Válber César Cavalcanti Roza, Octavian Adrian Postolache
This work proposes a design of a multimodal interface to classify or estimate emotion states. Thus, 7emotions are considered such as:anger, boredom, disgust, anxiety/fear, happiness, sadness and normal.A couple of sensing technologies such as: galvanic skin response (GSR), heart rate (HR), electrocardiography (ECG), oxygen saturation (SpO2) and electroencephalography (EEG)are used to collect psychophysiological signals in relation with emotion state estimation. The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) dataset is used to design the classifier system. Regarding the classification...
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Yolanda A. Sanmamed, Javier Diaz de Aguilar, Ralf Behr, Jonathan M. Williams, Andrea Sosso, Martin Šíra, Raúl Caballero
This paper describes the early results of the EMPIR Project ACQ-PRO, jointly founded by the European Union and the participating countries. The overall objective of the project is to provide transEuropean access to AC quantum voltage standards, to increase research capacity and to establish the basis for future collaboration between metrological institutes working on AC quantum voltage standards.
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Septimiu Mischie
This paper presents a MATLAB based graphical interface to evaluate the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) CC2650 Sensor Tag. Although this module contains more sensors, this paper considers the movement sensor which is composed of a gyroscope and an accelerometer. This sensor communicates by BLE with a PC that contains a USB BLE Dongle. Our contribution is to implement the application that allows using several scenario tests to evaluate this movement sensor. Thus, the accelerometer can be used to measure the pitch and role angles when the sensor is not moving linearly. The gyroscope is used to...
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B. Tebrean, S. Crisan, C. Muresan, T. E. Crisan
This paper presents a study regarding a coplanar capacitive matrix structure used for monitoring the burn injuries recovery process. The monitoring method presented can be applied for superficial burns (first degree) and partial thickness burns (second degree). The aim of this paper is to confirm the simulation results through a practical experiment. Constructive aspects regarding the coplanar capacitive structure are also presented. In order to predict the behavior of the implemented structure in the vicinity of a burn injury, several functional simulations were made. In this case, the...
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Georgiana Moraru, Marcel Istrate
World economy is closely related to energy and to how it contributes to the modernization of the society, by raising the standard of living and the degree of civilization of the population. In this context, water supply systems are attractive for energy efficiency, occupying an important place in the hierarchy of energy consumers. The purpose of this paper is to present some important aspects of a case study that must be considered in order to respond to specific requirements of water supply systems and it also shows a few measures that can be implemented with or without investments in order...
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Sabin Banuleasa, Radu Munteanu Jr., Alexandru Rusu, Dan Iudean, Alecu Mihnea
This paper studies the electrical properties of ultra-thin stainless steel conductive thread wires embroidered into cotton. This study investigates the possibility to use the wires as interconnects between electrical modules that are measuring the human body’s electrical signals. The focus is on using common and commercially available materials and parts in order to demonstrate the feasibility and easiness of supplying power and digital signals to devices integrated into common clothing, such as a cotton Tshirt. In order to get as close as possible to real world scenarios, ex. where an...
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Łukasz Małkiewicz, Konrad Jędrzejewski
The paper proposes a method of designing and calibrating of an adaptive sub-ranging ADC that is robust to both gain errors and offsets of the components of its analog part, which may simplify and reduce the costs of manufacturing of adaptive ADCs. For facilitation of postproduction calibration, we propose a method of measurement of the actual gain and offset of particular analog tracts used in subsequent stages of conversion, that utilizes the subADC already present in the analog part of the adaptive ADC. Efficiency of the proposed approach is discussed and evaluated on the basis of the...
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Andrei Catinean, Bogdan Tebrean, Radu Bogdan, Titus E. Crisan
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the inherent and induced effects of the perturbations that result in losses of the optical power on the fiber measuring element of pressure/force detectors. Inherent or induced perturbations result in losses of the polarization state and optical power on the fiber. The presence of outer mechanical stress (pressure or tensile force) on the fiber results in the microbending loss phenomenon embedded in the optical fiber. The paper deals with both modeling and simulating the sensor behavior and with measurements on a physical sensor.
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D. De Zanet, M. Battiston, E. Lombardi, R. Specogn., F. Trevisan, A. Affanni, M. Mazzucato
The progress in fluorescence microscopy and information technologies have completely transformed the study on living cells improving the capability to quantify, investigate and analyze, in time and space, single phenomena occurring inside and outside cells. We developed an user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) able to extract and analyze ion calcium (Ca 2+ ) signals and to understand how they regulate cell behavior and metabolism. The software, named FluoLab (Fluorescence Laboratory), works on acquired confocal fluorescence microscopy images and allows to obtain signals of Mean...
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Andrei-Marius Silaghi, Adrian Petru Buta, Mihai Silviu Baderca, Aldo De Sabata
The conducted emissions (CE) measurement is one of the tests that cover electromagnetic compatibility testing. CISPR 25 standard specifies the frequency range and the equipment used for this test.The purpose of the paper is topresent and comment some case studies and investigate different methods that can be used for reducing CE levels.
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