The structural design of three-dimensional (3D) flexible wearable sensors using conductive polymer composites is a hot spot in current research. In this paper, honeycomb-shaped flexible resistive pressure sensors with three different support structures were manufactured by using thermoplastic polyurethane and graphene nanoplatelets composites based on fused deposition 3D printing technology. Based on the various 3D conductive network of the sensors, the flexible sensor exhibit excellent piezoresistive performance, such as adjustable gauge factor (GF) (13.70-54.58), exceptional durability and stability. A combination of representative volume element and finite element simulations was used to simulate the stress distribution of sensors with different structures to predict the structure's effect on the sensor GF. In addition, the sensor can be attached to human body to monitor the body's swallowing and walking behaviors. The sensor has prospective process applications for intelligent wearable devices.
Increasing global and domestic food
trade and required logistics
create uncertainties in food safety inspection due to uncertainties
in food origins and extensive trade activities. Modern blockchain
techniques have been developed to inform consumers of food origins
but do not provide food safety information in many cases. A novel
food safety tracking and modeling framework for quantifying toxic
chemical levels in the food and the food origins was developed. By
integrating chemicals’ multimedia environment exchange, food
web, and source tracking systems, the framework was implemented to
identify short-chain chlorinated paraffin (SCCP) contamination of
fresh hairtail fish sold by a Walmart supermarket in Xi’an,
northwestern China, and sourced in Eastern China Sea coastal waters.
The framework was shown to successfully predict SCCP level with a
mean of 17.8 ng g–1 in Walmart-sold hairtails, which
was comparable to lab-analyzed 21.9 ng g–1 in Walmart-sold
hairtails. The framework provides an alternative and cost-effective
approach for safe food inspection compared to traditional food safety
inspection techniques. These encouraging results suggest that the
approach and rationale reported here could add additional information
to the food origin tracking system to enhance transparency and consumers’
confidence in the traded food they consumed.
News media structure their reporting of events or issues using certain perspectives. When describing an incident involving gun violence, for example, some journalists may focus on mental health or gun regulation, while others may emphasize the discussion of gun rights. Such perspectives are called "frames" in communication research. We study, for the first time, the value of combining lead images and their contextual information with text to identify the frame of a given news article. We observe that using multiple modes of information(article-and image-derived features) improves prediction of news frames over any single mode of information when the images are relevant to the frames of the headlines. We also observe that frame image relevance is related to the ease of conveying frames via images, which we call frame concreteness. Additionally, we release the first multimodal news framing dataset related to gun violence in the U.S., curated and annotated by communication researchers. The dataset will allow researchers to further examine the use of multiple information modalities for studying media framing.
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