A Simple Way to Achieve Self-Cleaning Surfaces with Unique Antifouling Property by Caizhen Yao, Shizhen Xu, Xiaodong Jiang, Jiaxuan Chen, Xiaodong Yuan

“…Self-cleaning surfaces may have wide applications such as microfluidic devices, lab-on-a-chip, sensors, microreactors, air purification, and antimicrobial fields. …”
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Current Strategies and Future Directions of Wearable Biosensors for Measuring Stress Biochemical Markers for Neuropsychiatric Applications by Zach Sheffield, Priyanka Paul, Shraddha Krishnakumar, Dipanjan Pan

“…Wearable biochemical sensors (WBSs) have the potential to fill this gap, however, the technology is still in its infancy. …”
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Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite for Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting Systems by null Sonika, Sushil Kumar Verma, Siddhartha Samanta, Ankit Kumar Srivastava, Sonali Biswas, Rim M. Alsharabi, Shailendra Rajput

“…The hybridization of conducting polymer with inorganic hybrid and organic nanomaterials also resulted in multifunctional hybrid nanocomposites with better capabilities in a variety of devices, including sensors, energy storage, energy harvesting, and defensive devices. …”
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Human Hand Motion Analysis during Different Eating Activities by Zakia Hussain, Norsinnira Zainul Azlan, Arif Zuhairi bin Yusof

“…A glove consisting of bend and force sensors has been used to capture the motion and contact force exerted by fingers during different eating activities. …”
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Magnetic field characterization of edge currents in quantum spin Hall insulators by Felipe A Pinto, Ricardo C Heitzer, Eitan Dvorquez, Roberto Rodriguez, Qiang Sun, Andrew D Greentree, Brant C Gibson, Jerónimo R Maze

“…In 2D strips, the application of a bias voltage along the edge generates a magnetization that can be measured using quantum sensors and magnetometry techniques. In this work, we calculate the magnetic field in the vicinity of the edge and explore the potential role of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as local probes for the characterization of QSH edge states in topological insulators. …”
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Effect of Ionic Liquids on the Physical Properties of the Newly Synthesized Conducting Polymer by Dong Uk Lee, Jin Yeong Jeong, Ji Woong Han, Gi-Chung Kwon, Pankaj Attri, In Tae Kim

“…Conducting polymer has many applications in electronics, optical devices, sensors, and so on; however, there is still a massive scope of improvement in this area. …”
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Hands-Free Maneuvers of Robotic Vehicles via Human Intentions Understanding Using Wearable Sensing by Weitian Wang, Rui Li, Longxiang Guo, Z. Max Diekel, Yunyi Jia

“…The human intentions are interpreted and modeled based on the fuzzy control using the forearm postures and muscle activities information detected by a wearable sensory system, which incorporates electromyography (EMG) sensors and inertial measurement unit (IMU). Based on the maneuver intention understanding model, the human can flexibly, intuitively, and conveniently control diverse vehicle maneuvers only using his intention expressions. …”
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Method for User Interface of Large Displays Using Arm Pointing and Finger Counting Gesture Recognition by Hansol Kim, Yoonkyung Kim, Eui Chul Lee

“…Furthermore, because almost all pointing gesture recognition methods use a wide-angle camera, additional sensors or cameras are required to concurrently perform finger gesture recognition. …”
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Detecting Different Road Infrastructural Elements Based on the Stochastic Characterization of Speed Patterns by Mario Muñoz-Organero, Ramona Ruiz-Blázquez

“…The automatic detection of road related information using data from sensors while driving has many potential applications such as traffic congestion detection or automatic routable map generation. …”
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Uniform Local Binary Pattern for Fingerprint Liveness Detection in the Gaussian Pyramid by Yujia Jiang, Xin Liu

“…Experiments based on standard databases, taken from Liveness Detection Competition 2013 composed of four different fingerprint sensors, have been carried out. Finally, classifier model based on extracted features is trained using SVM classifier. …”
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STRETCH FORMING USING HEATED DIE by COSMIN CONSTANTIN GRIGORAȘ, BOGDAN CHIRIȚĂ, VALENTIN ZICHIL, EUGEN HERGHELEGIU, CĂTĂLIN TÂMPU, VLAD CIUBOTARIU

“…In this experimental study, a heated die approach was taken into consideration. 6x60 mm 100W heating elements along with temperature sensors were fitted into the die. The USB/OC326009 metal sheet is in direct contact with the die, thus assuring the heat transfer, as the temperatures reach 200 °C. …”
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Optimization of Music Feature Recognition System for Internet of Things Environment Based on Dynamic Time Regularization Algorithm by Hong Kai

“…The physical sensing layer of the system places sound sensors at different locations to collect the original music signals and uses a digital signal processor to carry out music signal analysis and processing. …”
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Enhancement of Performance for Steam Turbine in Thermal Power Plants Using Artificial Neural Network and Electric Circuit Design by Hosham Salim, Khalid Faisal, Raheel Jawad

“…The electric circuit of sensors consists of transformer, DC bridge, and voltage regulator. …”
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Experimental Study on Double Row Micropiles and Anchors Composite Retaining Structure in Deep Fill Site by Wenfeng Liu, Jie Mao, Hongxing Zhao, Guangbiao Shao

“…In this study, based on the excavation in a deep filling site in Jinan, the double row micropiles and anchors composite retaining structure is monitored under excavation, loading, and unloading conditions by installing sensors and testing. The stress and axial force distribution of the front and back row micropiles and anchors in the composite retaining system under different excavation depths and different loads are analyzed. …”
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Computed Tomography Image Segmentation of Lung Corona Virus Infection Region Based on Combination of Grayscale Morphological Reconstruction and Fast Marching Method by Aws Alazawi, Abbas Fadhal Humadi, Huda Farooq Jameel, Huda Ali Hashim, John Soraghan

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Ab initio Investigation of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Alkaline Earth Metal - TiO2 Natural Polymorphs by Jane Kathure Mbae, Zipporah Wanjiku Muthui

“…Titanium (IV) oxide (TiO2) has gained much attention due to its application in technologies such as optoelectronics, electronics, sensors, photocatalysts, and sustainable energy generation. …”
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Development of a Theoretical Delay Model for Heterogeneous and Less Lane-Disciplined Traffic Conditions by Abdhul Khadhir, Ashish Bhaskar, Lelitha Vanajakshi, Md. Mazharul Haque

“…In developing countries with limited or no availability of traffic sensors, theoretical delay models are the most commonly used tool to estimate control delay at intersections. …”
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An embedded intrusion detection and prevention system for home area networks in advanced metering infrastructure by Sahar Lazim Qaddoori, Qutaiba Ibrahim Ali

“…So, the proposed system employs one machine learning model based on IDPS to guard the HAN network from various attacks that utilise the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport protocol between the smart metre and IoT sensors. Also, it uses two machine learning models to detect the abnormality in periodic and daily data metering respectively. …”
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Hydrological Evaluation of Satellite Soil Moisture Data in Two Basins of Different Climate and Vegetation Density Conditions by Lu Zhuo, Dawei Han

“…Two widely used microwave sensors (SMOS and AMSR-E) are evaluated, over two basins (French Broad and Pontiac) with different climate types and vegetation covers. …”
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Automated mechanical ventilator design and analysis using neural network by S. Hariharan, Hemalatha Karnan, D. Uma Maheswari

“…The trained features serve as input to the sensors present in the mimicked lung model. The performance metrics of FFNN during the training and testing phases substantiate the optimal performance of the ventilator. …”
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