Inductive transducers for measuring displacement are divided into two groups according to their measurement range. A variable air-gap type transducer is widely used for a measurement small range. A conventional variable air-gap type transducer has high sensitivity but lacks a linear measurement range. The air gap is also increased to maintain linearity as the measurement range increases, which ...

In this paper excitation characteristics of the Liquid Crystal (LC) capacitive chemical and biological sensor are examined and the optimum frequency and voltage range for the sensor interface are introduced. Interdigitated capacitor has been used for the sensor capacitance measurement and two different molecular orientations, homeotropic and homogenous, have been considered. The LC sensor capac...

support vector machine (svm) was used to analyze the occurrence of roach in flemish stream basins (belgium). several habitat and physico?chemical variables were used as inputs for the model development. the biotic variable merely consisted of abundance data which was used for predicting presence/absence of roach. genetic algorithm (ga) was combined with svm in order to select the most important...

The precision of a measurement system is the consistency across multiple measurements of the same object. This paper studies the evaluation of the precision of measurement systems that measure on a bounded ordinal scale. A bounded ordinal scale consists of a finite number of categories that have a specific order. Based on an inventory of methods for the evaluation of precision for other types o...

In the medical, behavioral, social, and psychological sciences, latent variables represent unobservable traits that are measured by multiple observed variables. Latent variable models (LVMs) are useful tools for assessing the interrelationships among latent and observed variables. Due to their wide applications, LVMs have attracted significant attention from various fields. However, the majorit...