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Flexible Sensors—From Materials to Applications
(2019)Flexible sensors have the potential to be seamlessly applied to soft and irregularly shaped surfaces such as the human skin or textile fabrics. This benefits conformability dependant applications including smart tattoos, ... -
Axiomatic design guidelines for the design of flexible and agile manufacturing and assembly systems for SMEs
(2019)Complex market dynamics force enterprises to face new challenges. A manufacturing or assembly system has to create products based on customer requirements at the lowest possible price and to react rapidly to external changes ... -
Feeding, resting and agonistic behavior of pregnant Boer goats in relation to feeding space allowance
(2019)The aim of this study was to test the effect of the animal to feeding place ratio on behavior of meat goats during gestation. In one group (FP-1.0; n=10) every goat had a single feeding place while in the other group ... -
A Temperature‐Driven, Reversible, Helical‐Handedness Inversion in Peptaibol Analogues Tuned by the C‐Terminal Capping Moiety
(2019)Trichogin is a natural peptide endowed with antimicrobial and antitumor activity. A member of the peptaibol family, trichogin possesses a C‐terminal amino alcohol. In the past, this moiety was substituted for a methyl ester ... -
Optimal selection and monitoring of nodes aimed at supporting leakages identification in WDS
(MDPI AG, 2019)Many efforts have been made in recent decades to formulate strategies for improving the efficiency of water distribution systems (WDS), led by the socio-demographic evolution of modern society and the climate change scenario. ... -
On the evaluation of the takeoff time and of the peak time for innovation diffusion on assortative networks
(2019)This paper deals with a generalization of the Bass model for the description of the diffusion of innovations. The generalization keeps into account heterogeneity of the interactions of the consumers and is expressed by a ... -
Directly 3D-printed monolithic soft robotic gripper with liquid metal microchannels for tactile sensing
(2019)One of the most valuable contributions robotics can offer is support to daily human activities, yet rigid robots often fail to comply with safety regulations in the proximity of humans. Soft robotics takes inspiration from ... -
Funktionale Merkmale im Fokus
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Low-temperature spray-deposited indium oxide for flexible thin-film transistors and integrated circuits
(American Institute of Physics Inc., 2015)Indium oxide (In2O3) films were deposited by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis in ambient air and incorporated into bottom-gate coplanar and staggered thin-film transistors. As-fabricated devices exhibited electron-transporting ... -
A trade-off between average and maximum arc congestion minimization in traffic assignment with user constraints
(2019)In system optimal traffic assignment of traffic flows with user constraints the total travel time is minimized on a set of paths with bounded length ensuring a certain level of fairness for users. Minimizing the total ... -
Speed and Pressure Controls of Pumps-as-Turbines (PaTs) Installed in a Branch of a Water Distribution Network (WDN) Subjected to Highly Variable Flow Rates
(2019)The use of Pumps-as-Turbines (PaTs) to replace hydraulic turbines as energy recovery units in industrial and civil applications is widening the penetration of hydropower in small-scale plants. PaTs show advantages in terms ... -
Taxonomic and functional insights into rock varnish microbiome using shotgun metagenomics
(NLM (Medline), 2019)Rock varnish is a microbial habitat, characterised by thin (5-500 μm) and shiny coatings of iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) oxides associated with clay minerals. This structure is well studied by geologists, and recently there ... -
Self-Adaptive High-Frequency Injection Based Sensorless Control for Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives
(2019)An auto-tuning and self-adaptation procedure for High Frequency Injection (HFI) based position and speed estimation algorithms in Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM) drives is proposed in this paper. ... -
A Comparison of the Signal from Diverse Optical Sensors for Monitoring Alpine Grassland Dynamics
(MDPI, 2019)Grasslands cover up to 40% of the mountain areas globally and 23% of the European Alps and affect numerous key ecological processes. An increasing number of optical sensors offer a great opportunity to monitor and address ... -
Resistance and tolerance to mixed-nematode infections in chicken genotypes with extremely different growth rates
(2019)Fast growing broilers are less able to cope with fitness related challenges. As the allocation of metabolic resources may be traded off between performance and defence functions in parasitized hosts, we hypothesized that ... -
Are automated sensors a reliable tool to estimate behavioural activities in grazing beef cattle?
(2019)The use of automated sensors, that record feeding and locomotion behaviour in livestock, become more and more prominent, for example for the early detection of diseases in dairy cows. Their application may be also significant ... -
Carbon balance and soil carbon input in a poplar short rotation coppice plantation as affected by nitrogen and wood ash application
(Springer Netherlands, 2019)The increasing importance of short rotation coppice (SRC) plantations for bioenergy production makes it crucial to evaluate their carbon (C) sink potential and to understand which sustainable practices could increase ... -
Socio-economic, political, and institutional sustainability of Agroforestry in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
(2019)Promoting sustainable agricultural practices such as agroforestry (AF) could improve long-term productivity, enhance a sustainable rural livelihood and reduce pressure on natural resources and ecosystems in the tropics. ... -
Hydroclimatic seasonality recorded by tree ring δ18O signature across a Himalayan altitudinal transect
(2019)Water stable isotope ratios of precipitation predominantly reflect moisture source and precipitation intensity. Trees can incorporate and store the isotopic signals into annual tree-ring cellulose records, permitting ...
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