Boumlal watershed by applying the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) and using GIS and remote sensing. This model incorporates five essential factors in water erosion: rainfall erosivity (R), soil erodibility (K), slope length (LS), cover management (C), and erosion control practice (P). …”
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Impedance Analysis and Optimization of Self-Powered Interface Circuit for Wireless Sensor Nodes Application by Yuan Dong, Dezhi Li, Benjamin Ducharne, Xiaohui Wang, Jun Gao, Bin Zhang

“…Finally, by connecting the energy-harvesting system, power management element, and sensing part together, a self-powered wireless sensor node is accomplished. …”
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Solar Energy Modelling over a Residential Community in the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada by Quazi K. Hassan, K. Mahmud Rahman, Anis S. Haque, Ahad Ali

“…We calculated the actual daily incident solar radiation as a function of latitude, day of year, and possible day light hours; and also employed high-resolution remote sensing images to calculate the effective roof area for installing photovoltaic cells. …”
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A Feasibility Study for Microwave Breast Cancer Detection Using Contrast-Agent-Loaded Bacterial Microbots by Yifan Chen, Panagiotis Kosmas, Sylvain Martel

“…We propose a new approach to microwave breast tumor sensing and diagnosis based on the use of biocompatible flagellated magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) adapted to operate in human microvasculature. …”
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A Swarm Robotic Exploration Strategy Based on an Improved Random Walk Method by Bao Pang, Yong Song, Chengjin Zhang, Hongling Wang, Runtao Yang

“…Because of the limited individual abilities of swarm robots, namely, local sensing and low processing power, random searching is the main search strategy used in swarm robotics. …”
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Urban Island Modeling for Semi-Arid Cities: The Case of the City of Oujda by Djebbour Mounir, Sbai Abdelkader

“…It highlighted the importance of geographic information systems and remote sensing in studying climate changes and revealing the importance of vegetation cover in reducing this phenomenon.…”
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On the Exploration of Adaptive Mechanisms Providing Reliability in Clustered WSNs for Power Plant Monitoring by Sathiyaseelan Rathinavel, Vijayakumar Pandi, Audithan Sivaraman

“…Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are used in almost every sensing and detection environment instead of wired devices in the current world, all the more in power plant monitoring applications. …”
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Simulating Intraurban Land Use Dynamics under Multiple Scenarios Based on Fuzzy Cellular Automata: A Case Study of Jinzhou District, Dalian by Jun Yang, Weiling Liu, Yonghua Li, Xueming Li, Quansheng Ge

“…For this purpose, land use data of multiple sources and remote sensing images from 2003 to 2015 were analyzed. The following results were obtained: (1) real land use data and simulation data for 2015 were tested using four indices. …”
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Performance Analysis of a Kretschmann-Based Ag-ITO-Au Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor through Numerical Simulations by Liang Zhang, Jian’an He, Tao Li, Xiaocong Wu, Dayong Gu, Sixiang Zhang, Ying Ye

“…The chip structure that comprised 20 nm Ag/30 nm ITO/10 nm Au yielded the best sensing performance, wherein the angular sensitivity could reach 197.6° RIU−1 and the figure of merit was 43.4 RIU−1. …”
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Dynamic QoS-aware intelligent edge computing resource management algorithm for body area networks by MU Siqi, WEN Shuo, LU Yang, AI Bo

“…However, the quality of service (QoS) requirements of the computing tasks in BAN varie with the urgency of the sensing data. The existing resource allocation methods in edge computing network are difficult to efficiently and flexibly support dynamic QoS of multi-source heterogeneous tasks in BAN. …”
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Responsive nanomaterials in biomedicine, patent path and prospect analysis by Xinrui Liu, Hongmei Yuan

“…Responsive nanotechnology, by sensing specific internal or external stimuli, has significantly enhanced the precision and efficiency of treatments. …”
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Using the Transversal Admittance to Understand Organic Electrochemical Transistors by Juan Bisquert, Scott T. Keene

“…The transversal admittance (drain current vs gate voltage) is used for sensing applications. However, a general theory of the transversal admittance, until now, has been incomplete. …”
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Soil Loss Assessment in Western High Atlas of Morocco: Beni Mohand Watershed Study Case by Latifa Bou-imajjane, Mhamed Alaeddine Belfoul

“…This study aims at estimating and quantifying the amount of soil loss as well as highlighting potential areas to erosion risk, using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) combined with GIS and remote sensing. The RUSLE model provides a possibility of computing erosion susceptibility for each pixel on the basis of the controlling factors which are rainfall aggressivity, topography, vegetation cover, soil erodibility, and support practices. …”
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Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary by Susmann Natalie M.

“…This article synthesizes the textual and material record, questioning which of the Argive Heraion’s visual characteristics captivated worshipers’ senses, and if worshipers’ perceptions shifted over time. …”
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