Sample Preparation in LC‐MS Bioanalysis

Sample preparation is a pivotal part of the integral LC‐MS bioanalysis, which has been heavily employed in the determination of drugs, drug metabolites, biomarkers, and other molecules of interest in various biological matrices (e.g. fluids or tissues) for decades. It has been playing an important role in a variety of human healthcare studies, ranging from drug discovery and development, th…

Educational Technology

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A Framework for Daily Activity Monitoring and Fall Detection Based on Surface…

Abstract—As an essential branch of context awareness, activity awareness, especially daily activity monitoring and fall detection, is important to healthcare for the elderly and patients with chronic diseases. In this paper, a framework for activity awareness using surface electromyography and accelerometer (ACC) signals is proposed. First, histogram negative entropy was employed to determine…

A Collaborative Biomedical Image-Mining Framework: Application on the Image A…

Abstract—The analysis and characterization of biomedical image data is a complex procedure involving several processing phases, such as data acquisition, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction, and classification. The proper combination and parameterization of the utilized methods are heavily relying on the given image dataset and experiment type. They may thus necessitate advanced i…

Objective Study of Sensor Relevance for Automatic Cough Detection

Abstract—Thedevelopmentofasystemfortheautomatic,objective, and reliable detection of cough events is a need underlined by the medical literature for years. The benefit of such a tool is clear as it would allow the assessment of pathology severity in chronic cough diseases. Even though some approaches have recently reportedsolutionsachievingthistaskwitharelativesuccess,thereis stillnostandard…

Adaptive Calibration Algorithm for Plasma Glucose Estimation in Continuous Gl…

Abstract—Minimally or noninvasive continuous glucose monitors estimate plasma glucose from compartments alternative to blood, and may revolutionize the management of diabetes. However, the accuracy of current devices is still poor and it may partly depend on low performance of the implemented calibration algorithm. Here, a new adaptive calibration algorithm based on a population local-model-b…

ACM-Based Automatic Liver Segmentation From 3-D CT Images by Combining Multip…

Abstract—In this paper, we present an autocontext model (ACM)-basedautomaticliversegmentationalgorithm,whichcombines ACM, multiatlases, and mean-shift techniques to segment liver from 3-D CT images. Our algorithm is a learning-based method and can be divided into two stages. At the first stage, i.e., the training stage, ACM is performed to learn a sequence of classifiers in each atlas space…

A Survey on Ambient-Assisted Living Tools for Older Adults

Abstract—Inrecentyears,wehavewitnessedarapidsurgeinassisted living technologies due to a rapidly aging society. The aging population,theincreasingcostofformalhealthcare,thecaregiver burden, and the importance that the individuals place on living independently,allmotivatedevelopmentofinnovative-assistedliving technologies for safe and independent aging. In this survey, we will summarize the em…

A Suction Detection System for Rotary Blood Pumps Based on the Lagrangian Sup…

Abstract—The left ventricular assist device is a rotary mechanicalpumpthatisimplantedinpatientswithcongestiveheartfailure tohelptheleftventricleinpumpingbloodinthecirculatorysystem. However,usingsuchadevicemayresultinaverydangerousevent, called ventricular suction, that can cause ventricular collapse due to overpumping of blood from the left ventricle when the rotational speed of the pump is …

A Statistical Modeling Approach for Tumor-Type Identification in Surgical Ne…

Abstract—Current clinical practice involves classification of biopsiedorresectedtumortissuebasedonahistopathologicalevaluation by a neuropathologist. In this paper, we propose a method for computer-aided histopathological evaluation using mass spectrometry imaging. Specifically, mass spectrometry imaging can be used to acquire the chemical composition of a tissue section and, hence, provide…

A New Framework Based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis for Epileptic Se…

Abstract—This study presents applying recurrence quantificationanalysis(RQA)onEEGrecordingsandtheirsubbands:delta, theta,alpha,beta,andgammaforepilepticseizuredetection.RQA isadoptedsinceitdoesnotrequireassumptionsaboutstationarity, lengthofsignal,andnoise.ThedecompositionoftheoriginalEEG into its five constituent subbands helps better identification of the dynamical system of EEG signal. …

A Hybrid Low Power Biopatch for Body Surface Potential Measurement

Abstract—This paper presents a wearable biopatch prototype for body surface potential measurement. It combines three key technologies,includingmixed-signalsystemonchip(SoC)technology, inkjet printing technology, and anisotropic conductive adhesive(ACA)bondingtechnology.Anintegralpartofthebiopatchisa low-powerlow-noiseSoC.TheSoCcontainsatunableanalogfront end, a successive approximation regist…

Triaxial Accelerometer-Based Fall Detection Method Using a Self-Constructing …

Abstract—In this paper, we propose a cascade-AdaBoostsupport vector machine (SVM) classifier to complete the triaxial accelerometer-basedfalldetectionmethod.Themethodusestheacceleration signals of daily activities of volunteers from a database and calculates feature values. By taking the feature values of a sliding window as an input vector, the cascade-AdaBoost-SVM algorithm can self-constr…

Review : The sensory acceptance of fibre-enriched cereal foods: a meta-analysis

Summary: Improved understanding of the sensory responses to fibre fortification may assist manufacturers and health promotion efforts. The effects of fibre fortification (or modified ingredients) on sensory acceptability of baked cereal foods (bread, cookies, muffins) were estimated by linear random-effects meta-analysis of twenty eligible studies (869 panellists, 34% male). As little as 2 g p…

Anthocyanin profile of young red wines of Tannat, Syrah and Merlot made using…

Summary: Anthocyanins are the main pigments of young red wines. The aim of this work was to evaluate the anthocyanin composition of red wines produced by alternative procedures of winemaking and different grape varieties. For this purpose, wines of Tannat, Syrah and Merlot were made by traditional maceration (TM), addition of maceration enzymes (ENZ) and cold soak (CS). Syrah wines had the hig…

Sword bean (Canavalia gladiata) as a source of antioxidant phenolics

Sword beans (Canavalia gladiata) have been used as grain legumes and medicinal plants in China for thousands of years. To explore new natural antioxidant sources, the antioxidant capacity and phenolic composition in the soluble and bound fractions of three sword bean genotypes were evaluated in vitro. The red and black sword beans were found to have antioxidant capacity compared to the white sw…

Food lipids: chemistry, nutrition, and biotechnology

The aim of the first and second editions remains unchanged: to provide a modern, easy-to-read textbook for students and instructors. The book is also suitable for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate instruction. Scientists who have left the university and are engaged in research and development in the industry, government, or academics will find this book a useful reference. I…

Handbook of communications technology : the next decade

The field of communications technologies is an extremely volatile one, with new technologies emerging even as I write this preface. This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the upcoming developments for those technologies that are expected to have a major impact in this field. The Handbook encompasses a broad spectrum of topics: RSVP, video transmission, JMAPI, electronic commerce, WDM,…

Carrier Profiling Technology in Ten Nanometers Devices

Abstract The advanced carrier concentration evaluation scheme was proposed with combined higher precise scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) measurement and technology-CAD (TCAD) analysis in this paper. The cyclic contact (CC) method was applied to variation reduction of SSRM resistance to more accurately characterize for the device. The CC method suppresses dust generation. The va…

The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services: From Regulation to Innov…

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978-3-319-19345-8

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CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance

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Biotechnology of Biopolymers

The book "Biotechnology of Biopolymers" comprises 17 chapters covering occurrence, synthesis, isolation and production, properties and applications, biodegradation and modification, the relevant analysis methods to reveal the structures and properties of biopolymers and a special section on the theoretical, experimental and mathematical models of biopolymers. This book will hopefully be support…

Seed storage of horticultural crops

Seed is a basic input in horticulture. Different horticultural crops are valued for their delicious fruits, enriched with vitamins and minerals, and appreciated for their ornamental qualities. Seeds are sown in many vegetable crops, a few fruit crops, and ornamental crops. However, they are predominantly used in raising rootstocks for vegetative propagation in different perennial fruit cro…

Postharvest physiology and hypobaric storage of fresh produce

Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce is dedicated to preserving the existing theoretical knowledge, applied research and technology relating to hypobaric storage in order to promote an understanding and appreciation of the method. The author’s views regarding the postharvest behaviour of commodities at atmospheric pressure were developed in an attempt to explain the d…

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

The contributors to this volume make a crucial and forceful point. There are numerous theories and methodologies that can be used to yield research findings about the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Whether the findings in any particular research project actually contribute in this way depends on multiple factors,…

Environmental Biotechnology

The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste production, the seemingly idealistic demand for “zero discharge” can be construed as an unrealistic …

Introduction to Telecommunications Network Engineering

Telecommunications is one of the fastest growing business sectors of modern information technologies. A couple of decades ago, to have a basic understanding of telecommunications, it was enough to know how the telephone network operated. Today, the field of telecommunications encompasses a vast variety of modern technologies and services. Some services, such as the fixed telephone service …

Science and Technology Governance and Ethics : A Global Perspective from Euro…

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Advances in Production Technology : PART I (Towards a New Theory of Productio…

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Lecture Notes in Production Engineering

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Fast microwave assisted pyrolysis of biomass using microwave absorbent

a b s t r a c t A novel concept of fast microwave assisted pyrolysis (fMAP) in the presence of microwave absorbents was presented and examined. Wood sawdust and corn stover were pyrolyzed by means of microwave heating and silicon carbide (SiC) as microwave absorbent. The bio-oil was characterized, and the effects of temperature, feedstock loading, particle sizes, and vacuum degree were anal…

Overview of current and future energy storage technologies for electric power…

A B S T R A C T In today’s world, there is a continuous global need for more energy which, at the same time, has to be cleaner than the energy produced from the traditional generation technologies. This need has facilitated the increasing penetration of distributed generation (DG) technologies and primarily of renewable energy sources (RES). The extensive use of such energy sources in tod…

Energy-storagetechnologiesandelectricitygeneration

a b s t r a c t As thecontributionofelectricitygeneratedfromrenewablesources(wind,waveandsolar)grows,the inherent intermittencyofsupplyfromsuchgeneratingtechnologiesmustbeaddressedbyastep- change inenergystorage.Furthermore,thecontinuouslydevelopingdemandsofcontemporary applicationsrequirethedesignofversatileenergy-storage/powersupplysystemsofferingwideranges of powerdensityandenergydensit…

Animal Biotechnology: Science Based Concerns

Rarely in the modern history of humans has biology played such an important role in human affairs as it does today. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explorers stimulated the first major advance in biology by bringing back countless new species that Darwin, and others, put into a logical order based on the theory of natural selection. The development of evolutionary thinking and …

Transcriptome sequencing of different narrow-leafed lupin tissue types provid…

Summary. Narrow-leafed lupin (NLL; Lupinus angustifolius L.) is an important grain legume crop that is valuable for sustainable farming and is becoming recognized as a human health food. NLL breeding is directed at improving grain production, disease resistance, drought tolerance and health benefits. However, genetic and genomic studies have been hindered by a lack of extensive genomic res…

Pathogen-induced SGT1 of Arachis diogoi induces cell death and enhanced disea…

Summary. We have identified a transcript derived fragment (TDF) corresponding to SGT1 in a study of differential gene expression on the resistant wild peanut, Arachis diogoi, upon challenge from the late leaf spot pathogen, Phaeoisariopsis personata, and cloned its full-length cDNA followed by subsequent validation through q-PCR. Sodium nitroprusside, salicylic acid, ethephon and methyl ja…

Overexpression of a rice heme activator protein gene (OsHAP2E) confers resist…

Summary. Heme activator protein (HAP), also known as nuclear factor Y or CCAAT binding factor (HAP/NFY/ CBF), has important functions in regulating plant growth, development and stress responses. The expression of rice HAP gene (OsHAP2E) was induced by probenazole (PBZ), a chemical inducer of disease resistance. To characterize the gene, the chimeric gene (OsHAP2E::GUS) engineered to carry…

Identification and characterization of more than 4 million intervarietal SNPs…

Summary. Despite being a major international crop, our understanding of the wheat genome is relatively poor due to its large size and complexity. To gain a greater understanding of wheat genome diversity, we have identified single nucleotide polymorphisms between 16 Australian bread wheat varieties. Whole-genome shotgun Illumina paired read sequence data were mapped to the draft assemblies…

Differential expression of microRNAs and other small RNAs in barley between w…

Summary. Drought is a major constraint to crop production, and microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in plant drought tolerance. Analysis of miRNAs and other classes of small RNAs (sRNAs) in barley grown under water and drought conditions reveals that drought selectively regulates expression of miRNAs and other classes of sRNAs. Low-expressed miRNAs and all repeatassociated siRNAs (ras…

Advances in Production Technology : Part IV (Integrated Technologies); Part V…

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Isolated history of the coastal plant Lathyrus japonicus (Leguminosae) in Lak…

Abstract. Background and aims: Lake Biwa is one of the world’s few ancient lakes. Formed
4 million years ago, the lake harbours many coastal species that commonly inhabit seashores. The beach pea Lathyrus japonicus is a typical coastal species of this freshwater lake, but its inland populations are faced with the threat of extinction. Here, we investigated the phylogeographical and popu…

Optimizing hotel booking through simulation modeling

The goal of the project is to optimize, implement and analyze the usage of simulation models in hotel bookings, and its particular economic efficiency. The key steps for achieving a functional system, the Austrian hotel market has been reviewed, various similar simulation models were studied and a new simulation technique was created and applied. After applying the simulation model to a given h…

Improving open innovation: challenges for managing communication and creative…

In recent years, Open Innovation is a paradigm that challenges almost every company that tries to innovate. There are few companies that can innovate on their own; all that can't are often advised to turn to external sources of good ideas. This strategy requires good connections with the external collaborators, in order to innovate on what others have ideated. Among others, communication is a s…

Methodology for analysing digitised geometry

In the past some classifications of surface features have been developed, but none is perfect. This work presents Grasshopper's[R] (GH) procedure that uses curvature to calculate K(s) graphs, which is used to measurable analyse surface characteristics. The procedure has been tested on various geometries in our base, but only some illustrative objects are presented in this article. The classific…

Defining requirements for energy efficiency in manufacturing

The paper deals with definition of the requirements for achieving energy efficiency in manufacturing, which are essential to enhancement of productivity and profitability of future industrial processes. Within the development of sustainable production, it is necessary to pay particular attention to reducing energy consumption in manufacturing processes and increasing the energy efficiency of pr…

New approach for OEE calculation of CNC machines based on OPC UA

Industry is driven by efficiency, only this makes it possible to assert competitive advantage in the global market. Many companies use Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Currently the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is working on standardized definitions of KPIs for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), based on VDMA 66412. The aim …

Experimental identification of a servo-valve parameters used for an electro-h…

In this paper ones followed to obtain a simplified mathematical model for an electro-hydraulic servo-valve and further to identify the parameters defined in this model, in order to use it in an electro-hydraulic servo-actuator development. The mathematical model concern only the stationary behavior of the servo-valve. There are briefly presented the schemes of the hydraulic test bench used in t…

Methods of artificial intelligence fuzzy logic

Methods of artificial management represent a new approach to problem management in numerous applications in technical systems. The aim of paper is to demonstrate the application of fuzzy logic in the process of management and control of technical systems (Zimmermann, 2001). Program tool "Fuzzy Logic Toolbox" is used in this work. Its functions are called within software package Matlab. Fuzzy lo…

Information architecture for reconfigurable production systems

The trend towards greater flexibility in production system has impact on industrial communication. One of the challenges for future research and development is to simplify the connectivity between automation equipment (e.g. robot and machine tool). Still automation equipment is connected via digital inputs and outputs or fieldbus systems and configuration can only be done at considerable expens…

Geometrical tolerance stack up techniques

Tolerance design has become a very sensitive and important issue in product and process development because of increasing demand for quality products and the growing requirements for automation in manufacturing. This chapter presents tolerance stack up analysis of dimensional and geometrical tolerances. The stack up of tolerances is important for functionality of the mechanical assembly as well…

Experimental development and numerical simutation of an electro-hydraulic ser…

In this paper is developed an electro-hydraulic servo-actuator using the identified parameters of a servo-valve. One follows to obtain a null stationary error and a time response as short as possible. The mathematical model of the servo-actuator is deduced taking account the functional model of the open-centre servo-valve. This model is used for the numerical simulation of the system functionin…

International trade, innovations and technological achievement in countries

This chapter examines the concept of innovations, also presents the models of innovations linked to international trade. Different types of models are analysed in the paper: models which present " technology gap " between importing and exporting countries, models which introduce the impact of technological innovation on international trade, models which are dedicated to the change of trade cost…