Advanced wearable biosensors for vital-signs monitoring (physiologic cipher) are available to improve quality of healthcare in hospital, nursing home, and remote environments. The objective of this study was to determine reliability of vital-signs monitoring systems in extreme environments. Three climbers were monitored 24 hours while climbing through Khumbu Icefall. Data were transmitted to Ev...

When linked to wearable biosensors, Intelligent Environments could play a pivotal role in continuously monitoring and securing people’s well-being. We explored the value of one such biosensor that records Electrodermal Activity (EDA) by assessing its correlation with participants’ simultaneously, continuously, self-reported arousal. EDA’s frequency amplitude ‘non-specific’ Skin Conductance Resp...

Stress is one of the most significant health problems in today's world. Existing work has used heart rate variability (HRV) to detect stress and provide biofeedback order regulate it. There been a growing interest using wearable biosensors measure HRV. Each these sensors acquires data different technologies for various bodily locations, therefore posing challenge researchers decide upon particu...

Biosensors are devices that combine biological materials and transducers for the detection of sample e.g. drugs, metabolites, pollutants, microbial load, control parameters etc. by converting biochemical signals into measurable physiochemical signals which in turn quantify the amount of sample. There are various types of biosensors depending upon the sensing elements or transducers. Since the f...

Optical biosensors represent the most common type of biosensor. Here we provide a brief classification, a description of underlying principles of operation and their bioanalytical applications. The main focus is placed on the most widely used optical biosensors which are surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensors including SPR imaging and localized SPR. In addition, other optical biosenso...

INTRODUCTION The holistic management of hearing loss (HL) requires an understanding of factors that predict hearing aid (HA) use and benefit beyond the acoustics of listening environments. Although several predictors have been identified, no study has explored the role of audiological, cognitive, behavioural and physiological data nor has any study collected real-time HA data. This study will c...

2.1.1 General Procedure 5988 2.1.2 Heparin Detection 5992 2.1.3 Carbohydrate Structures 5994 2.2 Lectin-Based Biosensors 5995 2.3 Glycoprotein and Glycosylation Biosensors 5997 2.4 Pathogen and Cancer-Detection Assays 5999 2.4.1 Pathogen Identification 5999 2.4.2 LPS Biosensors 6002 2.4.3 Cancer Diagnostics 6003 2.5 Carbohydrate Nanobiosensors 6003 2.6 Miscellaneous Carbohydrate Bioassays 6004 ...

A biosensor can be defined as a device incorporating a biological sensing element connected to a transducer to convert an observed response into a measurable signal, whose magnitude is proportional to the concentration of a specific chemical or set of chemcials (Eggins 1996). According to the receptor type, biosensors can be classified as enzymatic biosensors, genosensors, immunosensors, etc. B...

Introduction: Wearable sensors, especially biosensors, are playing an important role in healthcare, security, environmental monitoring domains and fitness [6]. Many researchers have demonstrated the benefit of compression garments in sports performance [1, 5]. However, there is insufficient evidence to support the reasons for this improved performance [4]. This paper aims to determine the effec...