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Chen, Le Min (author), Erol, Özlem (author), Choi, Young Hae (author), Pronk, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Currently, there is a growing interest in transforming wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) into resource recovery plants. Microorganisms in aerobic granular sludge produce extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which are considered sustainable resources to be extracted and can be used in diverse applications. Exploring applications in other...journal article 2024
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Guo, Xiaoyang (author), van de Kleut, Dick (author), Zhang, J. (author), Chen, C. (author), Wang, Xuehang (author), Zheng, Tianye (author), Boles, Steven (author)Activated carbon has long been recognized as a promising electrode material for energy storage devices. The extraordinarily high specific area makes it challenging to replace in supercapacitors since electrical double-layer capacitors need such surfaces but also porous networks to enable electrolyte penetration. As a raw material for...journal article 2024
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Chen, Wei (author), Eckelman, Matthew J. (author), Sprecher, Benjamin (author), Chen, Wei (author), Wang, Peng (author)Rare earth elements (REEs) are vital to the development of low-carbon technologies. There are rising concerns in the United States and elsewhere about REE supply chain stability and risks given the unvalidated perception in the heavy reliance of China, by far the largest REE supplier. However, the relationship between key countries at...journal article 2024
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Wang, Bin (author), Zio, Enrico (author), Chen, X. (author), Zhu, Hanhua (author), Guo, Yunhua (author), Fan, Shidong (author)In the dredging industry, the automation and accuracy of the Dredging Perception System (DPS) are vital for operational efficiency and environmental safety. Current DPS implementations face challenges with sensor fault tolerance, leading to system unreliability and increased false alarm rates that can disrupt dredging operations. We propose a...journal article 2024
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Chen, Xi (author), Gao, C. (author), Wang, Zuowen (author), Cheng, Longbiao (author), Zhou, Sheng (author), Liu, Shih Chii (author), Delbruck, Tobi (author)Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are useful in temporal sequence tasks. However, training RNNs involves dense matrix multiplications which require hardware that can support a large number of arithmetic operations and memory accesses. Implementing online training of RNNs on the edge calls for optimized algorithms for an efficient deployment on...journal article 2024
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Chen, Y. (author), Nijhuis, S. (author), van Dorst, M.J. (author)Numerous studies show the benefits of wilderness to humans and the environment. Therefore, preserving and developing wilderness areas within urban settings are crucial to combat and mitigate challenges like biodiversity decline resulting from urbanization. According to previous studies, human-wilderness interactions can be contradictory, e.g.,...journal article 2024
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Cao, Chengtai (author), Chen, Xinhong (author), Wang, J. (author), Song, Q. (author), Tan, Rui (author), Li, Yung Hui (author)Autonomous driving systems rely on precise trajectory prediction for safe and efficient motion planning. Despite considerable efforts to enhance prediction accuracy, inherent uncertainties persist due to data noise and incomplete observations. Many strategies entail formalizing prediction outcomes into distributions and utilizing variance to...journal article 2024
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Lu, T. (author), Wang, Ruizhi (author), Tang, Z. (author), Zou, Yiwei (author), Yue, X. (author), Liang, Yansong (author), Gong, Haoran (author), Liu, Shurui (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Xun (author), Du, S. (author)This article presents a 10mV-startup-voltage thermoelectric energy harvesting system, assisted by a piezoelectric generator (PEG) as a cold starter. It exploits the fact that when a thermoelectric energy harvesting system is implemented in a place where kinetic energy is also present, the PEG starter can provide a clock signal to start the...journal article 2024
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Chen, Huan (author), Zhang, Zhaoyu (author), Guo, R. (author), Han, Xutao (author), Zhang, Xuanrui (author), Lin, Junhao (author)The gas state of the insulating gas significantly impacts the development and extent of the partial discharge (PD) in gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). Correlating these two factors allows for a more comprehensive diagnosis of insulation defects. At present, the ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) method has been widely used for PD detection in GIS....journal article 2024
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Chen, J. (author), Dwarka, V.N.S.R. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)The Helmholtz equation is related to seismic exploration, sonar, antennas, and medical imaging applications. It is one of the most challenging problems to solve in terms of accuracy and convergence due to the scalability issues of the numerical solvers. For 3D large-scale applications, high-performance parallel solvers are also needed. In this...journal article 2024
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Su, R. (author), van der Sluijs, P.M. (author), Chen, Yuan (author), Cornelissen, Sandra (author), van den Broek, R.B. (author), van Zwam, Wim H. (author), van der Lugt, Aad (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Ruijters, Danny (author), van Walsum, T. (author)Cerebral X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is a widely used imaging technique in patients with neurovascular disease, allowing for vessel and flow visualization with high spatio-temporal resolution. Automatic artery–vein segmentation in DSA plays a fundamental role in vascular analysis with quantitative biomarker extraction,...journal article 2024
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Ferrante, G. (author), Chen, Zhi X. (author), Langella, I. (author)Large eddy simulation (LES) paradigms are used in the present work to predict premixed and partially premixed turbulent flames with flamelets based thermochemistry and presumed filtered density function approach for turbulence-chemistry interaction modelling. The combustion model requires a closure for the scalar dissipation rate of a...journal article 2024
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Zhi, Danyue (author), Zhao, Hepeng (author), Chen, Yan (author), Song, Weize (author), Song, Dongdong (author), Yang, Y. (author)The configuration of the urban built environment is critical for promoting sustainability and achieving carbon neutrality. However, existing studies mostly use linear and spatial econometric models to investigate the relationship between urban built environments and traffic carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions, in-depth studies exploring...journal article 2024
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Luo, Zhiyuan (author), Qiao, Li (author), Chen, Haomin (author), Mao, Zhili (author), Wu, Shujiao (author), Ma, Bianqin (author), Xie, Tian (author), Wang, Anming (author), Pei, Xiaolin (author), Sheldon, R.A. (author)The design and orderly layered co-immobilization of multiple enzymes on resin particles remain challenging. In this study, the SpyTag/SpyCatcher binding pair was fused to the N-terminus of an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and an aldo-keto reductase (AKR), respectively. A non-canonical amino acid (ncAA), p-azido-L-phenylalanine (p-AzF), as the...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Guang (author), Chen, Huang (author), Tang, Jingtian (author), Yang, Guanci (author), Yu, Mingbiao (author), Hu, Yong (author), Xu, Jun (author), Sun, J. (author)Audio magnetotelluric (AMT) is commonly used in mineral resource exploration. However, the weak energy of AMT signals makes them susceptible to being overwhelmed by noise, leading to erroneous geophysical interpretations. In recent years, deep learning has been applied to AMT denoising and has shown better denoising performance compared to...journal article 2024
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Jan, A. (author), Chen, M. (author), Nijboer, Michiel (author), Luiten-Olieman, Mieke W.J. (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author)Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) is widely used for the chemical cleaning of fouled ultrafiltration (UF) membranes. Various studies performed on polymeric membranes demonstrate that long-term (>100 h) exposure to NaClO deteriorates the physicochemical properties of the membranes, leading to reduced performance and service life. However, the effect...journal article 2024
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Men, Jinkun (author), Chen, Guohua (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Earthquake-triggered fire domino scenarios (E-FDSs) arise frequently from the interaction between earthquakes and chemical installations, resulting in catastrophic multi-hazard coupling events. The complicated mutually amplified phenomena between natural disasters and chemical accidents significantly aggravates the escalation of domino...journal article 2024
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Chen, Mingzhe (author), Ramachandra Rao, P. (author), Venialgo Araujo, E. (author)In direct time-of-flight (D-TOF) light detection and ranging (LIDAR), accuracy and full-scale range (FSR) are the main performance parameters to consider. Particularly, in single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) based systems, the photon-counting statistics plays a fundamental role in determining the LIDAR performance. Also, the intrinsic...journal article 2024
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Bhuyan, Mohammad Amzad Hossain (author), Karkman, Antti (author), Prokkola, Hanna (author), Chen, B. (author), Perumal, Priyadharshini (author), Luukkonen, Tero (author)Alkali-activated foams are ceramic-like materials prepared at near-ambient temperature. This study investigates them for point-of-use water disinfection, thus providing an alternative to ceramic filters fired at a high temperature. Alkali-activated foams with different compositions were characterized for the porosity, mechanical strength,...journal article 2024
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Li, Peinan (author), Liu, Xue (author), Jiang, Xi (author), Zhang, X. (author), Wu, Jun (author), Chen, Peixin (author)Quasi-rectangular shield tunneling is a cutting-edge trenchless method for constructing metro tunnels with double tubes, owing to its advantages in saving underground space and reducing ground disturbance. However, the conventional quasi-rectangular shield tunneling method is not applicable when constructing a tunnel without a center pillar,...journal article 2024