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Doropoulos, Christopher (author), Gómez-Lemos, Luis A. (author), Salee, Kinam (author), McLaughlin, M. James (author), Tebben, Jan (author), van Koningsveld, M. (author), Feng, Ming (author), Babcock, Russell C. (author)Positive feedbacks driving habitat-forming species recovery and population growth are often lost as ecosystems degrade. For such systems, identifying mechanisms that limit the re-establishment of critical positive feedbacks is key to facilitating recovery. Theory predicts the primary drivers limiting system recovery shift from biological to...journal article 2022
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Feng, W. (author), He, P. (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Wrapped composite joint is a novel joining technology which connects steel hollow sections through bonding, completely avoiding the welding in the load transferring mechanism. Fatigue performance of wrapped joints has been experimentally shown to be superior over their welded counterparts. Aiming to enable development of prediction methods...journal article 2022
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Ao, Yibin (author), Feng, Qiqi (author), Zhou, Zhongli (author), Chen, Yunfeng (author), Wang, T. (author)The rural three-tier healthcare system is an essential part of the Chinese healthcare service system. To ensure rural residents’ equal access to such healthcare services, it is necessary to examine the current status of the healthcare system in rural China and formulate corresponding improvement suggestions. This study therefore collects the...journal article 2022
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Halpern, B.M. (author), Feng, S. (author), van Son, Rob (author), van den Brekel, Michiel (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)In this paper, we introduce a new corpus of oral cancer speech and present our study on the automatic recognition and analysis of oral cancer speech. A two-hour English oral cancer speech dataset is collected from YouTube. Formulated as a low-resource oral cancer ASR task, we investigate three acoustic modelling approaches that previously...journal article 2022
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Yi, Jinming (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Bai, Tao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Wu, Fan (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Li, Chuangmin (author)To meet the needs of the road industry for maintenance operations, a new cement emulsified bitumen mixture (CEBM) with early-strength, self-compacting, and room-temperature construction characteristics was designed. The strength formation mechanism of CEBM was revealed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the surface free energy (SFE...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Lixiao (author), Feng, Pan (author)Chloride diffusion in concrete is one of the key parameters of durability design for structure. Existing methods of reducing the chloride diffusion such as decreasing water-cement ratio and adding mineral admixtures often lead to increase the risk of concrete cracking. In this study, we focused on mitigating the permeation of chloride ions in...conference paper 2021
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Feng, Taotao (author), Jiang, Jinyang (author), Chu, Hongyan (author), Wang, Liguo (author)This paper reports on a study to determine the possibility of using ultra-fine fly ash (UFA) for partial or total replacement of normal fly ash (NFA) in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC). Workability, microstructure, porosity, drying shrinkage as well as mechanical properties were comprehensively studied to investigate the influence of UFA...conference paper 2021
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Wang, Haochuan (author), Feng, Pan (author), Geng, Zifan (author), Liu, Qi (author)The deterioration of organic coatings on concrete is closely linked to the efficiency in the protection process of reinforced structures. In the present work, polyurea resin and epoxy resin, which are widely used engineering coatings, were selected to measure and compare the performance under artificial aging. Fourier Transform infrared...conference paper 2021
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Ye, Shaoxiong (author), Feng, Pan (author), Liu, Yao (author), Liu, Jiaping (author)The nanoscale dissolution flux of tricalcium aluminate (C3A) in flowing water is characterized in situ by Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM). The pure dissolution of C3A in flowing water with a flow rate of 34 ml·min-1 before the precipitation of hydrated phases only lasted about one quarter of a second, and the pure dissolution rate mostly...conference paper 2021
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Ju, Siyi (author), Feng, Taotao (author), Wang, Liguo (author), Jiang, Jinyang (author)In this paper, four kinds of ecological fine aggregates (manufactured sand, recycled sand, aeolian sand and river sand) were used to prepared UHPC, the effects of the fine aggregates on the workability, rheological properties and mechanical properties of UHPC were studied. The results reveal that the type and content of fine aggregate have an...conference paper 2021
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Feng, S. (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)For a language with no transcribed speech available (the zero-resource scenario), conventional acoustic modeling algorithms are not applicable. Recently, zero-resource acoustic modeling has gained much interest. One research problem is unsupervised subword modeling (USM), i.e., learning a feature representation that can distinguish subword units...conference paper 2021
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Feng, S. (author), Żelasko, Piotr (author), Moro-Velázquez, Laureano (author), Abavisani, Ali (author), Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Dehak, Najim (author)The idea of combining multiple languages’ recordings to train a single automatic speech recognition (ASR) model brings the promise of the emergence of universal speech representation. Recently, a Transformer encoder-decoder model has been shown to leverage multilingual data well in IPA transcriptions of languages presented during training....conference paper 2021
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Feng, Y. (author), Duives, D.C. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)Exit choice is vital to pedestrians’ survival during evacuations. This paper presents the results of a VR experiment and a field experiment to study pedestrian exit choice behaviour during evacuations. Primarily, we compared pedestrian exit choice behaviour with a VR experiment and a field experiment to determine the ecological validity of a...journal article 2021
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Feng, S. (author), Zelasko, Piotr (author), Moro-Velázquez, Laureano (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)This paper tackles automatically discovering phone-like acoustic units (AUD) from unlabeled speech data. Past studies usually proposed single-step approaches. We propose a twostage approach: the first stage learns a subword-discriminative feature representation, and the second stage applies clustering to the learned representation and obtains...conference paper 2021
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Feng, S. (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)This study addresses unsupervised subword modeling, i.e., learning acoustic feature representations that can distinguish between subword units of a language. We propose a two-stage learning framework that combines self-supervised learning and cross-lingual knowledge transfer. The framework consists of autoregressive predictive coding (APC) as...journal article 2021
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Lv, Miao (author), Li, Dongyi (author), Zhang, Zhaohan (author), Logan, Bruce E. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Sun, Muchen (author), Chen, Fan (author), Feng, Yujie (author)Magnetic seeding coagulation (MSC) process has been used to accelerate flocs sedimentation with an applied magnetic field, offering large handling capacity and low energy consumption. The interactions of three typical Al species, aluminum chloride (AlCl<sub>3</sub>), Al<sub>13</sub>O<sub>4</sub>(OH)<sub>24</sub><sup>7+</sup> polymer (Al<sub...journal article 2021
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Feng, W. (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Design and execution of fatigue load dominated circular hollow section (CHS) multi-membered structures, such as offshore jacket and floating structures for wind turbines, truss bridges, etc., is hinged on fatigue performance of critical welded joints. An innovative jointing technology of wrapped composite joint connects steel hollow sections by...journal article 2021
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Zhan, Shi (author), Jiang, Dajun (author), Ling, Ming (author), Ding, Jian (author), Yang, Kai (author), Duan, Lei (author), Tsai, Tsung Yuan (author), Feng, Yong (author), van Trigt, B. (author), Jia, Weitao (author), Zhang, Changqing (author), Hu, Hai (author)Femoral neck fractures (FNFs) in young patients usually result from high-energy violence, and the vertical transcervical type is typically challenging for its instability. FNFs are commonly treated with three cannulated screws (CS), but the role of screws type on fixation effects (FE) is unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Wenqian (author), Dong, Wenhan (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Liu, Zongcheng (author), Zhou, Yang (author), Feng, Haoming (author)This work proposes a nonsingular adaptive fixed-time switching control method for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear dynamics subject to full state constraints. The peculiarity of this design lies in overcoming the singularity issue that typically appears in the existing backstepping-based fixed-time control methods caused by the iterative...journal article 2021
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Ren, Jie (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Feng, Di (author), Gong, J. (author)Large volumes of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) captured from carbon emission source can be stored in deep saline aquifers as a mean of mitigating climate change. The deep saline aquifers are naturally heterogeneous at multiple scales. It is important to generate representative multiscale heterogeneous fields of various hydrogeologic...journal article 2021