A bifunctional fluorescent oligonucleotide probe for small molecules and protein detection has been developed based on turn on fluorescence response via the target induced structure-switching of molecular beacon. The two loops of this molecular beacon are designed in such a manner that they consist of thrombin (Tmb) aptamer sequence and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) aptamer sequence, respectivel...

Positioning technologies that use Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) networks for location estimation (such as the Privacy Observant Location System (POLS) and the Place Lab framework) lack the accuracy that other positioning technologies like the Global Positioning System (GPS) have. GPS receivers are capable most of the time of placing a person within 10 metres of a known location. ...

Presently, the developments made in Wireless Sensor Networks are increasing the popularity in several applications like military applications etc. Sensor node localization is a highly desirable capability for wireless sensor network applications. Localization issue is very important, when positions of nodes are not known. In this paper, we make an attempt in localization issue. An efficient and...

This work presents a localization scheme for use in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that is based on a proposed connectivity-based RF localization strategy called the distributed Fermat-point location estimation algorithm (DFPLE). DFPLE applies triangle area of location estimation formed by intersections of three neighboring beacon nodes. The Fermat point is determined as the shortest path from...