In the wake of these attacks, the US Postal Service (USPS) installed a system
of electronic noses in mail processing facilities around...
This is precisely what a team of researchers from the Gandia campus of Valencia's Polytechnic University and the La Fe Health Investigation Institute have achieved, developing a prototype
of an electronic nose that can distinguish between patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Not exact matches
It essentially acts as an «
electronic nose», and gives machines the power
of smell by mimicking the human olfactory system.
This
electronic model from Little Martin's Drawer has taken the hard labor out
of sucking the snot from your baby's
nose.
The concentration
of these components can be a differentiating marker between certain bowel diseases and their accurate detection by way
of non-invasive devices such as the
electronic nose would be a great step forward for the detection and monitoring
of the evolution
of these diseases,» explains doctor Pilar Nos, Head
of the Digestive System Medicine Department at La Fe hospital.
«One example would be the wine making sector,» Pelegrí commented, «where an
electronic nose capable
of distinguishing the quality or type
of grape or recognising the vintage a wine belongs to would be very useful.»
Many volatile compounds can now be detected quite well by «
electronic noses» that were inspired by the olfactory receptors
of animals and provide characteristic chemical fingerprints for scents and mixtures
of scents.
Researchers from the Polytechnic University
of Valencia (UPV, Spain) and the University
of Gävle (Sweden) have created an
electronic nose with 32 sensors that can identify the odours given off by chopped pears and apples.
Salehi - Khojin said it should be possible to «tune» the
electronic properties
of graphene grain - boundary arrays using controlled doping to obtain a fingerprint response — thus creating a reliable and stable «
electronic nose.»
Published today (15 October 2014) in the journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, the study brings scientists closer to developing
electronic noses (e-
noses) that closely replicate the sensitive olfactory sense
of animals.
Dravnieks envisioned an artificial (or
electronic)
nose as «an instrument that would inspect samples
of odorous air and report the intensity and quality
of an odor without the intervention
of a human
nose» [1].
Better understanding
of the sense
of smell inspires research into everything from whales to
electronic «
noses»» Science News for Students.
MIT Enterprise Forum Thailand is pleased to announce the three winners
of the 2016 startup competition: AIM Solution,
Electronic Nose, and shiftspace.
Her team is now working with nanotechnologists at the University
of Pennsylvania to create an
electronic «
nose» that doctors everywhere could use.
The WRX's
electronic torque - vectoring brakes the front - inside wheel in corners and helps reduce understeer to the great effect
of lightening the
nose of the car.
A midlife facelift for the 1985 model year brought a completely new dashboard with orange digital LCD
electronic displays in top models (in place
of the earlier luminescent green) and the sedan now had the long
nose and 2.0 - liter engine.
Some
of the off - road tech includes Hill Descent Control, Gradient Release Control,
Electronic Traction Control, Roll Stability Control, Wade Sensing, Hitch Assist, Trailer Stability Assist plus an Electrically Deployable Towbar and
Nose Load Measurement system.
The chassis is more than up to the task, though; you can feel a little more weight over the
nose but in general the combination
of the stiffer suspension, reduced ride height and the XDS
electronic differential system — which brakes individual wheels in corners — means the GTD is quick to respond to inputs in the twisty stuff.
Thanks to the sweetness
of old - fashioned, hydraulically assisted steering (as opposed to the newer, less sensitive
electronic power steering set - ups) it's dead easy to place the
nose of the car because you get the feedback through the steering wheel to know exactly what the front tyres are doing.