Assessing low-back loading during lifting using personalized electromyography-driven trunk models and NIOSH-based risk levels by Mohamed Irfan Refai, Tiwana Varrecchia, Giorgia Chini, Alberto Ranavolo, Massimo Sartori

“…These approaches can be implemented with wearable sensorized garments to monitor personalized musculoskeletal health unobtrusively in the workplace providing us a better insight into possibility of individual risk.…”
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Enhancing Hand Rehabilitation Through Interactive Design by Xiaotian Sun, Sitong Lu, Jiaqi Fan

“…Here, we report a flexible curvature sensor-based data glove, equipped with a built-in light trigger system, which is expected to provide active signal feedback for better human machine interface experience. …”
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Children Tracking System Based on ZigBee Wireless Network and Neural Network by Nadia Ahmed, Sadik Kamel Gharghan, Ammar Hussein Mutlag, M. G. M. Abdolrasol

“…This paper proposes an indoor localization system based on ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN) and Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network (BP-ANN) to locate the child in an indoor environment. …”
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Loss-Aware Histogram Binning and Principal Component Analysis for Customer Fleet Analytics by Kunxiong Ling, Jan Thiele, Thomas Setzer

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate the benefits of estimating information losses and the representativeness of total loss in evaluating the accuracy of k-means clustering for a real-world customer fleet dataset. For preprocessing sensor data which are aggregated from sufficient number of samples, continuously distributed, and can be represented by Beta-distributions, we recommend not to coarsen the histogram binning before PCA.…”
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Combustion and engine roughness of water − jojoba biodiesel emulsions in diesel engine by Ihab Ayad, Mohamed Y.E. Selim, Mamdouh T. Ghannam

“…The engine analysis was conducted using a single-cylinder diesel engine equipped with a pressure sensor in the combustion chamber, an accelerometer for vibration measurement, microphone condenser probe for noise, an external flow meter to measure the fuel flow rate, and an orifice meter to measure the air flow rate. …”
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Adaptive Cruise Control Utilizing Noisy Multi-Leader Measurements: A Learning-Based Approach by Ying-Chuan Ni, Victor L. Knoop, Julian F. P. Kooij, Bart van Arem

“…Nevertheless, measurements collected from the second leader may be comparatively inaccurate given the limitations of current state-of-the-art sensor technology. This study adopts deep reinforcement learning to develop ACC controllers that besides the input from the first leader exploits the additional information obtained from the second leader, albeit noisy. …”
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Metabolic Basis for Thyroid Hormone Liver Preconditioning: Upregulation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling by Luis A. Videla, Virginia Fernández, Pamela Cornejo, Romina Vargas

“…In this context, adenosine-monophosphate- (AMP-) activated protein kinase (AMPK) constitutes an intrahepatic energy sensor regulating physiological energy dynamics by limiting anabolism and stimulating catabolism, thus increasing ATP availability. …”
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Application of PS2M Aptamer as Receptor Layer for Electrochemical Detection of Lead Ions by Izabela Zaras, Olga Kujawa, Marcin Olszewski, Marta Jarczewska

“…Moreover, the sensing layer exhibited high selectivity towards lead ions and was successfully applied both for the analysis of tap water spiked with Pb²⁺ ions and as a miniaturized sensor. Finally, stability and regeneration studies on the aptamer-based receptor layer were executed to confirm the utility of the elaborated tool.…”
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Visualization and research methodology of three-dimensional magnetic field of suspended electromagnetic iron separator with typesetting poles and pole tips by A. V. Radchenko, K. I. Nikitin, A. S. Tatevosyan, R. T. Tazhiyev

“…Based on this, the article describes a test stand and a research method of the three-dimensional magnetic field of the electromagnetic iron separator using measuring a vector-component of magnetic induction by teslameter with Hall effect sensor. Based on the processing of experimental data the visualization of the spatial distribution of the module and vector-components of magnetic induction and ponderomotive (magnetic) force in Excel are presented. …”
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Clinical Evaluation of Subcutaneous Lactate Measurement in Patients after Major Cardiac Surgery by Martin Ellmerer, Martin Haluzik, Jan Blaha, Jaromir Kremen, Stepan Svacina, Andreas Plasnik, Dimas Ikeoka, Manfred Bodenlenz, Lukas Schaupp, Johannes Plank, Thomas R. Pieber

“…During critical illness, the addition of a lactate sensor might enhance prognosis and early intervention. …”
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A Compliant Active Roller Gripper with High Positional Offset Tolerance for Delicate Spherical Fruit Handling by Haoran Zhu, Huanhuan Qin, Zicheng Qiu, Xinwen Chen, Jinlin Xue, Xingjian Gu, Mingzhou Lu

“…An integrated pressure sensor within the active roller further enhances the gripper’s compliance. …”
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OMP38 of Carbapenem‐Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii‐Mediated mtDNA Release Activates the cGAS‐STING Signaling to Induce Inflammatory Response by Yang Yang, Yuanyuan Zeng, Jianjie Zhu, Jianjun Li, Lei Gu, Lin Wei, Zeyi Liu, Jian‐an Huang

“…The knockout of STING reduced bacterial burden, the production of inflammatory cytokines, and lung injury in mice post CRAB infection. The cytosolic DNA sensor cyclic GMP‐AMP synthase (cGAS) and the adaptor protein stimulator of interferon genes (STING) are required for CRAB‐induced IFN‐β expression in macrophages. …”
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Design and Optimization of a New Type of the Back Pressure Reducing Back-lifting Mechanism by Pan Ao, Yu Chengtao, Sun Xuebin, Huang Guangming, Zhou Xiangyu

“…Finally, a prototype testing is conducted to verify the lifting angle of the back plate and the smoothness during the lifting process through an angle sensor.…”
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Development of a photoacoustic acquisition system and their proof-of-concept for hemoglobin detection by Bruna Pinheiro, Vânia Pinto, Hugo Dinis, Michael Belsley, Susana Catarino, Graça Minas, Paulo Sousa

“…PA systems combine an illumination source to excite the sample molecules, with an ultrasound sensor to measure the generated ultrasonic waves, combining the advantages of optics and acoustic methodologies to safely acquire tridimensional signals and images at various depths.This work is focused on the design, implementation and test of an acquisition electronics circuit, based on the PA principle, for hemoglobin (Hb) detection, aiming towards a future integration within an OoC platform. …”
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Design of high uniform magnetic field with four coils based on improved wolf pack algorithm by Xuehua Zhu, Juntao Ye, Ziruo Ren, Xinyu Liu

“…This progress supports applications reliant on uniform magnetic fields, such as geomagnetic navigation, sensor calibration, and magnetic guidance systems, opening up possibilities for future applications of intelligent optimization algorithms in intricate physical and engineering tasks.…”
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A 13-level switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverter with reduced components and inrush current limitation by Hossein Mansourizadeh, Majid Hosseinpour, Ali Seifi, Mahdi Shahparasti

“…The flying capacitor used in the proposed design can naturally balance at half of the input DC voltage (0.5Vdc), enabling sensor-free operation. Therefore, with simple control over the inherent voltage balancing of the capacitors, the structure requires only six switching signals, which reduces the overall system cost. …”
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Colorimetric Thermography by a Long‐Infrared Dual‐Band Metalens by Zhendong Luo, Peng Zhang, Huwang Hou, Yiming Li, Binzhao Li, Yanji Yi, Lianjie Xu, Ting Meng, Zihan Geng, Mu Ku Chen, Yang Zhao

“…However, this method has the trade‐off of necessitating bulky optical systems, complex filter imaging configurations, and sensor structures. To meet the requirements of IR thermography for compact structure, lightweight design, and customizability, a dual‐band metalens is developed for the IR colorimetric thermography. …”
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Influence of next-generation artificial intelligence on headache research, diagnosis and treatment: the junior editorial board members’ vision – part 2 by Igor Petrušić, Chia-Chun Chiang, David Garcia-Azorin, Woo-Seok Ha, Raffaele Ornello, Lanfranco Pellesi, Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Ruth Ruscheweyh, Marta Waliszewska-Prosół, William Wells-Gatnik

“…Digital twins, as dynamic digital representations of patients, offer opportunities for personalized headache management by integrating diverse datasets such as neuroimaging, multiomics, and wearable sensor data to advance headache research, optimize treatment, and enable virtual trials. …”
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Influence of Shape and Piezoelectric-Patch Length on Energy Conversion of Bluff Body-Based Wind Energy Harvester by Changjiang Zhang, Lin Ding, Lin Yang, Zuomei Yang, Zesheng Yang, Li Zhang

“…The technology of scavenging ambient energy to realize self-powered of wireless sensor has an important value in practice. In order to investigate the effects of piezoelectric-patch length and the shape of front bluff body on energy conversion of the wind energy harvester by flow-induced vibration, the characteristics of a piezoelectric wind energy harvester based on bluff body are experimentally studied in this work. …”
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TX to RX Compact Leakage Cancellation Impedance Tuner for 60 GHz Monostatic Doppler Radar by Ahmad Mushtaq, Thomas Mausolf, Wolfgang Miesch, Nasir Uddin, Wolfgang Winkler, Dietmar Kissinger

“…Monostatic radar shares a single antenna between the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) and offers an advantage of the reduced sensor size. However, due to the limited isolation of the coupler, the TX signal leaking into the RX significantly degrades the performance of the monostatic doppler radar. …”
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