Humidity induced change in the refractive index and thickness of the polyethylene glycol (PEG) coatings are in situ investigated for a range from 10 to 95%, using an optical waveguide spectroscopic technique. It is experimentally demonstrated that, upon humidity change, the optical and swelling characteristics of the PEG coatings can be employed to build a plastic fibre optic humidity sensor. T...

Humidity induced changes in the refractive index and thickness of polyethylene glycol (PEG) thin films are in situ determined by optical waveguide spectroscopy. PEG brushes are covalently attached to the surface of a thin gold film on a borosilicate crown glass (BK7) using a grafting-from chemical synthesis technique. The measurements are carried out in an attenuated total internal reflection s...

This work addresses a new configuration that improves the sensitivity of a humidity sensor based on a long-period fiber grating coated with a SiO(2)-nanospheres film. An intermediate higher refractive index overlay, deposited through Electrostatic Self-Assembly, is placed between the fiber cladding and the humidity sensitive film in order to increase the total effective refractive index of the ...

This paper focuses on a description of the comfort by means of the temperature-humidity comfort index. In the attempt to describe this complex phenomena, those related to the human perception, for temperature and humidity estimation, we propose to use words of natural language. This linguistic description is not so accurate and also subjective than the numeric one obtained through usual sensors...

the pregnancy results of 17337 inseminations carried out in a dairy herd near cairo over a period of 12 years were retrospectively analyzed in relation to environmental temperature and temperature-humidity index (thi). the overall average of pregnancy rates to all inseminations was significantly (p

A Poisson regression between the observed climatology of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) and largescale climate variables is used to construct a TCG index. The regression methodology is objective and provides a framework for the selection of the climate variables in the index. Broadly following earlier work, four climate variables appear in the index: low-level absolute vorticity, relative humidity...

Factors most affecting the health risks in the world are food poisoning such as food contamination is a disease. While there are many factors affecting food poisoning typically changes in temperature and humidity, and monitoring temperature and humidity variability during transport and storage is very important. So we for the consumer to prevent food borne illness and food poisoning index monit...

Design of a system used for characterizing gas sensing materials is described. It is distinctive of being able to measure electrical and optical responses of a sample simultaneously, control a number of measurement parameters, perform fast exchange of gaseous environment, and be fully controlled automatically. These features make the system to be versatile in determining most concerned performa...