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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Field-deployable"”.
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Development of Field-deployable Nucleic Acid Testing Platforms
This thesis is focused on the development of field-deployable nucleic acid testing platforms to allowed rapid detection and quantification of nucleic acids. Two distinct platforms suitable for nucleic acid testing in resource-limited settings were developed. First, a paper-based diagnostic device …
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Field deployable dynamic lighting system for turbid water imaging
… a relatively simple, cost-effective and field-deployable low-power dynamic lighting system that minimizes the scatter interaction volume with both subjective and quantifiable improvements in imaging performance.
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Field deployable dynamic lighting system for turbid water imaging
… a relatively simple, cost-effective and field-deployable low-power dynamic lighting system that minimizes the scatter interaction volume with both subjective and quantifiable improvements in imaging performance.
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Detector positioning in a field-deployable limited-angle gamma ray emission tomography system
… have been part of the medical and industrial fields for more than a century due to their simple use in the inspection of internal parameters without sample damage. These methods take advantage of the interactions of matter with the medium to present quantitative and qualitative information …
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Development of Precision, Field-Deployable, Opto-Mechanical Instrumentation: Accessibility as a Functional Requirement
… interferometers, advancing the field’s suspension technology to be simpler yet more adaptable. Two units of this isolation system have been reliably operating at the LIGO observatories, contributing to an increase in gravitational-wave detection rate of more than 40%. The second …
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Sustainable Nanomaterials Combined with Raman Spectroscopy-based Techniques to Advance Environmental Sensing
… An effective implementation of a wide network of field deployable point-of-use (POU) sensors can potentially enable real-time monitoring of water quality parameters and inform decision making on public health outbreaks. The use of nanotechnology and field-deployable analytical tools can …
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The Electrochemistry of Ferrocenyl-thiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers for use in a Toll-like Receptor 4-based sensor
… sensing of biological agents. Development of field-deployable biosensors is a response to fulfill this gap, specifically, the demand for immediate recognition of samples of unknown origin requiring broad-based detection capabilities. Our research group has been pursuing this venture by …
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Development of a High Sensitivity, Multiplex Vertical Flow Immunoassay System for the Detection of Biothreat Agents
… However, a critical gap exists between field-deployable systems that are cost-effective and those that offer highly sensitive, multiplex capabilities for biothreat detection. The goal of this project was to advance a promising vertical flow immunoassay (VFI) technology from laboratory …
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Field-Portable dissolved gas sensing and perspectives in aqueous microplastic detection
… as temperature. Lab calibrations and subsequent field testing in the Little Sippewissett Marsh, in Falmouth, Massachusetts showed that the LCGEMS captures both diurnal and minute-time scale trends in dissolved CO2. Second, this thesis presents the novel design of three simple and low-cost planar …
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Field-Portable Dissolved Gas Sensing and Perspectives in Aqueous Microplastic Detection
… as temperature. Lab calibrations and subsequent field testing in the Little Sippewissett Marsh, in Falmouth, Massachusetts showed that the LCGEMS captures both diurnal and minute-time scale trends in dissolved CO2. Second, this thesis presents the novel design of three simple and low-cost planar …
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Quantification of an Ultrasound Test Apparatus and its Potential Use to Control Nuisance Species in Commercial Aquaculture Settings
… concept behind the design and development of a field deployable system capable of killing a significant percentage of a snail population.
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Isolation of ambient aerosols of known critical supersaturation: the differential critical supersaturation separator (DSCS)
A field-deployable instrument has been developed that isolates from an ambient aerosol population only those particles that have critical supersaturations, Sc, within a narrow, user-specified, range. This Differential Critical Supersaturation Separator (DScS) is designed to supply one or more …
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Development of a Compact Diamond NV- Magnetometer
… academic, laboratory systems and industrial, field-deployable devices. The research includes the construction of an optical bench set-up that is capable of eventually obtaining optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) signals for NV− centres under controlled magnetic fields. Key system …
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CRISPR Biosensors for Resource-limited Nucleic Acid Detection
… multiplexed electrochemical sensing, and a field-deployable magnetic bead-based waterborne pathogen concentration and CRISPR-based detection system for environmental monitoring. This work also examines how local and indigenous knowledge figure into the conceptualization, collection, and …
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A Standalone High Frequency Receiver System
… and capable of remaining deployed in the field for up to a month. The design motivation was for ionospheric sounding campaigns in New Mexico organized by the Air Force Research Labora- tories (AFRL). The systems are calibrated to selected sites and thus require Radio Frequency Interference …
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Controlled Evaluation of Metal-Based Nanomaterial Transformations
… immobilized on a solid surface, the samples were field deployable, environmentally relevant metal concentrations were maintained, and the confounding influence of MNP aggregation was eliminated. Ag NP samples were deployed in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Sulfidation occurred almost …
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The Development and Deployment of Sensors and Algorithms for the Mobile Monitoring of Urban Surface Water Quality
… the development and characterization of a field-deployable high-resolution spectrofluorometer for the real-time mobile monitoring of algae. The chapter provides encouraging evidence that such an instrument can begin moving from the lab to the field in order to investigate real-time …
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Ground-Based Hyperspectral Imaging and Data Analysis for Near-Vertical Outcrop Surfaces
… outcrops complementing the conventional field methods. Ground-based hyperspectral data were collected using a field-deployable imaging system which employs two SpecIm hyperspectral sensors operating in visible-near infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) ranges. A workflow including …
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Insight into chemical, biological, and physical processes in coastal waters from dissolved oxygen and inert gas tracers
… that affect all gases. First, I developed a field-deployable system that measures Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe gas ratios in water. It has precision and accuracy of 1 % or better, enables near-continuous measurements, and has much lower cost compared to existing laboratory-based methods. The system …
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