A Parachute-Based Airborne Wind Energy System and Aerodynamic Characteristics

Wind Resource Analysis For Airborne Wind Energy Systems

Influential Node Detection on Graph on Event Sequence

Numerous research efforts have centered on identifying the most influential players in networked social systems. This problem is immensely crucial in the research of complex networks. Most existing techniques either model social dynamics on static networks only and ignore the underlying time-serial nature or model the social interactions as...

RAP pre-treatment for fast cold in-place recycling

Developed by Delft University of Technology, the tri-component polyurethane modified cold binder (PMCB) displays impressive durability and strength in asphalt mixtures, showing promise as a reliable binder for cold in-place recycling. However, when applying PMCB for rapid, in-situ recycling, the presence of moisture in reclaimed asphalt...

Between Tradition and Modernity: Western urban planning and street improvement projects in Hankou (1889-1937)

This article examines street improvement projects in Hankou's case for unearthing the contribution of Chinese political elites and planers in exchanging planning concepts and technologies from the West to China. Aiming to realize the Modern Metropolis, which Sun Yat-sen proposed in the fundamentals of national reconstruction, Chinese political...

Use of waste oil/styrene-butadiene-rubber blends as rejuvenators for aged bitumen

This study elaborates the influence of blends formulated by waste oil (WO) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) on thermo-mechanical and chemical compositional characteristics of rejuvenated bitumen. The results show that both WEO (waste engine oil) and WCO (waste cooking oil) can compensate viscous component for reclaimed bitumen, and the effect...

Effect of bio-oil on low-intermediate temperature properties of organosolv lignin-bitumen

Lignin, one of the most abundant natural polymers, has been extensively studied as liquid or solid additive in bituminous binders. Despite the fact the organosolv lignin in bitumen improves the overall resistance against oxidative aging, lignin could lead to binders of high thermal cracking sensitivity. In this study, a bio-based oil is...

A Science Mapping Review of Human and Organizational Factors in Structural Reliability

In the structural safety field, it is widely acknowledged that human error is the major contributor to structural failure. Since Human and Organizational Factors (HOFs) are critical latent conditions that can lead to human errors and further structural failures, it is essential to study into HOFs in the building industry to prevent the...

An Agent-based Model to Evaluate Influences on Structural Reliability by Human and Organizational Factors

Human and Organizational Factors (HOFs) are considered to have significant impacts on structural reliability. Yet how structural reliability is affected by these factors and how large this impact is remains inadequately studied. A model that is designed to reveal such relationships is proposed in this paper. First, a review of problem related...

VAPOR: A Value-Centric Blockchain that is Scale-out, Decentralized, and Flexible by Design

Blockchains is a special type of distributed systems that operates in unsafe networks. In most blockchains, all nodes should reach consensus on all state transitions with Byzantine fault tolerant algorithms, which creates bottlenecks in performance. In this paper, we propose a new type of blockchains, namely Value-Centric Blockchains (VCBs),...

An Efficient GPU-based de Bruijn Graph Construction Algorithm for Micro-Assembly

In order to improve the accuracy of indel detection, micro-assembly is used in multiple variant callers, such as the GATK HaplotypeCaller to reassemble reads in a specific region of the genome. Assembly is a computationally intensive process that causes runtime bottlenecks. In this paper, we propose a GPU-based de Bruijn graph construction...

New opportunities with nanowires

Light emission from Si, would allow integration of electronic and optical functionality in the main electronics platform technology, but this has been impossible due to the indirect band gap of Si. In this talk I will discuss 2 different approaches, using unique properties of nanowires, to realize light emission from Si-based compounds.

Veldonderzoek naar reflectiescheuren in DGB-verhardingen met ZOAB-deklaag

Doorgaand gewapende betonverhardingen (DGB) worden met name in België frequent toegepast bij de (re)constructie van zwaarbelaste wegen zoals autosnelwegen. Bij dit type betonverhardingen worden geen dwarsvoegen toegepast om de scheurvorming te beheersen maar een krimpwapening die moet resulteren in een patroon van regelmatig verdeelde fijne...

Optimalisatie scheurpatroon in DGB-verhardingen door scheurinitiatie

Doorgaand gewapende betonverhardingen (DGB) worden met name in België frequent toegepast bij de (re)constructie van zwaarbelaste wegen zoals autosnelwegen. Bij dit type betonverhardingen worden geen dwarsvoegen toegepast om de scheurvorming te beheersen maar een krimpwapening die moet resulteren in een patroon van regelmatig verdeelde fijne...

On the Energy Benefit of Compute-and-forward for Multiple Unicasts

Compute-and-forward (CF) is a technique which exploits broadcast and superposition in wireless networks. In this paper, the CF energy benefit is studied for networks with unicast sessions and modeled by connected graphs. This benefit is defined as the ratio of the minimum energy consumption by traditional routing techniques, not using broadcast...

Exploration of Alternative GPU Implementations of the Pair-HMMs Forward Algorithm

In order to handle the massive raw data generated by next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms, GPUs are widely used by many genetic analysis tools to speed up the used algorithms. In this paper, we use GPUs to accelerate the pair-HMMs forward algorithm, which is used to calculate the overall alignment probability in many genomics analysis...

Education and employment: A preliminary study of female built environment undergraduate students in South Wales

Recently available figures for South Wales' university’s and college’s intake indicate a ratio of 83 male to 17 female students on undergraduate built environment courses. It could be contended that any increase in the numbers of females attending such courses should reflect more females at the ‘coal face’ but what of the experiences,...

Heterodyne gas cell measurements at 2.9 THz using a quantum cascade laser as local oscillator

High-resolution heterodyne spectrometers operating at above 2 THz are crucial for detecting, e.g., the HD line at 2.7 THz and oxygen OI line at 4.7 THz in astronomy. The potential receiver technology is a combination of a hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer and a THz quantum cascade laser (QCL) local oscillator (LO).Here we report the first...