Badía Valiente, José David; Strömberg, Emma Marie; Ribes Greus, María Desamparados; Karlsson, Sigbritt(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011)
[EN] The sample preparation procedure for MALDI-TOF MS of polymers is addressed in this study by the application of a statistical Design of Experiments (DoE). Industrial poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was chosen as ...
Badia, J.D.; Strömberg, Emma Marie; Ribes Greus, María Desamparados; Karlsson, Sigbritt(Elsevier, 2011)
[EN] Multiple processing by means of successive injection cycles was used to simulate the thermo-mechanical degradation effects on the oligomeric distribution of PLA under mechanical recycling. Likewise, an accelerated ...
Cooperative communication has attracted many research interests in recent years because it can take advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless communications and spatial diversity to improve the network performance. ...
Acebrón Fabregat, Javier; Moratal Pérez, David; Marti Bonmati, Luis; Brummer, Marijn Eduard(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03)
[EN] The main parallel imaging techniques have been implemented under MATLAB (SENSE, PILS and SPACE-RIP for image domain, and SMASH and GRAPPA for k-space domain), evaluating its characteristics about image quality and ...
Borrás García, Esther Mª; Tortajada-Genaro, Luis Antonio(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
[EN] The determination of multifunctional oxygenated compounds in secondary organic aerosols (SOA) usually requires a derivatisation protocol prior to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis (GC-MS). Our proposed ...
Direct hapten-linked multiplexed immunoassay is developed on the polycarbonate surface of standard Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs) for six compounds of environmental concern, as proof of concept. Carboxylated haptens are ...
Alves, Tiago; Morant, Maria; Cartaxo, Adolfo; Llorente, Roberto(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-06)
[EN] The performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra wideband (UWB) radio signals distribution in long-reach passive optical networks (LR-PONs) using conventional chirp-less Mach Zehnder (MZ) and ...
[EN] Photography is being benefited from the huge improvement in CMOS image sensors. New cameras extend the dynamic range allowing photographers to take photos with a higher quality than they could imagine one decade ago. ...
Rodríguez-Hernández, Miguel A.; Ramos, Antonio; San Emeterio Prieto, José Luis(IOP Publishing: Hybrid Open Access, 2011-10)
Ultrasonic measurements using orthogonal collimated beams provide both complementary and redundant information about internal parts of pieces or structures being tested, which must be fused. In this paper, a new wavelet-based ...