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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has drawn plenty of attention as it provides transportation convenience for riders and financial incentives for drivers. Despite these benefits, riders risk the exposure of sensitive location data during ride requesting to an untrusted Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Our motivation arises from repetitive...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Chao (author), Tan, Yiqiu (author), Gao, Y. (author), Fu, Yongkang (author), Li, Jilu (author), Li, Shuai (author), Zhou, Xingye (author)The service performances of asphalt pavement, especially rutting, will be inevitably affected by climate change. However, existing studies have generally focused on the rutting depth and rutting life, and thus became insufficient for comprehensively evaluating the influence of climate change on rutting over the service life. A resilience...journal article 2022
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Gao, Y. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Zhang, Chao (author), Liu, X. (author), Jing, R. (author)Bitumen in asphalt pavements reacts slowly with atmospheric oxygen, resulting in oxidative ageing. This oxidative reaction is strongly dependent on the physical diffusion of the oxygen into the bitumen. This study aims to use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to investigate the oxygen diffusion into the bitumen film and analyse the effects...journal article 2022
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Gao, Y. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Omairey, Eman L. (author), Al-Malaika, Sahar (author), Sheena, Husam (author)The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different anti-ageing compounds (AACs) on the oxidative stability, rheological and mechanical properties of bitumen. Modified bitumen samples containing six different AAC combinations, with five samples containing Irganox acid (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydoxyphenylpropionic acid), a hindered...journal article 2021
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Tang, H. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Sacco, L.N. (author), Sokolovskij, R. (author), Ye, H. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, tin oxidation (SnO x )/tin-sulfide (SnS) heterostructures are synthesized by the post-oxidation of liquid-phase exfoliated SnS nanosheets in air. We comparatively analyzed the NO2 gas response of samples with different oxidation levels to study the gas sensing mechanisms. The results show that the samples oxidized at 325 °C are...journal article 2021
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Gao, Y. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Zhang, Congcong (author)The past decade has witnessed a rapid development of open government data practices and academic research. However, there is no systematic survey of existing research to understand the evolution of open government data. Such research can facilitate knowledge transfer within and across domains, and foster learning for countries in the early...journal article 2021
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Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The authors regret that one of the affiliations (affiliation f) was incorrectly omitted in the original manuscript. The corrected list of affiliations is as shown below. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.journal article 2021
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Du, Shiqiang (author), Scussolini, Paolo (author), Ward, Philip J. (author), Zhang, Min (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Wang, Luyang (author), Koks, Elco (author), Diaz-Loaiza, Andres (author), Gao, Jun (author), Ke, Q. (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author)Flood risk is expected to increase in coastal cities, particularly in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. This paper presents an integrated modeling framework to simulate changes in the flood risk in Shanghai and provide a cost-benefit analysis of multiple adaptation strategies used to reduce risk. The results show that the potential flood...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Y. (author), Wang, Xuancang (author), Ji, Guanyu (author), Fan, Zhenyang (author), Guo, Yuchen (author), Gao, Wenze (author), Xin, Lei (author)Lignin, as a bio-based waste, has been utilized in the asphalt industry due to various advantages. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two lignin products (lignin powder and lignin fiber) on the mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures. The raveling, rutting, thermal and fatigue cracking resistance, and moisture susceptibility of...journal article 2020
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The inactivation mechanism of chemical disinfection against SARS-CoV-2: From MD and DFT perspectivesTan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Exploring effective disinfection methods and understanding their mechanisms on the new coronavirus is becoming more active due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By combining molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations, we investigate the...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Jie (author), Gao, Ling (author), Hu, Jie (author), Wang, Chongjun (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Li, Ning (author), Zhou, Xing (author)Hypericin is a naturally occurring compound synthesized by certain species of the genus Hypericum, with various pharmacological effects. It is used as a natural photosensitizing agent with great potential in photodynamic therapy. This review discusses the latest results about the biosynthetic pathways and chemical synthetic routes to obtain...journal article 2020
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Gao, Yuan (author), Qiao, Tiezhu (author), Zhang, Haitao (author), Yang, Yi (author), Pang, Y. (author), Wei, Hongyan (author)During the operation of the belt conveyor, measuring speed of the belt conveyor is vital to the safe and efficient operation. In the existing measuring speed system, the measurement instrument is required contacting with the surface of the belt. The contact measurement method cannot avoid the occurrence of measuring error caused by slipping...journal article 2019
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Gao, P. (author), Zhang, Tong Sheng (author), Wei, Jiang Xiong (author), Yu, Qi Jun (author)Graded blended cement made of graded Portland cement (PC), blast furnace slag (BFS) and fly ash (FA) is attractive for cement production. For manufacturing graded blended cement, a suitable mathematical expression should be introduced to describe the particle size distribution (PSD) of its components and control the quality of graded blended...journal article 2018
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Dong, H. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Zuo, Y. (author), Gao, P. (author), Ye, G. (author)Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) measurements are widely used to determine pore throat size distribution (PSD) curves of porous materials. The pore throat size of porous materials has been used to estimate their compressive strength and air permeability. However, the effect of sample size on the determined PSD curves is often overlooked....journal article 2018
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Gao, Y. (author), Dong, J. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Tan, H. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Vertical space bears great potential of solar energy especially for congested urban areas, where photovoltaic (PV) windows in high-rise buildings can contribute to both power generation and daylight harvest. Previous studies on sun-tracking PV windows strayed into the trade-off between tracking performance and mutual shading, failing to achieve...journal article 2018
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Zhou, Zeng (author), Coco, Giovanni (author), Townend, IH (author), Olabarrieta, Maitane (author), van der Wegen, M. (author), Gong, Zheng (author), D’Alpaos, Andrea (author), Gao, Shu (author), Jaffe, Bruce (author), Gelfenbaum, Guy (author), He, Qing (author), Wang, Yaping (author), Lanzoni, Stefano (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Winterwerp, J.C. (author), Zhang, Changkuan (author)Morphodynamic equilibrium is a widely adopted yet elusive concept in the field of geomorphology of coasts, rivers and estuaries. Based on the Exner equation, an expression of mass conservation of sediment, we distinguish three types of equilibrium defined as static and dynamic, of which two different types exist. Other expressions such as...journal article 2016
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Hayton, D.J. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Kooi, J.W. (author), Ren, Y. (author), Zhang, W. (author), De Lange, G. (author)We report on a method to stabilize a hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer at 2.5 THz. The technique utilizes feedback control of the local oscillator (LO) laser power by means of a swing-arm actuator placed in the optical beam path. We demonstrate that this technique yields a factor of 50 improvement in the spectroscopic Allan variance time which...journal article 2012
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Zhang, W. (author), Khosropanah, P. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Bansal, T. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Miao, W. (author), Shi, S.C. (author)We report the measured sensitivities of a superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) heterodyne receiver at 5.25 THz. Terahertz (THz) radiation is quasioptically coupled to a HEB mixer with a lens and a spiral antenna. Using a measurement setup with black body calibration sources and a beam splitter in vacuo, and an antireflection coated...journal article 2010
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Zhang, W. (author), Khosropanah, P. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Kollberg, E.L. (author), Yngvesson, K.S. (author), Bansal, T. (author), Barends, R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author)We have measured the noise temperature of a single, sensitive superconducting NbN hot electron bolometer (HEB) mixer in a frequency range from 1.6 to 5.3 THz, using a setup with all the key components in vacuum. By analyzing the measured receiver noise temperature using a quantum noise (QN) model for HEB mixers, we confirm the effect of QN. The...journal article 2010
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Khosropanah, P. (author), Baryshev, A. (author), Zhang, W. (author), Jellema, W. (author), Hovenier, J.N. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Paveliev, D.G. (author), Williams, B.S. (author), Kumar, S. (author), Hu, Q. (author), Reno, J.L. (author), Klein, B. (author), Hesler, J.L. (author)We demonstrate the phase locking of a 2.7 THz metal–metal waveguide quantum cascade laser (QCL) to an external microwave signal. The reference is the 15th harmonic, generated by a semiconductor superlattice nonlinear device, of a signal at 182 GHz, which itself is generated by a multiplier chain (x12) from a microwave synthesizer at ~15 GHz....journal article 2009