A research group on forest products from School of Agriculture - Sao Paulo State University. Brazil developed a portable hardness tester for wood, which is based on a displacement transducer and an embedded electronic ...

The acquisition and treatment of strain data play an important role in various engineering applications, involving experimental stress analysis on a surface. Its operationalization, however, requires care and equipment ...

The simultaneous measurement of pressure and diameter in a central artery during 24 hours could bring new information about the variability of the arterial mechanical properties. In order to perform these measurements in ...

The development of smartphones, specifically their cameras, and imaging technologies has enabled their use as sensors/measurement tools. Here we aimed to evaluate the applicability of a fast and noninvasive method for the ...

The use of human equipment in veterinary medicine is very common; therefore, it is essential that it is tested and validated. In this study, a comparison was made between blood levels of glucose, lactate, triglycerides, ...

Blood glucose is widely used as a physiological parameter for vertebrates and invertebrates. However, its measurement in the field is often difficult due to the need for expensive and non-portable equipment. Point-of-care ...

Current methods for quality control of sugar cane are performed in extracted juice using several methodologies, often requiring appreciable time and chemicals (eventually toxic), making the methods not green and expensive. ...

This paper presents the concept and design of a digital system to record seismological signals. The hardware and software designed has been interfaced to the PC 104 BUS architecture in order to achieve a modular system to ...