source localization is an essential part of array signal processing including radar, sonar, seismology and oceanography applications. the performance of the presented source localization methods are degraded substantially in practical situations. one of the conditions which decreases the performance o

In the past few years, technology for children and disabilities has proliferated thanks to the development of more and more inexpensive mobile technology and to the availability of freedownloadable software applications. However, at our knowledge a multisensory teaching application for both normal and disabled children still lacks in this landscape. In this work we describe the design and devel...

By using the substituent effect to tune the palladium(II)-involved reactivity, a new probe is found to respond quantitatively to Pd(II). Unexpectedly, the probe gave an emission band in the desirable near-infrared (NIR) region (780 nm), thus providing the first NIR sensor for palladium detection.

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in diffuse reflectance mode was explored with the objective of discriminating sea salts according to their quality type (traditional salt vs "flower of salt") and geographical origin (Atlantic vs Mediterranean). Sea salts were also analyzed in terms of Ca(2+), Mg(2+), K(+), alkalinity, and sulfate concentrations to support spectroscopic results. High concentrati...

Alzheimer’s disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For this reason, technologies to complement this process need to be considered. In this work we propose to adapt Near Field Communications (NFC), applying it to an Alzheimer’s day centre. With a simple interaction, which involv...

Infrared thermography is becoming ever more popular in civil engineering/architecture mainly due to its noncontact character which includes two great advantages. On one side, it prevents the object, under inspection, from any alteration and this is worthwhile especially in the presence of precious works of art. On the other side, the personnel operate in a remote manner far away from any hazard...

Recently, the study of near- and below- threshold regime harmonics as a potential source of intense coherent vacuum-ultraviolet radiation has received considerable attention. However, the dynamical origin of these lower harmonics, particularly for the molecular systems, is less understood and largely unexplored. Here we perform the first fully ab initio and high precision 3D quantum study of th...

near infrared spectroscopy Jan Mehnert1,2, Christoph Schmitz1,3, Harald E. Möller2, Arno Villringer1,2,4,5, Hellmuth Obrig1,2,5 and Karsten Müller2 1Berlin NeuroImaging Center, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany/2MaxPlanck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany/3NIRx Medizintechnik GmbH, Berlin, Germany/4Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University Be...