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Probe Sensor Using Nanostructured Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Yarn For Selective And Sensitive Detection Of Dopamine, Wed Al-Graiti, Zhilian Yue, Javad Foroughi, Xu-Feng Huang, Gordon G. Wallace, Ray H. Baughman, Jun Chen Jan 2017

Probe Sensor Using Nanostructured Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Yarn For Selective And Sensitive Detection Of Dopamine, Wed Al-Graiti, Zhilian Yue, Javad Foroughi, Xu-Feng Huang, Gordon G. Wallace, Ray H. Baughman, Jun Chen

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

The demands for electrochemical sensor materials with high strength and durability in physiological conditions continue to grow and novel approaches are being enabled by the advent of new electromaterials and novel fabrication technologies. Herein, we demonstrate a probe-style electrochemical sensor using highly flexible and conductive multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) yarns. The MWNT yarn-based sensors can be fabricated onto micro Pt-wire with a controlled diameter varying from 100 to 300 µm, and then further modified with Nafion via a dip-coating approach. The fabricated micro-sized sensors were characterized by electron microscopy, Raman, FTIR, electrical, and electrochemical measurements. For the first time, the …


Enhanced Simultaneous Detection Of Ractopamine And Salbutamol - Via Electrochemical-Facial Deposition Of Mno2 Nanoflowers Onto 3d Rgo/Ni Foam Templates, Mingyan Wang, Wei Zhu, Lin Ma, Juan Juan Ma, Dongen Zhang, Zhi Wei Tong, Jun Chen Jan 2016

Enhanced Simultaneous Detection Of Ractopamine And Salbutamol - Via Electrochemical-Facial Deposition Of Mno2 Nanoflowers Onto 3d Rgo/Ni Foam Templates, Mingyan Wang, Wei Zhu, Lin Ma, Juan Juan Ma, Dongen Zhang, Zhi Wei Tong, Jun Chen

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

In this paper, we report a facile method to successfully fabricate MnO2 nanoflowers loaded onto 3D RGO@nickel foam, showing enhanced biosensing activity due to the improved structural integration of different electrode materials components. When the as-prepared 3D hybrid electrodes were investigated as a binder-free biosensor, two well-defined and separate differential pulse voltammetric peaks for ractopamine (RAC) and salbutamol (SAL) were observed, indicating the simultaneous selective detection of both β-agonists possible. The MnO2/RGO@NF sensor also demonstrated a linear relationship over a wide concentration range of 17nM to 962nM (R=0.9997) for RAC and 42nM to 1463nM (R=0.9996) for SAL, with the detection …


Electro-Oxidation And Reduction Of H2 On Platinum Studied By Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy For The Purpose Of Local Detection Of H2 Evolution, Seyed S. Jamali, Simon E. Moulton, Dennis E. Tallman, Jan Weber, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2015

Electro-Oxidation And Reduction Of H2 On Platinum Studied By Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy For The Purpose Of Local Detection Of H2 Evolution, Seyed S. Jamali, Simon E. Moulton, Dennis E. Tallman, Jan Weber, Gordon G. Wallace

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Electrochemical detection of H-2 using scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has shown to hold great promise as a sensitive characterization method with high spatial resolution for active surfaces generating H-2. Herein, the factors contributing to the current that is measured by SECM in generation/collection mode for H-2 detection are studied. In particular, the concentration gradient of H-2 at the substrate, the H-2/H+ recycling between the SECM tip and substrate and hemispherical profile of H-2 diffusion has been discussed. It was postulated that H-2/H+ recycling plays a dominant role in the oxidative current measured in generation/collection mode of SECM when the microelectrode …


Detection Of A Superconducting Phase In A Two-Atom Layer Of Hexagonal Ga Film Grown On Semiconducting Gan(0001), Hui-Min Zhang, Yi Sun, Wei Li, Jun-Ping Peng, Canli Song, Ying Xing, Qinghua Zhang, Jia-Qi Guan, Zhi Li, Yanfei Zhao, Shuaihua Ji, Lili Wang, Ke He, Xi Chen, Lin Gu, Langsheng Ling, Mingliang Tian, Lian Li, X. C Xie, Jianping Liu, Hui Yang, Qi-Kun Xue, Jian Wang, Xu-Cun Ma Jan 2015

Detection Of A Superconducting Phase In A Two-Atom Layer Of Hexagonal Ga Film Grown On Semiconducting Gan(0001), Hui-Min Zhang, Yi Sun, Wei Li, Jun-Ping Peng, Canli Song, Ying Xing, Qinghua Zhang, Jia-Qi Guan, Zhi Li, Yanfei Zhao, Shuaihua Ji, Lili Wang, Ke He, Xi Chen, Lin Gu, Langsheng Ling, Mingliang Tian, Lian Li, X. C Xie, Jianping Liu, Hui Yang, Qi-Kun Xue, Jian Wang, Xu-Cun Ma

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

The recent observation of the superconducting state at atomic scale has motivated the pursuit of exotic condensed phases in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Here we report on a superconducting phase in twomonolayer crystalline Ga films epitaxially grown on wide-band-gap semiconductor GaN(0001). This phase exhibits a hexagonal structure and only 0.552 nm in thickness, nevertheless, brings about a superconducting transition temperature Tc as high as 5.4 K, confirmed by in situ scanning tunneling spectroscopy and ex situ electrical magnetotransport and magnetization measurements. The anisotropy of critical magnetic field and Berezinski-Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition are observed, typical for the 2D superconductivity. Our results demonstrate a …


Direct Detection Of Additives And Degradation Products From Polymers By Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Employing Chip-Based Nanospray Mass Spectrometry, Martin Paine, Phillip Barker, Shane A. Maclaughlin, Todd W. Mitchell, Stephen J. Blanksby Jan 2012

Direct Detection Of Additives And Degradation Products From Polymers By Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis Employing Chip-Based Nanospray Mass Spectrometry, Martin Paine, Phillip Barker, Shane A. Maclaughlin, Todd W. Mitchell, Stephen J. Blanksby

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Rationale: Polymer-based surface coatings in outdoor applications experience accelerated degradation due to exposure to solar radiation, oxygen and atmospheric pollutants. These deleterious agents cause undesirable changes to the polymers aesthetic and mechanical properties reducing its lifetime. The use of antioxidants such as hindered amine light stabilisers (HALS) retard these degradative processes, however, mechanisms for HALS action and polymer degradation are poorly understood. Methods: Detection of the hindered amine light stabiliser (HALS) TINUVIN®123 (bis (1-octyloxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl) sebacate) and the polymer degradation products directly from a polyester-based coil coating was achieved by liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) coupled to a triple quadrupole QTRAP® …


A Novel Route To Copper(Ii) Detection Using 'Click' Chemistry-Induced Aggregation Of Gold Nanoparticles, Carol Hua, William H. Zhang, Swahnnya De Almeida, Simone Ciampi, Danmar Gloria, Guozhen Liu, Jason Brian Harper, J Justin Gooding Jan 2012

A Novel Route To Copper(Ii) Detection Using 'Click' Chemistry-Induced Aggregation Of Gold Nanoparticles, Carol Hua, William H. Zhang, Swahnnya De Almeida, Simone Ciampi, Danmar Gloria, Guozhen Liu, Jason Brian Harper, J Justin Gooding

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

A simple colorimetric method for the detection of copper ions in water is described. This method is based on the 'click' copper(i)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction and its use in promoting the aggregation of azide-tagged gold nanoparticles by a dialkyne cross-linker is described. Nanoparticle cross-linking, evidenced as a colour change, is used for the detection of copper ions. The lowest detected concentration by the naked eye was 1.8 μM, with the response linear with log(concentration) between 1.8-200 μM. The selectivity relative to other potentially interfering ions was evaluated.


The Detection Of Steam Injection Based On Video Surveillance, Yipeng Guo, Shu Wang, Ming Zhu, Jiangtao Xi Jan 2010

The Detection Of Steam Injection Based On Video Surveillance, Yipeng Guo, Shu Wang, Ming Zhu, Jiangtao Xi

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

In this paper, we focus on the visual features of steam injection and propose an integrated algorithm to detect it based on video surveillance. The proposed method is depended on three decision rules which are the attribute of gray level and the feature of frequent flicker rate of steam injection, and the similarity structure between background image and current frame. The block-based approach is applied to all three decision rules. The experimental results show that the algorithm provides a reliable detection method which is useful in many cases such as the alarm on the leakage of a heating pipe.


Object Detection Using Non-Redundant Local Binary Patterns, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Zhimin Zong, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li Jan 2010

Object Detection Using Non-Redundant Local Binary Patterns, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Zhimin Zong, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li

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Local Binary Pattern (LBP) as a descriptor, has been successfully used in various object recognition tasks because of its discriminative property and computational simplicity. In this paper a variant of the LBP referred to as Non-Redundant Local Binary Pattern (NRLBP) is introduced and its application for object detection is demonstrated. Compared with the original LBP descriptor, the NRLBP has advantage of providing a more compact description of object’s appearance. Furthermore, the NRLBP is more discriminative since it reflects the relative contrast between the background and foreground. The proposed descriptor is employed to encode human’s appearance in a human detection task. …


Human Detection Using Local Shape And Non-Redundant Binary Patterns, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona Jan 2010

Human Detection Using Local Shape And Non-Redundant Binary Patterns, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona

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Motivated by the advantages of using shape matching technique in detecting objects in various postures and viewpoints and the discriminative power of local patterns in object recognition, this paper proposes a human detection method combining both shape and appearance cues. In particular, local shapes of the body parts are detected using template matching. Based on body parts' shapes, local appearance features are extracted. We introduce a novel local binary pattern (LBP) descriptor, called Non-Redundant LBP (NRLBP), to encode local appearance of human. The proposed method was evaluated and compared with other state-of-the-art human detection methods on two commonly used datasets: …


Markov Random Fields For Abnormal Behavior Detection On Highways, Son Lam Phung, Philippe L. Bouttefroy, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Azeddine Beghdadi Jan 2010

Markov Random Fields For Abnormal Behavior Detection On Highways, Son Lam Phung, Philippe L. Bouttefroy, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Azeddine Beghdadi

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This paper introduces a new paradigm for abnormal behavior detection relying on the integration of contextual information in Markov random fields. Contrary to traditional methods, the proposed technique models the local density of object feature vector, therefore leading to simple and elegant criterion for behavior classification. We develop a Gaussian Markov random field mixture catering for multi-modal density and integrating the neighborhood behavior into a local estimate. The convergence of the random field is ensured by online learning through a stochastic clustering algorithm. The system is tested on an extensive dataset (over 2800 vehicles) for behavior modeling. The experimental results …


Reaction Of The C2h Radical With 1-Butyne (C4h6): Low Temperature Kinetics And Isomer-Specific Product Detection, Satchin Soorkia, Adam J. Trevitt, Talitha M. Selby, David L. Osborn, Craig A. Taatjes, Kevin R. Wilson, Stephen R. Leone Jan 2010

Reaction Of The C2h Radical With 1-Butyne (C4h6): Low Temperature Kinetics And Isomer-Specific Product Detection, Satchin Soorkia, Adam J. Trevitt, Talitha M. Selby, David L. Osborn, Craig A. Taatjes, Kevin R. Wilson, Stephen R. Leone

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

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Detection And Quantification Of Tear Phospholipids And Cholesterol In Contact Lens Deposits: The Effect Of Contact Lens Material And Lens Care Solution, Jennifer Saville, Zhenjun Zhao, Mark D.P. Willcox, Stephen J. Blanksby, Todd W. Mitchell Jan 2010

Detection And Quantification Of Tear Phospholipids And Cholesterol In Contact Lens Deposits: The Effect Of Contact Lens Material And Lens Care Solution, Jennifer Saville, Zhenjun Zhao, Mark D.P. Willcox, Stephen J. Blanksby, Todd W. Mitchell

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

PURPOSE. To examine the deposition of tear phospholipids and cholesterol onto worn contact lenses and the effect of lens material and lens care solution. METHODS. Lipids were extracted from tears and worn contact lenses using 2: 1 chloroform: methanol and the extract washed with aqueous ammonium acetate, before analysis by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS). RESULTS. Twenty-three molecular lipids from the sphingomyelin (SM) and phosphatidylcholine (PC) classes were detected in tears, with total concentrations of each class determined to be 5 +/- 1 pmol/mu L (similar to 3.8 mu g/mL) and 6 +/- 1 pmol/mu L (similar to 4.6 …


Reactions Of The Cn Radical With Benzene And Toluene: Product Detection And Low-Temperature Kinetics, Adam J. Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Craig A. Taatjes, David L. Osborn, Stephen R. Leone Jan 2010

Reactions Of The Cn Radical With Benzene And Toluene: Product Detection And Low-Temperature Kinetics, Adam J. Trevitt, Fabien Goulay, Craig A. Taatjes, David L. Osborn, Stephen R. Leone

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Low-temperature rate coefficients are measured for the CN + benzene and CN + toluene reactions using the pulsed Laval nozzle expansion technique coupled with laser-induced fluorescence detection. The CN + benzene reaction rate coefficient at 105, 165, and 295 K is found to be relatively constant over this temperature range, (3.9−4.9) × 10−10 cm3 molecule−1 s−1. These rapid kinetics, along with the observed negligible temperature dependence, are consistent with a barrierless reaction entrance channel and reaction efficiencies approaching unity. The CN + toluene reaction is measured to have a rate coefficient of 1.3 × 10−10 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 at 105 …


Ultrasensitive Detection Of Antibodies Using A New Tus-Ter-Lock Immunopcr System, Isabelle Morin, Nicholas E. Dixon, Patrick M. Schaeffer Jan 2010

Ultrasensitive Detection Of Antibodies Using A New Tus-Ter-Lock Immunopcr System, Isabelle Morin, Nicholas E. Dixon, Patrick M. Schaeffer

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A system consisting of a protein LG coated surface for the capture of mammalian antibodies (target), and an antigen fused to Tus and stoichiometrically linked to a DNA template via the Tus-Ter-lock sequence allowed the ultrasensitive detection of 5.5 attomol of target by real-time immunoPCR in complex media. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010.


Fabrication Of Polyaniline-Based Gas Sensors Using Piezoelectric Inkjet And Screen Printing For The Detection Of Hydrogen Sulfide, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Roderick L. Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard Jan 2010

Fabrication Of Polyaniline-Based Gas Sensors Using Piezoelectric Inkjet And Screen Printing For The Detection Of Hydrogen Sulfide, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Roderick L. Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

This work describes a fully printable polyaniline-copper (II) chloride sensor for the detection of hydrogen sulfide gas. The sensing device is composed of screen printed silver interdigitated electrode (IDE) on a flexible PET substrate with inkjet printed layers of polyaniline and copper (II) chloride. The sensor is employed as a chemiresistor with changes in measured current being correlated with concentration. On exposure to hydrogen sulfide, 2.5 ppmv (parts per million by volume) is clearly detectable with a linear relationship between measured current and concentration over the 10-100 ppmv region. The detection mechanism is discussed with respect to the hydrogen sulfide …


A Car Detection System Based On Hierarchical Visual Features, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum Jan 2009

A Car Detection System Based On Hierarchical Visual Features, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

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In this paper, we address the problem of detecting and localizing cars in still images. The proposed car detection system is based on a hierarchical feature detector in which the processing units are shunting inhibitory neurons. To reduce the training time and complexity of the network, the shunting inhibitory neurons in the first layer are implemented as directional nonlinear filters, whereas the neurons in the second layer have trainable parameters. A multi-resolution processing scheme is implemented so as to detect cars of different sizes, and to reduce the number of false positives during the detection stage, an adaptive thresholding strategy …


A Novel Template Matching Method For Human Detection, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona Jan 2009

A Novel Template Matching Method For Human Detection, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona

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This paper proposes a novel weighted template matching method. It employs a generalized distance transform (GDT) and an orientation map (OM). The GDT allows us to weight the distance transform more on the strong edge points and the OM provides supplementary local orientation information for matching. Based on the matching method, a two-stage human detection method consisting of template matching and Bayesian verification is developed. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method can effectively reduce the false positive and false negative detection rates and perform superiorly in comparison to the conventional Chamfer matching method.


Human Detection Based On Weighted Template Matching, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li Jan 2009

Human Detection Based On Weighted Template Matching, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li

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This paper proposes a new two-stage human detection method involving matching and verification. A Bayesian framework is developed to verify the matching score obtained from a weighted distance measure. Performance evaluation indicates that the proposed method is able to utilize the flexible matching scheme and produce superior true positive, true negative and low misclassification rates.


Kernel Pca Of Hog Features For Posture Detection, Peng Cheng, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona Jan 2009

Kernel Pca Of Hog Features For Posture Detection, Peng Cheng, Wanqing Li, Philip Ogunbona

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Motivated by the non-linear manifold learning ability of the Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA), we propose in this paper a method for detecting human postures from single images by employing KPCA to learn the manifold span of a set of HOG features that can effectively represent the postures. The main contribution of this paper is to apply the KPCA as a non-linear learning and open-set classification tool, which implicitly learns a smooth manifold from noisy data that scatter over the feature space. For a new instance of HOG feature, its distance to the manifold that is measured by its reconstruction …


Reduced Training Of Convolutional Neural Networks For Pedestrian Detection, Giang Hoang Nguyen, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum Jan 2009

Reduced Training Of Convolutional Neural Networks For Pedestrian Detection, Giang Hoang Nguyen, Son Lam Phung, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

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Pedestrian detection is a vision task with many practical applications in video surveillance, road safety, autonomous driving and military. However, it is much more difficult compared to the detection of other visual objects, because of the tremendous variations in the inner region as well as the outer shape of the pedestrian pattern. In this paper, we propose a pedestrian detection approach that uses convolutional neural network (CNN) to differentiate pedestrian and non-pedestrian patterns. Among several advantages, the CNN integrates feature extraction and classification into one single, fully adaptive structure. It can extract two-dimensional features at increasing scales, and it is …


The Thioflavin T Fluorescence Assay For Amyloid Fibril Detection Can Be Biased By The Presence Of Exogenous Compounds, Sean A. Hudson, Heath Ecroyd, Tak W. Kee, John A. Carver Jan 2009

The Thioflavin T Fluorescence Assay For Amyloid Fibril Detection Can Be Biased By The Presence Of Exogenous Compounds, Sean A. Hudson, Heath Ecroyd, Tak W. Kee, John A. Carver

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Thioflavin T (ThT) dye fluorescence is used regularly to quantify the formation and inhibition of amyloid fibrils in the presence of anti-amyloidogenic compounds such as polyphenols. However, in this study, it was shown, using three polyphenolics (curcumin, quercetin and resveratrol), that ThT fluorescence should be used with caution in the presence of such exogenous compounds. The strong absorptive and fluorescent properties of quercetin and curcumin were found to significantly bias the ThT fluorescence readings in both in situ real-time ThT assays and single time-point dilution ThT-type assays. The presence of curcumin at concentrations as low as 0.01 and 1 uM …


Allocated Harmonic Quantities As The Basis For Source Detection, Timothy J. Browne, Sarath Perera, Victor J. Gosbell Jan 2009

Allocated Harmonic Quantities As The Basis For Source Detection, Timothy J. Browne, Sarath Perera, Victor J. Gosbell

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A considerable body of literature examines assessment, from measurements, of whether it is the network or a customer installation which makes the greater contribution to harmonic distortion at a point of common coupling. However, the customer contribution to harmonic distortion at a point of common coupling depends heavily upon the definition chosen for that contribution. For example, expressing contributions as currents instead of voltages or vice versa may lead to large changes in results. Further, it can be shown that the harmonic voltage at the point of common coupling cannot be expressed independently of the network conditions, meaning that the …


Face Detection Using Generalised Integral Image Features, Alister Cordiner, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li Jan 2009

Face Detection Using Generalised Integral Image Features, Alister Cordiner, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li

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This paper proposes generalised integral image features (GIIFs) for face detection. GIIFs provide a richer and more flexible set of features than Haar-like features. Due to the large set of possible GIIFs, a genetic algorithm is developed to select the feature space for the optimal weak classifiers. Experimental results have shown that this method is able to improve face detection accuracy.


Direct Ascorbic Acid Detection With Ferritin Immobilized On Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Chonlada Dechakiatkrai, Jun Chen, Carol M. Lynam, Kwang Min Shin, Seon Jeong Kim, Sukon Phanichphant, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2008

Direct Ascorbic Acid Detection With Ferritin Immobilized On Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Chonlada Dechakiatkrai, Jun Chen, Carol M. Lynam, Kwang Min Shin, Seon Jeong Kim, Sukon Phanichphant, Gordon G. Wallace

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Ferritin protein was noncovalently immobilized onto single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). This SWNT/ferritin composite was characterized using cyclic voltammetry, UV-visible spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The use of the SWNT/ferritin film as an amperometric biosensor was demonstrated by sensing ascorbic acid in phosphate-buffered saline solution with a sensitivity of 767 uAmg. It demonstrated that ferritin protein bound to SWNTs enhances the oxidation reaction of ascorbic acid over 11-fold.


Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation For A P2p Multi-Agent Distributed Intrusion Detection System, Dayong Ye, Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang Jan 2008

Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation For A P2p Multi-Agent Distributed Intrusion Detection System, Dayong Ye, Quan Bai, Minjie Zhang

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Many research efforts on application of ontology in network security have been done in the past decade. However, they mostly stop at initial proposal or focus on framework design without detailed representation of intrusion or attack and relevant detection knowledge with ontology. In this paper, the design and implementation of ontology-based knowledge representation for a peer-to-peer multi-agent distributed intrusion detection system (ontology-based MADIDS) are introduced. An example which demonstrates the representation of an attack with ontology and the relevant detection process is also presented. In ontology-Based MADIDS, ontology technique enables peers in the system and agents in one peer to …


Fabrication Of Chemical Sensors Using Inkjet Printing And Application To Gas Detection, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard, Roderick Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2008

Fabrication Of Chemical Sensors Using Inkjet Printing And Application To Gas Detection, Karl H. Crowley, Aoife Morrin, Malcolm R. Smyth, Anthony J. Killard, Roderick Shepherd, Marc In Het Panhuis, Gordon G. Wallace

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This work describes the fabrication of gas sensors using inkjet printing. Sensors were constructed by building up a film of sensing material, such as polyaniline, from aqueous nanoparticulate dispersions. These films were printed over patterned silver interdigitated array designs for the purposes of conductimetric analysis. Unlike screen printing or lithography, inkjet printing does not require stencils or masks, therefore allowing rapid design and prototyping. For this study, polyaniline and modified polyaniline sensors were inkjet printed and assessed for the purposes of gas sensing applications, specifically hydrogen sulfide monitoring.


Detection Of Al(Iii) And Ga(Iii) Complexes With Morin By Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, John B. Bremner, Larry A. Hick, Jody Morgan, Saowanee Rattanaphani, Vichitr Rattanaphani, C Septhum Jan 2007

Detection Of Al(Iii) And Ga(Iii) Complexes With Morin By Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, John B. Bremner, Larry A. Hick, Jody Morgan, Saowanee Rattanaphani, Vichitr Rattanaphani, C Septhum

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The Al(III) and Ga(III) complexes formed by morin (M) in aqueous solution were investigated by means of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). In the full scan mass spectra, Al:M showed 1:2 and 2:3 stoichiometric ratios. When (S)-N-acetylserine methyl ester (Ser), as a partial mimic of the serine residue in silk, was added to Al:M and Ga:M complexes in aqueous solution, the mass spectra of Ser:Al:M showed 1:1:1 and 1:1:2 stoichiometric ratios. The patterns of the mass spectra of Ga:M and Ser:Ga:M complexes were similar to those for the corresponding Al(III) complexes. Calculated heats of formation of potential structures of the …


Preliminary Investigations Of Pigment Responses To Phylloxera Infestation, A L. Blanchfield, K S. Powell, Sharon A. Robinson Jan 2007

Preliminary Investigations Of Pigment Responses To Phylloxera Infestation, A L. Blanchfield, K S. Powell, Sharon A. Robinson

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Early detection of grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) infestation is vital for the implementation of post-outbreak quarantine in Australia. Remote sensing systems exploit changes in leaf pigment content associated with plant stress and offer a real possibility of a phylloxera-specific detection system. Pre-visual, symptomatic changes in the pigment content of phylloxera-infested grapevine leaves were investigated using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as a potential aid to improve current phylloxera detection methods. A glasshouse trial was established to characterize the response of two grapevine varieties, Vitis vinifera ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ and ‘Shiraz’, to phylloxera infestation, in a controlled environment. Field trials …


Detection Of Moisture Stress In Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Using Leaf-Level Spectral Reflectance: Implications For Remote Sensing, Laurie A. Chisholm Jan 2006

Detection Of Moisture Stress In Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Using Leaf-Level Spectral Reflectance: Implications For Remote Sensing, Laurie A. Chisholm

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Foliage moisture stress may be detectable by remote sensing using high resolution spectral data, but meaningful diagnosis requires that plant water status be assessed on the ground under controlled conditions. Design parameters of an experimental plantation of E. camaldulensis (River red gum), were used to examine tree-level responses to moisture stress, as measured by xylem water potential, and relationships to physiological parameters including spectral reflectance, chlorophyll flurescence, and cholorphyll across a range of stress categories.


First Detection Of Meso-Thermospheric Nitric Oxide (No) By Ground-Based Ftir Solar Absorption Spectroscopy, Aldona Wiacek, Nicholas B. Jones, K Strong, J R. Taylor, Richard L. Mittermeier, Hans Fast Jan 2006

First Detection Of Meso-Thermospheric Nitric Oxide (No) By Ground-Based Ftir Solar Absorption Spectroscopy, Aldona Wiacek, Nicholas B. Jones, K Strong, J R. Taylor, Richard L. Mittermeier, Hans Fast

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We report the first detection of mesospheric-lower thermospheric (MLT, 50–130 km) NO from ground-based FTIR solar absorption spectra using Lorentz- and Doppler-broadened solar absorption lines in the stratosphere and in the MLT, respectively. We present the first characterization of vertical sensitivity in the FTIR NO retrieval and show that MLT NO partial columns can be retrieved with ~1 independent piece of information using a climatological NO profile extending up to 130 km. The information content analysis also improves the characterization of stratospheric partial column retrievals and is relevant to NO results obtained at other Network for the Detection of Stratospheric …