INTRODUCTION Each of us reacts to the world around and within us by sensing and actuating. When our hand is in contact with a hot object, we sense the heat, our brain sends a command, and our arm muscles actuate our hand away from the object. Similarly, because of internal sensing, we will tend to favor the burned hand until it has healed. As technology progresses, it becomes reasonable to ask,...

We present a new method of chemical quantification utilizing thermal analysis for the detection of relative humidity. By measuring the temperature change of a hydrophilically-modified temperature sensing element vs. a hydrophobically-modified reference element, the total heat from chemical interactions in the sensing element can be measured and used to calculate a change in relative humidity. W...

Atmospheric blocking is a long standing structure stalled in the mid-troposphere which is often associated with extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves, flood and cold air outbreak. A striking atmospheric blocking is identified to persist over the US during 13–17 August 2007, exacerbating the existing drought over the Southeastern US. This pronounced blocking event not only intensifi...

INTRODUCTION Each of us reacts to the world around and within us by sensing and actuating. When our hand is in contact with a hot object, we sense the heat, our brain sends a command, and our arm muscles actuate our hand away from the object. Similarly, because of internal sensing, we will tend to favor the burned hand until it has healed. As technology progresses, it becomes reasonable to ask,...

Objective (s): The present study aimed to assess the adsorption of fullerene C24 with Melphalan anticancer agent in a solvent phase (water) at the B3LYP/6-31G (d) theoretical level.Materials and Methods: Initially, the structures of Melphalan and fullerene complexes were optimized in four configurations. Afterwards, IR calculations and molecular orbital analysis were performed. In addition, som...

A compact and low-power consuming fiber-optic anemometer based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) coated tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) is presented. TFBG as a near infrared in-fiber sensing element is able to excite a number of cladding modes and radiation modes in the fiber and effectively couple light in the core to interact with the fiber surrounding mediums. It is an ideal in-fi...

The ability to estimate surface energy fluxes using remote sensing methods has enabled the determination of evapotranspiration over a large area with less cost. Several models that employ the energy balance method have been developed. The model discussed in this paper is the Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration (METRIC). It estimates net radiation (Rn), so...

Porous polymeric materials, such as textile fabrics, are elastic and widely used in our daily life for garment and household products. The mechanical and dynamic heat transfer properties of porous polymeric materials, which describe the sensations during the contact process between porous polymeric materials and parts of the human body, such as the hand, primarily influence comfort sensations a...

Cave micrometeorology is important to cave atmosphere composition, speleogenesis, growth of cave decorations, speleothem-based paleoclimate, and cave biology studies. This research project was undertaken to better define micrometeorological patterns and their interactions in subterranean cavities using the latest air temperature sensing instruments and by applying mathematical computer modeling...

In recent years, a great deal of research has been devoted to wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs are networks consisting of small self-powered devices that communicate with each other over the wireless medium and coordinate their operation in order to perform distributed sensing near physical phenomena. The total lifetime of the network is a major design factor for protocols, applications an...