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Xu, Yanghui (author), Ou, Q. (author), Wang, Xintu (author), Hou, Feng (author), Li, Peng (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Liu, G. (author)The level of microplastics (MPs) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been well evaluated by the particle number, while the mass concentration of MPs and especially nanoplastics (NPs) remains unclear. In this study, pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was used to determine the mass concentrations of MPs and NPs with different...journal article 2023
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Li, Wanda (author), Xu, Zhiwei (author), Sun, Yi (author), Gong, Qingyuan (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Wang, Xin (author), Hui, Pan (author)Outstanding users (OUs) denote the influential, 'core' or 'bridge' users in online social networks. How to accurately detect and rank them is an important problem for third-party online service providers and researchers. Conventional efforts, ranging from early graph-based algorithms to recent machine learning-based approaches, typically rely on...journal article 2023
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Duan, Di (author), Yang, Huanqi (author), Lan, G. (author), Li, Tianxing (author), Jia, Xiaohua (author), Xu, Weitao (author)This paper presents EMGSense, a low-effort self-supervised domain adaptation framework for sensing applications based on Electromyography (EMG). EMGSense addresses one of the fundamental challenges in EMG cross-user sensing—the significant performance degradation caused by time-varying biological heterogeneity—in a low-effort (data-efficient and...conference paper 2023
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Xu, H. (author), Tan, Jinkai (author), Li, Chunlan (author), Niu, Yiying (author), Wang, Jun (author)As global warming continues to intensify, the relationship between diurnal temperature range (DTR) and vegetation productivity continues to change over time. However, the impact of DTR changes on vegetation activities remains uncertain. Thus, further study about how DTR changes affect the physiological activities of plants is also urgently...journal article 2023
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Li, Bin (author), Zheng, Yi (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Xu, Peng (author), Pande, S. (author), Sivapalan, Murugesu (author)Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for example, has developed plans to limit the size of the city’s population. However, the effect of...journal article 2023
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Xu, Fuqiang (author), Shi, Yu (author), Song, Xianzhi (author), Song, G. (author), Li, Shuang (author)Hot dry rocks (HDRs), as an essential renewable energy source, its development has received widespread attention, especially for heat extraction. The fracture is the main seepage and heat transfer channel of circulating fluid in dense HDR reservoirs, and its conductivity evolution significantly affects the production performance. Most...journal article 2023
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Xu, Li (author), Li, T. (author), Erkin, Z. (author)Verifiable Credential (VC) is a new standard proposed by the W3C association to facilitate the expression and verification of third-party-verified credentials on the Internet, such as passports or diplomas. However, the current VC data model lacks an explicit revocation design that guarantees the secure operations of the system, which limits its...conference paper 2023
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Song, G. (author), Shi, Yu (author), Xu, Fuqiang (author), Song, Xianzhi (author), Li, Gensheng (author), Wang, Gaosheng (author), Lv, Zehao (author)The multi-physics coupling process during the heat extraction from enhanced geothermal system, encompassing thermo(T)-hydro(H)-mechanical(M)-chemical(C) interactions, plays a pivotal role in changing geothermal reservoir characteristics. However, a comprehensive quantitative assessment of these multi-physics behaviors has been lacking. In...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Enze (author), Li, Feng (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Xu, Dake (author), Li, Zhong (author), Jia, Ru (author), Song, Hao (author), Gu, Tingyue (author), Homborg, A.M. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is an attractive model microbe for elucidating the biofilm-metal interactions that contribute to the billions of dollars in corrosion damage to industrial applications each year. Multiple mechanisms for S. oneidensis-enhanced corrosion have been proposed, but none of these mechanisms have previously been rigorously...journal article 2022
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Chen, Yiming (author), Sun, Xu (author), Xu, Liang (author), Ma, Sencai (author), Li, Jun (author), Pang, Y. (author), Cheng, Gang (author)The most common failures of belt conveyors are runout, coal piles and longitudinal tears. The detection methods for longitudinal tearing are currently not particularly effective. A key study area for minimizing longitudinal belt tears with the advancement of machine learning is how to use machine vision technology to detect foreign items on...journal article 2022
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Xu, K. (author), Liu, J. D. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Xu, W. (author), Li, J. G. (author)A universal numerical model based on the particle size distribution (PSD) approach has been developed for the simulation of precipitation kinetics in multicomponent alloys during isothermal ageing. Nucleation was implemented utilizing the classical nucleation theory (CNT). Growth and coarsening were modeled by a single growth kinetics...journal article 2022
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Zhou, Liangbin (author), Guo, Peng (author), D'Este, Matteo (author), Tong, Wenxue (author), Xu, Jiankun (author), Yao, Hao (author), Stoddart, Martin J. (author), van Osch, G.J.V.M. (author), Ho, Kevin Ki Wai (author), Li, Zhen (author), Qin, Ling (author)Articular cartilage (AC) is an avascular and flexible connective tissue located on the bone surface in the diarthrodial joints. AC defects are common in the knees of young and physically active individuals. Because of the lack of suitable tissue-engineered artificial matrices, current therapies for AC defects, especially full-thickness AC...review 2022
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Li, Yajun (author), Li, Jianguang (author), Xu, Nengxiong (author), Fenton, Gordon A. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)Correlation length or scale of fluctuation (SOF) is often used as a primary parameter in defining the spatial correlation characteristics of varying soil properties. However, geotechnical site investigations are rather limited so that proper determination of correlation length is not always possible. The concept of a worst-case correlation...journal article 2022
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Xia, Fei (author), Gevers, Monique (author), Fognini, Andreas (author), Mok, Aaron T. (author), Li, Bo (author), Akabri, Najva (author), Esmaeil Zadeh, I.Z. (author), Qin-Dregely, Y. (author), Xu, Chris (author)Using short-wave infrared wavelength advantages, we demonstrate one-photon fluorescence confocal microscopy of adult mouse brains with penetration depths up to 1.7mm. This is achieved by labeling quantum dots with 1300 nm excitation and 1700 nm emission and detecting them with a single-photon superconducting nanowire detector.conference paper 2022
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Li, Mingliang (author), Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wu, Zhe (author), Zhang, Haopeng (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Lin, P. (author), Xu, Jian (author)This study aims to comprehensively investigate the rejuvenation efficiency of various self-developed compound rejuvenators on the physical, mechanical, and aging properties of aged bitumen, asphalt mortar, and mixture. The results revealed that the restoration capacity of vacuum distilled-oil rejuvenators on high-and-low temperature performance...journal article 2022
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Zhu, Xiuxing (author), Xu, Yingpeng (author), Li, Xiaoyang (author), Hou, Rui (author), Ye, G. (author)The contact stress of flexible joint is an important factor affecting the safety of ultra-short-radius drilling tools. However, calculating the contact stress accurately is difficult, because the method for solving the multibody collision of the flexible joint is complex. A novel analytical method for the contact stress of ball cage flexible...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Jian (author), Xu, Shenyu (author), Chandrasegaran, R.S.K. (author), Bryan, Christopher James (author), Du, Fan (author), Mishra, Aditi (author), Qian, Xin (author), Li, Yiran (author), Ma, Kwan Liu (author)Visual data storytelling is gaining importance as a means of presenting data-driven information or analysis results, especially to the general public. This has resulted in design principles being proposed for data-driven storytelling, and new authoring tools being created to aid such storytelling. However, data analysts typically lack...journal article 2022
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Xu, Weitao (author), Xue, Wanli (author), Lin, Qi (author), Lan, G. (author), Feng, Xingyu (author), Wei, Bo (author), Luo, Chengwen (author), Li, Wei (author), Zomaya, Albert Y. (author)Smart space has emerged as a new paradigm that combines sensing, communication, and artificial intelligence technologies to offer various customized services. A fundamental requirement of these services is person identification. Although a variety of person-identification approaches has been proposed, they suffer from several limitations in...journal article 2022
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Lyu, T. (author), Dorenbos, P. (author), Li, Canhua (author), Li, Silei (author), Xu, Jian (author), Wei, Zhanhua (author)It is challenging to rational design persistent luminescence and storage phosphors with high storage capacity of electrons and holes after X-ray charging. Such phosphors have potential applications in anti-counterfeiting and X-ray imaging. Here we have combined vacuum referred binding energy diagram (VRBE) construction, photoluminescence...journal article 2022
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Lei, Yutian (author), Li, Zhen-Hua (author), Wang, H. (author), Wang, Qian (author), Peng, Guoqiang (author), Xu, Youkui (author), Zhang, Haihua (author), Wang, Gang (author), Ding, Liming (author), Jin, Zhiwen (author)Two-dimensional (2D) Dion-Jacobson (D-J)-type cesium lead iodide CsPbI <sub>3</sub> perform remarkably in terms of stability. However, the complex interactions between spacer and inorganic layers limit its excellent progress in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, starting from the considerable structural diversity of organic spacers, we...journal article 2022