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Cai, Yuxin (author), Liu, Qing feng (author), Meng, Zhaozheng (author), Chen, Mengzhu (author), Li, Weihua (author), Šavija, B. (author)High-frequency vibration helps to improve the compactness of concrete, but also causes the settlement of coarse aggregates (CAs) and then affects the durability of hardened concrete. In this paper, a numerical study combining multi-phase CA settlement model and multi-component ionic transport model is performed to understand the influence of...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Jianxin (author), Han, Rui (author), Yang, Yongkai (author), Catterall, Benjamin (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Mortier, Richard (author), Crowcroft, Jon (author), Wang, Liang (author)With the massive amount of data generated from mobile devices and the increase of computing power of edge devices, the paradigm of Federated Learning has attracted great momentum. In federated learning, distributed and heterogeneous nodes collaborate to learn model parameters. However, while providing benefits such as privacy by design and...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Qinglong (author), Han, Rui (author), Xin, Gaofeng (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been showing significant success in various anomaly detection applications such as smart surveillance and industrial quality control. It is increasingly important to detect anomalies directly on edge devices, because of high responsiveness requirements and tight latency constraints. The accuracy of DNN-based...journal article 2022
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Gu, Yi (author), Han, Chao (author), Chen, Yuhan (author), Liu, Shenggang (author), Wang, X. (author)The last decades have witnessed a rapid increase of Earth observation satellites (EOSs), leading to the increasing complexity of EOSs scheduling. On account of the widespread applications of large region observation, this article aims to address the EOSs observation scheduling problem for large region targets. A rapid coverage calculation...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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Chen, Yangkang (author), Huang, Weilin (author), Zhou, Yatong (author), Liu, Wei (author), Zhang, D. (author)The journal is publishing this Expression of Concern to alert readers while we investigate to determine whether further action is required.journal article 2021
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Kosaka, Fumihiko (author), Liu, Yanyong (author), Chen, Shih Yuan (author), Mochizuki, Takehisa (author), Takagi, Hideyuki (author), Urakawa, A. (author), Kuramoto, Koji (author)A desirable process for realizing a low-carbon society is the direct conversion of dilute CO2 from flue gases or air into highly concentrated hydrocarbons without a need for separate CO2 capture and purification processes. In this study, we investigated the performance of integrated CO2 capture and reduction to CH4 over Ni-based dual...journal article 2021
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Luan, Pengqian (author), Liu, Yunting (author), Li, Yongxing (author), Chen, Ran (author), Huang, Chen (author), Gao, Jing (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Jiang, Yanjun (author)An aqueous chemoenzymatic cascade reaction combining Pd-catalyzed C-C formation and enzymatic C=C asymmetric hydrogenation (AH) was developed for enantioselective synthesis of tertiary α-aryl cycloketones in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities. The stereopreference of the enzyme in AH of α-aryl cyclohexenones was studied. An...journal article 2021
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Li, Xiaofeng (author), Liu, Hai (author), Zhou, Feng (author), Chen, Zhongchang (author), Giannakis, Iraklis (author), Slob, E.C. (author)This paper proposes a nondestructive evaluation method based on deep learning using combined ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electromagnetic induction (EMI) data for autonomic and accurate estimation of the cover thickness and diameter of reinforcement bars. A real-time object detection algorithm—You Only Look Once–version 3 (YOLO v3)—is...journal article 2021
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Chen, L. (author), Zhai, Y. (author), van der Mark, Ed (author), Liu, G. (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Slow sand filters (SSFs) are widely applied to treat potable water; the removal of contaminants (e.g., particles, organic matter, and microorganism) occurs primarily in the top layer. However, the development of the microbial community and its metabolic function is still poorly understood. In the present study, we analyzed the microbial...journal article 2021
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Liu, Qingzhi (author), Cheng, Long (author), Alves, R.C.A. (author), Alves, Renan (author), Ozcelebi, Tanir (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author), Xu, Guixian (author), Lukkien, Johan (author), Chen, Shanzhi (author)Software-defined networking (SDN) is a cornerstone of next-generation networks and has already led to numerous advantages for data-center networks and wide-area networks. However, SDN is not widely adopted in constrained networks, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), due to excessive control overhead, lossy medium, and in-band control...journal article 2021
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Chen, Xiaoyan (author), He, Qinghua (author), Zhang, Xinyue (author), Cao, Tingting (author), Liu, Y. (author)Collaborative innovation has become an innovation paradigm to improve innovation performance and firms’ economic output. However, there is relatively little research investigating stakeholders’ drivers for engaging in collaborative innovation and the relative importance of drivers in infrastructure megaprojects. This research aims to address...journal article 2021
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Huang, Xinxing (author), Li, Yifan (author), Tian, Zhan (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Ke, Q. (author), Fan, Dongli (author), Mao, Ganquan (author), Chen, Aifang (author), Liu, Junguo (author)Efficient and accurate streamflow predictions are important for urban water management. Data-driven models, especially neural network (NN) models can predict streamflow fast, while the results are uncertain in some complex river systems. Physically based models can reveal the underlying physics, but it is relatively slow and computationally...journal article 2021
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Sun, Xiaoliang (author), Zhou, Guanggang (author), Liu, Z. (author), Zhu, Jianwei (author), Guo, Fengzhi (author), Chen, Junqing (author), He, Wenhao (author), Wang, Ning (author), Zhao, Ge (author), Lu, Guiwu (author)The controllability of mining is a key factor affecting the commercial application of methane hydrates, and the addition of chemical additives can significantly accelerate the mining process. However, the effect of additive concentration on hydrate decomposition is not yet well understood. In this study, we systematically investigate the...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Xinyue (author), Le, Yun (author), Liu, Y. (author), Chen, Xiaoyan (author)In emerging economies, infrastructure projects are in full swing. There is a wealth of replicable experience for exploitation. Simultaneously, more technologies and methodologies require further exploration. This makes fostering ambidextrous innovation strategies (i.e., the tradeoff between exploitative and exploratory innovation strategies) a...journal article 2021
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Chen, Guangmeng (author), Wen, Shifeng (author), Ma, Jiacheng (author), Sun, Zhiyong (author), Lin, Cunguo (author), Yue, Zhufeng (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Liu, M. (author)Multifunctional intrinsic self-healing polymers (ISP) are gaining increasing attention these days, and many studies have been devoted to solving the conflict between achieving high mechanical polymer strength and active polymer chain diffusion. In this research, we developed an optimized self-healing composite coating by adding Benzotriazole ...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Cheng-lin (author), Chen, Wei-kang (author), Mu, Song (author), Šavija, B. (author), Liu, Qing-feng (author)Reinforced concrete (RC) structures may suffer from serious durability problems during long-term service. To investigate the deterioration of RC structures subjected to the dual attacks of chlorides and sulfates, this study proposes a coupled model for external sulfate attack (ESA) and its effect on chloride binding and diffusion. To account for...journal article 2021
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Liu, Yubo (author), Zhang, Chi (author), Tang, Qiuhong (author), Hosseini-Moghari, Seyed Mohammad (author), Haile, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel (author), Li, Laifang (author), Li, Wenhong (author), Yang, Kun (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Chen, Deliang (author)Rainfall is one of the most influential climatic factors on regional development and environment, and changes in rainfall intensity are of specific concern. In the Huaihe River Valley (HRV), heavy rainfall is a primary trigger of floods. However, the difference in the origin of moisture contributed to heavy rainfall and light rainfall is...journal article 2021
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Liu, Z. (author), Han, Xingjian (author), Zhang, Yuchen (author), Chen, Xiangjia (author), Lai, Y. (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Whiting, Emily (author), Wang, C.C. (author)In this paper, we present a new computational pipeline for designing and fabricating 4D garments as knitwear that considers comfort during body movement. This is achieved by careful control of elasticity distribution to reduce uncomfortable pressure and unwanted sliding caused by body motion. We exploit the ability to knit patterns in...journal article 2021
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Wang, Hanchen (author), Chen, Jilei (author), Yu, T. (author), Liu, Chuanpu (author), Guo, Chenyang (author), Liu, Song (author), Shen, Ka (author), Jia, Hao (author), Bauer, G.E. (author)Nanomagnets are widely used to store information in non-volatile spintronic devices. Spin waves can transfer information with low-power consumption as their propagations are independent of charge transport. However, to dynamically couple two distant nanomagnets via spin waves remains a major challenge for magnonics. Here we experimentally...journal article 2020