Determining the Proper Force Parameters for Robotized Pipetting Devices Used in Automated Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) by Melania-Olivia Sandu, Valentin Ciupe, Corina-Mihaela Gruescu, Robert Kristof, Carmen Sticlaru, Elida-Gabriela Tulcan

“…The selected approach is to measure forces using the robot’s built-in force–torque sensor while controlling and limiting the pipette’s gripping force and the robot’s pushing force. …”
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Development of Automatic 3D Blood Vessel Search and Automatic Blood Sampling System by Using Hybrid Stereo-Autofocus Method by Eiji Nakamachi, Yusuke Morita, Yoshifumi Mizuno

“…Additionally, we established an automatic blood sampling system for SMBG and assessed its performance in relation to punctures, blood suction, transport, and discharge on an enzyme sensor. The 3D BVS and automatic blood sampling system are adequate for use in a portable SMBG device.…”
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An Efficient Coordinated Observer LQR Control in a Platoon of Vehicles for Faster Settling Under Disturbances by Nandhini Murugan, Mohamed Rabik Mohamed Ismail

“…The disturbances considered include vehicle movements, sensor noise, and communication delays, with the leading vehicle’s movement serving as the commanding signal. …”
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Small fishing boat classification and recognition method based on GASF temporal graph coding and EMPViT model by Jiaqi Deng, Xin Liu, Gang Du, Xu Yang, Liangzhong Jiang, Chenglong Sun

“…Unlike traditional approaches, this study initially employs a high-precision laser sensor to gather one-dimensional contour data of fishing boats. …”
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Bis(trans-cinnamaldehyde)-1,3-propanediimine) mercury(II)chloride, [Hg(BPPPB)Cl2] as Carrier for Construction of Iodide Selective Electrode by G. Karimipour, S. Gharaghani, R. Ahmadpour

“…The sensors have stable responses times of ≤ 5 s and give stable response after conditioning in 0.05 M KI for 24 h with its response is stable at least 2 months without any considerable divergence in its potential response characteristics. …”
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Robot Obstacle Avoidance Learning Based on Mixture Models by Huiwen Zhang, Xiaoning Han, Mingliang Fu, Weijia Zhou

“…The main idea is to imitate the obstacle avoidance mechanism of human beings, in which humans learn to make a decision based on the sensor information obtained by interacting with environment. …”
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A State-Space Modeling Approach for Active Structural Acoustic Control by Leopoldo P.R. de Oliveira, Paulo S. Varoto, Paul Sas, Wim Desmet

“…This kind of models should allow the inclusion of sensors and actuators models, if accurate performance indexes are to be accessed. …”
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Exploring a Design of Landslide Monitoring System by Rahat Khan, Suhail Yousaf, Abdul Haseeb, Muhammad Irfan Uddin

“…In general, some location-specific factors trigger a landslide. Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an enabling technology to monitor most of the parameters associated with these factors. …”
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WF-PPG: A Wrist-finger Dual-Channel Dataset for Studying the Impact of Contact Pressure on PPG Morphology by Matthew Yiwen Ho, Hung Manh Pham, Aaqib Saeed, Dong Ma

“…However, the quality of PPG signals, particularly their morphology, is influenced by the contact pressure between the skin and the sensor. This variability in signal quality complicates complex tasks that rely on high-quality signals, such as blood pressure and heart rate variability estimation, making them less reliable or even impossible. …”
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Real-Time Communications in Large-Scale Wireless Networks by Liang Song, Dimitrios Hatzinakos

“…The applications can include wireless mesh infrastructure for broadband Internet access supporting multimedia services, visual sensor networks for surveillance, and disaster-relief networks. …”
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A mutation in LXRα uncovers a role for cholesterol sensing in limiting metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis by Alexis T. Clark, Lillian Russo-Savage, Luke A. Ashton, Niki Haghshenas, Nicolas A. Amselle, Ira G. Schulman

“…Abstract Liver x receptor alpha (LXRα) functions as an intracellular cholesterol sensor that regulates lipid metabolism at the transcriptional level in response to the direct binding of cholesterol derivatives. …”
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Temporal Dynamics and Electronic Nose Detection of Stink Bug-Induced Volatile Emissions from Cotton Bolls by David C. Degenhardt, Jeremy K. Greene, Ahmad Khalilian

“…Principal components analysis of E-nose sensor data showed distinct (100%) separation between stink bug-injured and healthy bolls after two days of feeding. …”
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Detection and simulation of Kermanshah dust storm using HYSPLIT and WRF-chem models by Tooba Alizadeh, Majid Rezaei Banafsheh, Hashem Rostamzadeh, Gholamreza Goodarzi, Hedar Maleki, Hamzeh Alizadeh

“…The spatial distribution of the dust interpreted by the MODIS sensor images is consistent with the spatial distribution of the dust concentration simulated by the WRF-chem model.…”
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Utilizing FRET-based Biosensors to Measure Cellular Phosphate Levels in Mycorrhizal Roots of Brachypodium distachyon by Shiqi Zhang, Lucas Jurgensen, Maria Harrison

“…A complementary control sensor, cpFLIPPi-Null, is introduced to monitor non-Pi-specific changes. …”
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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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Plasmonic Band-Pass Microfilters for LWIR Absorption Spectroscopy by J. M. Banks, P. D. Flammer, T. E. Furtak, R. E. Hollingsworth, R. T. Collins

“…An output transmission grating on the other side of the structure pulls light out of the waveguide where it is detected by a closely spaced sensor. Fabrication of the filters can be performed using standard photolithography procedures. …”
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Improved Newton Iterative Algorithm for Fractal Art Graphic Design by Huijuan Chen, Xintao Zheng

“…Through the area division method of the system composed of the sensor array, the effective initial value of iterative calculation is selected in the corresponding area for subsequent iterative calculation. …”
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Measurement of the Characteristics of TIDs Using Small and Regional Networks of GPS Receivers during the Campaign of 17–30 July of 2008 by Cesar E. Valladares, Matthew A. Hei

“…This scientific report presents the results of a dedicated experiment that was conducted within the framework of the Low-latitude ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) observatory to measure the characteristics of medium-scale (hundreds of km) Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) as they transit through the low-latitude ionosphere. …”
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Differential Dynamics of ATR-Mediated Checkpoint Regulators by Daniël O. Warmerdam, Roland Kanaar, Veronique A. J. Smits

“…Little was known about the spatio and temporal behaviour of the proteins involved, and we, therefore, examined the behaviour of the ATRIP-ATR and Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 putative DNA damage sensor complexes and the downstream effector kinase Chk1. …”
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Secure Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for the Cognitive Radio Network Using Nonuniform Reliability by Muhammad Usman, Insoo Koo

“…Users with poor channel or faulty sensor are assigned low reliability. The nonuniform reliabilities serve as identification tags and are used to isolate users with malicious behavior. …”
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