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Yao, Zhiyu (author), Hu, Weidong (author), Feng, Zhiyan (author), Zhang, Wenlong (author), Liu, Yang (author), Xu, Zhihao (author), Ligthart, L.P. (author)Passive multifrequency microwave sensors frequently struggle with difficulties of nonuniform spatial resolution among multiple channels. The raw measurements in the land-sea transition zone are seriously contaminated. Conventional analytical deconvolution techniques suffer from the tradeoff between spatial resolution enhancement and noise...journal article 2023
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Chen, Yangkun (author), Yu, Chenghui (author), Zhu, Hengman (author), Liu, Shuai (author), Zhang, Yibing (author), Suarez, Joseph (author), Zhao, Liang (author), He, J. (author), Chen, Jiaxin (author)We present the results of the second Neural MMO challenge, hosted at IJCAI 2022, which received 1600+ submissions. This competition targets robustness and generalization in multi-agent systems: participants train teams of agents to complete a multi-task objective against opponents not seen during training. We summarize the competition design...journal article 2023
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Chua, Victoria Y.H. (author), Liu, Hexin (author), Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia (author), Woon, Fei Ting (author), Wong, Jinyi (author), Zhang, X. (author), Khudanpur, Sanjeev (author), Khong, Andy W.H. (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author), Styles, Suzy J. (author)To enhance the reliability and robustness of language identification (LID) and language diarization (LD) systems for heterogeneous populations and scenarios, there is a need for speech processing models to be trained on datasets that feature diverse language registers and speech patterns. We present the MERLIon CCS challenge, featuring a...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Bin (author), Gao, Xu (author), Xu, S. (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Tian, Qin (author), Liu, Jiayi (author)Microwave heating is an effective method to achieve autonomic crack healing in asphalt mixtures, and the use of microwave-absorbing materials can largely improve this healing efficiency. As a solid waste, coal gangue contains metal oxides, which shows the possibility of microwave heating. In order to further promote the application of coal...journal article 2023
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Li, Xueqiang (author), Zhang, Zhongyao (author), Wang, Qihui (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author), Liu, Shengchun (author)Air cooling systems are widely used in current data centers owing to their low capital costs and high reliability. To satisfy the increasing rack power density, the optimal air-cooling technology and an economic analysis should be carefully discussed. Therefore, this study discusses four airflow management technologies: Case 1: raised floor...journal article 2023
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Zhang, X. (author), Liu, Mingqiang (author), Le, Yun (author), Wei, Jianjun (author), Zhu, Yongsong (author), Li, Yongkui (author)Given that a strong owner has been identified as an important factor in the success of megaprojects, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of megaproject owner organizational capabilities. However, the questions of what organizational capabilities do owners need to foster successful megaprojects, and whether these...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Guoqiang (author), Xu, Keyi (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Huang, R. (author), Li, B. (author), Wang, Ran (author)The construction industry's commitment to achieving carbon neutrality has underscored the urgency of promoting green and low-carbon sustainable affordable housing. However, the development process has encountered several challenges, including conflicts between the central and local governments arising from differences in value preferences,...journal article 2023
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Meng, Z. (author), Liu, Qing feng (author), Ukrainczyk, Neven (author), Mu, Song (author), Zhang, Yufei (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)Cementitious materials exposed to marine and saline environments are commonly threatened by a combined attack of sulfate and chloride ions. This study developed a numerical framework to investigate two combined coupling mechanisms of 1) coupled solid-liquid chemical reactions for competitive chloride-sulfate attack and 2) electrostatic multi...journal article 2023
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Liu, Tong (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Zhang, Rongjun (author), Wang, Jinke (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Keil, Patrick (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Li, Xiaogang (author)Organic coatings are one of the most used and versatile technologies to mitigate corrosion of metals. However, organic coatings are susceptible to defects and damages that may not be easily detected. If not repaired timely, these defects may develop into major coating failures due to corrosion occurring in the damaged region, thereby limiting...journal article 2023
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Golchin, A. (author), Guo, Y. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Liu, S. (author), Zhang, G. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)The coupling effect of initial shear stress and thermal cycles on the thermomechanical behaviour of clay concrete and sand-concrete interfaces has been studied. A set of drained monotonic direct shear tests was conducted at the soil-concrete interface level. Samples were initially sheared to half of the material's shear strength and then they...journal article 2023
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Hou, P. (author), Zha, Jiuping (author), Liu, Teng (author), Zhang, Baocheng (author)Precise point positioning-real-time kinematic (PPP-RTK), otherwise known as integer ambiguity resolution-enabled precise pointing positioning, has attracted much attention in recent years and has become state-of-the-art in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) high-precision positioning community. This work reviews several PPP-RTK...journal article 2023
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Guo, Y. (author), Golchin, A. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Liu, Songyu (author), Zhang, Guozhu (author), Vardon, P.J. (author)The effect of temperature on the monotonic and cyclic shearing response of a soil–structure interface is of critical importance for the application of thermal-active geo-structures. To investigate this, soils and soil–concrete interfaces were comprehensively tested with a temperature-controlled direct shear device under both fixed...journal article 2023
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Yang, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhou (author), Zhang, Qi (author), Chen, Zhe (author), de Jesus Chavez, Jose (author), Popov, M. (author)The traditional fault control strategy of converter-interfaced renewable energy sources (CIRESs) may bring about a lower sensitivity level or misoperation of fault component-based directional elements. To overcome this problem, a new control scheme is proposed to adjust sequence impedance angles of CIRESs by computing suitable current...journal article 2023
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Tan, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Short-wave ultraviolet (also called UVC) irradiation is a well-adopted method of viral inactivation due to its ability to damage genetic material. A fundamental problem with the UVC inactivation method is that its mechanism of action on viruses is still unknown at the molecular level. To address this problem, herein we investigate the...journal article 2023
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Han, Fei (author), Zhang, Mengru (author), Li, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhe (author), Han, Yufei (author), Li, L. (author), Zhou, Weizhi (author)Marine microorganisms have an inherent advantage in the treatment of saline wastewater due to their halophilic properties. Ammonium assimilation is the most important and common nitrogen conversion pathway in the ocean, which means that it may be a suitable nitrogen removal strategy under high salinity conditions. However, the targeted...journal article 2023
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Wang, Jinpeng (author), Zhang, Shang (author), Fenn, Peter (author), Luo, Xiaowei (author), Liu, Y. (author), Zhao, Lilin (author)Previous studies revealed that Building Information Modeling (BIM) has the potential to reduce project uncertainties, design errors, change orders, and delays, which might facilitate achieving effective dispute management in the construction industry. However, research into the adoption of BIM to holistically enhance effective dispute...review 2023
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Luopan, Yaxin (author), Han, Rui (author), Zhang, Qinglong (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously adopted in internet of things and are becoming an integral of our daily life. When tackling the evolving learning tasks in real world, such as classifying different types of objects, DNNs face the challenge to continually retrain themselves according to the tasks on different edge devices....conference paper 2023
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Zhang, Qinglong (author), Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Vision applications powered by deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on edge devices and solve the learning tasks of incoming data streams whose class label and input feature continuously evolve, known as domain shift. Despite its prominent presence in real-world edge scenarios, existing benchmarks used by domain adaptation methods...conference paper 2023
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Gao, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author)Surface energy is a key material property and can work as a crucial parameter in various mechanical models to predict the moisture sensitivity and fatigue damage of asphalt mixtures. The calculated surface energy values of the aggregate minerals strongly depend on their surface roughness. Therefore, it is very relevant for accurate...journal article 2023
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Hu, Yan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Ai, Zhengtao (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Ventilative cooling is an energy-saving technology to diminish thermal discomfort and overheating risk of buildings, meanwhile achieving high indoor air quality (IAQ). However, there is still no optimal control strategy in practice, which considerably limits its application. This study developed a typical office building model to evaluate the...journal article 2023