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Ying, Chong (author), Cheng, Bin (author), Zhao, Youwei (author), Huang, He Liang (author), Zhang, Y.N. (author), Gong, Ming (author), Wu, Yulin (author), Wang, S. (author), Liang, Futian (author)Although near-term quantum computing devices are still limited by the quantity and quality of qubits in the so-called NISQ era, quantum computational advantage has been experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, hybrid architectures of quantum and classical computing have become the main paradigm for exhibiting NISQ applications, where low-depth...journal article 2023
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Liang, M. (author), He, S. (author), Gan, Yidong (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Chang, Z. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper employs computer vision techniques to predict the micromechanical properties (i.e., elastic modulus and hardness) of cement paste based on an input of Backscattered Electron (BSE) images. A dataset comprising 40,000 nanoindentation tests and 40,000 BSE micrographs was built by express nanoindentation test and Scanning Electron...journal article 2023
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Ou, Yiyi (author), Zhou, Weijie (author), Dorenbos, P. (author), Liang, Hongbin (author)Cationic tuning for lanthanide (Ce<sup>3+</sup>/Pr<sup>3+</sup>)-activated inorganic phosphors with stable, efficient, and fast-decay 5d-4f emissions has emerged as an important strategy toward the continuing pursuit of superior scintillators. The in-depth understanding of the cationic effects on photo- and radioluminescence of lanthanides Ce...journal article 2023
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Chen, E. (author), Zhu, Yan (author), Liang, K. (author), Yin, Hongjian (author)The increasing popularity of remote Cloud File Sharing (CFS) has become a major concern for privacy breach of sensitive data. Aiming at this concern, we present a new resource sharing framework by integrating enterprise-side Attribute-Based Access Control/eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (ABAC/XACML) model, client-side Ciphertext...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Junwei (author), Lei, Botian (author), Lang, Huile (author), Panaousis, Emmanouil (author), Liang, K. (author), Xiang, Jianwen (author)Genotype imputation estimates missing genotypes from the haplotype or genotype reference panel in individual genetic sequences, which boosts the potential of genome-wide association and is essential in genetic data analysis. However, the genetic sequences involve people's privacy, confirming an individual's identification and even disease...journal article 2023
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Xu, Peng (author), Susilo, Willy (author), Wang, Wei (author), Chen, Tianyang (author), Wu, Qianhong (author), Liang, K. (author), Jin, Hai (author)Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) has been widely recognized as a promising technique to delegate update and search queries over an outsourced database to an untrusted server while guaranteeing the privacy of data. Many efforts on DSSE have been devoted to obtaining a good tradeoff between security and performance. However, it...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liang, M. (author), Gan, Y. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)Slag rim mainly consists of secondary precipitations such as C–S–H gel phase and hydrotalcite-like phase, which originate from the hydration of slag. In this paper, the micro-mechanical properties of slag rim were characterized by nanoindentation in combination with SEM. It was found that, compared to the C–S–H gel phase, slag rim showed about a...journal article 2022
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Xu, Yaowen (author), Wan, Chaojun (author), Liang, X. (author), Yang, Hongyu (author)This paper employs PVA, PE, steel fibers, as well as the hybrids of two of the three fibers to reinforce alkali-activated slag (AAS) material, aiming to prepare strain-hardening and clinker-free composites. The flexural strength, compressive strength, uniaxial tensile performance of the composites and bond behavior between fibers and the...journal article 2022
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Liang, M. (author), Chang, Z. (author), He, S. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Gan, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Early-age stress (EAS) is an important index for evaluating the early-age cracking risk of concrete. This paper encompasses a thermo-chemo-mechanical (TCM) model and active ensemble learning (AEL) for predicting the EAS evolution. The TCM model provides the data for the AEL model. First, based on Fourier's law, Arrhenius’ equation, and rate...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Jianguo (author), Jiang, Zaixing (author), Liang, Chao (author), Baars, T.F. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Abels, H.A. (author)The middle Eocene Dongying sag in the Bohai Bay Basin of China has an estimated shale oil resource of approximately 1.1 billion t (8.06 billion bbl); flows of shale oil have been produced in the succession from tens of wells, where the daily production of a single well generally varies between 10 and 100 t (73.3–733 bbl). Therein, the mudrock...journal article 2022
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Gan, Y. (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Liang, M. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Šavija, B. (author)In this study, the flexural strength and fatigue properties of interfacial transition zone (ITZ) were experimentally investigated at the micrometre length scale. The hardened cement paste cantilevers (150 × 150 × 750 μm<sup>3</sup>) attached to a quartzite aggregate surface were prepared and tested under the monotonic and cyclic load using a...journal article 2022
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Chang, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Xu, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This research studies the impact of localized damage and deformed printing geometry on the structural failure of plastic collapse for 3D concrete printing (3DCP) using the lattice model. Two different approaches are utilized for buildability quantification: the (previously developed) load-unload method, which updates and relaxes the printing...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liang, M. (author), Gan, Y. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)This paper reports the carbonation characteristics of a cement-slag system exposed to accelerated carbonation testing, and its improved carbonation resistance with the increasing MgO content in blast furnace slag, in which hydrotalcite-like phase plays a key role. Our research showed that the hydrotalcite-like phase started to carbonate upon...journal article 2022
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Zhu, Jia-Ning (author), Borisov, Evgenii (author), Liang, X. (author), Huizenga, R.M. (author), Popovich, Anatoly (author), Bliznuk, Vitaliy (author), Petrov, R.H. (author), Hermans, M.J.M. (author), Popovich, V. (author)Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF), categorized as additive manufacturing technique, has a capability to fabricate NiTi (Nitinol) shape memory alloys with tailorable functional properties and complex geometries. An important processing parameter, hatch distance (h), is often related to macroscale structural defects; however, its role on...journal article 2022
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Liang, F. (author), Brunelli, Matteo (author), Rezaei, J. (author)This study aims to develop a Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) method, the Best-Worst Tradeoff method, which draws on the underlying principles of two popular MADM methods (the Best-Worst Method (BWM) and the Tradeoff). The traditional Tradeoff procedure, which is based on the axiomatic foundation of multi-attribute value theory, considers...journal article 2022
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Liang, Yingying (author), Ju, Yanbing (author), Tu, Yan (author), Rezaei, J. (author)The best-worst method (BWM) is a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) method to derive the relative importance (weight) of a set of criteria used to evaluate a set of alternatives. Several models (e.g., nonlinear, linear, Bayesian, and multiplicative) have been developed to find the weights based on the provided pairwise comparisons, conducted...journal article 2022
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Liang, Benbu (author), Xie, Kefan (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author), Liu, Jia (author)In order to explore impacts of crowd intervention strategies on indoor respiratory exposure risks during major pandemics, a variety of crowd motion scenarios were established in general indoor conditions based on improved pedestrian dynamics model and respiratory infection probability model. Then, multi-agent simulation technology was utilized...journal article 2022
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Teo, Ying Shen (author), Jafari, Iman (author), Liang, Fei (author), Jung, Youmi (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Ong, Say Leong (author), Hu, Jiangyong (author)The UV/Cl2 process (also known as chlorine photolysis, which is the combination of chlorine and simultaneous irradiation of UV light) is conventionally applied at acidic mediums for drinking water treatment and further treatment of wastewater effluents for secondary reuse. This is because the quantum yield of HO• from HOCl (ϕHO•, 254 = 1.4) is...journal article 2022
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Yang, Yunlin (author), Lou, Bibo (author), Ou, Yiyi (author), Su, Fang (author), Ma, Chong Geng (author), Duan, Chang Kui (author), Dorenbos, P. (author), Liang, Hongbin (author)Ce3+-doped LiSr4(BO3)3 phosphors have been prepared by a high-temperature solid-state reaction method, and structural refinement of the host compound has been performed. The excitation and emission spectra in the vacuum ultraviolet-ultraviolet-visible range at cryogenic temperatures reveal that Ce3+ ions preferentially occupy eight...journal article 2022
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Lu, Hai (author), Yu, Ruyun (author), Zhu, Yan (author), He, Xiao (author), Liang, K. (author), Chu, William Cheng-Chung (author)Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) plays an important role in current secure data sharing through fine-grained customizable policies. However, the existing ABE schemes only support simple predicates, = and ≠, but cannot express a more general membership predicates, ∈ and ∉, in policies. The low expressivity of ABE will enlarge the ciphertext...journal article 2022