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Sensor characterization for multisensor odor-discrimination system
In recent years, with the advent of new and cheaper sensors, the use of olfactory systems in homes, industries, and hospitals has a new start. Multisensor systems can improve the ability to distinguish between complex mixtures of volatile substances. To develop multisensor systems that are accurate and reliable, it is important to take into account the anomalies that may arise because of electronic instabilities, types of sensors, and air flow. In this approach, 32 metal oxide semiconductor sensors of 7 different types and operating at different temperatures have been used to develop a multisensor olfactory system. Each type of sensor has been characterized to select the most suitable temperature combinations. In addition, a prechamber has been designed to ensure a good air flow from the sample to the sensing area. The multisensor system has been tested with good results to perform multidimensional information detection of two fruits, based on obtaining sensor matrix data, extracting three features parameters from each sensor curve and using these parameters as the input to a pattern recognition system. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Cueto BelchĂ, AD.; Rothpfeffer, N.; PelegrĂ Sebastiá, J.; Chilo, J.; GarcĂa RodrĂguez, D.; Sogorb Devesa, TC. (2013). Sensor characterization for multisensor odor-discrimination system. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 191:68-72. doi:10.1016/j.sna.2012.11.039S687219
Female Labor Supply Differences by Sexual Orientation: A Semi-Parametric Decomposition Approach
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A conceptual model of soil mass movement, surface soil erosion, and stream channel erosion processes
The conceptual framework of an erosion model has been designed to link processes of mass wasting, surface erosion, and channel storage and transport. A program to stimulate mass wasting will be based on a variation of the factor of safety approach which balances forces tending to drive mass movement against those resisting it. Surface erosion will
be treated by using a form of the universal soil loss equation adapted to account for dry ravel processes as well as precipitation generated surface erosion. These processes move material eroded from hillslope landscape
areas into the stream channel. Channel erosion may occur either as bedload and suspension load transport or in episodic debris torrents, triggered by debris dam failure or by mass movement from a hillslope.
The model will be driven primarily by hydrologic processes and will also
receive key inputs from vegetation components of the general ecosystem model. Model development will aim at producing a computer model which will have sufficient realism and predictive capability to be useful to land managers
Aging in a Long-Lived Clonal Tree
Using genetic estimates of clone age in trembling aspen, this study demonstrates a significant decline in male sexual fitness with increasing age, showing that long-lived clonal organisms are vulnerable to aging
Distribution and composition of the lichenized mycota in a landscape mosaic of southern Brazil
Mental health programs for the socially deprived, urban child—1962 panel: 1. Orthopsychiatric programs for socially deprived groups.
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