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Background: Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) comprise several different chemical families used mainly as additives in many everyday products. SVOCs can be released into the air as aerosols and deposit on particulate matter during use by dispersion, e ...

2023

Portable impedance-sensing device for microorganism characterization in the field

Sandro Carrara, Karim Bouzid

A variety of biosensors have been proposed to quickly detect and measure the properties of individual microorganisms among heterogeneous populations, but challenges related to cost, portability, stability, sensitivity, and power consumption limit their app ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Hand exoskeleton for rehabilitation and assistance of hand motor functions

Luca Randazzo

A device and system for e.g. rehabilitation and assistance of hand motor functions, in particular a portable and underactuated hand exoskeleton for use in activities of daily living, is disclosed. ...

2022

Cardiovascular monitoring system

Marco Mattavelli, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino, Kerim Türe, Mustafa Besirli

A cardiovascular monitoring system for measuring at least cardiac output comprises an implantable unit (2) configured for placement in a section of artery of a patient and a portable external unit (1) configured for mounting against or close to a patient's ...

2022

Using effective medium theories to design tailored nanocomposite materials for optical systems

Toralf Scharf, Friedrich Daniel Werdehausen

Modern optical systems are subject to very restrictive performance, size and cost requirements. Especially in portable systems size often is the most important factor, which necessitates elaborate designs to achieve the desired specifications. However, cur ...

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Linking Models and Experiments

Dominique Bonvin, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues, René Uwe Schneider

This position paper gives an overview of the discussion that took place at FIPSE 2 at Aldemar Resort, east of Heraklion, Crete, in June 21-23, 2014. This is the second conference in the series "Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering" (http://fi-i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Widgets and Spaces : Personal & Contextual Portability and Plasticity with OpenSocial

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Social media platforms are created and exploited for various activities carried out individually or collaboratively and relying on different resources and tools. Social media platforms are inherently contextual; the context being defined as a specific acti ...

EPFL2013

Ultra high-speed electronics for power system dynamic emulation

Laurent Fabre

Modern society is dependent on reliable electricity for security, health, communication, transportation, finance, computers and nearly all aspects of the contemporary life. Providing reliable electricity is a very complex challenge. It involves real-time m ...

EPFL2013

Gyroscopic assistance for human balance

Falls are an urgent challenge in aging societies, and balance dysfunction is a major risk factor. Current robotic technology that assists human locomotion, however, aims at versatile functionality, particularly in the assistance of weak muscles. Such versa ...

2012

Rotation, Scale and Translation invariant image retrieval method based on Circular Segmentation and Color Density

Pierre-André Farine, Sara Grassi Pauletti, Pradyumna Ayyalasomayajula

We propose a fast and efficient method for Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) which uses color densities within concentric circular zones of the image, encompassing edge-pixels. This method is invariant to Rotation, Scale and Translation (RST). Small-siz ...

IEEE2011